Brandon Graham's Blog, page 259

Maybe you are desensitized to this kind of stuff from the great face-to-face crowd at ImageExpo, but I just want you to know that your comics got me through 2-3 years of heavy depression. Please continue to make great work and publish it for the world to s

This is the nicest thing to read. (I’m excited about Mirror tooo) 

Depression is a mess, I’m on medication for that myself. & I know a couple other people who make comics who deal with that stuff. Maybe that’s just being a human. Anyway, thanks. 

I'm curious how your adventure time collaboration came about, especially considering your friendship with Tom. Was it a creator like Pen Ward or Jesse Moynihan contacting you directly, or was it someone from the production side? Either way I'm incredibly e

I think Tom (Herpich) had shown Pen some of my stuff & then he contacted me when we were both at the Emerald city con. 

Awhile after that I got them to send me the storyboard test, and watched a ton of the show. (sooo good) I did a board test with a genie appearing and granting Jake a wish, and in it Fin uses as live squirrel like a gun. 

a couple months later they hooked me up with Jesse to work on an episode. I’m sooo glad he was involved. I’m really impressed with that dude and his ability to bring emotional depth mixed with weird to whatever he does. —That show And Steven Universe, have such an insane amount of talented people on them. It’s really daunting. I really hoped to do them proud working on it.

Here’s a picture of Brian O’Malley on the left, me and Pen drawing on coasters in a bar in Seattle during the ECCCCCC con. From this Inkstuds report

royalboiler:herpich:Way back in April I did a panel discussion...

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herpich:

Way back in April I did a panel discussion with Pen Ward, Jaime Hernandez and Bryan Lee O’Malley for Robin McConnell’s Inkstuds podcast- and now it’s online and you can listen to it here. Up above is the jam comic we made onstage with my old buddy Brandon Graham who was cohosting. Came out pretty good… pretty seamless.

It was a kick to be able to talk to all these guys at once. 

any update on your Adventure Time episode?

I`ve heard from some people who have seen some of the episode and said they liked it. —soocool. Looking it up it seems like it might be the last episode (or near last of Season 6) So it should be out in early March I assume?

Here`s an early version of the title card for it. 

Is it hard for you to look at your older work?

I tend to look at it as a time capsule, it was what I could do or did at the time. This is also why It’s really important to me to never put out work that I’m not proud of— you gotta live with that stuff.  

Some of the anatomy in Pillow fight bugs me a little,  but it was also a really fun book to make. The goal is always to see the mistakes, and forgive them and then improve in the future. 

Simon showed this to me. Prophet Earth war reference.

Simon showed this to me. Prophet Earth war reference. 

where do babies come from?

Have you ever been purely an artist on a book, or do you only draw your own works?

I have a couple times, but the only major one I was happy with was working on Empowered with Adam Warren.(although it printed too dark- I think it’ll look better in the trade) Poor Adam had to deal with me being a fan of his since I was like 14. 

(here’s me at 16 with one of his Dirty pair books)

I'm surprised you haven't worked with Ulises Farinas on something. Though his style is more reminiscent of Geoff Darrow than yours, his stories and themes seem more in tune with your storytelling and sense of humour.

I colored a story of his years ago for some Vertigo thing before I swore off ever working for that end of comics again. 

I really liked his MOTRO comic. 

We talk sometimes, I feel like Ulises’s take on comics and the community of it can be pretty different from mine. but I’m glad he’s out there. 

animarchive:"Dokite Tsukasa Club" special article in the October...

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"Dokite Tsukasa Club" special article in the October 1985 issue of Animage, featuring Dirty Pair.

Illustration by the character designer and animation director of the series, Tsukasa Dokite.