September 9, 2009

Asterios/I'm Serious

I was at Shakespeare & Co. a while ago and was attracted to this new graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli...


Asterios reminds me somewhat of a sophisticated version of Meggo's make-believe but possibly real future Greek billionaire shipping tycoon husband, Kronos Megalopoulos.I love this style of drawing, and the use of color; reminds me of retro 1950s ads & cartoons. I also love that his last name is Polyp...GROSS.

I must find my tablet stylus so I can finally do some real drawing instead of this bullshit secret drawing and scanning at work business.

While Alek was here last week, through our usual fare of ridiculous voices and made-up words, we stumbled upon two characters (Eunice & Eunice) who would make a good short comic strip. They are sisters-in-law of 120 years who live in Lincolnshire and go on adventures. I have to really work on drawing these ladies because I can't draw old people very well. This is why I need to find the lost stylus because it would be more efficient to copy the faces for the sake of consistency (so they don't look different every time!).

Oh, they also have an ambiguously gay nephew named Klosty (I know right, wtf?).