Batman and Doctor Doom
A large package showed up from Belgium the other day, mystified Iopened it to find a copy of “Docteur Strange et Docteur Fatalis”, a paperback reprinting of a graphic novel that I did the finishes over Mike Mingola, Hellboy creator. The owner wanted an autograph and a drawing, this is the drawing. I probably should [...]
printJob in Flash (yes Adobe’s help sucks)
The great benefit of teaching is you learn the material in a deep way. the great fault of writing help manuals and stuff for Adobe is you show off how smart your are. Direct from tikikitchen.com a great simple tutorial on printing from a swf, which Adobe makes look like the most complex act ever [...]
Pg three of Breccia’s Algeria
Breccia toys with drawing to make you read. He covers Ahmed’s eyes, and turns the other “terrorists” into shadows. In panel two Phillippe’s back is slightly off center, it stops the arc of the ground into Ahmed’s hand of tendons and brushstrokes of equal weight as Phillippe’s body in the last panel isolating the middle. [...]
More on Breccia pg2
Empty white space and bullet holes, no cracks in the rocks, no dirt up turned just black dots, we the reader have make the connection, the space of the story is broken by the flat design. Then wounded GI Joe, and a landscape, stretched and desolate, no diagonals and no perspective almost just a line [...]