MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

Great illustration of different cloud types from calamityjon. (Thanks Tym for the link.)

1) You must check out this week’s All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna. Clouds! One of my Sunday morning joys is the new episode of this strip every week. 2) Happy Birthday to Tom Spurgeon! One of the few must-read daily comics bloggers.

It’s been awhile since I posted some cloud drawings. Here are two single panel comics by Hank Ketcham from Dennis the Menice: His First 40 Years (more on this soon). Both have a great abstract patterning to them that makes the clouds much more physical and material than one usually sees.

It’s been months since I posted a cloud panel. Here’s one from Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix vol. 7 (Viz, 2006). Despite his caricatural characters, Tezuka tends to use very detailed backgrounds, particularly the nature scenes. The world becomes more real than the characters in some ways. Here’s a great one panel page, a dark mountain with [...]