Two versions o' a page... the first digitally coloured for decision making purposes... The second was water coloured. I like.
for Monsieur Scott.
Friday, 24 August 2012
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
I'm a Train
A'llo folks... Just attempting to post regularly for a wee while... though don't expect it t' last too long, it's not the first time abes attempted such a challenge...
Anyway, above is a page for the cycling story mentioned a few posts back... Not too sure bout the art, so it'll probably look different again when next I post... I just done got no staying power... read through Bretch Evens's 'The Making Of', for sure one of the most elegant comics I've ever read... That fellow can draw (paint) beautifully. Oh, and the story isn't too bad either.
Left me with a kind of hope-enfused rage... How can someone get to be as good as say, Bretch Evens or Frederic Peeters, Adrian Tomine or Craig Thompson? At what they do... they're top of the game...and looking at the ages their early work stems from... they've been at the top from extremely young ages...
Personally I like Adrien Tomine's view... that waiting for "success" is not necessarily a bad thing. F. Scott Fitzgerald also wrote a lovely essay on fame and success, and how its arrival, too early or late, can cripple an individual (this can be read in 'the crack up').
blah de blah.
This is not really what I should be thinking about now. Just to keep on working, and when its there, (if ever) then it'll be there.
Friday, 17 August 2012
Blah de Blah
Perhaps... or perhaps t'is just confusion.
anyhow... just t' keep you updated... been working too much of late week, but have to earn money somehow I guess, and at least it leaves me with mornings free to draw... this fellow's known as Nocturnal Pascal, and he's the hero of another time and place. took a walk to the river on wednesday... and worked out the story... then sat down to draw, and... booom! no joy... nothing doing.
Sometimes this impotence really frightens me, my fickle drawing skills coming and going as they please, all to oft leaving me in the lurch. Consistency is the real problem... I want to tell long, still, petite epic narratives. But the drawing fades a few pages in... I am slowly improving, but am also realising that there really is no easy way out... I am simply going to have to get better if I want to get where I want to be.
I recall an interview with one of Marvel's writers from the 60's... (I cant alas, remember his name) he mentioned how he never wanted to be a writer... he wanted to be an artist, but he just couldn't produce the page rate... and so fell into writing, where he was involved and content. But the story seems pretty heartbreaking (in a minor way... so lets say heart cracking instead) to me. I'm not on a salary, no one is paying me to work with comics, so in a way im blessed that I wouldnt have to make the same kind of choice. then I remember. No one is paying me to make comics. Dang.
Such a two edged sword. nheh.
Its fortunate that theres no money in the kind of comics I wanna make. ho humm.
anyhow... If you haven't seen Searching for Sugarman you're missing out on a beautiful thing...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Nervous in a Cape Issue 6 on Sale Now!
Well, did a tour o the comic shops today... selling me wares...
now... go buy Nervous in a cape issue 6! its real swell! 68 pages o' comicy goodness!
available at
gosh! & mega city comics... or email abe and he'll sort ye out somehow.... christieabraham@hotmail.com
should be at orbital soon as well... Fingers crossed!
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
10:27am -11:27am
It's 10:13 am... Nervous in a cape issue 6 should be winging its way towards me between 10:27 & 11:27...
Heres a drawing I made whilst waiting... lots o pop reference in there...supposedly... yawn.
And while Abe waits.. he listens to some sweet harmless indie rock...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Nervous in a Cape Issue 6 & The Cyclist
A man cycles along empty country roads.
He recalls in a series of un-embodied flashbacks the rhythm and ryhme of his relationships.
A puncture. Repaired.
On and on. Never the sense of an ending.
Well thats the gist of a story the page above would belong to if'n I get round to it!
Anyhow... deep breath... Today the proof came for Nervous in a Cape issue no. 6! It's a 68 page, full colour collection of Abes Scribbles and comics from the last year...
Hooray! isn't it all exciting! well, Abe thinks so anyway... I'll keep ye updated... in case you wanna y'know buy it... or whatever...
Nighty Night
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