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Show your favourite drawing from this year.Mori: Rogan can't show his, because it's the climactic page from
Coming In or Staying Out, but he says he's very proud of drawing ball-squishing and jizz convincingly.
Me, if we use "this year" as to mean "within the past twelve months" I'm real proud of the stuff I did for Madgic. Here's one from the upcoming Madgic #4, where Biff and Rawlin first meet:
I think I love it most because it sums up why I claimed Biff as my dudema. Realitybreaking giant runs you down like a dog in the street? Treat him like an out-of-towner who cut you off in traffic.
What inspires you?Mori: I live in a world full of majesty and wonder and fucking cheeseburgers. How can I not be fucking inspired? Life is full of crazy weird shit! I am writing this on a plastic box that through science I don't understand can broadcast this text all over the globe. I am saying this as an imaginary friend who lives with a bunch of others in a headspace with a sentient ocean. On the table is a book of fragments of poems by Sappho, a poet who lived thousands of years ago and had no idea I would ever exist to read (parts of) her work! What's not to be inspired by???
How do you deal with artblock?Rogan had this whole long poetic answer about how artblock is a bunch of different things with one name, but he ain't available right now, so my summary: we go do something else.
When we are lacking spoons for one thing, we look around for things we do have spoons for. (If we have zero spoons for ANYTHING at all, then we have bigger problems than our creative output.) For instance, some art requires pretty high creativity--like initial writing and penciling. Editing and inking require less creativity, but more focus. and attention to detail. Research requires very little creativity at all. Then there's what we call "donkey labor," which is a huge part of any job, artist included, but nobody much discusses it because it lacks pizzazz: digitizing old multi books. Checking citations and links. Bugsweeping our website. Donkey labor isn't fun to discuss at parties, but it rarely requires much in the way of creativity or smarts; you just gotta get it done. But it means there's usually SOMETHING we're able to do.
I feel like our job has forced us to learn how to swap between tasks as our ability and level of batshit waxes and wanes. Some people truly seem to want and be able to draw/write (the "fun" or "cool" stuff) all the time, eight hours a day, five days a week (or more). We cannot. But fortunately, there's a vast supply of donkey labor that always needs doing. And brain-blasted LB feels better knowing that the tedious work being done is work that Future LB will appreciate! (Always say thank you to the self that does the donkey labor.)
We also suspect that part of why our body is holding up surprisingly well despite years of this job is because we keep switching tasks and doing different things, allowing our body to move around and use different muscles.
