Chris Schweizer

Making comics (any kind of art) can give one the opportunity to not only wrestle w/ its making, all of the components that go into that, but its context, its history, its intent. It can be such an overwhelming engaging, taxing, joyful, immersive experience. Tony revels in that experience (so do I!)

Tony Cliff | Patreon is making a fourth Delilah Dirk graphic novel!

I can think of few cartoonists who write more articulately, elegantly, and at length about the thought processes that go into their decision making, their work, their analysis of inspiration than @tangocharlie.bsky.social does on his Patreon. Immerse yourself in art thought!

patreon.com/tonycliff

rough drawing of Baby from Kpop demon hunters with a head mirror, stethoscope, and white coat, holding two babies. Text says DOCTOR BABY, BABY DOCTOR

I was talking to my kid and this is the result

rough drawing from an in-progress comic of a lady with a sword squatting alongside a pushcart and reaching into a cabinet on its side

Continuing to get more at ease with the new tablet as I work on pencils. I ordered a matte screen protector thingy which, with luck, may feel a bit more natural. We'll see!

Morning walk

Thank you, Jess!

There ain't nobody who does it better together than @thekylestarks.bsky.social and @schweizercomics.bsky.social except maybe Brubaker & Phillips.

Something I think about a lot when doing environmental design: conceiving of the space with fixed parameters, like it's a model on a table, rather than a vista we're taking in. Guillaume applies that principle in these pieces and pushes the conceit all the way up to 10.

Been pondering the "write for yourself / no, write for an audience" convos I've seen going around. This obviously varies for everyone, but for me it's "write for myself, edit for an audience." I can't finish a project unless I retreat into a bubble and pretend nobody will ever read it--

It's called Masterminds

The more I reflect, the more it checks every box I want an Xmas yarn to check (including serendipity/fate/guiding hand of God/seasonal magic, which I think is nice. The season needs a little magic; serendipitous coincidence borne of character choices is magic, but at Christmastime it's perfect)

I like the Stewart version more and you're not allowed more than one version of CC!
(That said we watch the muppet version with more frequency)
(ALSO I'm not 100% on Richard Grant playing a Cratchit as essentially an abuse victim, but ai admire the swing)

If I had to peg it down:
5. Patrick Stewart Christmas Carol
4. Klaus
3. Die Hard
2. It's a Wonderful Life
1. Tokyo Godfathers

I also love THE LION IN WINTER more than any of these but its bleak, essentially circular nature means it fails to satisfy the genre requirement of seasonal transformation

Top pick!

How neat! I've had a chance to go to the Adventurers' Hall a few times with my dad's best friend Richard, who served as its governor for a time. Sketching the beams gave me a better understanding of how they were assembled, which makes for more convincing designs when I draw that sort of thing now.

Thanks, Stergios! Proud of how this one turned out, and had a great time doing it.

The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton I am a huge fan of both Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer 's comics, having read pretty much all of the books they've made (click on their na...

The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton by @thekylestarks.bsky.social & @schweizercomics.bsky.social is an excellent comic that has so much going for it: a rich backstory soaked in action movies, so-bad-they’re-good ‘80s shows, and a feud between actors and stuntmen.

My pleasure! Good luck, can't wait to see what you do next.

I'm of a mind that doing two or three small(ish) specific bits will give you the aesthetic building blocks from which to extrapolate what everything else will be as you move from scene to scene.

Shoot, you know, the photo on the post I retweeted doesn't actually show what I mean! Here's what I mean when I talk about Guillaume's (stylized) parameters for these environments, and how they force compression of elements:

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And putting aside that the "model" shot of a given environment at the design stage forces a uniform emphasis on all of its components, it also forces one to compress the space in a way that tends to work very well for narrative. All the bits end up closer together - easier to frame good shots!

As more and more production-stage work pivots from drawing to painting, for a variety of reasons, that specificity of detail is often lost in lieu of presenting the feeling and idea and vibe of an environment, which IS important, but a very different thing altogether.

One of the reasons I like the fixed-edges thing is that it forces one to emphasize the design rather than the drawing; "drawing" (or, even moreso, painting) a landscape allows one to obfuscate its specifics with planes blocking planes, atmospheric perspective, lighting, etc.

Something I think about a lot when doing environmental design: conceiving of the space with fixed parameters, like it's a model on a table, rather than a vista we're taking in. Guillaume applies that principle in these pieces and pushes the conceit all the way up to 10.

Related to the above panels: I'm so very glad to have made this little cart reference model, it has proven itself quite the boon on this project

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I bought one, started to put it on (takes a while, this big), it took longer than I thought it would, had to leave for a funeral, and in getting back it had accumulated a degree of dust from its inherent static that it became unusable (I tried; couldn't clean it off and the dust resulted in bubbles)

Three (pencil) pages in and getting a LITTLE more comfortable with new tablet screen. It still feels very foreign to me and I am redrawing a LOT, not because of any inherent problem with the underlying components of a given drawing but because the mark making feels clumsy. It'll get better (I think)

Fingers crossed! Thanks, JP!

I mean, there doesn't seem to be anything WRONG with it, and trying to draw on a new cintiq feels just as foreign. So far, not unhappy! Just treading roads not my own.

And Sergio with ink, I think - gallons!