Just when i started to count the number of years i have been milking this blog for comic ideas! You should give it a try! Mighty time consuming work, but it's worth every second.

Any body can write of course but how many can write well?

Take a well-read, well-travelled, and open-minded person like yourself.
You may have read and reread the whole occidental and oriental canons by this stage but reading profusely, though of great value, has little to do with the imagination and at your age it's far too late to change.

Not quite sure what you're saying here, Anon. Are you disagreeing with Scotland on Sunday's assessment of my powers of imagination? Eh? Eh?

momus, your tintin comic from childhood was really lovely.

Ah, yes, this one. My career as a cartoon plagiarist ended tragically early when Snowy sued me for all my pencils!

I love the way Snowy is walking in the 5th panel. Cracks me up every time.

And Tintin's coat looks like an Armani in the next panel -- earthtones, soft collar. Tintin the dandy.

Forgot about that one. The Villain really looks like the stuff of nightmares.

In a parallel world you're somebody who's managed to carve out a life in Japan, as opposed to dreaming (and blogging) about it.

No?

That parallel world is real for the next six weeks!

Now are you trying to say that the other parallel worlds aren't 'real'?

have you seen kanashimi no belladonna? it's a psychedelic animation from the 70s by eiichi yamamoto - sort of wicker man witchcraft and satanism drawn in aubrey beardsley style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanashimi_no_Belladonna



erik

It's on Veoh (haven't checked the link yet but it shows as a 90min. title when googled):
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v17210581Yf8rMwRF

Downloading now, thanks!

Possibly the most psychedelic film ever made! Thanks for the recommendation! It totally took me back to 1967-69, and the scary thing is that I can remember how those years actually felt, looked, smelled, moved...

You and Joe working it.

have you seen Teshigahara's Gaudi documentary momus. If no, I highly recommend it. Great soundtrack as well.

I second this, it's a great documentary. Rather similar to the Heinz Emigholz documentary "Schindlers Häuser", too.

It does look interesting. I still haven't seen the Emigholz Adolf Loos film.

"Just about anybody can write, but not so many can write and draw with talent."

this had me thinking of famous writers who could also paint or draw.

(this is one of those things that is hard to google - Poe was a talented portraitist, but googling for his work only brings up images of him, not by him)

Pushkin, Goethe, Elizabeth Bishop, Oscar Wilde, Flannery O'connor also had artistic talent. I'm sure there are many more I am forgetting.

Victor Hugo:
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/search/label/hugo

The move from action/performance to film/animation might be a good move, Nick. Perhaps start a site asking for animators and writers to coalesce...help one another along.

Does anyone know the name of the style of drawing that is similar to that of the latter examples in this entry? A style based on sublimating all aesthetic rules of manga, in a way, to be ulgy beyond ugly. Very difficult to do well, I heard. But I can't remember where... There must be someone reading this that knows.

I see the Book Of Jokes as being a perfect candidate for animation. Possibly a different style for each chapter -- from manga to Chuck Jones.

for the fellow anon looking for the ugly manga style, you might be thinking of Teruhiko Yumura, aka Terry Johnson, AKA King Terry of the Heta Uma art style. The philosophy is more on the emotions of the work than technical mastery.

Heta Uma it is! Thank you!
This might very well be the style Moemius could develop into.

captcha: Matagami allover
matagami: (noun) waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

Nick's living with an artist right now, isn't he? What's at hand...

captcha: film stylization
Are these captcha's determined by page content/google adsense?

william blake is the biggest one that comes to mind--toiling away as he did on his etchings of an entire mythic world.

also john lennon was quite a doodler; i've got a small book printed in japan of his drawings. the beat-ish writer kenneth patchen was also known for his artwork, too.

broadening the catagory, miles davis was quite a painter, etc etc...

Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism.

It's never too late to change careers. For example, I'd love a Momus drawing or comic strip for my upcoming FAKE comics anthology. The concept is to varnish together the sensibility of GARO with the spirit of illegal dōjinshi publications. Each issue will be bookended by traditional 4-panel strips featuring Orson Welles working at a late 1970s Tokyo design firm, hoping to bring Japanese popular culture to the U.S. (The Welles strip will be called NO. Orson: "Noguchi and I have been in business for three years. 'NO' is the acronym -- He insisted that ORSON was my surname. I didn't have the heart to correct him. The signage and business cards had already been made.")

My understanding was that while this was true for a long time, recently manga has become almost as commercialized as the animation industry. I have no firsthand experience with this as the only manga and/or anime that is readily available here in the United States is for the kids, though many adults here don’t seem to notice, so I haven’t bought any since I was around ten years of age.

I do read many western indy comic books, however, such as Daniel Clowes and various other lesser known authors. I often tell people that I read comics and that leads to talk of The Spectacular Spiderman and Batman and the like. About as mainstream as I actually get is Alan Moore.

None of this really adds anything to the topic at hand but I just thought that I would share.

Yes, let's build a database of writers who dabbled in painting and drawing in their spare time, because there's not enough examples of genius writer/artists that have contributed to the History of comic books.
Also, the manga industry is anything but underground.