Comments | 4_eyez: Nobody's Lunch

4_eyez

Nobody's Lunch

Dec 14, 2005 23:36

The Civilians - an interesting New York-based independent theater company - contacted me about collaborating with them earlier this year. Their mission is to "develop original projects based in the creative investigation of actual experience." Right up my alley. I'm working on a two-pager comix adaptation of a monologue from a previous show, Gone ( Read more... )

nobody's lunch, theatre, collaboration, the civilians, comics

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benchilada December 15 2005, 07:25:11 UTC

Nice. Who hasn't seen their bartender turn...into a...lizard...

Shut up.

4_eyez December 15 2005, 15:44:51 UTC

ezackly! *hic*

one of the premises of the show is that Rumsfeld and Bush are lizard men. seems highly plausible to me.

benchilada December 15 2005, 16:13:23 UTC

David Icke, you have another follower.

My secret masters will not be pleased.

Icky! 4_eyez December 15 2005, 16:43:52 UTC

YES!!! Icke is one of the "characters" in the play! So this kooky guy is a well-known kooky guy?

Anyway, the lizard thing is just part of the production. There's also a "remote viewer," an invisible extraterrestrial, and real interviews with (among other) everyone named Jessica Lynch in the phone book

man_size December 15 2005, 17:01:09 UTC

Striking!

4_eyez December 16 2005, 04:08:35 UTC

thanks! ya know, i colored it at first entirely in light and dark green, but it just wasn't coming alive.

then this brilliant idea struck me to pick out certain details in white. that really made the card sing.

i am such a genius!!!

Josh is indeed the BESTEST man_size December 27 2005, 06:09:37 UTC

Hi - Steve here, author of said show - just ran into this online and must agree that Josh is indeed super brilliant illustrator extraordinaire. We've just come back from workshopping the show with the Sundance Theatre Lab and sadly we've cut David Icke from the piece... though we miss him dearly. We do have a song in Arabic about giant lizard men however, so the lizard leitmotif is still valid. And it is still a good idea never to take a drink from a reptilian bartender.

Re: Josh is indeed the BESTEST 4_eyez December 27 2005, 15:04:57 UTC

Thanks, Steve!

Just so you don't think I'm an ass, that comment about me being a genius was a shout-out to my buddy Dean man_size Haspiel, who suggested I add the white highlights to pick out key parts of the illo.

Sad to see the Icke stuff go, but at least you kept one lizard reference...

Can't wait to see the show!

kitchen confidential red_letter_days January 19 2006, 03:57:33 UTC

I got this in the mail! Knew whose it was immediately. Hung it where I can see it when the morning coffee is made. The bartender is strangely comforting to me...

(btw, a flood of backlogged LJ posts coming soon)

Re: kitchen confidential 4_eyez January 20 2006, 03:30:33 UTC

so cool! i haven't even seen the card yet myself. but sari & i are going to the premiere of the show friday night. i can't wait.

(i also can't wait to see some more posts from you)