As per a suggestion left in the comments yesterday, another unlikely hero…
By day he is merely The Chair, sitting in the lounge listening to Roxy Music records. But when danger strikes… He is still in essence, a chair.
I figure there are a couple of options available to me this month, which is Graphic Novel month. I can do a collection of one-off strips like the one below (which took me about 5 or 6 hours), or something longer with a narrative arc.
Strips are easier for readers to dip in and out of, but it might be quite hard going to think of and draw something new every day. Longer stories are more work for all concerned but at least if I have one idea and run with it there’s less pressure because I can essentially storyboard and get on with it. Also I have been saying ‘graphic novel’ all year, not ‘collection of comic strips’…
Such trials and tribulations I face, doesn’t it make your heart bleed?! Continue reading “To Strip, or Not to Strip”
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December is here at last, which means I am on the final stretch of 12 books in 12 months! Well, the first stage of it at any rate. It’s been quite a journey.
The last genre is ‘graphic novel’ – a nice easy one to go out on, I’m sure you’ll agree. The idea is to draw as I go which will take me quite a long time, so realistically it’ll either be a comic, or series of comic strips. I am still thinking about what exactly I’m going to do, so for now help yourself to something I drew not that long after the UK elections…
Why is Nick Clegg under the sea in a suit? That is for me to know. Also it’s a comic, you shouldn’t read too much into it. I’ve done a few cartoons about whale shark which you can find in the depths of my other blog somewhere, and I think I’ll make more at some point. Maybe even this month, who knows.
12 Books in 12 Months 