For each panel, I usually start working up a drawing in my sketchbook or on another sheet of paper. Again, I work in colored pencils–starting with a light color and moving to the darker ones to build up an image I’m happy with…to be able to make corrections and move things around without having to …
January 2005 archive
Jan 02 2005
The dog who is so angry…
All those artsy comics-journal-message-board-types are always “Dan Clowes” this, and “Crag Thompson” that… But why is no one discussing “The Angriest Dog in the World?” The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. …Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the …
Jan 02 2005
The pail’s progress pt. 2
As some point in the process before you really start drawing, you’ve gotta get a handle on the characters you’re going to be drawing. In this case I’ve drawn the Boxing Bucket a bunch before–and he’s not really that difficult to deal with…you see, he’s a bucket with arms and legs. The other character in …
Jan 01 2005
The pail’s progress
One of the most common misconceptions that people have about cartooning is that it is a spontaneous process–that a cartoonist simply sits down with a blank piece of paper and an ink pen and starts drawing the final published piece. While it’s taken for granted that a prose writer goes through various planning stages and …
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