February 2011
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Things in Panels, Pictures in Frames, Bears in...
A quick update on a couple of newsworthy developments from here in Bristol.
Firstly, we’ve been trying to organise a forum for local zine and comic creators to come together, meet, share experiences, create chances for collaborations and generally support one another. (I say ‘we’: Nick deserves much of the credit for being particularly proactive in organising this). We’re...
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Drawing, redrawing.
While drawing Smoo #3, I ended up going back to pages I thought I had finished, scrapping them, and then redrawing them. This was a pretty new (and unenjoyable) experience to me: although I intuitively knew that this was what proper folks called ‘editing’, I had previously planned my comics to the point where I knew just what was happening on each page, and was happy to get...
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Smoo #4
As you may or may not know, I have of late, and wherefore I know not, worked myself into a little bit of a state over Smoo #4. See, what happened was, after Christmas, I sat down and started to come up with ideas, started thinkin’, sketchin’, tryin’ – but nothing seemed to come out right. Then I got all full of artist’s/writer’s/procrastinator’s block and thought I’d throw an existential...
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A portrait of the artist as a young man, pt. 2
While rooting around in some boxes of old stuff at my parents’ house over Christmas, I chanced upon some pages from the first iteration of Smoo. These were drawn around the year 2000, some 7 years before I actually started doing Smoo properly. The name, and the general mood of the comic was established all those years ago, but I never finished what I started. I guess being a teenager with...
