#thetestcomic

Continuing with #thetestcomic issue 40. For the foreseeable, it will be all purple. #symphonyinpurple (I didn’t make up that tag.) #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels #jackkirby #thousandoaks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnSupfvPftZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Continuing with #thetestcomic issue 40. The issue begins and ends with three four color pages. This is the last of the four color pages at the beginning. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels #jackkirby #thousandoaks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQUTFgMqUD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Continuing with #thetestcomic issue 40. This page is something of an extra interior title page. While I see “Help Me to Enter Your World” as the title (see yesterday’s post), I have usually worked in my take on the relevant letter’s page logo into each issue. This logo is a bit of a combo of the letter page logo with the “stacked” logo of the “Machine Man” comic. The image is an outlier for this issue but connects to some other issues in the series in terms of process. This is the only issue that I sketched out in advance. (The Sun Ra “Space Is the Place” issue is the next most pre-planned but that comes from following elements of the film.) For this issue, only the cover and this image came from drawing freely and then going back to select and collage bits together. The wonderful quotation from N. Katherine Hayles has a story to it. While I have intended to make “Thousand Oaks” for many years, the form it has taken is a synthesis of longstanding ideas and the process of making it an actual thing, following a monthly schedule and being open to the things that are happening outside of intention. Issue 33 for example owes the presence of #norvalmorrisseau to the first walk I took in 2021 during which I felt I could drop into a public library and there was a book on the artist at the Coxwell-Danforth branch. In this case, I made this sketch partly while thinking about Machine Man but also thinking about some wonderful essays by Andy Brown in his zine “3 Essays on Late-Career Kirby”. One of these essays included the quotation from Hayles which I recorded in my sketchbook when making this drawing and then decided to include here when assembling the issue. It did later come into play as I thought about text to bring the issue and the series to its conclusion. You can get a copy of that zine at https://conundrumpress.com/product/3-essays-on-late-career-jack-kirby/ #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels #jackkirby #thousandoaks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnOG1qEMln_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Beginning ordinary time by serializing issue 40 of #thetestcomic here on Instagram. This is the September 2022 issue and the conclusion of the 12 issue “Thousand Oaks” series that riffs off of some of Jack Kirby’s editorials from four of his 1970s return to Marvel titles: Devil Dinosaur, The Eternals, 2001: A Space Odyssey and, finally, Machine Man. I’ve posted the cover image a couple of times previously in various forms so diving in here with the opening splash page. #sundaycoloursupplement #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels #jackkirby #thousandoaks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLkzVUs2_f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Cover for #thetestcomic issue 43, the December issue, last of the year and third in the current series. Some issues, such as this one, go down to the wire in terms of the monthly deadline. Thankful for 43 months of getting to enjoy figuring it out. Happy New Year! But also hoping you have the opportunity to enjoy the rest of 2022. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm16vSXrFyw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

From #thetestcomic issue 39. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comic https://www.instagram.com/p/CmIcr2osFCu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

From #thetestcomic issue 39. Text continues from the previously posted panel. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels https://www.instagram.com/p/CmGHDYsszFs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

From #thetestcomic issue 39. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #sketch #sketches #sketching #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #graphic #graphics #illustration #illustrations #illustrator #illo #comics #comix #comicbook #comicbooks #comicpanel #comicpanels https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEWJMPrfcO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=