All of a sudden my characters started telling me what they’d really been up to. TOOK them this long, the little beasts!
Yes, guys like scented paper, too.
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Remember the stags in the forest (for those of you who read issue #25)? Some of that running must have rubbed off.
Ah, where there is civilization, there is waste paper. Or waste shards of clay.
I have fun drawing this camp.
Yes, it’s all freehand. Since when would such a place have a straight line in it? And I can’t draw one either, without a ruler — but I can flip out a long, clean curve.
Oh, you can just snap writers’ heads right around if you change the subject to how much you like their writing. Pat us on our little pointed heads.
Oh, man, I art-witched myself again! I’m now the stringer for a “country weekly.” As in, “If I ever got caught doing a thing like that, I couldn’t get a job in a country weekly.”
It’s a line from the Devil Bat, and proof, at least in my mind, that Ben Hecht worked on the script.
One of you was asking where Hans went. He’s off to school! Lord help whatever university got him.
I don’t know if this kind of language-head-file lock-off happens — but I’ll bet it does. I’ll bet a Chinese dinner one of you will get me the link…..
Yes, THAT’s how I write: Idea pops into little vacant head, THEN I go get the research. Twisting the idea around until I get it to fit makes it even more fun. And twisty.
That’s our fat cat Leo, there, with his big smile and purr.
I know their speech sounds poetical, but I was thinking in the German mode when I was writing this. They play with their language(s), and translations can feel more high-flown than the original tongue-in-cheek and ironic intent.
Translating clichés can turn out some beautiful, original-seeming phrases. Kipling did it from Indian vernaculars, Hemingway from Spanish. The problem is, when you translate them back into their mother language — you get the cliché again. It’s not so much a matter of lazy writing as linguistic fascination — or possession.
No, I am not trying to project any messages or ideas or morals or mythologies. I’m writing what I’m told to write, drawing what I’m told to draw. That’s all.
I spent hours trying to find a term for this sort of rock. This was in pre-internet days, when we had to thumb through books we’d guessed at, at the library. I think this one was in Rommel’s diary. Or — no, wait – Lawrence of Arabia. But don’t quote me. Can imagine the terms for soil I could find now?
I’ve been arguing about what makes genre vs. novel with a reader; perhaps it’s the amount of copy-work in a book. Is research genre? A true novel is all out of the writer’s experience.
Fap. I always said that if I started talking about writing instead of doing it, shoot me in my little head. These blogs are about talking about it. Which is annoying.
What’s nice about looking at these lines is I’m trying to draw on the Wacom Bamboo, and it’s almost making me want to go ahead and get an IPad. No, it’s NOT the equivalent of a Cintiq, but for linework? People say, “How do you transfer files from an IPad to other devices?
Gmail.
(Who else thinks the inability of an IPad to transfer with a cheap USB cord is DISGUSTING? I mean, little mettle points? PLEASE).
Sometimes you have to chew things over with yourself before you can reconcile both sides of your own mind. Comics are so much fun — it lets us illustrate this literally. With our little bottle of ink or pixel stylus, we are masters of the universe. Bwa ha ha.
I have to admit I was thinking of Ray Bradbury’s bone short story when I showed the Peach munching calcium.
Re the anti-French comment: I was delighted to hear David Simon on the Treme commentary warning viewers that characters don’t always express what the writer believes. Characters lie, harbor prejudices, gossip, get confused, get it wrong. You have to watch what they do, not what they say.
I’m glad I don’t have genre readers — you people GET this. You’re just smarter. But you don’t herd. Note: Now everybody go tell the editors at Simon and Schuster you MUST have these books collected!
