| Something you might have missed… |
[08 May 2012|10:40pm] |
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There’s a little quote from me at the ECF Labs site at the moment that you may not have noticed. The ECF is the European Cutural Foundation and is well worth an hour or two of your time, there’s lots to seen there – both in terms of comics and other interesting writing. I was asked to provide a brief quote on comics and I said something like this:
“In the spaces between a comic’s panels, a love can be found, a world can be lost, a universe born or a life lived. Each panel captures and crystallises a moment, an action, and comics live and thrive on the mysteries that exist between moments. The love is found, the world is lost, and in our reading, in the journeys we take between moments, the story can’t help but grow greater.”
If you go over to the ECF site you’ll be able to read it there too.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| A Complex Review |
[09 Apr 2012|06:22pm] |
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There’s a new review of the final issue of Complex up at the Forbidden Planet International blog. Richard is undecided about the ending, which is an understandable reaction to it: Here’s what he says:
“I just don’t know. Like so much of Noble’s work, the finale is so open to interpretation, so deliberately unclear, full of possibilities, ideas, potential explanations, theories….. it would be frustrating if it weren’t so enthralling, annoying if it hadn’t been so intensely, atmospherically thrilling in the build-up to this.”
Go on over and have a look for yourselves, and remember: you can always give it a read and see what you think right here on the site, or you can get the issues here too.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| Coming Soon: Pirouette |
[25 Mar 2012|11:48pm] |
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As those of you who follow Sean Azzopardi’s blog will already know, the two of us have just finished out third collaboration together, Pirouette. In the grand tradition of our collaborations, this one was produced in a whole different fashion that its predecessors: Pirouette started from a block of Sean’s writing, and is the first of our comics to feature my art. Here’s the description: “The prodigal son returns home for his father’s funeral, only to find himself confronting old memories hidden in familiar places.”
More news on exactly where and when it will be available later in the week. Look for it.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| A Ticket for My Destination |
[01 Mar 2012|12:21pm] |
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Here’s a new image from the very wonderful Sean Azzopardi from an as yet unseen Sighting of Wallace Sendek. Both Sean and I are hard at work on new stories for a collection, and this is part of it. I’m currently drawing something called Pirouette. More on that soon…
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| Battle Hymn |
[29 Feb 2012|09:34pm] |
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Something new for March. Battle Hymn starts tomorrow for a brief, impenetrable run. I hope you enjoy it.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| If I lay on the earth |
[06 Feb 2012|09:00am] |
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Another mysterious image, dragged out of a future we will undoubtedly never hope to understand.
(Also not a prequel to Watchmen)
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| I pretend to myself |
[02 Feb 2012|09:50pm] |
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And here’s a colour thing featuring a gent with a moustache. Looks sort of eighties.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| On a path cut 1500 years ago |
[01 Feb 2012|12:26am] |
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I know it’s been quiet here, I really do. Lots of things coming up, including some collaborations with wonderful people and some new comics that you won’t believe, including the return of old favourites and new ones that you didn’t know were your favourites yet. More to come soon, and I’m going to try and keep this up to date with some of the prep work and sketching I’m doing. In the meantime, here’s an ugly old skull.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| Why Did You Turn? |
[19 Dec 2011|12:55am] |
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Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to be part of the Crossmedia exhibition at Strip Turnhout, over in Belgium. Well, actually, I was invited a while ago, but it was only last week that I went over to help put the exhibition. Along with friend Goodbrey, Karrie Fransman, and Rachel Emily Taylor, we encamped in the basement of the Warande and set up our various bits and pieces around the walls and on tables. It looked something like this:
My particular piece was new for the exhibition, and was entitled Why Did You Turn? Spread out over two walls of the exhibition space, it consisted of 26 short stories, where the viewer was invited to map the connections between the various characters that appear within the pages. The final page, on the wall opposite the other twenty-five, situates the reader themselves within the exhibition space. It’s a page that was drawn and written in the room itself on the day before the show opened, so as best to integrate the themes of the show itself into Why Did You Turn? Ever the magpie. Anyway, the piece itself looked a bit like this:
Why Did You Turn? has been envisioned as a site specific gallery comic, which will change depending on where it is shown. I have no plans to print this one, but would love to see it exhibited it again.
There’s lots more pictures of the exhibition over at my Flickr page, including the wonderful things put up by my fellow exhibitionists.
Great thanks to the gang at Strip Turnhout for making this all possible, and for putting on a frankly amazing festival. More on that later in the week.
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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| Strip For Me 38: Places I Left You |
[21 Nov 2011|06:04pm] |
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The Thirty-Eighth issue of Strip For Me contains an all new story dealing with the troubling concept of landscape, and how it figures in an unseen narrator’s view of the world.
PLACES I LEFT YOU – £2.50 inc UK P&P
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For overseas orders, please contact me at douglas (@) strip-for-me.com
Originally published at Strip For Me. Please leave any comments there.
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