Are we consulting yet?
That does it! I'm converting to Rastafarianism!
That does it! I'm converting to Rastafarianism!
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it was the mental image of the deer that prompted the cognitive leap
it was the mental image of the deer that prompted the cognitive leap
What must a nut do?
I'd originally posted this 28 Mar 2010, 2.38 pm, but I have bumped it.
Guess why?
... O'Shea: One of your resources for Wondermark material is the Los Angeles Central Library. Do the librarians recognize you when you come in to browse the collections? Do they recommend resources to you?
Malki !: I did ask them for help near the beginning of this whole project, but while they were friendly, they didn't really know how to help me. I had to dig around and do research to discover what I was really looking for -- which, I soon learned, is illustrated periodicals published between 1870 and 1900. I printed out a summary record from the catalog of all the periodicals published between 1870 and 1900 and I've been slowly working down the list for years now. Just the list of titles is seventeen pages long, and any of those titles can have dozens of 1000-page volumes!
Once I spent some time browsing the collections and got a pretty good handle on the titles that had the sort of illustrations I could work with, I started acquiring my own copies. I now have thirty or forty big books in my own collection that I can go to for almost anything. But there's nothing like spending a whole day just devouring a stack of old books at the library. It's like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet -- except that the heartburn afterwards is strictly metaphorical.
O'Shea: How did you first become interested in using 19th-Century woodcuts and engravings as fodder for comedy?
Malki !: Initially it was strictly an experiment: "Can I do this? Will it work?" And from there it was just a matter of "how much can I do with this and still make it work?" There are some comics I've made basically from isolated shapes and textures that I've reassembled like a puzzle. I liken it to sculpting with clay or playing with Legos. I don't know that it's necessarily the era itself or the culture that I love, as much as the style of illustration and what it lends itself to. And its prevalence! There's a lot more of this type of work extant than, say, medieval manuscripts.
Also it makes my work look CLASSY. ...
Malki !: I did ask them for help near the beginning of this whole project, but while they were friendly, they didn't really know how to help me. I had to dig around and do research to discover what I was really looking for -- which, I soon learned, is illustrated periodicals published between 1870 and 1900. I printed out a summary record from the catalog of all the periodicals published between 1870 and 1900 and I've been slowly working down the list for years now. Just the list of titles is seventeen pages long, and any of those titles can have dozens of 1000-page volumes!
Once I spent some time browsing the collections and got a pretty good handle on the titles that had the sort of illustrations I could work with, I started acquiring my own copies. I now have thirty or forty big books in my own collection that I can go to for almost anything. But there's nothing like spending a whole day just devouring a stack of old books at the library. It's like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet -- except that the heartburn afterwards is strictly metaphorical.
O'Shea: How did you first become interested in using 19th-Century woodcuts and engravings as fodder for comedy?
Malki !: Initially it was strictly an experiment: "Can I do this? Will it work?" And from there it was just a matter of "how much can I do with this and still make it work?" There are some comics I've made basically from isolated shapes and textures that I've reassembled like a puzzle. I liken it to sculpting with clay or playing with Legos. I don't know that it's necessarily the era itself or the culture that I love, as much as the style of illustration and what it lends itself to. And its prevalence! There's a lot more of this type of work extant than, say, medieval manuscripts.
Also it makes my work look CLASSY. ...
Ta much, dear MSiegel, and thank you. I really appreciate it. You're very kind. My gratitude knows no bounds.
Mr Toad is obviously a Scorpio: many of them have a desire to somehow consume things and those whom they love.
The North Coast of Jamaica's soundin' mighty good to Your Humble Narrator.
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