This is the fifth and possibly penultimate report documenting production progress of the fourth issue and chapter of my artist book/comic Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions Of Doctor Comics, Chapter 4: Beer, Chocolate and Comics. It could be as close as a month from completion but we’ll have to wait and see about that. In this chapter the feline character Cohl retrieves documents and items from the Doctor Comics archive and collection of comics related materials. From this he constructs a post of an autobiographical nature on the Doctor Comics blog. It contains anecdotes of a Royalty led Belgian trade mission to Sydney that included such notable and desirable Belgian products as beer, chocolate and comics. This is what provides the source of the chapter’s title. In addition to the trade event in the ballroom of a luxury hotel in Sydney there was an exhibition of Belgian comic art at the gallery Allianz Francais. This is not the only anecdote in this chapter nor indeed in all the chapters and these anecdotes are employed to provide detail and substance to both story and characters.
Ink stain on paper-© 2014 Michael Hill
Location design sketch-© 2014 Michael Hill
Dock cranes drawing, ink on paper-© 2014 Michael Hill
Promotional chocolate stack, Berlin, photo-© 2014 Michael Hill
Sketch of Doctor Comics character, ink on paper-© 2014 Michael Hill
More visual developments and an update on progress will be posted on this blog in three or four weeks time as I near completion and point towards Japan as the likely setting of the next chapter. In the meantime, for a continuing visual history record and time-line overview of this project that covers all four issues, you can read the BLOTTING PAPER production reports on the following posts:
Issue #1: No.1 No.2 No.3 No.4 No.5 No.6 No.7 No.8 No.9 No.10 No.11 No.12 No.13 Issue #2: No.14 No.15 No.16 No.17 No.18 No.19 No.20 No.21 No.22 No.23 No.24 No.25 No.26 No.27 No.28 No.29 Issue #3: No.30 No.31 No.32 No.33 No.34 No.35 No.36 Issue #4: No.37 No.38 No.39 No.40 No.41 No.42 No.43 No.44
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Lyn Brook says on March 2, 2015
Good stuff
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Doctor Comics says on March 2, 2015
Thank you Lyn, always good to get your support!
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Kay Rodriques says on March 2, 2015
Those dock crane drawings are lovely. There are quite a few of them on the Oakland (CA) wharf. Been thinking of sketching them. Where were yours?
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Doctor Comics says on March 2, 2015
Thank you Kay. I have not seen the ones in San Francisco. Living in a port city, Sydney, I take an interest in other such cities around the world and the Oakland wharf sounds appealing particularly as San Francisco is my favourite North American city. The ones in my drawings are from Hamburg, Germany and Newcastle, Australia. I am also familiar with the one in Sydney at Botany Bay.
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