23rd May 2009
Sexytimes poster! – Originally uploaded to Flickr by Lucylou
Back when I was reading (slightly obsessively) the Twilight books, I stumbled across a comic which summarised the saga neatly in 16 panels. Having only read the first two books, I let myself read the first 8 panels but then quickly clicked away before I ruined the rest of the story for myself. Last night I remembered it and took some time to track it down again. It had appeared on one of those tumblelogs that doesn’t credit anything, and just leaves a trail of “via” links so it took me some time. Finally I found it only to be delightfully surprised that it was drawn by one of my new favourite comic authors, Lucy Knisley.
I read her lovely French Milk recently. The comic journal about her six week visit to Paris is so full of food and art and places and family and her quirky sense of humour that I couldn’t not love it. Discovering that the Twilight comic was hers was a serendipitous delight – because it led me to her Art Journal and all her other comic fabulousness. She makes me want to draw comics again.
Don’t miss My Lost Weekend in the Meyer - Lucy’s Twilight experience but beware: Twilight spoiler alert
(this was so me too, but fortunately I had friends throwing the books at me)
2nd May 2008
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Welcome to the second Friday Archives! In case you missed last week — I have started this thing where every Friday I post some work (illustration, art work, craft, writing) from my past and I invite you to play along. This week I’ve even made a button. You can find it below.
This is an excerpt from a two page comic I drew in 1997. For the whole story you can click on the above links for two pages of angsty, autobiographical comic badness. I drew it all by hand! Those were the days. I wouldn’t dare any more. A lot of liquid paper was used.
Here’s the button:
Feel free to copy it into your site and link it back to loobylu.com
It’s meme-city around here. I am LOVING yesterday’s celebrity sightings!
19th February 2008
In November last year I was lucky enough to participate in Amber’s Comic Artist Rehab project. The task was to produce four panels every four days for four weeks and it was really tough. It seems that in every round since there is a slump of enthusiasm around the half way mark. I stopped colouring my panels around that point. This is the first installment. The rest of the Warm Kitty story can be found here, you need to work from the bottom up for the continuity to work. Visit the tasty artists from this round and post some encouragement. It always made a big difference.
