Long Day

I just had a long day, it was a good day too though. I fell off a ladder, that was the low point. But the artwork that is worth more than my yearly salary was securely on the hanging bar when I fell, that was the high point. As I was falling I was wondering if I would have to pay them back for the art, or if their insurance would cover it, haha.

I got up a little bit late, and had to drive to the next train station to catch my train. When I got to the city I could not get into the place where I was going. So I walked around, and went over to Printed Matter and picked up a pretty cool comic book called: The Drips, it is by a guy I previously blogged about, Taylor McKimens, and another book: Your Brick Shrapnel Hit My Face, by Noel Troll Freibert, and it has a really great fold out cover, the main thing I can tell it is about is a very sexual frog cartoon.

One thing I have been learning since I moved to NYC is how to write, and how to think in terms of ideas other people will find interesting, and also you get first hand insight into what is successful and what are the best people making right now. Knowing what the best people are making at any given moment is incredibly useful, because you are part of the most contemporary conversation possible, and the things you make naturally respond to relevant social and cultural topics.

But I have been reconsidering my ban on narrative cartoons, I have been drawing cartoons for a while, but have refused to make them into a story type narrative. That may be over now, I have been thinking of ways to best make an interesting story using the Bird.

I like the way The Drips uses paintings to tell the story. Plus you can see the perforated edges of the paper where it was ripped from a pad in some cases, or the edges of nicer paper, and there are scratches and dents in the things, but it all fits in well with the aesthetic. I think that may be a good way for me to work, because I like to draw my cartoons on notebooks I keep in my front pocket so the edges are usually a little crumpled.

I have 3 more bird drawings. I will go downstairs and scan them after I get done up here writing this.