FEEL ROMANTIC/NO ART STATUS III

I've been making this webcomic for a couple weeks now, but I'm taking a break from art for a few days while I visit my family in Texas.



It's been a lot of fun so far. The format is allowing me to get around issues I have with comics and art in general.

Excerpt from an email I sent to Derik Badman:

"I'm trying really hard to find ways to make webcomics that don't require the traditional tools and sequences of translation (pencil, ink, scan, threshold, indesign, print) that comics do. I really like your use of the Wacom, but that's never felt natural to me. I look at the pdfs I have on my site of my former printed work, and, while I still like those comics, I'm not comfortable reading them in that format on the web. And if I'm not, why should anyone else be? The lack of immediacy of their production is ridiculous. I think the web is the way to go, ultimately - essentially free to produce/consume and not limited to printing technology, but how to make it work and be compelling? Blaise and I have had many conversations about comics/film, additive vs. subtractive media, and this is my way to confront that head on (he's done several Warhol-ish webcomics already), to allow subtleties of light, angle, shape to build imagery for me. We'll see where it goes, but I'm really excited about it right now!"

Just a quick post now - more later...

WW, right?