New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

I spoke for a couple hours with Austin English all about comics, drawing, writing, all the things.

This ran in the December 2024 issue of Desert Island Comic’s Smoke Signal, issue 43. It’s the beginning of the next issue of Uptight, a 32 page story I’m working on called Virgil Lockwood. You’ll see.

tickle, tickle, I am a little trickle

easy as 1 2 3

I become a puddle

I fall to earth

nevermind, it’s fine. Seriously, don’t even worry about it. I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time anyway. I’m fine.

I am one drop

and I am rain

I fall from the sky

There’s alot to say about water. This could go on quite awhile.

Alright, here we go, I started drawing with this page, the second one. This was the easiest place to start. flop sweat and shaky squiggles, lines pointing to the middle of his face. Freakouts and flop sweat, it’s what’s happening right now.

some teeth grinding and gnashing and the beginnings of an general flip out. genuinely this was fun to draw. Could I go on for pages? Maybe? This could be a whole Shaolin Cowboy sort of thing where it’s just one big long extended storm of impotent rage. There’s volumes of this that could be drawn!