The Annotated Annotated

2012-02-17T09:41:00.000-05:00

J_C_C

2012-02-10T11:32:00.000-05:00

DENKBILD_NOTES

2011-12-12T09:28:00.001-05:00

Misc recent + semi-recent notes + sketchbook

2011-10-18T10:41:00.002-04:00

S_O_S

2011-10-12T07:32:00.000-04:00

Brazilian Retirement Possibilities

2011-09-12T13:15:00.000-04:00

W_W_K_A_W_W_K_I

2011-07-12T13:15:00.000-04:00

ANNOTATED_5

2011-06-07T14:44:00.008-04:00

Process Post: Barton Fink Edition

Not so much an 'I'll show you the life of the mind!' piece, but more of a holed up in a hotel room on the outskirts of Liberia for the weekend trying to get some work done piece.

Here is my workspace:

Here is the view from the balcony of my hotel room:

Air conditioning doesn't seem to be working. There is cable TV above the desk (remote control not working however), and an initially spotty WiFi connection that gets better once I find the 'sweet spot' in the room. It's been raining on and off and on.

Working on the story I inked panel borders for a couple weeks back, here is the set-up:

Here is the thumbnail and partial 'script', though I've been scattering dialogue throughout my sketchbooks so there's a lot of flipping back and forth between pages and general forgetting:

Here is some reference material I traced from Roy Crane's Captain Easy, and some stuff I got off of U-tube:

And here's a banana tree out by the pool:

I swam once on Friday evening, four times on Saturday, and twice on Sunday. I was afraid I was going to get kicked out of my room, as I stayed way past the 1200 checkout, but nobody said anything. It is evidently the off-season here in Liberia, CR.

Listened to some WNYC and the following Inkstuds interviews:
- Gabrielle Bell
- Al Columbia
- Jordan Crane/Sammy Harkham/Whatthingsdo
- Ron Rege, Jr
- Peter Kuper
- Chester Brown

Finished that Pale King book last week, and have been reading this book:

Ended up 'finishing' 5 pages (scanning and P-Shop cleanup will happen later), which isn't too bad for me:

She'll show you the life of the mind:

2011-05-23T14:57:00.023-04:00

Process Post: Pura Vida Edition

In Liberia, Costa Rica for the next 3 weeks administering an internship program for work. As with other work trips, I’ve brought comics work along, in the hope that I can be productive in my down-time. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t. For the first few days of the program, I’m staying at a hotel (once the students arrive I’ll be staying with a host family for the rest of the program). I’m at the point in the story I’m working on where I need to ink the panel borders. My set up for this is thus:

Note my light source, the room is too dark otherwise:

I’ve been using a Rapidograph for quite a while now to ink panel borders. It’s the orange one (#4), and I just got a new one because I broke the last one I had (I tend to push down really hard on the nib part, and I’ve broken a couple already over the course of the past few years. They are expensive, but I like the width and the blackness of the line. With this Rapido, like the first one I used, the ink flows through it really easily to the point that it will drip out if you let it. The last couple of #4s I had did not do this, so it’s an annoying inconsistency. So anyway I end up smearing ink over a couple of pages before I get the hang of things.

I line it out using a ruler, and because the pen is so runny I use this trick I learned @ CCS where you tape some coins to one side of the ruler (in this case I’ve used Costa Rican colones) so you get a raised surface. This works out, more or less.

The ink flows out pretty thickly, which looks nice, but takes forever to dry. Here the pages are laid out at the mid-way point:

And here they are all finished; it’s going to be a 28-page story, barring any structural catastrophes:

Notes. I finished a sketchbook right before I left for the trip, and started this one:

It’s a 2010 calendar, and I’m using it as a tandem program workbook and sketch/note/work flipbook, the job/program portion of which I’d hoped to fill with Robert Walser-esque scribbles, but so far has mostly come out looking like this:

The comics/’work’ side hasn’t fared much better, I’ve been able to reiterate a few things pertaining to the story I’m working on, as well as some notes I had from last night’s dream:

These are the books I’ve brought along: Essential Latin American Spanish, Ultimate Spanish: Beginner/Intermediate Edition, my watercolor sketchbook, Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations, Yuichi Yokoyama’s Ecologue, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, which I’m already nearly 100 pages into - I just finished the Author’s Foreword, which starts on page 66:

Your intrepid web-logger, age 39, as of yet un-en-Raptured, circa 21.05.11.

It’s pouring rain outside, and has been for quite some time…

2011-05-04T14:24:00.002-04:00

THE_MICROPOLITAN

2011-05-04T13:34:00.001-04:00

MISC_SKETCHBOOK

2011-04-12T10:01:00.000-04:00

MOCCA_2011_NOTES

2011-03-25T17:08:00.001-04:00

ART_THEFT

2011-03-14T10:59:00.003-04:00

Core Principles of Dynamic Tension

2011-02-23T15:52:00.000-05:00

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10/ Ete 1962
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2011-02-18T16:24:00.002-05:00

EL_SUR

2011-02-02T17:30:00.001-05:00

'The chief character - one learns - is dishonest. He is honest, he is trying to re-establish a situation compromised by his predecessor, who died in an automobile accident. But he had no predecessor, for the company was only recently formed; and it was not an accident. Besides...'

2011-01-24T10:55:00.000-05:00

ANNOTATED_4

2011-01-12T10:25:00.000-05:00

RE Invoicing

2011-01-11T10:20:00.000-05:00

DH + EoD

2011-01-10T12:08:00.000-05:00

Investigationating

2011-01-09T14:36:00.000-05:00

Evasion Vectors

2011-01-08T09:38:00.000-05:00

...

2011-01-07T10:02:00.000-05:00

Well?

2011-01-06T11:27:00.000-05:00

Walking

2011-01-05T10:32:00.000-05:00

They have left.

2011-01-04T13:15:00.000-05:00

3-panel

2011-01-03T13:33:00.000-05:00

Eye of Discernment

2010-12-21T15:33:00.000-05:00

HOLD_ON

2010-12-14T11:40:00.000-05:00

R.Crane/Lark Song + TEL QUEL

2010-12-07T16:45:00.000-05:00

BCGF_NOTES

2010-11-26T14:19:00.044-05:00

Misc semi-recent work + sketchbook

2010-11-17T16:22:00.008-05:00

ANNO_3

2010-11-11T11:30:00.001-05:00

ANNO_5_CVR + Excerpt

2010-11-10T13:50:00.002-05:00

A_A_E

2010-11-01T10:23:00.000-04:00

Typrogaphy

2010-10-18T12:34:00.002-04:00

Citizens/
Denizens

2010-10-12T13:49:00.004-04:00

More Student Work

2010-10-06T14:23:00.001-04:00

GHOST_HAND

2010-09-22T11:41:00.002-04:00

The ghost

2010-09-17T15:23:00.001-04:00

'WW' cover + excerpts

2010-09-17T09:40:00.002-04:00

C-I-E

2010-09-17T09:35:00.000-04:00

CQN4

2010-09-17T09:33:00.001-04:00

CQN3

2010-09-17T09:32:00.000-04:00

CQN2

2010-09-16T09:56:00.002-04:00

SPX 2010 Notes

2010-09-16T09:51:00.001-04:00

Misc WA Sketchbook

2010-04-20T14:38:00.003-04:00

'Student Work 2007-2008'

2009-10-01T15:41:00.003-04:00

Excerpt from 'Student Work 2007-2008'

2009-08-03T16:44:00.002-04:00

24-Hour Sketchbook

2007-08-14T14:58:00.000-04:00

Annotated 2

2007-07-20T15:58:00.000-04:00

20.07.07

2007-07-11T13:59:00.000-04:00

Plaça de Gaudi, 02.07.07

2007-07-06T15:02:00.001-04:00

View from Mama Bar (corner of via Guelfa/via Panicale), Firenze, 26.06.07

2007-07-06T10:42:00.000-04:00

View of il Duomo from Museo di San Marco, 20.06.07

2007-06-06T15:19:00.000-04:00

Overheard at Sunburst Cafe, NYC, 01.02.05

2007-06-05T10:32:00.000-04:00

Copy of a Hokusai 'Tengu' Drawing

2007-05-21T11:18:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook

2007-02-05T09:30:00.000-05:00

Portrait of F

2006-10-19T14:19:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook

2006-08-29T16:38:00.000-04:00

Copied from 'Indian Miniature Painting'

2006-08-16T10:40:00.000-04:00

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