HeyJaredBenjamin Schipper
Ignatz nominated cartoonist of JOE DEATH AND THE GRAVEN IMAGE, published by Dark Horse Comics.
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Short stories make long delays. (opens the original)
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I don’t know if anyone’s surprised but I’m taking a pause to reevaluate the black and white short story I’ve been working on. It was always meant to fit into the back story of Joe Death, part of the cosmic drama, and as such it’s already functioning for me in a world building sense. But now I’m reconsidering where to place it: as a stand alone story or embedded in the narrative of my next JD book. If alone, the wild, black and white, illustrative angle is fine, though admittedly, and also not su
The Man on Putney Hill (opens the original)
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I began this project in January and half a year later the flame has become a flicker. It could just be a bad week, but my feelings of intense clarity have generally become sluggish vaguery. The brilliant wholeness, the spirit of the idea in it’s conception is still there but the manifestation of it, its making, is piece-work, material, and tedious. Not drawing or writing itself, but drawing and writing towards a purpose. I’m probably an artist because I’m rebellious. I drew in church and school
Work first, play later. (opens the original)
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The dog days of summer have struck us here in Greenville, South Carolina, and while yes, hot, they bring with them a heavenly charm. Towering clouds pillaring up mile after mile, erected in anticipation of war and the rumble boom crashing rolling roar of lightning that often shakes our windows and certainly wakes our children.I don’t know if anyone’s noticed how little I talk about the content of my pages, the actual story being written in them. In the fear this could be taken as a kind of disin
An artist's work is his leisure. (opens the original)
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I taught a two week class called Digital Illustration at the South Carolina Governor’s School of Arts and Humanities a few weeks ago. Chris Koelle, the artist who chaired the program and invited me to teach gave me as much room to develop my class as humanly possible. If I’d had more than that I wouldn’t have called it Digital Illustration, but only Illustration. ‘Digital,’ to me, just means another tool in which to create work. In my opinion the content and concept of the work should proceed an
Pictures Worth Considering (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome back! My time at the South Carolina Governor’s School of Arts and Humanities was, in my opinion, time well spent. I taught illustration to eighteen rising ninth graders over two weeks. I began with composition after quickly realizing that most of the students(myself included at their age) very rarely drew composed scenes, preferring instead the singular person, character, or thing to draw or design in isolation. This was really enjoyable because it gave us a chance to actually
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