Hoboken Old Woman

barrel-roll my dumplings into relevance, this is my holiday resort

It’s summertime. Sex sells, everything is bright and annoying, and everyone on Substack has opinions. I have none, which is why you should cherish me and my beautiful newsletter. I spent the month writing the next chapter of Foghorn and reading Thomas Bernhard, like a martyr. Now is the summer of our noncontent.

back cover of the first issue

BUT FIRST

I’m planning a very small print run of the first chapter/issue of Foghorn, mostly to see how it reads on paper. It will be available at Gosh Comics and maybe elsewhere, but if you want to read it right now and for free, go here. I made a whole special sub-site for it, and it works nicely on desktop and mobile.

GENERATION-DEFINING CARTOONS

I’ve been further refining and reworking my Procreate brushes (more on that at the end) to look extra-crappy, and here are the results.

GLAND FM

At the end of last year I participated in the annual Sputnikat jam comic, which you can soon buy from their shop, along with other excellent zines and comics. We made a pretty wild story, improvised day by day on telegram, with contributions from Aisha Franz, Bnahu Pratap, and many others. Here’s my contribution, which sort of works on its own:

There is some local Russian content¹ referenced therein, but you can live without it.

THIS IS YOUR ANNUAL REMINDER

that I can draw clean and tight things—I just choose not to. Here’s a recent ad campaign I illustrated for Notion:

There was also an animated ad, but I didn’t make it, just provided some character designs and pointers. I did design and direct the one below, which was animated by Lana Simanenkova and scored by Dory Bavarsky, who does music for my own films.

<for the record, I still haven’t used Ai in Notion or anywhere, and I keep it turned off wherever possible, including Substack (search for ‘block AI training‘ in Settings)>

Normally, I try to keep my personal stuff and work stuff separate, but I must admit they have been influencing each other lately. For the Eames event I made something much looser than usual, which will be on their tote bags, I think.

Below is what the illustration originally looked like, but I was asked to try something sketchy, which did work better. The first version took a full day to draw, and the second one was done in half hour… made me think about how much my work style is closer to design, rather than drawing. Of course there is a lot of sketching and improvising, but in the end it’s all about balancing curves and lines, fills and patterns, etc and etc—it takes lots of tweaking and refining to make something as simple as this:

MORE TECH BULLSHIT

Procreate rolled out the barrel roll² update for the new Pencil Pro, and it feels mostly gimmicky so far, but adding a little bit of barrel roll size variation just about everywhere does give a nice little extra accidentality to the brushes, especially the dual ones.

Here’s a useful tip, especially for print. If you’re dissatisfied with the softness of the brushes, set your dual brush blend mode to hard mix, which creates pixel-perfect edges, pretty much like a hi-res bitmap scan.

Also, did you know that you can tap on the numeric button, and add a whole curve for practically every number? Very extra, but can be interesting to experiment around with.

And that’s that. Going to try and be more proactive about building my $ub$tack audience, take advantage STI 0.00%↑ of all the exciting new features, like poetry blocks and financial CAKE 0.00%↑ charts.

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1. I would translate it, if I could, but it would require quite a lot of context-setting, from dumplings to prison etiquette.

2. “At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”