Leigh Walton talks comics and maybe other arts.
Hey, my Tintin sketchbook has been updated with all the sketches from SPX! Contributors this time around:
Rob Goodin
Jonathan Case
Mei K (“tiny_vice”)
Falynn Koch
Nate Powell
Simon Gärdenfors
Joshua W. Cotter
John Campbell
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Raina Telgemeier
Ned Hugar
Mooshe Nickerson
Kate Beaton (below)
Phil McAndrew (above)
Tyler Hutchison
Flynn Nicholls
Check it out!
Big thanks to all the artists involved – this is shaping up to be a great collection.
Tintin and Snowy by Jeff Lemire, kicking things off with a bang
It’s alive! My Tintin sketchbook was born at San Diego this summer — I’d been wanting to start one for a while, jealous of Brett‘s Kirby book and Sean‘s Bowie book. Since they had those themes sewn up, I went for Tintin characters – a pretty safe choice, beloved by the highbrow critics but also by the inner ten-year-old in all of us, famous but also somehow underexposed in American comics circles. Reading Tintin albums from the public library was one of my formative early comics experiences, and probably shaped my conviction that comics can be truly populist and still good.
Since this was largely a business con for me, I didn’t get the book into as many hands as I might have liked, but hey, that’s what the next ten years are for. There’s a natural preponderance of Top Shelf artists and friends, since they were readily at hand… but I never could get Andy Runton away from his adoring fans long enough to grace the pages. Next time, Runton…
Anyway, click here for the goodness.
An immaculate Tintin by James Kochalka
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