tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post6098738985815296804..comments2024-03-28T05:23:01.707-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: The Cerebus-Ending Crisis: Can We Keep Going? - Part 14A Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-499030993221732762016-12-04T03:55:00.497-06:002016-12-04T03:55:00.497-06:00T-shirts are NOT expensive. 'Nuff said.T-shirts are NOT expensive. 'Nuff said. al roneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-92144711112726414332016-12-03T19:14:20.638-06:002016-12-03T19:14:20.638-06:00"Not going to find our way back in". Sp..."Not going to find our way back in". Speaking of the (theoretical) next generation of comics photorealists.<br />After we're dead. Stan Drake and Neal Adams did Major Burrowing into the page which made guys like Sean Robinson necessary. The Burrowing was so Major, it really took 40 and 50 years and a computer revolution for the technical side to -- anecdotally! -- go "Oh, all the way in HERE? There's a HERE in here?" <br /><br />Yeah, look at it through your jeweller's loupe or just keep hitting ZOOM on your Edit function.<br /><br />"How in the heck can you make lines that TINY?" With the unspoken subtext of "WHY would you make lines that tiny?" Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-85784894839696678412016-12-03T19:06:48.089-06:002016-12-03T19:06:48.089-06:00Carson -- I've already decided to just push th...Carson -- I've already decided to just push through to the end of the bridging material mock-ups themselves (ball park? Six pages to go) and then send you a REALLY LONG email about the "cosmic s**t" theories since there's no way I can actually paste up EXACTLY what I want them to look like. So it will be along the lines of "Okay, here's VAGUELY what it's supposed to look like and here's where it's WRONG". <br /><br />It's really a meeting place of Stan Drake's cross-hatching that Neal Adams refined but taken down to a microscopic level. Mostly because the reproduction is there in 2016 in a way that it wasn't for Drake's HEART OF JULIET JONES and Neal's BEN CASEY as newspaper strips. We CAN go much further into the page now than we could then so, really, I think we SHOULD or we're, metaphysically, not find our way back in. <br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-16297607195499992612016-12-03T16:27:21.269-06:002016-12-03T16:27:21.269-06:00Hearing about the "cosmic s**t background&quo...Hearing about the "cosmic s**t background" makes me instantly think of the Cerebus double issue 289/290 (Chasing YHWH VIII: "The Final Twinkle"), which remains the most amazing comic-book-reading experience I've ever had. Slumbering Agarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926670297818515972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-8141293612986020612016-12-03T05:35:24.110-06:002016-12-03T05:35:24.110-06:00I...think...there are online places where you can ...I...think...there are online places where you can upload a design and essentially print on demand t-shirts (Café Press, iirc the name of one), but I suspect, like you say, the price one would expect to pay for a t-shirt and the price it would cost to make a t-shirt are probably too close to make it worth your effort to do.<br /><br />Also, there's Graphitti (sp?) Designs, which I believe you did the shirts with back in the day, but who knows what the cut would be for them, and what the demand would be. They seem to offer shirts in Previews that get cancelled later on, so I suspect that wouldn't work out.<br /><br />Let's be realistic, though, most of us Cerebus fans shouldn't worry about other sizes and should just go with a XXL at this point in our lives, no? ;)<br /><br />As to signing vs drawing, well, I'm glad it's no undue strain on the wrist to sign stuff. I've been wondering if the repetitive motion of that did you in, myself. I think it's a shame to lose Dave Sim, Writer/Artist, but as CIH? is showing, Dave Sim Writer is still pretty damn good.<br /><br />Unless all the good CIH? strips are Sandeep, then forget I said anything, old man. ;)Travis Pelkienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-8616771457482566492016-12-03T01:12:40.864-06:002016-12-03T01:12:40.864-06:00Wow, I shouldn't have read this thread. Too ma...Wow, I shouldn't have read this thread. Too many compliments! Thanks, guys. It is funny that Dave perceived those pages as happening fast. I felt like they took forever!<br /><br />Also funny, I just got done writing my next SODAR post in which I spend a good amount of words talking about star-field imagery. I can tell you, the "cosmic s**+" backgrounds Dave is referring to are totally bonkers and definitely something I both wanted to have a go at and totally fear doing at the same time because, as he said above, Dave colored in the blacks a hatch mark at a time. Totally nuts, but it adds a ton of dynamic thrust to the images.<br /><br />Very glad to hear Dave is handling the design aspect of the "cosmic s**t" because they have lovely flowing designs I doubt I could match left to my own devises.Carson Grubaughhttp://hodtech.net/comics.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-89937772697845215742016-12-02T18:28:20.817-06:002016-12-02T18:28:20.817-06:00And SINCERE thanks again to Jack for posing! Ther...And SINCERE thanks again to Jack for posing! There's this perfect series of reaction shots I'll be adding in a good two or three pages in order to do justice to them. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-17482557411707070262016-12-02T18:24:29.101-06:002016-12-02T18:24:29.101-06:00It IS interesting as a creative experience. There...It IS interesting as a creative experience. There's this cosmic s**t special background effect that I developed for about a 30 or 40 page stretch of SDOAR -- microscopic Gillott 290/Hunt 102 pen strokes -- and solid black inked mostly with pen. About as pathologically detailed as it sounds. Just complete showing off. Hey, if not at age 58, when am I going to do it? and I thought, (looking at Carson's photos) whoa, hey! Incorporate that effect into the bridging sequence Jack at LOCAL HEROES in Norfolk posed for!! <br /><br />So, I've spent the last week photocopying my own backgrounds and pasting them up with the photos of Jack. And, I'm going "Stars. I need more stand-alone stars and curved strobes". Uh, no that was part of the showing off. Remember? Do the effect for two or three pages and then radically modify it into a related but completely different look. <br /><br />How to drive your future self crazy. 'COULDN'T YOU HAVE DONE TWO MORE #$%@ING PAGES WITH STAND-ALONE STARS?' Um. I guess. Is it important? "YES! IT'S IMPORTANT!"<br /><br />Nyuck nyuck nyuck (what a future maroon -- what a future ultra-maroon)! <br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-9391711055905891962016-12-02T16:31:30.801-06:002016-12-02T16:31:30.801-06:00@ Dave -- That is great to hear. Almost like it wa...@ Dave -- That is great to hear. Almost like it was meant to be. From the work I've seen from Carson, I think it only adds to the intrigue and buzz surrounding SDOAR (kind of like Gerhard did for the second half of the first half of Church and State (and beyond), albeit in a slightly different capacity). I've said it before: I'm a huge fan of your solo stuff, but I appreciate the freedom it provides you to have a high caliber artist working with you, and Carson has fierce chops and a big time work ethic, so that can only bode well. I checked out his website and was pleasantly blown away by his art.Slumbering Agarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926670297818515972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-34164694492579720042016-12-02T08:00:30.100-06:002016-12-02T08:00:30.100-06:00It's like that gag from C&S where prime mi...It's like that gag from C&S where prime minister Cerebus tells his secretary to stop telling him what he was signing and just put the papers in front of him. Michael Grabowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-16792419251171478252016-12-01T20:43:12.951-06:002016-12-01T20:43:12.951-06:00Semi-related note for fans of cartooning: You can ...Semi-related note for fans of cartooning: You can get a free ebook every month from the University of Chicago Press here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html. This month it's <i>Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists</i> by Hillary L. Chute. Looks like the interviewees are:<br /><br />1. Scott McCloud (2007)<br />2. Charles Burns (2008)<br />3. Lynda Barry (2008)<br />4. Aline Kominsky-Crumb (2009)<br />5. Daniel Clowes (2010)<br />6. Phoebe Gloeckner (2010)<br />7. Joe Sacco (2011)<br />8. Alison Bechdel (2006 & 2012)<br />9. Françoise Mouly (2008 & 2010)<br />10. Adrian Tomine (2012)<br />11. Art Spiegelman & Chris Ware (2008)<br /><br />Might be worth setting up an Adobe ID if you don't have one.<br /><br /> -- Damian<br />Damian T. Lloyd, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15423589734839129158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-39088264814941057052016-12-01T18:42:19.041-06:002016-12-01T18:42:19.041-06:00Michael - Um, actually it doesn't really both...Michael - Um, actually it doesn't really bother me at all. I know that sounds odd, but it's really true. February of 2015 I was the best that I've ever been and I still have that batch of pages on the wall. Did I just DREAM I was that good? I'll go over and check them from time to time. Nope. Best pages I ever did. At age 58 (at the time), you've got to think, Well, how long can I STAY up here? Also the pages were taking multiple days to finish and the end of SDOAR was nowhere in sight. Something's gotta give. And it did.<br /><br />As soon as Karl Stevens turned up -- and then Carson Grubaugh -- well, okay this is how this one's "gonna go": I'll be mocking up pages on the photocopier. They'll still be my pages, I'll just have Karl and Carson doing their best Al Williamson chops bringing them to life. <br /><br />Confirmation that it was inevitable came when Carson turned around the first couple of SDOAR bridging pages overnight (it seemed like). One of those, "It's later than you think, Grandpa," moments. If SDOAR is going to get done it's going to need a couple of guys who are that fast.<br /><br />And I really do want SDOAR to get done. <br /><br />I appreciate the prayers, Michael, but, really! I can't think of anything I didn't get a chance to draw (usually multiple times). No complaints. <br /><br />Although as you'll see in tomorrow's Update I do regret not giving Jerry Siegel WAY more of my undivided attention considering my industry wouldn't exist without him.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-3889381494115678172016-12-01T14:38:14.733-06:002016-12-01T14:38:14.733-06:00Dave, I can't imagine what you're going th...Dave, I can't imagine what you're going through with your wrist making it impossible for you to draw. It's like Pavarotti not being able to access his voice. It seems like this has been persisting for quite some time now. I'm going to pray for you, buddy. Here's to your wrist coming back stronger than ever, and soon. Slumbering Agarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926670297818515972noreply@blogger.com