mostly banal: March, 2013

Diary comics from March.

Two for No

So, I have a newish weekly webcomic with Alexander Danner called Two for No, a series of ultra short (usually just one page) stories and vignettes. Alexander scripts them, and I scribble them up in pictures.

I've never really worked with such tight scripts from someone else before and it's fun to focus on craft a little bit. It's very different than my usual, more intuitive process. It's nice to shake things up like that, and to be able to try different approaches to drawing each new strip. There is a bit of formal exploration here, as we use certain pre-determined panel/content structures. It's fun to try and stretch these layouts in different ways as well. I try and see how far i can stretch the templates and still keep the underlaying concept intact. Be sure to read  the "about" section at the site for details on our various constraints.

As far as the drawing goes, I am consciously pushing for a flatter, more abstracted page design in most of these. I want to push away from more traditional representational art, without losing the gist of Alexander's scripts. I've been playing with perspective and figuration a little bit. It's been nothing so radical yet, or nearly as abstract (or incomprehensible?) as my diary strip work as of late. I'm just getting warmed up, though ;)

It's been a lot of fun to draw these, and of course, Alexander is a fantastic writer. We just started our first multi-installment series this week, a four-pager called 'Crouton.' Check it out, and feel free to let us know what you think of these strips.

www.twoforno.net

Diary comics, February 2013.

These are my journal comics from February of this year.

Steam comic.

Hand comic.

Time lapse comic.

Lame book comic.

Cover comic.

Advice comic no. 1.

Advice comic no. 3.

Hair comic.

Love comic (for Rachelle).

Free association comic.

Inertia comic.

Equilibrium comic.

Fluff piece comic.

Nightmare comic.

Metacomic.

Non-canonical comic.

Gag comic.

TV comic.

Information comic.

Bike

Bikes are funny. There's a weird alchemy of human being and machine. An intimacy of involvement that's very unique among modes of transportation. They're a tool, a vehicle with all the mechanical complexity that entails. But they're a vehicle with a human motor. A biological, beating heart, if you will. There's a lot of romance in the combination. You become part of the machine as much as the machine is an extension of you.
That intimacy, that lack of remove inherent in most other machines, is key to the pleasure of riding. It's not just the sum of the parts, but what those parts can let us do. That's where there's poetry.

I made this comic as part of a photo-a-day challenge I'm participating in this month. The tire is off my kids bike, the drawings from my pocket sketchbook. I don't have a bicycle anymore. I wish I did.

30 Days of Comics: Days Twenty Three through Twenty Six

Four Day mega post, cuz I'm lazy.



Day 23. I don't actually care that much for talking in circles...



Day 24.



Day 25, which is a thing that actually happened.



Day 26. Yep.

Anyway. Thirty Days of Comics info.
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(All of these posted these at my main site too.)

30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty Two

Thirty Days of Comics, day twenty two. Did I ever have faith to begin with?

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(Still posting these at my main site.)