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I am tired and I have nothing to say

April 1st is coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Last year, I celebrated the occasion by beginning a now-classic 3-part Unified Theory of the Funny:

1. abstract and narrative humor

2. the comforts of cruelty

3. against the quip

This time round I have a very unwordy post, as I had a enormous amount of work and life to deal with (more on that later). Still, I managed to carry on with Foghorn and improvised cartoons.

LOST CLOWN RETRIEVAL

FOGHORN CONT.

⚠️UPDATE: read the fully edited first chapter HERE⚠️

Here is the first installment, the second installment, the third installment, the forth installment and the fifth installment. Or a recap:

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The more eagle-eyed (or just plain obsessive) reader might’ve noticed that I changed her pant texture from a checkered brush of my own making, to a hand-drawn checker pattern. It is curious how this seemed to work just fine in my previous, slightly collagey book, but here the pattern just kept bothering me.

I think it’s because the overall drawing style is more sketchy and loose, even though I started it thinking everything will be tight and simple a-la Anouk Ricard. Shows how little control I have over my work, even with more than a year of preparation and sketching.

PS. Here’s the full 13-minute cut from my recent screening at Loose Frames, featuring all my short films and a bunch of other animations.

KING OF THE TIMBERDRUM

And if you’re hungry for more comics about vouchers, here’s a very nutty semi-improvised comic I riso-printed in black and blue in time for last year’s Angoulême.

Beyond the paywall you will find all 7 pages of this in glorious RGB: