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Day 30 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:49:10 +0000

I’d sort of geared myself up to this last entry being something special, if not spectacular. Chalk it down to hubris then that today’s schedule turned out to be entire rubbish, leaving me to draw November’s last comic at 9PM, utterly drained of energy.

Apologies are due to Jacob @anport Ørsted, whose one-time tweet I had already decided to use as a script; it turned out crap, and I’ll have to try it again later. Sorry! The script, as you will see, is leagues better than the comic:

Movie scene: He lays his finger gently on her lips and whispers: Tweet no more. Outside: Heavy rain. A black car drives by. Owls in trees.

August 31, 2011 19:17 via webReply RetweetFavorite

@anport

Jacob Ø+

And, for comparison and general ridicule, the comic:

Day 29 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:43:39 +0000

Only one day to go now… I do feel a slight fatigue, but it’s been a fun exercise! First up is today’s comic, though: New pen tip, crisper lines!

Day 28 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:47:57 +0000

Just a little play with shapes and colours; no attempt at greatness today.

If my drawings seem a bit rougher this week it’s because I switched to a smaller size sketchbook, and the point of my favourite pen has been worn to a stub by my frantic Lost drawing last week. So you know.

Day 27 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:45:58 +0000

Today’s entry is in reply to a Twitter conversation I had yesterday with @FrauLizling. She got so frustrated with her work that she deleted the majority of her blog posts and burned her sketchbooks:

@haverholm Everyone says to keep working, but that shit is hard! xD How the bloody hell do you do it?

November 26, 2011 15:38 via webReply RetweetFavorite

@FrauLizling

Lizling Claire

My reply was rather glib (“It’s all I know how to do”) but sitting down with my sketchbook this morning, the question was still churning in my mind. How do you keep working and improving yourself, especially when the world seems to be struggling against you? My answer:

Day 26 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:46:15 +0000

Presenting today, in comic form, one reason I don’t promote myself enough, and as a result time and again find myself without a paying job:

And let’s just follow that up with a motivational video:

And I don’t want to hear any crap about Rollins, okay?

Day 25 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:31:00 +0000

This one is a partial response to my day 9 entry, or more precisely to fellow 30 Days participant @thaleslira (see his tumblr here) who wondered what all those books were that I’d anonymised in my drawings.

If I have time I’ll post an inventory later, otherwise let’s see some guesses in the comments

UPDATE:
You guys suck at guessing, here are the book titles

Panel one
James Kochalka: Kissers (danish ed.)
Christopher Webster: Malus
Terhi Ekebom: Uusissa Maisemissa
Kochalka: Fancy Froglin’s Sexy Forest
Charles Burns: Black Hole (danish ed.)
Hugleikur Dagsson: Is This Some Kind of Joke?
Dagsson: Popular Hits
Dagsson: Iceland
Sarah Kläpp: What We Knew II
Some Russian picture book
Dunja Jankovic: Habitat
Jankovic: Department of Art
Brandon Monroe:Between Here and Here
Jesse Relay: Ten Thousand Things To Do
Mike Mignola: Dracula
Mignola: Hellboy 1-6
Wall Wood: The King of the World (danish ed.)
Loisel: Peter Pan 1-4
Kochalka: The Cute Manifesto
Gunnar Krantz: Seriemagi
Jochen Gerner: Contre la Bande Desinée

Panel two
Some book my sister left here
Jr., Sr.’s computer game magazine
A pile of my own easy reader books

Panel three
Upright on shelf:
Cent pour Cent (Comics museum of Angoulême exhibition catalogue)
Tove Hansson: Moomin 2
Eddie Campbell: The Years Have Pants
Jason Shiga: Meanwhile
David Beronä: Wordless Books
Paul Auster, Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli: City of Glass (danish ed.)
Will Eisner: A Contract With God (danish ed.)
Martin tom Dieck: Vortex
Richard Sala: Maniac Killer Strikes Again!
Jack Kirby: Jimmy Olsen Adventures 1
Art Spiegelman: Maus 2
A compendium of Alan Moore interviews
Airline security manuals
On top of other books:
George Walker: Graphic Witness
Dylan Horrocks: Hicksville
A Danish socialist songbook
Jay Babcock: The Craft (danish ed.)

Panel four
Upright on Shelf:
Katsuhiro Otomo: Akira (danish ed.) 11, 12, 15, 17-20
Junji Ito: Uzumaki 1-3
Ito: Museum of Terror 1-3
Ito: Gyo 1-2
Keiji Nakazawa: Barefoot Gen 1
Junko Mizuno: Princess Mermaid
Mizuno: Cinderalla
On top of other books:
Rick Spears & Chuck BB: Black metal 1
Hisae Iwaoka: Yume No Soko (swedish ed.)

Day 24 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:36:09 +0000

After yesterday’s mammoth entry, here’s a little pastel rehearsal for you. That’s all right, you can thank me anytime.

Day 23 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:10:04 +0000

This is something different from my previous 30 Days of Comics posts in that I was able to collect a 36-page book of yesterday’s sketchbook comics; and in that everything is drawn from visuals in the TV show Lost.

It is also entirely same-old, same-old in the abstractions, the panel grids. Just a bit more rushed, as I didn’t want to cheat and freeze frames!

Open publication – Free publishing – More comics

day 22 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:26:15 +0000

Day 21 – #30dayscomics

Allan Haverholm — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:36:14 +0000

Which is almost an excuse for its own existence — but also me enjoying myself with paper & pen after a night of digital drawing.