Entries from lacunae tagged with 'sketchbook'
sketchbook #19: Indigo Kelleigh
Indigo Kelleigh is a local hero in the Portland comics scene, and the creator of “Ellie Connelly,” a sort of Victorian Tintin web-comic; he’s also the founder of the Stumptown Comics Fest. A nice guy, a fine cartoonist, and, as...
sketchbook #18: Jesse Reklaw
The wildly gifted Jesse Reklaw is the man behind the long-running dream comic Slow Wave; he’s also been publishing a fascinating diary comic called Ten Thousand Things to Do. There’s a really interesting discussion of the economic crush of being...
sketchbook #17: Meredith Gran
My. That certainly was a month, wasn’t it? Someday the whole story will be told, and everyone will go home with makeup streaked down their cheeks and drink bitter lemon with quinine straight out of the bottle. I’ve been publishing...
sketchbook #16: Jordan Crane
For some reason, a lot of people who’ve drawn in the little four-panel sketchbook have done strips involving birds. Here’s one I enjoyed by the cartoonist (Uptight, Col-Dee) and printmaker Jordan Crane. He’s also the creator of the nifty kids’...
sketchbook #15: Jon Lewis
I think Jon Lewis was probably pretty hungry when he drew this. Jon is a great guy and a terrific, very weird cartoonist—the mastermind behind True Swamp, most famously; I’m still waiting for the second half of his Power of...
sketchbook #14: Charles Burns
Carrying on from the theme of #13—sort of. (Actually, I’m posting things from the sketchbook totally out of order). As I recall, the story behind this one was that as Charles Burns was sketching it, he or somebody near him...
sketchbook #13: Peter Kuper
A neat color piece by Peter Kuper, the co-editor of World War III Illustrated and a first-rate political cartoonist. I’ve got a sizeable shelf of books he’s illustrated, but he’s not even credited on the cover of one of my...
sketchbook #12: Steve Lieber
Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Lieber, one hell of a cartoonist and the official Nicest Guy in Comics, a field that’s not short of nice people. Steve is one of the mainstays of Periscope Studio, ground zero for cartooning in Portland....
sketchbook #11: Becky Cloonan
A very different sort of music-themed piece—this one by Becky Cloonan, who’s been drawing a bunch of interesting comics in the last few years. She also posts a lot of short work here. “Demo,” her collaboration with writer Brian Wood,...
sketchbook #10: Kevin Huizenga
Kevin Huizenga is the creator of Or Else, Ganges, Fight or Run, Supermonster and a bunch of mini-comics. He’s one of my favorite living cartoonists, and I’m particularly fond of this piece for obvious reasons. If you haven’t read Curses,...
sketchbook #9: Lucy Knisley
Unsurprisingly, some of the pieces in the con sketchbook have ended up being about the book itself. I picked out this one because today is also the ridiculously talented Lucy Knisley’s 24th birthday. (And yes, this is the other one...
sketchbook #8: Denis Kitchen
A really charming piece by Denis Kitchen, who’s probably best known these days as a publisher and agent but is also a fantastic cartoonist. I don’t think I’ve ever watched anybody draw a line as meticulously as he drew these....
sketchbook #7: Bryan Lee O'Malley
As promised, one of the strips in which Hope Larson appears as a character—this one by the incomparable Bryan Lee O’Malley. “Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe” is debuting the week of New York Comic-Con; I’ll be moderating a discussion with...
sketchbook #6: Hope Larson
A fantastic piece by the mighty Hope Larson. This one’s also a four-panel strip, although it took me a moment to notice it. Hope also appears as a character in a couple of other cartoonists’ pieces in the sketchbook—I’ll probably...
sketchbook #5: Jason Little
A very nice narrative piece by Jason Little, the mastermind behind Beekeeper Cartoon Amusements. “Shutterbug Follies” is the first Bee collection—he’s almost finished serializing the second volume, and I’m fortunate enough to be moderating a panel he’ll be part of...
sketchbook #4: Carla Speed McNeil
I have been known to call this one my favorite page in the entire sketchbook (I’ve said that about others too, but I say it about this one a lot): a brilliant use of the four-panel grid by Carla Speed...
sketchbook #3: Fly
A very simple but very effective piece by the New York cartoonist Fly, whose real name I know but will never tell. I first met Fly when she was playing with God Is My Co-Pilot (and the… related band Zero...
sketchbook #2: Roger Langridge
Roger Langridge is one of the funniest cartoonists alive. These days, he does a weekly strip at Hotel Fred, and posts updates on his other work here. Here’s the page he drew in the sketchbook: I think I’ve bought every...
sketchbook #1: Seth
Back in 2004, I went to the MoCCA festival and bought a little sketchbook with blue lines dividing each page into four panels. I asked a bunch of the cartoonists I saw there if they could draw something in it;...
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