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.

EXTRA EXTRA...Sunday Comics!

 

I’ve been making a lot of comics lately and for the past couple months now I’ve also been putting together a fun retro Sunday comics page. This one here is issue seven. And below shows a recent Cosmic Comic.

Around the Block...COMICS

This is what happens when two (or more) different objects inhabit the same proximity of space. They inter-collide in my mind and a new offspring is borne. In this case we got some gum and some blocks. But it’s the wrapping around the gum that is the important thing here. Other gums such as Bazooka or Double Bubble have comics wrapped around the gum. Chew the gum and read the comic. I LOVE IT! But here, I don’t know how to make gum yet, so some dollar store blocks make a nice substitute. It’s wasn’t one thought before the other but rather a whammy moment, because I already had these things. Plus, I am always looking for different ways to package my art. Have Fun!

A Fun Little OXYMORONIC Idea

 I had lots of fun making these little newspapers to house a selection of my abstract comics. 

There are 2 sections, with 8 pages in each section, holding a total of 16 comics. 

For its small size ( 1.75 x 1.5 inches folded ) you can actually read the comics pretty well

with no further need to view them larger online.

But here they are, for you to view larger.

I am very proud of my ‘edging’ on the top and bottom of the pages, 

which unfortunately I cannot provide this tactility for with an online experience.

If YOU feel the need to own one of these little newspapers. $5 will get a copy mailed to you.

HAVE FUN in LIFE

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Weekend Abstraction

Here are a few more of the comics in the pages of my little newspaper.

2 sections with 8 pages each with a total of 16 comics.

1.75 x 1.5 inches is the size folded as shown here.

First, a word from my sponsor-self... A New Book!

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Place Into Being is out March 27th 2019. Book launch at McNally Robinson. Fun Fun Fun

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