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May 18, 2015
Been looking forward to this one
Been looking forward to this one
May 14, 2015
“Get inside the whale. Or rather, admit you are inside the...
“Get inside the whale. Or rather, admit you are inside the whale.”
George Orwell’s Inside the Whale was an essay I spent a lot of time thinking about while making Angie Bongiolatti.
For a long time I felt like I wasn’t reading overtly political comic work. Not like “Political Cartoons”, more in the sense that the bulk of what I’d call “Indie” or Alternative Comics felt very apolitical. An emphasis on realism, or verisimilitude. Finding value in accurately recording the world around you. Especially in autobio or Diary Comics. I don’t know if the way I perceived things was right, but it was the way things felt to me at the time.
I don’t think I feel that way anymore. A lot of the comics I read online are political. There are a lot of comics like the ones I’ve been making in the past year or two - comics essays, doing their best to articulate a perspective on the wider world.
I wonder how I fell into this mode of making things. It feels very unplanned. I used to care more about the autobiographical aspects of my work. It used to be important to me that the details be accurate to how things really happened. Technically a lot of my short comics are still autobiographical, but I don’t think of myself as an autobio cartoonist while I make them. The details of my actual life feel irrelevant. This feels like progress.
May 13, 2015
mikedawwwson:
There’s a picture by Onsmith hanging in my...
There’s a picture by Onsmith hanging in my bathroom and this is where my eye goes when I walk in there
I’m ashamed to admit, there’s about a third of the characters in this print whom I can’t identify.
May 12, 2015
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May 4, 2015
koyamapress:
Today at The Comics Journal, Dustin Harbin and...
Today at The Comics Journal, Dustin Harbin and Mike Dawson converse about the caped crusader for TCJ Talkies. Specifically Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, and Richmond Lewis’ (whose hand-painted colours can be seen above, also seen above Batman riding a Bat Dino, because that forever, always) Batman Year One. Listen to all right here, right now!
Dustin Harbin on Batman Year One | The Comics Journal
New TCJ Talkies: Dustin Harbin gets comfy inside the Talkies Hutt for a fireside chat about Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One
May 3, 2015
#comics #DanielClowes #IceHaven
#comics #DanielClowes #IceHaven
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