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Mood right now...
My digital comic, Equivokation, edited by the fantasticAtla Hrafney is now available for download at these fine online locations.
https://gumroad.com/vinegartom
https://vinegartom.itch.io/equivokation
https://ko-fi.com/vinegartom/shop
A synopsis as follows: On the eve of the Stonewall Riots a Goetic demon and a Russian spy/sorceress meet to bargain for information, but instead become embroiled in the personal details of each other's lives in a way that will transform them both.
Finn/Fern
Had to do a cited research comic for one of my classes, and I'm so proud of how it turned out!
not necessarily a sad comic, just a personal one. what do you do when you're raised on tough love and believe in kind love? what opinion on your own current state of self wins out?
another comic
First assignment for my comic class.
The horrors of going up the stairs with a broken elevator.
Title: “An Unpleasant Surprise.”
Another comic I made in one of my classes. This one could be about anything as long as there’s a genre behind it. This is suppose to be a horror-comedy. I enjoyed drawing this so much I almost forgot the point of the assignment.
If anyone was wondering, this is another comic involving me and @hyoka-ice-demon-stuff. Also, that mosquito was real when we saw it.
This is part of a Zine comic I worked on with a couple of my classmates. It’s part of my final assignment for the semester.
I have a separate blog for my comic. I finally have enough pages to post here.
You are more than welcome to check out this blog and follow me here too. I’ve been working on this story for a few years. This is what I worked on for my mini-thesis and Sequential Art classes.
Orange
a graphic/visual/wordless poem
(it's not a well-defined genre)
TBT
First page of a comic I did for a sequential imagery class in college. Top image is a selfie. So…GPOY as well, cats.
Tracing back the visual language of comics
UCSD Psychologist and comics enthusiast Neil Cohn believes cartoons have a sophisticated language all their own and a heritage that goes back to cave art.
The drive to tell stories with pictures certainly has deep roots. Stone age paintings in places such as the Chauvet cave in France seem to show scenes of galloping horses and pouncing lions, using techniques that would be familiar to graphic artists today. More advanced picture narratives appeared in works such as the Bayeux tapestry and Paupers’ Bibles. In some indigenous Australian cultures, sand drawings are used as a regular part of discourse; in fact, drawing is so entwined with speech in the language of these cultures that you can’t be considered fluent if you don’t know the appropriate pictures.
Cohn carefully dismantles the language of comics in his new book The Visual Language of Comics. He is passionate about the way his ideas about visual language could influence art education. He points out that children naturally absorb language through imitation and mimicry. But that’s not how we are taught art, where individuality is championed. “Our culture is suppressing the biological desires for imitation.” The result is that we never learn a fluent visual vocabulary, except a few simple symbols, such as stick men.
A better approach, he says, would be to tap into children’s innate language instinct by actively encouraging them to mimic others’ drawing. He speaks from experience: from the age of eight, he obsessively copied figures from Disney until he was fluent in every aspect of Mickey Mouse’s world. “I was obsessed,” he says. “By third grade I was teaching my class to draw them.”
How the visual language of comics could have its roots in the ice age →
conceptual self portrait (ink on post-it notes)
Pigeon Comic 44 - Under Pressure
Stay coo’, pigeon army.
Preview panels from Snowpiercer • The Prequel: Part 02 — APOCALYPSE
Written by MATZ and illustrated by the series’ original comic artist, JEAN-MARC ROCHETTE