Kirby dots! illustration for Mastering Comics (2012).
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9 panel grid trivia - Love and Rockets / Watchmen
SANTORO: So when we were traveling around this week there was something you mentioned, Jaime. I can’t remember which signing it was or little interview bit, but you were talking about … oh I think it was at the Philadelphia thing, they showed a slide from “100 Rooms,” and you started talking about the 9-panel grid of “100 Rooms.” And you said that Alan Moore really liked that grid and that he was going to use it for Watchmen. And I had never heard that story, so I thought I could just ask you to riff on that a little bit.
JAIME: Yeah. It’s basically what you just said. I mean, it was that simple. In an interview or something he just said, “I really love the story “100 Rooms” and I love that grid. So we used that for Watchmen.” He just said exactly what you said. And after that, that was it. Of course in the back of my head, Watchmen became legendary in the comics circles and stuff. And I thought, well, guess what? At the time when he said it I go, “You’re going to use this 9-panel grid? Anyone can use a 9-panel grid.” It wasn’t the —
GILBERT: It’s not a fancy grid. I mean, it wasn’t magic.
(via fantagraphics)
Pantoumization of a bunch of instructional panels drawn by Bud Sagendorf (I’m pretty sure) for Famous Artists School Cartoon Course.
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detail.
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The Bad Boys of Tinubu Square, 2002. Appeared in Rosetta #2.
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I think it’s fair to call this my 5-year-old daughter’s first comic, drawn on either side of a piece of origami paper (instead of showing her friend how to make a butterfly). Note the use of of emanata (the floating question mark) and off-panel word balloon.
©Aldara Madden
Color study for La Cigüeña, page for Cábula #7 (Buenos Aires), 2011.
The text is a phonetic pangram, containing every sound in spoken Spanish.
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