This past week I finally finished drawing the first edition of Catch Up: Louisville.
Catch Up, a Gold County Paper Mill presentation, is the brainchild of Jak Cardini. Each issue will feature the combination of a poem and a drawing by a different writer/artist pair.
Hey y’all, looks like another week has passed and I’ve missed my Tuesday post again. Apologies folks, I’ve been working on a long post about The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre, and I didn’t get a chance to finish it because this past Tuesday was my lady and I’s anniversary.
I’ll get that up eventually, but last nite was Sketch Klubb so I’m gonna show y’all the comic that I drew. I hadn’t made anything since E.A.S.T. so it was great to just sit around and draw with a bunch of my friends (and some new people too). Anyway, here’s the comic, it’s meant to be read from right to left. Each panel is numbered for your convenience.
Also, this past Monday, Dash Shaw’s The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century, a series of sci-fi animated shorts, premiered on IFC.com. Go check it out, although be warned, there is some full frontal male nudity. When I went to MoCCA this past June I got a chance to talk to Dash Shaw about animation, I appreciate his dedication to hand-drawn animation and legacy processes like acetate cells. He really keeps it rough in these webisodes and it looks great — the animation process, drawing something over and over again to make it move, is laid bare when the frames are inconsistent and the cross-hatching on the Unclothed Man’s arm changes from second to second. I also dig the sequences that reference the visual language of 8-bit video games, silent film, and comics.
Glade and I are participating in the East Austin Studio Tour this year as Boongoo Studio. We’re number 125 on the map, come check out our spaces!
Here are some shots of my studio:
As you can see in the upper left, I’ve got plenty of Gold County Paper Mill books left over from STAPLE! 2008, including Jak Cardini Achieves the Narratological Singularity, a book of J.C.‘s poems, and Impossible Objects, a collaborative book between me and Jak.
Here’s a detail shot. I’ve also got some color drawz, raw comix pages, and black and white india ink drawz.
Here’s my drawing space and something that I was working on.
Our good friend Alison Kuo came and did an installation in our living room! We’re also going to be featuring the artwork of Beverly Anderson and Aaron Flynn.
I just finished my submission to TAFFY HIPS #3.5!
Here’s a preview:
Its a gridded drawing that explores some of the ideas that I put into SHAMANMAN for SMOKE SIGNAL …
TRANZ got reviewed over at Optical Sloth, here’s a quote:
“Everything looks great and William/Mark is certainly not short on imagination, I guess I’m just more old fashioned in my comics reading, what with my general preference for linear stories and all. Still, there’s a lot to be said with the ‘where the hell is this going to go from here?’ school of making comics, and I’m all kinds of intrigued to see what he does next and what he’s already done that might or might not be more accessible than this to the common folk.”
This is the first page of a comic that I did for the second issue of Reynard Seifert’s zine/comic anthology Candy and Cigarettes, which will be available sometime in August. There’s gonna be a zine release party!
Czekk owwwt a review of Hyperbox #1 here.
And now…
H Y P E R B O X # 2
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Copies available starting Jan 15th. E-mail [REDACTED]@gmail.com if interested. Also available at End of an Ear, north of Oltorf on the east side of South First, Austin, TX; and Domy Books, next to Brazil at Dunlavy and Westheimer, Houston, TX. Cost: $3.
