how cool it is to find your blog (by chance). i have a book of yours titeld “adieu chunky rice” (yes i speak french…as you can say by my way to write…). do you have a next book coming out in europe ?
can i ask what kind o brush do u use ?
nice to have some news about you man. keep the good work !
.ben. from Geneva, switzerland. ]]>
Cool!.. Nice work…%
]]>I look back on those days when we worked toe to toe on Nick Mag as the salad years of my career. I’m not sure what that means, but salads are healthy and that’s good.
Not that we don’t “team up” anymore–but back then it was like we were on the phone all the time…like blood brothers…like blood brothers where one blood brother makes the other blood brother draw Jimmy Neutron comics. Okay, so it wasn’t all perfect–but that’s what family is all about.
It’s a blast seeing those sketches again. It was so hard to choose. You are the man, man.
By the way, have you ever seen the video for Hasslehoff’s “Hooked on a Feeling”? It’s so goofy–it gives one new respect for the man.
Chris
]]>Ok, please excuse my fan girl squeek, I’m amazed to get your response! And as a PDXer, born and raised, I find a lot of my solice in the trees that surround us. 
My particular favorites are Mt. Tabor and the Tualitin Hills Nature Park.
Thanks so much for the answer. I am happy to announce that I finally got all 14 pages (plus front and back) of my own comic done in time to graduate! well, penciled but not inked… And that leads me to my next question.
Do you involve any digital technology in your development or layout of your work? I’ve been scanning the penciled pages into photoshop and then messing with contrast, etc to make them look a little more finished but its a temporary solution. I know some artists rely on blue pencils, but i haven’t messed with this technique at all. I feel most comfortable with pencil, pen and paper, but i’ve been told that I’ll never make it in comics without going digital.
And as far as solving the character problem in Habibi, well… I just wanted to support you in whatever you discover about the characters, both in terms of writing and in terms of living. Blankets had so much power for all of us because of the raw authenticity of your journey and the fact that you didn’t solve it for us.
Your work has been one of my greatest inspirations, and my own comic is a monologue about my own journey to find the sacred within the body even when the body is the recipient of trauma.
So thank you. And blessings,
~bird.
Good to see a blog. Do keep in touch us here at First City. Would love to do some more features/interviews. ]]>
You mention in this post about European comic artists that you admire. Can you post links to their sites?
Also I’m really enjoying reading the comments by other readers who had a similar upbringing to you and how Blankets seems to have become a life raft for them. That must feel nice.
cheers Vanessa
]]>Wonderful to hear that you’re still working at the “next book”; I was beginning to wonder….
“Blankets” was released the year I graduated highschool, and I must admit it was a major catalyst for change. I grew up in rural Montana with fundamentalist parents, a strong involvement with the church ( I was going to attend a college to become the youth pastor’s successor!) and the community, yet I often felt that what should have been security was actually a form of opression. I aspired to be a Fine Art major, but my father wanted me to become a ‘good wife and mother’. Wraught with guilt and concern for the ‘unsaved’ in my community, I applied for a Bible College in Washington.
One blistering afternoon, I ducked into a local bookstore, and soon felt myself begin to gravitate toward the spine of “Blankets”.
Needless to say, I was captivated. It read like a journal of my senior year, complete with the turmoil of a naive first love, a unique blanket and a re-connection with a talented younger brother.
Three years later, I am a Fine Art major who has scandalized her hometown by doing such things as taking Life Drawing and being seen kissing in public.
I have since read “Carnet” and “Goodbye, Chunky rice”, much to my delight! Amazing and inspiring penwork, charming and intimate narratives…not to be missed!
I transfer to the Oregon College of Art and Craft (in Portland) within the year; perhaps some day I will have the honour of shaking your hand.
Continue to think positive thoughts, Craig.
Later days, Aurora ]]>
I love comics … actually I was the one in charge when it comed to buy comicboocs to my inmate brother in law . But now I’m pretty busy with my bizarre trash pictures: http://www.blogak.com/zabormila Take a look at my blog. Here’s to you… because I find your style and skills really inspiring.