Let Me Tell You a Story
For the past half-decade or so, I tried to avoid making up stories.
For the past half-decade or so, I tried to avoid making up stories.
I’ll use the 9-panel grid throughout EXIT CITY… but with an intriguing variation.
The EXIT CITY storyline is a big, multi-pronged art problem, so I’m always striving to break it into smaller tasks.
ROCK is 3DOM No. 10, a short-short comic containing one complete story in three panels.
Henri Matisse said that one should make drawings “which have individual invention which comes from the artist's penetration of his subject…”
FUTURE is 3DOM No. 9, a short-short comic containing one complete story in three panels.
BIG GUY is 3DOM No. 8, a short-short comic containing one complete story in three panels.
As of October 16, I’ve passed the halfway point for Chris Samnee’s BATOBER drawing challenge, completing a Batman drawing every day in October.
BEAUTY is 3DOM No. 7, a short-short comic containing one complete story in three panels.
SAFE is 3DOM No.6, a short-short digital comic containing a complete story in three panels.
I’m working on the BATOBER drawing challenge to complete thirty-one drawings of Batman, one a day for October.
WAIL is 3DOM No.5, a short-short digital comic containing a complete story in three panels.
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HOLLOW is 3DOM No.4, a short-short digital comic containing a complete story in three panels.
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DISARM is 3DOM No.3, a short-short digital comic containing a complete story in three panels.
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UNDONE is my second 3DOM story, a short-short comic containing one complete story in three panels.
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3DOM (“three-dom”) is a comics short-short story format that: contains one story in three panels, uses a limited range of three colors, must be completed within one week.
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*I would say this story is 83% true. I DID have the good fortune to meet and learn from John Buscema at a workshop. Buscema WAS a total mensch, and he DID tell me that making comics was a waste of time…
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EXIT CITY (the site) is… …what I left behind Comic books were my teenage gateway to making art — I taught myself to draw so I could make comics. I stuck with them for years until grad school, when I chose to make a “fine art” career as a painter, photographer,