The Brain Trust redrawn

[click for larger image]

24" x 19", ink on paper (the margins are wider in the original)

Drawn entirely* with a Winsor & Newton Cotman no. 2 brush, which, dammit, works better than my much more expensive series 7.

*well, except for some of the larger expanses of black, where I used an older beat-up brush

compare: the digital original

see also: part of the same project and brief explanation of the process

While I'm making book announcements, I should point out that "24 x 24: A Vague Epic," on which these hand-redrawings/completions are based, will be printed in my book "Nautilus," coming this spring from Danish publisher Fahrenheit.

What passed for abstract comics back in 2001

http://web.archive.org/web/20011113040600/palladio.arch.kth.se/~henke/comics/strange.html

Courtesy of the Google January 2001 index, http://www.google.com/search2001.html

If there are any readers of this blog who still don't know that the anthology of abstract comics that I've edited is set to come out from Fantagraphics Books in June 2009, well, now you know.

Incidentally, I made my first abstract comic in the fall of 2002, and published it in my mini Blots, 2003. Now it's been reprinted in Asemic no. 5.

"Pym" redrawn

ink on paper, 17" x 14", 2 sheets

Two of the missing pages from "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

After troylloyd. See here.

UPDATE: color version.

Once more onto the beach!

Question: do you folks prefer it with thumbnails or with full images, as before?

Flutters (in a specimen box)

A day by the ocean

Or is this version better?



I can't decide. Let me know.