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- alexander matthews
- Freelance cartoonist published in Private Eye, The Spectator, Readers Digest, Prospect, The Week, The Dandy, The Beano, Viz, Adventure Time, The Penguins of Madagascar and more. I currently write Useleus and write and draw Pow! Both from the Phoenix Comic. Email me at: alexonemillion@me.com
4 comments:
Lovely piece of visual journalism Alex. Hope it gets some recognition.
Thank you very much, Matt. Much appreciated.
I like this Alex, it's a format you can use to get entire stories down quickly; but I also like your detailed drawings.
There is a compromise, and it's possibly the sort of exercise you use with your students when you get them all to illustrate the same piece of text. You could create a template page with a set number of frames and fill those (I make 9 in pale-blue so I can turn them into anything I like, 1 panel, 2 panels...etc). I find when you are looking at drawing a lot of pages it is strangely comforting to know there is a structure helping you along.
Alan Moore's preference is for 9 columns a page, but I think when you are working smaller, 6 is okay - and I have seen some books, like Kochalka's, that use as few as 4 panels per page.
Good luck in the Observer competition.
Thanks, Rod. Unfortunately I didn't win! I used a template page initially, but I decided to abandon the standard frame format as it was swamping the artwork and I wanted to lighten the tone by giving the drawings space to breathe, Perhaps it wasn't altogether successful. It was largely an experiment for me, but I hope to develop this way of working in the future.
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