calligraphy – Doctor Comics

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.}
_{(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.

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BLOTTING PAPER The Comic: Production Report No.20