Process pics on a two page spread of New School. A bar scene. I shuffled things around and eventually tilted the angle to make the space feel more dynamic and crowded. The first four photos are 18 X 24” sheets of paper, then the last (final) ink pages in the book are two 8.5 X 11” sheets — but the color layer is still done 18 X 24”. I draw things in stages, try to get fresh eyes on it somehow, sometimes one stage drawn a year after the stage before.
Writer and contributor Rachel Kushner talks with the Los Angeles Review of Books about her new novel, The Flamethrowers, mixing history with fiction, and why she became a writer.
Today’s Tom Gauld cartoon.
See more cartoons here, and buy Gauld’s new book, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack.