drockleberry ([info]uminthecoil) wrote,
@ 2005-09-27 11:31:00
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Sorry...no new pages lately...
I was commissioned to do a cover recently for Frank Fradella’s “Swan Song” ( a damn good book too I might add )...once I manage to get it wrangled and roped in I’ll be back to normal...covers are unique beasts...so much rides on them, the responsibility is a bit suffocating...I’m never more in doubt of myself than when doing a cover...anyhoo...I’ll do my best and try to get back on track soon...
...
Went fishing this morning...a much needed peaceful easy feel’n...sweet, sharp baby-blue atmosphere, fallen clouds and mist coasting in the boat’s lazy wake like the smoke through a crack in the teacher’s lounge...pretty nice.
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In other news...I’ve been miss’n something lately...quite a bit of ‘lately’ actually...my journal-comic...( UM in the Coil )
Managed to complete roughly 154 pages and then about 8 additional larger pages before shelving it...but, it’s nearly fall - and for a Scorpio like myself, that’s as good as the season of fearlessness ( as any season can hope to be ).
I don’t have the server space to upload the whole kooky thing...but it’s not so important to know all that came before...suffice to say that it was a successful failure...honest, blunt and candid...pretentious, at times confusing and self serving...in other words, a drifting, shiftless journal-comic mess that I’ve no shame in plunging back into...at least occasionally.
I have no clue what direction to take from here...not specifically anyhoo...but that’s not so important either..heh
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Anyhoo...here is a short flashback of where I left off. ( noth’n new here for some of you )










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[info]strange_ink
2005-09-27 06:49 pm UTC (link)
LOL. SO I pop over here and see the very pages I said I'd like to see sometime.

I have to tell you, these blow me away. What you do with the layout on these pages as a way of communicating so many different themes and concepts within the context of the narrative is just fucking amazing. So jaw droppingly well executed it floors me. I think you really use the medium of comics. It would be easy enough to write a simple narrative of your day, but you get so much more meaning out of how you convey the moment in the images and layouts you choose.

It makes me rethink what comics can do in telling really personal stories. They can be visually exciting and do things that you can't do in film or even straight prose.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-27 07:22 pm UTC (link)
hey, thanks Sean...:)
yep, I no sooner typed reply before setting about posting these...it'd been on my mind for days ( months ) now.
and thanks about the layouts...sometimes it's 'hit and miss'...at times, the experimentation can backfire and just be confusing...heh...but with this project, I never minded the 'misses' too much...mostly, i think i just wanted to slow the reader down a little bit...make them look around, take their time...
for my money, the real master of page design and storytelling, an artist who really shook me up and shook me loose is Chris Ware...his pages are often times a playground of shapes and images...he can do no wrong...:)

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[info]strange_ink
2005-09-27 07:59 pm UTC (link)
Agreed. Ware is awesome.

I think where I get bogged down, when it comes to thinking of writing for comics (and artists), is that I feel the discussion always boils down to technique versus content, that you can't have a discussion about what a comic writer is trying to say that doesn't end up being a disection of their craftsmanship. I think what these pages remind me is that the two things aren't neccessarily exclusive, even though alot of people discuss them as if they are.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:08 am UTC (link)
That bogged marriage between technique content...sometimes it’s necessary, even if it is just self-imposed...like with “drock” , I’ve certainly given myself a lot of elbow-room as far as content is concerned, but the technique I’ve established leaves little room for error...which certainly weighs on me...still, I get no shortage of my creative-jonze throughout the process ( as it’s still largely one big experiment )

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[info]sach
2005-09-27 07:44 pm UTC (link)
i'm deeply in love with your comics.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:17 am UTC (link)
:)...thanks brother.
you've certainly had no small hand in inspiring me these last few months.

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[info]sach
2005-09-28 06:07 am UTC (link)
lil' ole me? no way!

I read that part about buying drinks... I'll hold you to it... I'm CHEAP! (nah, on that day drinks will be FREE. (i hope?)

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 06:50 am UTC (link)
everyone will be real dissapointed to learn it's just free shots of rice milk, but it's the thought that counts...:)

but seriously, if you see me at a con some day, drinks are on me...then we can stumble into the guest comissary and have a three stooges pie fight!

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[info]sach
2005-09-28 07:11 am UTC (link)
sounds like a plan (especially the three stooges pie fight)

hell, if you're ever in Toronto, gimme a call!

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[info]mr_esty
2005-09-27 08:07 pm UTC (link)
drawing a good kiss is hard... you kick olympian-sized butt!

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:19 am UTC (link)
thanks..heh...
and oh, ain't it the truth man...i don't how many attempts at that i made without success...kisses are tough to pull off.

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[info]tundraboy
2005-09-27 09:24 pm UTC (link)
Hella good. Holla back.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:19 am UTC (link)
thanks
:) HI-HO!!

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[info]ericfmyers
2005-09-27 10:01 pm UTC (link)
I haven't seen these before. By reading those you just helped to redefined what I thought sequential art could and should be. Thank you.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:28 am UTC (link)
Aww...:) damn...thank you man.
remind me to buy you a drink...:)

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[info]rebel_abrahams
2005-09-28 12:52 am UTC (link)
This stuff is so inspiring and awesome!!!!!!!!

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:30 am UTC (link)
that's it man, i'm buying you all drinks...well, one of these days...you guys all make me feel about 10 feet tall...:)
thanks!

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[info]subweird
2005-09-28 02:18 am UTC (link)
OMG these are fucking fantastic. I feel guilty reading them for free.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 02:34 am UTC (link)
Ha!...thanks Dave.
heh...if such guilt were contagious i'd set up a paypal account for random donations...:) ( well, doubtful i would actually...heh )

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[info]ed_dirt
2005-09-28 10:28 am UTC (link)
#1. YEAH DAVE! You MOOCH! I bet you got your grubby fingerprints all over the comics in your local shop!

#2. Dude(Andrew)! Please set up a paypal account. Your work is of the caliber that would generate some cash from your loyal readers. Even if only a hundred of us contributed just a buck a month, that's a hunnerd bones more than what you got right now. every month. I'D contribute a buck a month. (Don't count on Dave, though.)

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 01:04 pm UTC (link)
“(Don't count on Dave, though.)”
You’re in charge of my first gut laugh of the morning sir...:)
I don’t know man...I already feel like I’m on the receiving end of way more good fortune than I can ever repay you guys and gals with...still...mmmm...it is a tempting consideration...I’ll have to give it some thought.

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[info]ed_dirt
2005-09-28 04:17 pm UTC (link)
thanks. this gave me my first gut laugh of the day. Scroll back for a few more (there's only three so far, so it won't take long.)

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 04:26 pm UTC (link)
"problem solved"...:)

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[info]sxe_yeti_sxe
2005-09-28 02:50 am UTC (link)
i love reading your work.
so incredibly much.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 06:56 am UTC (link)
thanks man...:)
hey, I just downloaded track four but mine...i might of heard it before, but i seemed new to me...really wonderful piece though

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[info]sxe_yeti_sxe
2005-09-28 07:38 am UTC (link)
thank you!
i did that early 2003.
my junior year of high school.
it's my very first attempt at writing a 'good' song.
composing, of sorts.

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[info]glummdead
2005-09-28 03:23 am UTC (link)
these are excellent my man, your work - as always - is solid, inspiring, and moving.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 07:10 am UTC (link)
:)thanks man...there's little question that the potential to be either inspiring or moving or at times both is what keeps me in this game...thanks

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[info]bannman
2005-09-28 08:25 am UTC (link)
wow, that's art !

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 01:32 pm UTC (link)
thanks man...:)
you've got a great range of fun stuff to look at on your site...
this and this among many...just kick ass stuff.

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[info]bannman
2005-09-28 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Thanks ! But this is really old stuff...

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 04:28 pm UTC (link)
is that your 3d work on Steamboat films?
this is just so kick ass!

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[info]bannman
2005-09-28 04:56 pm UTC (link)
oh, no no, I don't do 3D.
Corentin did. He's my colorist, and also a great vfx maker.

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[info]saphyre_tao
2005-09-28 12:18 pm UTC (link)
Absolutely frigging awsome.....

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 01:32 pm UTC (link)
:) thanks Zoe...recognize the hat? heh

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[info]saphyre_tao
2005-09-28 05:14 pm UTC (link)
awhhh...the hat...the good ol' days... I miss that hat..and it wasnt even mine......
Hugs....

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ummmm, is it a coil?
[info]rockabillyjon
2005-09-28 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I miss Uminthecoil too.
I find it a bit more accessible than Drockleberry. Okay, I admit it, I find Drockleberry confusing and cryptic - still it is visually entertaining though, don't get me wrong.
And though I find UM cryptic at times as well, it just has... i dunno, like anyone could walk into it and appreciate some of what it has to offer. accessible.
am i off base here?

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-28 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Not off base, no...thanks.
They’re as different as Sonny and Cher...:)

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[info]rockabillyjon
2005-09-28 05:36 pm UTC (link)
Live onstage tonight!

Drockleberry and the Urban Clown sing the hits as only this duet could pull off!

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[info]obnoxiad
2005-09-30 09:26 pm UTC (link)
Hey buddy I just wanted to say thank you again for the pieces you got done for me. The guys at my game loved them, and it gave the whole experience that little something extra. I can't wait to talk to you about the spot illustrations when your schedule clears up. PLUS, I still want you to get a chance to play this game sometime.

ALL OF YOU GUYS AND GALS that dig his work let me know if you're ever in the KOKOMO INDIANA AREA, and maybe we can drag ol boy out to play a game of CALL OF CTHULHU for the night. I gurantee some interesting characters, and a fun night of cheap style theater!

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-09-30 09:42 pm UTC (link)
you're welcome bro...:)

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[info]ed_dirt
2005-10-01 01:06 am UTC (link)
Hey, Bud. Dunno if you've already seen these but there is same brilliant shit on this page i think you'd like.

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-10-01 01:56 am UTC (link)
oh absolutely!
I was peek'n at her work the other day...it's art like that, that makes me feel as though i've spent the last couple of years just dick'n around...heh

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[info]flyingmonk
2005-10-03 12:38 am UTC (link)
Hey Andy,
I've got a ton of server space available. I'll be glad to post all the old stuff up if you want me to. Let me know bro.
Kevin

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[info]uminthecoil
2005-10-03 01:01 am UTC (link)
well wow!
shit yeah...:)thanks!!
I still haven't quite figured out how to put a web site together, but if you email me the info i'll need to connect to your server i'll damn well keep try'n.

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[info]flyingmonk
2005-10-03 04:17 am UTC (link)
How big are the individual pages? Can you burn them on CDs or would it take too many? Would you want them on individual pages or clustered in groups? I was thinking of just creating a storehouse for your stuff - maybe you want to do that until you feel like learning to do webpages. Or you could create and maintain something now - it's up to you. Let me know how you would want to do it and we'll work out something to do it that way.
Kevin

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