DIY: Materials

This tutorial dates from 1998. There’s more up-to-date and clear information on materials throughout Drawing Words & Writing Pictures. There’s also a more current Supplies List at DW-WP.com with buying links. Paper:Page size:Whenever we talk about page size, we’re actually talking about “image area”, which means the part of the page on which you are actually drawing.…

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DIY: a drawing process

The process of drawing comics a la Jessica as of 1998. I’ve noted applicable chapters in Drawing Words & Writing Pictures throughout the tutorial below. One other note: in case you care, there’s some naughty language in the panels depicted below. Fair warning. First of all, and I wish I didn’t think I had to say…

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How Jessica met Ira

This strip is responsible, in a roundabout way, for Out on the Wire. Ira Glass came across this strip when it ran in the NewCity in 1996, clipped it, and stuck it in his files. When he was looking for a cool idea for a pledge drive premium two years later, he thought of my strip, and called me…in Mexico City, where I’d moved six months earlier.

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Designing Book Covers: A Trish Trash Study

Getting to the final cover for Trish Trash: Rollergirl sur Mars was a long and complicated process. It’s ridiculously important, it’s why most people will ever bother to pick up a book. And they will probably see it as a postage-stamp-sized 72 dpi icon. So it better be powerful. The stakes are so high. I kind of hate it, but when it really works, the labor and anxiety is worth it.

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Team Trash

I sit here just having finished the major inking on the first volume of Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars, a task I could not have completed without a teeming studio full of assistants and interns. I salute you, Team Trash!

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