Andrei Molotieu very kindly decided to include my work in an anthology of abstract comics (called…Abstract Comics) that should be coming out this summer from Fantagraphics. There’s a blog up with more information here.
Anyway, folks are posting art and such up on that blog. I’m cross-posting mine below:
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This is something of a collaborative piece. I drew directly on some photocopied conceptual illustrations done by my good friend Bert Stabler for a video project The Intangible Under Umbra. (Scroll down and you can see an excerpt; I did the voice for the talking brain plant thing.) The drawing itself is based on one of Bert’s surreal Peanuts pastiches (this one, in fact.)
Anyway, a lot of explanation for a fairly small drawing. Here ’tis.
I think that’s quite good. Not to be indelicate, but how much did tracing influence the outcome?
No tracing involved; if you can believe it, I copied freehand.