Unpublished 2000/ 204 pages
Graphic Narrative

Drawn in B&W pen and ink washes
(on 1.25²" panels) bound in a 1.5 x 2" book (shown actual size next to a Buffalohead Nickel). Working from enlarged photocopied page spreads (shown bottom) I 'finished' the inks in brush as much larger panels (shown top). I ultimately decided to stop the project 40 pages into it when I bought an original copy of Milt Gross's graphic novel 'He Done Her Wrong'. The prevailing 'clean' brush style isn't what its all about as far as I'm concerned. What excites me about comics is pre-1938 broadsheet Sundays, especially McCay, Segar, Herriman, Sterrett, DeBeck, Feininger, and Gross. I wanted to develop a pen line with an unconstrained animated 'live' feel as if capturing action. 'Cuz I believe a 'matured style' should be portable, unprecious, smudgy and scribbly. A concept that led to the progressive formulation of GUNK, SLOPPA, DUST and now STRINGS.