another Walk Through Comix 2000. This one, the French artist Ambre, whom I had not known before.

This one is full of textures and rich grays and black and white

This week at SAW. Silent comics, expressive anatomy, inking and drawing at the springs!

Do you have your Narrative Image?

At the end of this sequence, hopefully we have a "Narrative Image." Just a single doodle or drawing from our doodling as we were gathering ideas.

When I finished Rosalie's book, I still had a lot of processing to do. I wanted to further understand what I had went through. I looked at the books that had inspired me, and I asked what made them great, useful, inspiring.

What I learned from Lynda Barry about stories and flow and avoiding the inner critic!

I was extremely fortunate to take a week-long workshop in person with Lynda Barry back in 2001. A LOONG time ago now!

That workshop, "Writing the Unthinkable" was all about "seeing your story" and following behind it, "like water skiing."

Tom Hart guides viewers through each story in the 2000 page compilation of international, silent comics, "Comix 2000", published by L' Association in the year 2000. How do you make funny comics? How do you make up stories? Episode #6 of A WALK THROUGH COMIX 2000. I'm looking at each story one by one. This episode, #006 by Suzy Amakane

A walk through Comix 2000 with Tom Hart. This episode, Kalah Allen

Tom Hart guides viewers through each story in the 2000 page compilation of international, silent comics, "Comix 2000", published by L' Association in the year 2000. This episode, #004 by Dario Adanti

Continuing the WALK THROUGH COMIX 2000, this episode a delightful 3-page story by Peggy Adam

EPISODE 003

Continuing the WALK THROUGH COMIX 2000, this episode a 5-page story by Filipe Abranches.

This episode, a fun 4 page story by Jessica Abel, taking place in Mexico and feature an equal number of dead and alive people.

As always, we explore this in more depth, with an exercise, in the SAW Comix Flow Working Group, over here: https://learn.sawcomics.org/courses/comics-flow-group
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Craig Bostick ( http://www.aquaboy.net/ ) visited SAW this week and shared his amazing wealth of love and understanding of 50s and 60s cartoon and comic culture.

SAW gives you maximum resources and minimal bullshit. It’s small. It’s close. You are literally surrounded by comics. There’s no grades, no suffocating “I’m-the-teacher” hierarchy. What you get is professionals who have collectively mastered the whole range of comics, and a dozen other nerds to learn from them with.

You will crank out work faster than you ever have before. You will have three hour conversations about R. Crumb’s crosshatching. You’ll see things you didn’t think were possible.  You won’t be able to go to sleep from all the ideas that keep coming to you. You will learn what it is like to be passionate and you will feel as if you can do anything. 

David B fights dragons in Epileptic