Listen to novelists Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Anders Nilsen, and Chris Ware discussing their graphic novels
Graphic novelists Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Anders Nilsen, and Chris Ware discussing their craft.
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Transcript
JEFFREY BROWN: A lot of this work is drawn in blank sketchbooks, and the idea of just being able to throw it on the paper without thinking too much beforehand-- like, I have these scripts, but the actual drawing process is very much in the moment.
IVAN BRUNETTI: Those were cartoon characters I doodled from memory. So they're all wrong, but they're kind of right at the same time. I was trying to see if I could get the essential things. Even just-- this is how I practice drawing. I just doodle constantly. The global warming joke might not look like it at the outset.
ANDERS NILSEN: This is the airplane that crashed, these little birds are trying to figure out-- they think that the airplane is a bird, so they have a theory about what happened, and that's sort of an illustration of the theory. This is some work that I do in my sketchbooks. Kind of just randomly drawing weird images and doing little stream of consciousness.
CHRIS WARE: The New Yorker covers a few years ago, three years ago, Thanksgiving, they were subdivided as the story went from one to two four, and then there's one I'm not showing here that was 16. And then there's one that's 256, which didn't run but was on the internet and it sort of ties the whole story together.
IVAN BRUNETTI: Those were cartoon characters I doodled from memory. So they're all wrong, but they're kind of right at the same time. I was trying to see if I could get the essential things. Even just-- this is how I practice drawing. I just doodle constantly. The global warming joke might not look like it at the outset.
ANDERS NILSEN: This is the airplane that crashed, these little birds are trying to figure out-- they think that the airplane is a bird, so they have a theory about what happened, and that's sort of an illustration of the theory. This is some work that I do in my sketchbooks. Kind of just randomly drawing weird images and doing little stream of consciousness.
CHRIS WARE: The New Yorker covers a few years ago, three years ago, Thanksgiving, they were subdivided as the story went from one to two four, and then there's one I'm not showing here that was 16. And then there's one that's 256, which didn't run but was on the internet and it sort of ties the whole story together.