Comics for TINA
The other thing is that I need to do for the masters is create and publish some comics for This Is Not Art.
The past few years I've either not had the money, or not had the material to do this. It was difficult to do anything while I did my Honours as I was focussed on that instead. Most of my comic output has been as Web Comics. However, for my Masters I need to play around with different techniques for the two Graphic Novels before I start creating the artwork for them (this year is all research and scripting) in Black and White.
So with that in mind I think I need to do two things for TINA later this year:
- Produce a 7th issue of Hypergraphia in paper copy; and
- transfer and reformat several of my web comics into B&W paper format.
The theme I have for Hypergraphia is "Frustrations & Lamentations" and will include stories about Pegasus, driving, and coping with dickheads (among others). I did a prototype cover for the next issue a while ago (March last year!), and this will be incorporated into a new cover. More "art as therapy" and more's the better for it.
The web comics I have in mind for colour to B&W reformat are Floods and Storms (24 pages) and Second Life Crisis (7 pages) and perhaps PART 1 of Tales of the Galli (varied number of pages). Altogether I think that will keep me busy until October - especially as I'll still be researching/scripting three days a week and do my regular web comics as well.
We'll see how that goes.