MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

I’ve not read Blurred Vision 4, though that anthology has been on my list (of comics to check out) since I first saw copies of the series at MoCCA last year. Caleb Mozzocco at Every Day is Like Wednesday reviewed the book last week and he hit a lot of my pet peeves. He started [...]

Je dessine mon écriture et j’écris mes dessins. [I draw my writing and I write my drawings.] Hugo Pratt. Quoted in Harry Morgan’s Principes des littératures dessinées (Edition de l’An 2, 2003).

Be regular and orderly in your life… so that you may be violent and original in your work. Flaubert, Gustave. Quoted in Keeping Found Things Found by William Jones (Elsevier, 2008). We thought that that was a better way to go with it, to have the music be the place where it’s wild and experimental [...]

The more disciplined among us are able to minimize that self-importance in service of the message we feel compelled to communicate; more often, though, an artist’s favorite subject is himself, and the message he ends up communicating is, “Look how clever/skilled/cool I am!”. This is so common in the world of comics as to be [...]