The Sunday Sequential

 Some recent issues of Extra Comics - EVERY SUNDAY!

No.129 - Continue Fooling Around

 ….and see where you end up.

I love this…openness to interpretation.

Every Sunday

 

EXTRA EXTRA…COMICS!

 The Sunday Sequential and Abstract-O-Comics are here in broadsheet style and in real newsprint fashion!

PARTICLES

Particles is a wordless collection of woven abstract narratives where mind and body unite and dissipate. Published by Marc Tessier of Trip Comix. Beautiful colour, nice paper, 8.5 x 7.5 inches, 34 pages, edition of 100 copies. 

Want some gum?…..

 CHEW MY RUBBER BUM……COMICS!

I just had to do this considering how I am always trying to to package my art in some novel way suggesting candy and a visual chew. They are the size of a Double Bubble or Bazooka Joe and the comics page is one half of 8.5 x 11 in. To encourage the opening of this novelty (so many people like to keep my work in tact unopened which is understandable but then they are not enjoying the chew) I did not want to glue the sides of the wrapper to keep it closed so the idea of using the rubber band fits in well with the concept.

Every 12 Issues

 I change the masthead of Extra Comics every 12 issues / every 12 weeks, really just for the heck of it. Just to have fun in designing something new. In my mind though, beyond the different titles it’s always Extra Comics. Here are some of the issues. To date there are 57 issues. I post them Every Sunday! on Instagram @ nakfactor.

EXTRA EXTRA - Sunday COMICS

Sunday, June 6, 2021

For the past 17 weeks I’ve been gathering some of my comics for these feaux Sunday Newspaper Comics sections and posting them on Instagram and sometimes on Facebook. The first 12 issues were called Extra Comics, then I changed the name to The Sunday Sequential

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Sunday, May 9, 2021

After 12 weeks of posting 12 issues of Extra Comics I felt I needed a name change for these newspaper comics. Because I wondered sometimes If the work I was doing really or wholly fit the term comics and I was thinking that a lot of the times it was more like sequential art, which is already a term used to describe comics as well. I liked the sounding ring and flow of The Sunday Sequential.

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Sunday April 25, 2021

LAYERS of the UNDERNEATH

Underneath comic by Nak  

    I love making tiny comics. Drawing them small then BLOWING THEM UP to 8x10 or 11x17 to see the all the textures. My basic train of thought for this particular comic was that I wanted to use Letratone dots. But most of the dot sizes that I had were pretty small - 85 lines per inch - so doing a large rendering and then using the Letratone at that scale would make the dots somewhat imperceptible, so the alternative was to draw small in all the layers then enlarging the art to render the dots visible.

Fig.1 30% tone, 85-line screen  

    I first drew all the panels, then simply started inking inside them - or really - to feel inside of them, if that makes any sense-fig.2   Then I placed a vellum overlay and inked the second color, again in a somewhat random fashion (if that's possible, as I try to retain a balance of knowing and unknowing what I'm doing) fig.3+4.  A third overlay followed along with the tedious task of cutting out the tiny bits of tone - fig.1+4 - and the big question of how all this is going to interact, as well as not even knowing what color everything will be. But really I'm not worried about this... it'll work out!

Fig.2 Main art page                                                     Fig.3 Second color

Fig.4