{"id":2825,"date":"2011-10-18T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2011-10-18T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T12:56:09","slug":"james-jarvis-pure-unfettered-cartooning-including-steadman-alechinsky-and-my-monster-show-ink-drawz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/james-jarvis-pure-unfettered-cartooning-including-steadman-alechinsky-and-my-monster-show-ink-drawz\/","title":{"rendered":"James Jarvis: Pure, Unfettered Cartooning; including Steadman, Alechinsky, and my Monster Show Ink Drawz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The James Jarvis drawings that Dan Nadel posted this past week on the Picturebox blog are a revelation.<\/p>\n

\"James
An homage to Goya’s “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monster”<\/a> from Day 1 of the James Jarvis posts<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"James
A colored page from Day 4 of the James Jarvis posts<\/a>. These posts on the Picturebox blog are promotion for a full-color book that Jarvis has out, De Profundis<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pure, unfettered cartooning. The impulsive, inky scratching of them reminds me of Ralph Steadman …<\/p>\n

\"Ralph
This is Steadman’s homage to that same Goya etching<\/a>. I posted it so large because I stitched it together from two scans I did of Gonzo: The Art<\/em>, a Steadman art book<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… mixed with a little bit of Maurice Sendak and of course, Pierre Alechinsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Alechinsky,
Alechinsky, “Alvéoles.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Alechinsky,
Alechinsky, “Volcan ensorcelé.” Both of these paintings are from the website of the Alechinsky retrospective at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique<\/a>. Check out this Alechinsky post by Derik A Badman<\/a> or my previous Alechinsky post<\/a> for more examples of his comic-like work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steadman was one of my biggest early influences and I love Alechinsky so Jarvis’s work really speaks to me. I’ve been experimenting with modifying my wanna-be Moebius-and-Brinkman hybrid style to something more spontaneous and cartoony. I like working in MangaStudio but sometimes I just want to get away from glowing computer screens and put nib to paper.<\/p>\n

Here are two examples of me doing just that, in these drawings that I did for Monster Show 6<\/em> at Domy Books in Austin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Cardini
I was thinking about the TV Tropes entry on the Quirky Miniboss Squad<\/a> when I drew this (warning: TV Tropes is a link-infested time suck).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Cardini
This drawing is dedicated to my buddy Grant Davis<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Disclaimer: these drawings may or may not be in the Monster Show 6. I’m going to have something in there but I don’t know what yet. Come to the opening from 7-9pm on October 29th (costume encouraged) to see tons of monster drawings by all sorts of amazing artists. If you’re in Houston, there’s also a Monster Show there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The James Jarvis drawings that Dan Nadel posted this past week on the Picturebox blog are a revelation. An homage to Goya’s “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monster” from Day 1 of the James Jarvis posts. A colored page from Day 4 of the James Jarvis posts. These posts on the Picturebox blog are promotion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72,173,191,278,321,332,457,515,528],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-austin","tag-de-profundis","tag-domy-books","tag-goya","tag-india-ink","tag-james-jarvis","tag-monster-show","tag-pierre-alechinsky","tag-ralph-steadman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}