tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post6824852519850705422..comments2023-04-07T03:46:10.167-04:00Comments on Every Page of Moby-Dick and more...: MOBY-DICK, Page 359Matt Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00146374807705850842noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-34879867356961940452010-09-04T10:07:44.205-04:002010-09-04T10:07:44.205-04:00Thank you Titus. I am always surprised at which im...Thank you Titus. I am always surprised at which images seem to get picked out as other people's favorites. Every now and then, someone with a blog or a Tumblr account will link to a specific illustration to sort of share it with everyone else. This one really seemed to strike a chord with people as I saw it on several Tumblrs and it ended up with around 1029 "notes." I am very thankful for that.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-972598710046791272010-09-02T18:50:21.074-04:002010-09-02T18:50:21.074-04:00Really love this one. So many allusions come toget...Really love this one. So many allusions come together into a single brilliant image.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-36232315319399106052010-09-02T09:43:16.299-04:002010-09-02T09:43:16.299-04:00Thank you very very much for all the kind complime...Thank you very very much for all the kind compliments, Lizzy. I will pass those words on to my wife as well. This one really qas quite a bit of fun to do because, as I have mentioned, I first began drawing by making comics. In a sense, that will always be my starting point, so it has been strange and a little delightful for me to see how those influences make themselves known in surprising and unexpected ways. Hence this image.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-66485053199993893212010-09-02T04:38:51.168-04:002010-09-02T04:38:51.168-04:00this is so lovely, minute and considerate... after...this is so lovely, minute and considerate... after the wonderful technicity of 358 - and - oh my god! - 357 so heart wrenching<br /><br />also, i am always touched with your modesty<br /><br />and<br /><br />belated happy b'day to your wife and thanks to her for her part in this<br /><br />tbc<br />lizzyvoicenovoice/élisabeth guinsbourghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090845648417699547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-88109724496823516182010-08-31T09:22:01.327-04:002010-08-31T09:22:01.327-04:00Hey Sean! This one took me a little under 2 hours,...Hey Sean! This one took me a little under 2 hours, which is a bit long but not terribly so. The toughest thing about this piece was that my hand was cramping up pretty badly by the end. Every single one of these little panels is tiny, and drawing panel after panel really took a toll on my hand and wrist. Still, somehow, I had a lot of fun doing this one and it is another favorite of mine. I still think that there is really no better visual medium than comics to show the passage of time.<br /><br />Second, I don't think that's a goofy question at all. I generally do limit myself very strictly to the text that appears on a single page of the Signet Classics paperback edition of the book. There have been two occasions where I broke that rule because I really wanted to illustrate a particular line and that line stretched across two pages. Since I am deeply superstitious and occasionally a stickler for discipline and consistency, I counted the number of letters in the passage I wanted to illustrate and whichever page had the most letters was the page number I assigned that illustration too. Obsessive, I know. I wish I could remember which two pages those were but honestly I can't.<br /><br />I gave myself very few rules for this project, especially in terms of media and visual representation, but the rules I did give myself (one illustration per page, one illustration per day) I have followed very diligently.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-78276331514110792352010-08-30T11:37:47.725-04:002010-08-30T11:37:47.725-04:00This is a goofy question: do you limit yourself to...This is a goofy question: do you limit yourself to text fully contained on the page, or when there is a long quote that may stretch to another page do you allow that? I guess my question is how much do you stick to the rules that you have set up for yourself?Sean McGurrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041260778286942630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-60664181547275632312010-08-30T11:36:03.558-04:002010-08-30T11:36:03.558-04:00I know I wasn't the only one who counted them....I know I wasn't the only one who counted them. Awesome stuff Matt. How long did this one take? And were you cursing yourself after you came up with the idea?Sean McGurrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041260778286942630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-53299266580283630832010-08-30T11:13:04.263-04:002010-08-30T11:13:04.263-04:00Go ahead. Count 'em.Go ahead. Count 'em.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.com