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What comic books/graphic novels are you reading? Are they awesome?
I would love having a thread devoted to the 9th art, can we have one?
I grew up on european comix, asterix lucky luke tintin blake&mortimer, whatever I could get my hands on
Back then we had tintin magazine that would serialize comics, the day it came out each week or month was better than xmas
Then as I grew up, more mature stuff, a suivre, echo de les savanes, and of course kiss and all that
I went professionally as IT but my secret wish was to draw comics for a living (not easy)
It still is, maybe when I retire (if I make it there) but it’s like being a movie director.
Check for instance: […]
Anyway fast forward: I absolutely love anything drawn by moebius or written by Jodorowsky, and that’s just for starters
I have read everything under the sun (dare you to teach me something new)
Can we take it from here?
Edit: to make this more interesting, 10€ gift card to the 1st person that tells me something new. I’ll be the judge but I’m honest. And good luck with that
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Blueberry is awesome (and drawn by Moebius). Favourite graphic novel ever would have to be Miracle Man: The Golden Age.
I grew up reading franco-belgian comics as well, I loved Blueberry as a kid, as well as Thorgal, anything by Bilal, Tardi, Hermann, Comes, Franquin and lots of others.
I've been drawing my own comic book, very slowly, in the evenings. So far I've drawn 41 A4 pages (which is almost a complete European 44 page book), and I'm planning for this story to be 80 pages long so I'm half-way through. It's a ten-year project for me, I should be on track (I started drawing it with this routine in early 2020).
Anyone curious can read it here, although I need to update the site as it's about 10 pages behind what I've actually completed:
https://itchy-animation.com/gideon-gray
This is the beginning:
And a few images:
I love Bone by Jeff Smith!
I've been meaning to get into the more inked look and farther away from simple cartooning. My favourite graphic novels of all time are the "Sin City" series.
If I may ask, where did you learn to ink like that? Did you take graphic design at a uni? Was it a book or books? Which ones? (Doesn't matter if the ink is traditional or digital. Your work looks amazing!)
Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, and QuickDraw McGraw find themselves in the red-baiting, blacklisting, racist, homophobic, and corrupt Los Angeles of the 1950s.
Is it any good though? I heard about it a few years ago, didn't buy it, forgot about it, and now I'm wondering.
I've been drawing my whole life, since I was 12 years old. I was really into comics as an adolescent and spent hours drawing with ink pens and rotrings etc...
The comic is digitally drawn and inked, using the Sketchbook app on the iPad, with an Apple Pencil. The inking style is just my natural drawing style.
That's incredible! Me I never did ink traditionally yet, just digitally.
Sketchbook?! Dang now I'm interested in trying that out. I use ProCreate frequently and do painted cartoony illustrations, but was thinking about doing Inktober this year once that rolls around.
Got any tips to transition from digital painting to inking mate?
Chiclete con banana and Geraldao (Brazilian comics) were my favorite many years ago. Of course Tintin, Asterix, Blueberry, Lucky Luke, Valerian were among my most read when I was a kid
That's a gigantic subject in itself
My method is pretty standard for comic book art: draw a very scribbly loose rough just to establish the gestures of the characters, then draw a tighter pencil sketch on top of that, and finally clean it all up with the inks:
That rough scribble in the first step looks super-basic, but it's really important because you can already clearly see the action and gestures of the characters. Once that is established you can add the features and details on top, but if those initial gestures are wrong the whole drawing will look wrong. If your figures ever look stiff for example, it's because that initial gesture wasn't quite right.
If you want to know more about the process the best book on the subject is How To Draw Comics the Marvel Way, it shows you how to work up from gestural scribbles all the way to final inks:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-Comics-Marvel-Way/dp/0671225480
I used to have that book. What did I do with it!? I'll have to purchase a new copy then.
Thank you for the solid advice mate.
Love Your style 🙌
Great transitions and change of pace/tempo/complexity. Very musical
Thanks! One benefit of doing this so slowly is that the story has had plenty of time to blossom in my mind, so I've let the characters grow into the narrative as it develops. I think the story is (hopefully) quite unusual and surprising.
I'll definitely be reading it soon.
Your art is hella impressive Richard! @richardyot
Thank you ☺️
@richardyot is a renaissance man. And a just a nice bloke.
I too draw. The scribble indeed works well and doesn’t have to be full sized. Think of it like the noise that ai uses to seed a more full formed picture, and is a quick compositional stage before you do all the details - which if you tried to do in one pass would slow you down and make some things that don’t work a sunk cost.
I love The Incal and The Metabarons. Jodorowsky’s movies are awesome too. Sorry I don’t have anything to recommend. I iust wanted to chime in with my adoration for Jodorowsky (and Moebius). I’m currently reading the krakoa xmen run started by hickman.
I love comics, have all my life, but more often than not recently, I love to just peruse the works of Pascal Campion. In one image he conveys stories upon stories that you can create yourself.
It is fantastic. To be honest, I am also a long time freak for both Snagglepuss (I frequently answer the phone in his voice) and the James Ellroy 50s LA landscape.
If you are a fan of the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law approach to cartoon land, you will enjoy it.
This sounds cool.
I wonder if there's an anthology book with all the issues.
Yes, there is. I read it as a collection.
Nice! I'm searching amazon and can only seem to find the single issues. Unless I'm missing something. 😂
Edit: Nevermind I found it! Will purchase tomorrow.
Yes, it looks like professional work. Actually, Yot seems like it would be a perfect name for a comic artist; just Yot.
Charles Burns Black Hole, Jess Fink Chester 5000, Bryan Talbot Luther Arkwright, Jeff Smith Bone, Michael Zulli Puma Blues, Brendan McCarthy Skin and /or Rogan Josh, Motter/ Hernandez initial Mr. X run, Hernandez bros Love & Rockets, Ellis/Cassadey Planetary, Morrison’s the invisibles, moore, from hell or Halo jones, Koike, kojima lone wolf, kindt mind mgmt, mignola hell boy and bird, Schultz xenozoic Tales, foster prince valiant, herriman krazy Kat, McKay little memo, caniff Terry and the pirates, Eisner the spirit, brown Ed the happy Clown, bagge Hate … that should keep you busy
A current ongoing series I heartily recommend is Mugshots, by Jordan Thomas and Chris Matthews. The first issue immediately hooked me with great sympathetic characters and mature writing. It's set in the Brighton (UK) criminal underworld, the art is highly stylised and beautiful.
https://madcavestudios.com/series/mugshots/
That's beautiful work @richardyot. Actually, stylistically, Chris Matthews isn't a million miles from your stuff, I think you'd dig it.
Yeah, that Krakoa stuff is pretty good if you're into X-Men. I was blown away by how they introduced it, it definitely revitalised the series. I grew up with that stuff from the 80s and 90s.
Also, yeah anything with Moebius art is worth your eyeball time. Never would have guessed you're a Jodorowsky fan, @JodorowskyV ! 😂
Thanks, I'll check him out. Love the idea of a series set in Brighton.
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I enjoyed reading this comic/cartoon a long time ago. But I have to struggle every time I try to remember the title and author. (Then I forget all the clues again.) The lesson I learned this time is that since this is a comic/cartoon, I will never find it if I search in a picture book category.