Posts Tagged ‘Joann Sfar’
Grey Vampires and Green Cowboys
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
This article originally appeared on ComixTalk in August 2010. Gus and His Gang by Christophe Blain First Second Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar First Second This is a quick examination of some color, drawing and design techniques used in two great bandes dessinées. I’ve kept Vampire Loves close to my drawing table for some time [...]
2011 | cartoonists | Tags: christophe blain, emile bravo, Joann Sfar, kerascoet
Not Drawn to Scale
Friday, October 15, 2010
Here’s my take on the “influence map” meme going around, which is probably not going around any more at this point. Let me start off by saying I have no idea why I have so many leering characters here. From top left to bottom right: 1. Winslow Homer – My favorite watercolor painter, ever. Amazing [...]
2010 | cartoonists | Tags: charles addams, cliff sterrett, eldon dedini, frank king, harvey kurtzman, howard chaykin, jack cole, jacques tardi, Joann Sfar, richard thompson, william steig, winslow homer
This Was Page Six
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
An old layout for page 6 of Sweetened By-and-By, pencil on tracing paper. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems to me that I had movies and movie framing too much in mind when drawing the last iteration of this book. When I tried to drop something more cartoon-oriented in there (like Atom’s vision of [...]
2010 | atom klein, comics, drawing, sketchblog | Tags: christophe blain, Joann Sfar
Studio Snapshot #4
Monday, June 14, 2010
Here’s the latest snapshot of the debris inhabiting my drawing table. Visible are a suitably grimy copy of Weegee’s Naked City, a template I made for my thumbnail pages, Here at the New Yorker by Brendan Gill, the excellent Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar, and a giant bottle of antacid. The basic cartoonist’s toolkit. The [...]
2010 | atom klein, studio snapshot | Tags: Joann Sfar, The New Yorker, WeegeeComments (2)
Process Process
Monday, March 8, 2010
I spend a lot of time thinking about process. How to make my art more quickly without sacrificing quality, how to organize images and tools. Comics can be very labor-intensive—layout, researching, penciling, inking, lettering, and so on—so another element to think about is how to keep the whole process fun. I look at the work [...]
