Night Watchman 2023 Spring-Summer Sketchbook
The print proof for my Night Watchman 2023 Spring-Summer Sketchbook arrived on Tuesday, and I couldn’t be happier with it. Creating a comic book has been an unrealized ambition for most of my creative life, so this feels important, if only to myself. I’m having a very limited run of these printed, just in time for a show at I’m participating in October. This 20-page sketchbook includes a lot of the conceptual work I’ve done for my Night Watchman project since I began developing it in earnest in March of 2023, including several finished pages, and a little backstory regarding its genesis. It’s my first mini comic, or “zine”, a common format of being 5.5 x 8.5” (an 8.5 x 11” sheet folded in half). Though I have been drawing in a more standard comic book size, this was and still is an economical format for independent cartoonists- I’d love to do some short stories in this format and may go that route to make self-publishing affordable. Whatever direction The Night Watchman ends up going, this sketchbook was a good trial run of such an endeavor- it gave it real world provenance.
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