I love what comics can do and I love teaching this comics workshop. Yesterday we were talking about panels and when to use larger or smaller panels. We found this page from Craig Thompson’s Blankets, where we see a narrow panel of Craig’s mom waving goodbye, and then a large vignette of Craig driving away, leaving his…
I’ve been a fan of Dave Stewart’s abilities for the last ten years, and it’s been fascinating to watch him tackle projects as varied as Hellboy, Sandman: Overture, Daytripper and now Craig Thompson’s Space Dumplins. I recently discovered the new comics interview show, From the Gutters, and was happy to find a two-part video interview with…
Craig Thompson’s hour presentation at Meltdown Comics on the process of making his graphic novels, Blankets and Habibi.
Celebrated graphic novelist Craig Thompson was in London in January 2012 and popped in to the Faber office to discuss Habibi and show off his drawing skills, as well as talk about his classic graphic novels Blankets, Good-Bye Chunky Rice and Carnet de Voyages. Related articles Habibi by Craig Thompson (sarahsaysread.com) Graphic Novels How I…
Trubble Club has just launched The Infinite Corpse, a new collaborative online comic that is “open to everyone in the world who makes or wants to make comics.” Basically it’s an enormous add-on comic, where each creator is asked to follow the previous three panels with three of their own. The comic is now open…
If you’re an indie comics fan, then you’ve probably already noticed the great lineup Top Shelf has in store for 2012. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, you can see all their upcoming titles here. Here’s everything Top Shelf has planned for 2012 (so far!) listed in order of release…
6 years in the making. 672 pages. Arabic calligraphy. Islamic mythology. Hardbound. Foil-stamped. Out today. “I never know the endings of the books when I’m working on them. I spent a year on the first rough draft and couldn’t figure out the ending. Then I spent another year on the second rough draft, and still…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0YjQ2KN3c] The creator of Habibi drawing page borders and sharing his workflow for his 12 hour pages (6 hours for panels, 6 hours for page border).