April 1st is coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Last year, I celebrated the occasion by beginning a now-classic 3-part Unified Theory of the Funny:
This time round I have a very unwordy post, as I had a enormous amount of work and life to deal with (more on that later). Still, I managed to carry on with Foghorn and improvised cartoons.
LOST CLOWN RETRIEVAL
FOGHORN CONT.
Here is the first installment, the second installment, the third installment, the forth installment and the fifth installment. Or a recap:
The more eagle-eyed (or just plain obsessive) reader might’ve noticed that I changed her pant texture from a checkered brush of my own making, to a hand-drawn checker pattern. It is curious how this seemed to work just fine in my previous, slightly collagey book, but here the pattern just kept bothering me.
I think it’s because the overall drawing style is more sketchy and loose, even though I started it thinking everything will be tight and simple a-la Anouk Ricard. Shows how little control I have over my work, even with more than a year of preparation and sketching.
PS. Here’s the full 13-minute cut from my recent screening at Loose Frames, featuring all my short films and a bunch of other animations.
KING OF THE TIMBERDRUM
And if you’re hungry for more comics about vouchers, here’s a very nutty semi-improvised comic I riso-printed in black and blue in time for last year’s Angoulême.
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