“Drawing is generally like digging a ditch. I basically know how far I’ll get each day.”
"It was a welcome reminder that drawing comics could actually be fun. Not just an arduous slog towards a very distant goal.”
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Sister Mary Dracula Halloween Treat, No Trick!
For the month of October, you can read "Sister Mary Dracula", the graphic novel by Gerry Mooney, online at www.sistermarydracula.com.
The 103-page story, in the works for 4-1/2 years and completed this summer, tells the tale of Terry Malloy, a ten-year-old at St. Egregius the Stricter Catholic School, who is convinced that his teacher is a vampire. Even his best friends think he's crazy.
Sister Mary Dracula began as a Flash animation created in 2000. It gained a following online and was selected to be shown at the San Diego Comic Con's Independent Film Festival in 2004. The animation can still be seen on the Sister Mary Dracula website.
Gerry Mooney has been drawing funny for most of his life, doing humorous illustration in the New York market for 20 years for such clients as Forbes, Parents Magazine, American Express, The Daily News, Newsweek, Mad and lots more, including a dozen covers for The New Republic.
His humorous feature "Mooney's Modules" (www.mooneysmodules.com) appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine for three years and spawned the now-legendary Gravity Poster (www.thegravityposter.com) which has sold over 4,000 copies and has been cited in Scientific American.
Lately Gerry has moved into animation and is developing independent projects as well as being involved currently in two online animation jams, one of which is Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog" animation jam, a project that includes 70 animators from all over the world, each one animating a single shot from the five minute short.
"created a character who swills scotch, poisons her classmates and sets houses on fire.In TheStar.com, Chantal Braganza writes about it in ‘Nasty Lulu' Yves Saint Laurent's little-known creation."Her name is Lulu.
"Did I mention she's still in grade school?"
"'It is weird,” says the Bloomsbury-based artist. 'I used real life and turned it into 2-D drawings. Stephen Frears has taken 2-D drawings and made them into 3-D people. The metamorphosis is odd to watch, but he is very, very faithful to the book.'"
"... Posy Simmonds, revealed she'd been researching her next graphic novel by attending pole-dancing classes. 'It's terrifying,' she told me. 'Terrible, truly ghastly. People look like complete arses doing it.'"
On the eve of New York Comic Con, experience Ulysses “Seen”, Robert Berry’s graphic novel adaptation of the 1922 edition of James Joyce’s epic masterpiece, through commentary by the artist in conversation with Mike Barsanti, editor, and moderated by Karen Green, curator of the Columbia University Library collection of graphic novels.
Learn how you, too, can be part of the creative process, with a special preview of pages from the newest chapter, and a forum for readers to suggest settings, props and character types for the remaining chapters of the comic.
Greetings from Moscow! Waiting for dubai flight w/ @boasas [Steven Cloud] and drawing a comic.
One hitch: NARRATIVE wants you to register at their site in order to see it.
"... [Y]ou don't have to register in order to see it. It was in the backstage first, and for that you had to register. for this now, its free. Also, it is not a chunk of my forthcoming book, rather it is a spin-off."
"War correspondence -- that makes sense, people tell me. By why comics? they ask.
"Because words seem to want to connect like plumbing: one piece at a time in a perfect line, no gap between them. But images are like dreams. They're wispy. They linger. And as they fade, they mix with the images that preceded them and follow. Comics combine words and images. You get the solid, logical effect of words plus the images' gauzy wrapper. That lets you do all sorts of interesting things with story. You can say one thing with your text while implying another with the art. You can describe hints of untold back-stories with a few strokes of ink even as the narration leaves no doubt about your main point. 'Look here,' the words declare. 'Imagine this,' the art whispers"
ITEM 2: And, speaking of fine additions to your bulging bookshelf: note the uncredited appearance of Raina Telgemeier's new graphic novel SMILE in today's CUL DE SAC!
