The Ruined Cast

This is 3 X 4 feet, corkboard and plexiglass with gouache paint behind the first 16 pages of The Social Network script printed onto acetate sheets. I never used to write scripts for cartoons because I thought film is a visual medium and so only storyboarding made the most sense.

The DVD of Abbas Kiarostami’s recent Shirin is out and there are two “extra feature” shorts on it that, I think, relate to limited animation. They do in my mind at least. Under the cut I try to explain how:

True Chubbo is a comic strip that my wife and I started many years ago when we were first dating, and has miraculously evolved into a something. I’m not sure what that something is or what it represents, but it’s grown right along with us. To put it simply, True Chubbo is a collaborative semi-fictionalized [...]

Since Ray posted those Tadanori Yokoo cartoons, I’m going to tell my brief, moderately interesting Yokoo story:

My comic short story Blind Date 2 appears in the forthcoming Mome Vol. 20 anthology. I drew it late last year. It’s the second Blind Date episode I’ve adapted. The first one appeared in an earlier volume of Mome and was later reprinted in The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. collection.

This is the first cartoon I made, from 2008, for my Bottomless comic. I drew a lot of the frames at my friend Dave Kiersh’s house.