Thursday, February 16, 2012

I went for a walk today. Page 26

Here's the following page from my discarded epic. Brush and grey markers. Further down and down we go. Miles and miles beneath the surface of Providence RI.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

I Went for a Walk Today.

A page from the comic story that broke me: "I Went for a Walk Today". I worked on it on and off for years. Started in Providence RI, continued in Athens GA and then in Long Island. Then at about 35 pages long it struck me: the story, improvised on a loose idea was not worth the effort, the artwork had gotten better through the years so that the first 10 pages would need redrawing. And most of the lettering needed fixing. And I also understood that working on a comic book story it's not like working on a novel, where you can delete a phrase here or there, get rid of a paragraph or a chapter; with comics the editing options - on a macro scale - are very limited.
    The story had some cool elements, though. It was set in Providence in the '90s, it featured some of my favorite hang outs, the Safari Lounge, Fort Thunder and a few of those crazy mills where music was played, and also some of my favorite local bands, among which the wonderful Manbeard. It -inevitably - had some nods to Lovecraft, a crazy secret cult, giant crab-creatures and a statue of Sun Ra. I put a lot of stuff in it that I was registering while living in my beloved/hated Providence. For some reason the plot also involved Ron Jeremy. I don't know why. One of the reasons why in the end I decided to put this baby to sleep, I guess.
      Let me know if you want to see more. There's some good stuff in there somewhere.