I should have admitted that one activity that’s taken up my time over the last week has been my quixotic effort to get the Disseminary’s cartoon history of the early church off the ground. I’ve contacted a variety of gifted comics artists of my acquaintance; all love the idea, all have agreed (in a general way) to offer me some designs, but none has come up with any yet.
So I summon all my graphical gifts, which are not comprehensive, especially not in the sphere of representing the human figure, and put hours of time into producing a single mediocre frame of the Life of Polycarp, instead of more urgent pursuits. I’ve tried editing public-domain etchings; I’ve tried very-stylized shapes; I’ve tried several different tracks toward semi-representational blobs in ancient robes; none of them is worth a hill of beans. I think I can envision a way to produce some boilerplate figures — as in Tom Tomorrow, for instance, or Get Your War On — maybe that’ll suffice after a while. I’m actually making progress toward some stylized, vectorized figures, as a make-do.
But yesterday, I asked Pippa for some help, so we’ll have the requisite elements for a life of Origen as soon as I scan her work and write up the HTML templates. If anyone were willing to pitch in, with either boilerplate figures or (joy of joys) actual frames, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Posted by AKMA at April 26, 2004 02:06 PM | TrackBack