And now, some drawings of a bird flying through winter trees



From my eventually-to-be-completed graphic novel Feeder Birds.
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14 Responses to “And now, some drawings of a bird flying through winter trees”
  1. catwalk says:
    March 10, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    i have always been enamored of stark art and images of dark bare branches against a lighter shaded sky. very nicely done 🙂

  2. eronanke says:
    March 10, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    Plotline? Details? 🙂

    • Todd says:
      March 10, 2007 at 9:07 pm

      These are the very first images you see in the story. The protagonist is alone and missing all his friends (who, we will learn later, are all dead). I haven’t written the dialogue for these panels yet, but that’s the mood.

      • eronanke says:
        March 10, 2007 at 9:17 pm

        OIC. To be honest, I’ve always wanted to get into graphic novels, and by ‘get into’, I mean produce.
        Oh, to be a talented artist! But, alas, I could never draw. 🙁

  3. craigjclark says:
    March 10, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    You do those yourself? My problem is I have the writing skills, but lack the artistic chops to realize them in graphic form.

    P.S. – I picked up Bizarro World last night, in part because you contributed one of the stories. You’ve been a hung up on Justice League a lot longer than you’ve let on.

    • Todd says:
      March 10, 2007 at 9:05 pm

      You do those yourself?

      With a little help from my Wacom tablet, yes.

      My problem is I have the writing skills, but lack the artistic chops to realize them in graphic form.

      That was my problem until I started working at it. You should see my trees from the last go-around on this project.

      You’ve been a hung up on Justice League a lot longer than you’ve let on.

      WB asked me about doing a Justice League movie way back in 2002 (and that project is only now getting into gear, without me, alas), I’ve been thinking about it since then. The new thing is my discovery of the Bruce Timm show, which my son wasn’t old enough to watch until fairly recently.

      To be fair, I was not the first writer on the Bizarro World story, I was brought in as a replacement for Robert Smigel (whom I consider myself a very poor replacement for) by the cartoonist Michael Kupperman. It was a hoot.

      • craigjclark says:
        March 11, 2007 at 4:10 am

        I guess my main problem is I have a very definite idea of how things look in my head and the fact that I can’t come anywhere close to realizing them on the page is frustrating to the nth degree.

        I have a good friend who’s a great artist and we’ve collaborated on a number of things over the years, but unfortunately he has problems with motivation. Our latest project — a one-off comic — has been languishing for two years. (I delivered a script that both of us are extremely happy with. He just can’t seem to draw the damned thing. It’s a pity, too, because I think it’s some of the best writing I’ve done in any medium.)

        • Todd says:
          March 11, 2007 at 3:36 pm

          the fact that I can’t come anywhere close to realizing them on the page is frustrating to the nth degree.

          That’s the point where I tell Sam “That’s okay, just start over. If you enjoy drawing it [eg Spider-Man, Batman, etc], it doesn’t matter how many tries it takes.”

  4. medox says:
    March 10, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    Those trees are full of spindly beauty.

    • Todd says:
      March 10, 2007 at 9:06 pm

      And yet they’re nothing compared to the real thing. Ever since I started drawing trees, I have to stop and look at them when I pass them on the street.

      • medox says:
        March 10, 2007 at 9:36 pm

        Yeah, it’s all about trees and hands.

        I don’t think I’ll ever quite finish learning how to draw those two.

        • Todd says:
          March 10, 2007 at 9:52 pm

          Coulda fooled me. Your own style is impeccable.

          One of the reasons my first graphic novel is about birds instead of people is because I haven’t learned how to draw hands yet. I keep drawing people like they’re wearing mittens.