BLOTTING PAPER The Comic: Production Report No.20

Art, Blotting Paper, Cats in Comics, Comics, Germania November 3, 2014

This is the first report documenting the production of the fourth issue of my artist book/comic…Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions Of Doctor Comics.…it continues from posts on the first chapter/issue The Ingurgitator,…the second chapter/issue A Blot On His Escutcheon…and the third chapter/issue The Chthonian Turn: The Cats’ Revenge (see links to posts #1-36 below). The new chapter Beer, Chocolate and Comics deals with the cats’ recovery from the demise of their patron, Doctor Comics. It also covers their travels in Europe and their contact with the world of European comics. Printmaking is again involved in the production of this issue…with woodblock, linocut and the use of rubber, bakelite and wooden stamps. There is also drawing, handwriting and some cartooning. The intention is to produce a comic in an artist’s book type format. I hope to have it ready for publication early next year…but we’ll have to see about that…just as we will also have to see if my long term plan of combining these four separate issues…and subsequent issues into a full length graphic novel comes to fruition.

Brush tips dipped in ink and at the ready.
Brush tips dipped in ink and at the ready.
(Blotting Paper comic-©2014 Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Cartooning the cat character Cohl from Blotting Paper comic-© 2014 Michael Hill
Cartooning the cat character Cohl from Blotting Paper comic.
©2014 Michael Hill
More cat cartooning for the Blotting Paper comic-© 2014 Michael Hill
More cat cartooning for the Blotting Paper comic-©2014 Michael Hill

There will also be the introduction of a new character in this chapter…a dog.

Funny animal character from Blotting Paper comic-© 2014 Michael Hill
A funny canine animal character from Blotting Paper comic-©2014 Michael Hill

UPDATE NOVEMBER 2015: Illustration and comments.

Here is how this character finished up looking in Issue #4-© 2015 Michael Hill
Here is how this dog character finished up looking(post publication) in Issue #4-©2015 Michael Hill

This issue has a marked European flavour…no surprise perhaps following the careful research into Belgian and German chocolates, comics and beer…that I undertook on my recent trip there…Michael.

(All text, photos and artwork-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).

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Co-creator and former Director of the Master of Animation, Master of Design, and Visual Communication Design courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation and a Ph.D. in comics studies, prompting his introduction on ABC Radio as “Doctor Comics”. A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, and former member of the Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship and the Advisory Committee of the Q-Collection Comic Book Preservation Project, he has delivered public lectures on Comics, Anime and Manga and held academic directorships in Interdisciplinary Studies, Animation, Design and Visual Communication. Having retired from academia and completing the donation of his collection of research materials on Australian alternative comics to the National Library of Australia, he is now active in the artistic domain, writing, drawing and printmaking, creating art postcards and prints and his own graphic novel: Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics.

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    amandadrian says on September 14, 2015

    I love this gorgeous character, he’s so cuddly and pretty! 😉

    Love Amanda xxxxxxxxxx

    ps
    If I were you, I would change this to be your primary blog, and then your gravatar would link straight here. Not that I don’t love Doctor Comictopus, that is a fun detour, I must say 😉 I just thought I’d suggest, in case you didn’t know about that… 😀

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      Doctor Comics says on September 15, 2015

      Thank you Amanda for your wonderful comment. Do you mean the brown dog? I agree with what you say about him but he ended up undergoing a bit of a change in appearance when he finally appeared. I’ll find an image file and add it here.

      As for your suggestion re gravatar and primary blog I shall definitely investigate that. Thanks for your suggestion.

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        amandadrian says on September 16, 2015

        Yes, the brown dog, I’d love to see his later appearance. 🙂 I’m glad I could help 🙂

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          Doctor Comics says on September 17, 2015

          Amanda, I have added a sketch of how this character ended up looking in Issue #4 for you to see-bit of a transformation from the original design there-but I also like the previous model and that one might appear at some stage.

          I’m still sorting the gravatar/primary blog link business but I appreciate your helpful tip. Thanks, Michael B-)

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