They make these gigantic books called ‘Artist Editions’ of old comics and stuff. Ginormous pages like two feet tall. I finally ponied up for one of MAD comics. (Before the Magazine, MAD was a comic book)
Anyhow, the pages are photographic shots of the original art pages, so you can see erasures and some pencil lines, and the zip-a-tone they used for gray areas, and the various pen and brush strokes. It’s awesome.
On the other hand, it makes me feel inadequate, so it also sucks.
But it makes me pay more attention to my brush lines and lettering, so it’s awesome.
But it makes me wish even more that I could dawdle and take my time over every panel of Hubris and I can’t, so it sucks.
What about you guys? Anything you know of that has both Awesomeness and Suckitude?
Jacquée just discovered that it’s not a good idea to slather herself with flammable hairspray to get a beehive hairdo when covering an event that uses fire, so that sucks. Which is awesome.
I love how JoJo ended the spot/interruption.
Awesomeness and suckitude all in one, Greg? Watch me take a picture and replicate whatever it is…. (have four projects right now that I’m doing that with, four different mediums, all 3d). The pile of glarp as I give birth to whatever it is can be stupendous. I have actually photo-ed a few to give an idea of how it gets from that to that. (then I can cry and console myself with the peanuts sent by paypal to make me part with it… carrying it to the shipper all packaged up is really hard sometimes) FreeCad and a 3d Printer, embrace it (telling myself that)
Flaming hackysack doesn’t have anything on firing up an arc welder and having sparks all over the place (have one hit your eardrum… you will NOT forget it)
Those art books are incredible. I try to get as many as I can. Just so much cooo stuff to see in them.
Got a masters in art, so that is awesome.
But I am deeply, deeply in dept, so that sucks
and THAT’S WHY reporters should stay BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE!
and yep Greg I know quite a lot of comics that give you both impressions. even if you go into marvel ones.
John Buscema used to do warmup sketches on the backs of his comic pages. The pros would photostat the backs of the pages when they came in, the sketches were so good. Hell, they printed a book of his back-page sketches a few years back.
You want sucky to go along with it… So the back might be a kickass gunfighter and some mob thugs. And the front some talking heads page of some superhero. And you want to see more of the gunfighter…
I remember reading that he was a guest at a French convention or festival, and said out loud that he really didn’t like comics and wanted to be another kind of artist. It shocked the crowd, who adored comics and thought he was wonderful… until he said that. Then, I imagine, they didn’t quite know what to think.
What a coincidence. I’m reading this just as I’m watching the video of Jessica Kastrop getting nailed in the back of the head with a soccer ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHXK5w-vBy0
Cosplay. Months gathering, creating, adjusting and then the craziness of con. The attention, positive feedback, camaraderie, all well worth the angst, anticipation and suffering. But then you get the cattle car mentality, the crush of the crowds, the norms who gawk in the middle of the pathways…
Oh and my favorite con HAPPENS to be in August.. In Atlanta.. and the biggest shoot is OUTSIDE..
Drip..
Drip..
Drip…
I’ve written a children’s book, in verse, about Cons. Dunno if I’ll have time to illustrate it any time soon, but it’s written.
Went to the show you are referring back when it still in a single hotel. Now I prefer to go to the smaller events where you can move around with ease and mingle with attendees and guests equally with no angst. Still the big shows have some appeal just not enough to deal with waiting in line for hours just to get a badge.
Remember one last year where two young girls pulled a wagon around to every table getting sketches from every artist they saw. It was pretty cool and hopefully fed their memory machine.
(unrelated happy day today – my final mortgage payment cleared last night)
And YOW.. that’s the problem with dubious amounts of hairspray…