Andrew White

comicsworkbook:

Simon Hanselmann

“Truth Zone 76”

Made for Comics Workbook

Order Simon Hansellmann’s comics here and here and here and probably some other places too. You can buy the numerous anthologies he is in if you’d like, but he probably doesn’t get paid for those.

(I really wrote that note. It seemed very funny at the time and seems kind of funny now.)

Near complete page, though unlettered.

comicsworkbook:

Andrew White

“Spring”

Made for Comics Workbook

For new followers who might not know, I am a regular contributor to Frank Santoro’s online magazine Comics Workbook. I’ve drawn almost 150 of these one page comics, and you can read them all here. This is today’s strip, which I thought came out well.

retrofitcomics:

Go check out Andrew’s reading!!!

whitecomics:

I will be doing a signing/reading for my new comic We Will Remain at Ada Books in Providence, RI. I’ve never done anything like this before, and I would love for you to come out if you are in the area.

Today! Come out and we will talk about comic books.

comicsworkbook:

I’m going to be doing a summer correspondence course. The focus will be on advancing your understanding of layouts, color, contour line drawing, and printmaking for producing comic books.  The 8-week class is $500. This class is limited: only ten students will be accepted.

Who the hell am I? I’ve been drawing comics since 1988 – and writing about comics since 1995. I’ve taught drawing at Parsons. My work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have worked as an assistant to fine arts painters such as Francesco Clemente, Dorothea Rockburne and Gary Panter. Many of my paintings are in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger. My comic Storeyville is, allegedly, one of Chris Ware’s favorites. I’ve collaborated with Ben Jones. I was in a drawing contest against the French master Blutch – and it was deemed a tie! I have appeared in two volumes of Kramers Ergot. I am working with Dash Shaw on an animation project. I worked for the silkscreen wizard Frank Kozik. I am friends with Yuichi Yokoyama. I got into a yelling match with Brian Chippendale because I’m against photo-referencing. Jaime Hernandez taught me where all the freeways meet in Los Angeles. Gilbert Hernandez said my comic Pompeii was “pretty good”.

Application guidelines:

-3 figure drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards

-3 landscape drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards

-3 still life drawings done on 3 x 5 cards

-specific url links to any comics work you have done. 

Applications due by June 1st. Email me - capneasyATgmailDOTcom - and I will send you an invite to the course blog so you see what it’s like. Check out my “Layout Workbook” series over at The Comics Journal. Overseas students welcome. Payment plans available - I will work with you to make it affordable. Thanks! -Frank Santoro

So I took this course last spring and I learned a lot. If you have enjoyed any of the comics I’ve posted online lately, or my book from Retrofit, it is in no small part because that works reflects the things that I learned when studying comics with Frank.

I wrote a little more about what I got from the course here: http://whitecomics.tumblr.com/post/22454590580/franksantoro-frank-santoro-correspondence. I’m happy to answer questions from anyone who is considering taking it.

So I happened upon a very unusual comic recently. It’s called In the Crack of the Dawn. A passing reference in Bart Beaty’s Comics Versus Art and a few other references I found online reveal little beyond what the final page of the comic itself says plainly: this was a collaboration between artists Matt Mullican and Lawrence Weiner, edited by Yves Gevaert and published by May 36 Gallery in Luzern in 1991. The back cover indicates that 100 signed hardcover books were printed, but it’s not clear how many copies exist of the softcover edition that I have.  Neither Mullican nor Weiner seem to have produced any other comics work.

The comic itself is a very interesting abstract piece. One of the most compelling spreads is pictured here. I have the whole comic scanned; maybe I’ll post it online soon. If anyone can provide more details about this curious object please get in touch.

retrofitcomics:

A one page comic from We Will Remain by Andrew White about how some famous authors react to the world around them.  Now shipping!

There are a few one page strips like this in the book. Order from Retrofit or order direct from me to get a drawing with your comic. I’ve figured out a fun way to rework the final page of the book with colored pencils.

Reminder: if you’re in the Providence area, come to my signing this Saturday!

Process post! I’m drawing with brush pens on tracing paper, refining with each new layer. Tracing paper is nice to draw on, and it doesn’t really have problems with ink as long as you’re not doing huge areas of black.

1) I have a good general idea of the story, but I’m trying to write/compose pages directly on the first layer and only in ink instead of doing thumbnails or anything. I cheat a little — pictured at the far left are some dialogue ideas, and I’m doing a tiny bit of underdrawing in blue pencil.

2) Ideally the second pass is the final one. I’m trying to draw a little more quickly than I might prefer.

3) A smaller round of final corrections, plus in this case a drawing (the dots) that will be layered over the main image in gray.