Q: At the end of The Loneliness of the Long–Distance Cartoonist, it shows you getting out of bed, presumably to begin this very work. You get a notebook out that is much like the design of this book, and begin working. Did you illustrate this book in a notebook or was it on more traditional sheets of paper?
You are fantastic, Adrian. I love everything about you. Since I discovered your work 21 years ago I am very happy to witness your evolution. We are proud of you!
True, I am a hobby comic artist, and I used to draw on digital, but I moved to paper because I visited a comic art gallery in Paris once, and I saw many original pages - It changed me. I said it is much nicer than digital; it has another sensation, the original gives another value to the page. Then, I started to draw on paper, and I also started my collection of original art, and by the way... I still don't have yours... Where are you selling them?
I don't think preferring drawing by hand to working on the computer is an eccentric personal preference. I think it's a very natural, normal personal preference, and it's one I share. D.B. Dowd, the author of Stick Figures: Drawing as Human Practice, says: “I think there is an important distinction to be made between the digital and the manual. We are physical creatures. Our hands are still fixed at the ends of our arms, which is, in fact, a big deal: our brains exploded in size when our hands gained functionality through opposable thumbs. The sheer number of nerve endings in our fingers connects learning to touch and manipulation.” We are tactile animals! I love paper, and will always prefer working with it to staring at a computer screen.
awwww your dad!!!! love this! Just finished my graphic memoir (out next month) and my roughs are also so horrifying and totally unreadable and my editor was like "Can I see them?" and I was like "if you think you can read gibberish?"
"I'll spank YOUR ass" is my favorite scene from that book. Thanks for sharing!
Did not expect that ending. Very touching. I am loving this newsletter so much, I don't want it to stop.
You are fantastic, Adrian. I love everything about you. Since I discovered your work 21 years ago I am very happy to witness your evolution. We are proud of you!
True, I am a hobby comic artist, and I used to draw on digital, but I moved to paper because I visited a comic art gallery in Paris once, and I saw many original pages - It changed me. I said it is much nicer than digital; it has another sensation, the original gives another value to the page. Then, I started to draw on paper, and I also started my collection of original art, and by the way... I still don't have yours... Where are you selling them?
This is super inspiring. I feel like drawing on papers too now! Thank you again for sharing, Adrian!
I don't think preferring drawing by hand to working on the computer is an eccentric personal preference. I think it's a very natural, normal personal preference, and it's one I share. D.B. Dowd, the author of Stick Figures: Drawing as Human Practice, says: “I think there is an important distinction to be made between the digital and the manual. We are physical creatures. Our hands are still fixed at the ends of our arms, which is, in fact, a big deal: our brains exploded in size when our hands gained functionality through opposable thumbs. The sheer number of nerve endings in our fingers connects learning to touch and manipulation.” We are tactile animals! I love paper, and will always prefer working with it to staring at a computer screen.
awwww your dad!!!! love this! Just finished my graphic memoir (out next month) and my roughs are also so horrifying and totally unreadable and my editor was like "Can I see them?" and I was like "if you think you can read gibberish?"