Wednesday 30 March 2011

Horst



A 2006 strip, from a short comic I made called 'Snouts', re-drawn.

Saturday 19 March 2011

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Influence, conscious and otherwise.






I started drawing 'Klaus' in or around October 2009, around the same time I found out about Philip Guston, in particular his later cartoonish work. I know that Guston is generally well known, and well known among cartoonists (I think a Guston character is among the population of Michael DeForge's cartoon-hell in Lose #1 (?)), but I'd not come across his work until late.
I also really like Shunji Sonoyama's drawings. I've been reading Frederik L. Schodt's book "Manga! Manga!" recently and I'm sure that's the first time I've seen Sonoyama's work. There's not a lot of Sonoyama on the internet, or I haven't been very good at finding it. I'd also like to see more of Yoshiko Tsuchida and Sampei Sato.

Thursday 3 March 2011

Some new panels




I'm working on something at the moment which could be very exciting, for me at least, for which I've drawn a dozen new Klaus strips. These are some panels from those strips - just to show that I'm not inactive!