By: John,
on 5/30/2012
Supermutant Magic Academy Fan Comic.
I made this fan-fic comic for one of my favourite webcomics ever made - Jillian Tamaki’s Supermutant Magic Academy.
It’s kind of a reverse nod to the character Everlasting Boy, who might be the only webcomic character who’s actually made me think pretty hard about how I am living my life.
YES YES YES. Panel #4: I love you.
By: John,
on 4/1/2012
By: Betsy Bird,
on 10/9/2011
Nursery rhymes. What’s up with that? (I feel like a stand up comedian when I put it that way). They’re ubiquitous but nonsensical. Culturally relevant but often of unknown origins. Children’s literary scholar Leonard Marcus ponders the amazing shelf life of nursery rhymes himself and comes up with some answers. Why is it that they last as long as they do in the public consciousness? Marcus speculates that “the old-chestnut rhymes that beguile in part by sounding so emphatically clear about themselves while in fact leaving almost everything to our imagination” leave themselves open to interpretation. And who better to do a little interpreting than cartoonists? Including as many variegated styles as could be conceivably collected in a single 128-page book, editor Chris Duffy plucks from the cream of the children’s graphic novel crop (and beyond!) to create a collection so packed with detail and delight that you’ll find yourself flipping to the beginning to read it all over again after you’re done. Mind you, I wouldn’t go handing this to a three-year-old any time soon, but for a certain kind of child, this crazy little concoction is going to just the right bit of weirdness they require.
Fifty artists are handed a nursery rhyme apiece. The goal? Illustrate said poem. Give it a bit of flair. Put in a plot if you have to. So it is that a breed of all new comics, those of the nursery ilk, fill this book. Here at last you can see David Macaulay bring his architectural genius to “London Bridge is Falling Down” or Roz Chast give “There Was a Crooked Man” a positive spin. Leonard Marcus offers an introduction giving credence to this all new coming together of text and image while in the back of the book editor Chris Duffy discusses the rhymes’ history and meaning. And as he says in the end, “We’re just letting history take its course.”
In the interest of public scrutiny, the complete list of artists on this book consists of Nick Abadzis, Andrew Arnold, Kate Beaton, Vera Brosgol, Nick Bruel, Scott Campbell, Lilli Carre, Roz Chast, JP Coovert, Jordan Crane, Rebecca Dart, Eleanor Davis, Vanessa Davis, Theo Ellsworth, Matt Forsythe, Jules Feiffer, Bob Flynn, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Ben Hatke, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Lucy Knisley, David Macaulay, Mark Martin, Patrick McDonnell, Mike Mignola, Tony Millionaire, Tao Nyeu, George O’Connor, Mo Oh, Eric Orchard, Laura Park, Cyril Pedrosa, Lark Pien, Aaron Renier, Dave Roman, Marc Rosenthal, Stan Sakai, Richard Sala, Mark Siegel, James Sturm, Raina Telgemeier, Craig Thompson, Richard Thompson, Sara Varon, Jen Wang, Drew Weing, Gahan Wilson, Gene Luen Yang, and Stephanie Yue (whew!). And as with any collection, some of the inclusions are going to be stronger than others. Generally speaking if fifty people do something, some of them are going to have a better grasp on the process than others. That said, only a few of these versions didn’t do it for me. At worst the versions were mediocre. At best they went in a new direction with their mat
By: John,
on 8/9/2011
Now this is a book of nursery rhymes for me! First Second books has assembled a drool-worthy lineup of cartoonists to interpret classic nursery rhymes in comic form. If the previews are any sign, the contributors didn’t disappoint either!
Above: Richard Thompson, Tony Millionaire, Laura Park, and Matt Forsythe.
By: John,
on 5/18/2011
Oh man! I love finding people I didn’t know about who are totally awesome! Sergio Membrillas is an illustrator in Valencia, Spain, and his work has a wonderful analog scratchiness softening its harder-edged digital marks. It’s tinged with flavors of some of my favorite contemporary illustrators like Chuck Groenink, Nate Williams, and Drawn’s own Matt Forsythe, but the mixture is all his own.
(via welcome! : Sergio Membrillas : ilustrador / illustrator)
By: John,
on 4/26/2011
포도나무 - Jinchalo (by Matt Forsythe)
By: John,
on 3/17/2011
Matt Forsythe: Today was my last comics class
By: John,
on 2/8/2011
Matt Forsythe: Why I probably shouldn’t be teaching anything
Our own Matt Forsythe examines his teaching prowess.
By: John,
on 9/15/2010
The latest edition of the Cloudy Collection letterpress print series is now available! With art by Drawn’s own Matt Forsythe and myself, as well as Frank Chimero (previously), Maura Cluthe (previously), Eleanor Davis (previously), Julia Sonmi Heglund (previously), and Vincent Mathy (previously).
It’s an incredible stack of awesome! Get yours here.
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By: John,
on 1/24/2010
Check out Matt’s drawings from a recent life drawing session. Awesome.
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By: John,
on 3/18/2009
A big congratulations to our own Matt Forsythe whose book Ojingogo was nominated this week for both a Doug Wright Award and a National Cartoonist Society award!
Beautiful!
This is really gorgeous work Matt! Wonderful quality of line.
-Steve