Hurricane Mike 2

I haven't worked on this in ages which is really upsetting me. I was enjoying making comics again but I've had too much work to do. I finished Infinite Jest and I wanted to get back into writing so in my spare time I've been writing stories and poems. I'll probably make most of them into comics.

I ran out of stuff to draw for Hurricane Mike so started looking around at different styles to rip off. I'll dump a bunch here so I can refer to them later:

hurricane mike

Hurricane Mike is gonna be part of the Dog Christina's comic.

He's paranoid and lonely and beats up a guy and gets off and it ends up really messing him up 'cause it just reinforces his weightless, inconsequential existence.

I wanted to avoid the 2x3 layout and branch out for his one, so I've started with some shapes. I started planning all of them out as like separate pages with separate parts of his narrative, but now I'm thinking of just producing heaps of drawings and writing up the text and just scrambling the whole thing up.

I'm gonna try to ape all these different styles with just black and white:

'cause Munch's appropriation of woodblock prints lead to works both wonderfully flat and thoroughly nauseating, Herriman's bizarre shapes expressed and evoked atmosphere, energy, and imagination in only a few lines, and McCahon's landscapes still appear starkly bare, silent, and alienating

dog christina update

Yeah this font's definitely better