Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown
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The village is running smoothly and people are continuing to build relationships with one another, friendships across lines, ... mayor.
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I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.
Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.
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There's just nothing that comes close to this,
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I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
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I couldn't have found a better place. I tell everybody back home how nice it is,
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Perhaps we need to go down there to talk to folks who are reluctant, so that they'll see there are people reaching out to them, who care about them, ... That's the major thing that we need to convey at this point.
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One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.
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I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.
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Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.
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The production value is with the landscape, the mountains and the water, and the city. You can't beat it.