This time I photographed with no overhead lights and indirect LED photography lights. I continue to have issues photographing glossy paper books. Bill Watterson, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue
You get to see those moments of grace where the lines are confident, distilled, and flowing, as well as those moments when the cartoonist is struggling and bumbling like everyone else.Ī real person made these things, and when you see the actual drawings, you can participate in that. It’s a little window into the artist’s process and if you love this art, it’s quite inspiring. You see the white-out and pencil lines and the places where the artist fixed up a spot or changed his mind about something. The scale of the drawing affects how we relate to it, and the images have a different impact when you see them as they were actually drawn.Ī cartoon original is not intended to be the finished product, so the artist can leave a fair amount of slop that never reproduces. When you see an original…it’s an entirely different experience than seeing a newspaper or book reproduction. Rarely have I encountered a quote so apt for this site and its contents. This volume would greatly benefit as a hardcover with sewn binding but cost is a factor. A heavy glossy paper in a glued softcover binding.
Pages are numbered, with the book title on the left bottom margin and the chapter on the right. Each strip has its publication date below it. A single colour used for chapter dividers with cropped images or reduced strips. Coloured art presents well but the black and white work shines. Even a Sunday with faded inks but strong margins and lettering. The artwork is quite clean with some correction fluid use and the occasional pencil and pentimento. Scan quality is excellent, with no softness or blur. The art has been shot from the originals and presented at a reduced size. Most pages are two dailies or a Sunday, with some dailies getting squeezed to three on a page. The bulk of the book is original art collected into themes such as seasons, devices, storytelling, etc. Robb, then a lengthy interview by Robb with Watterson. The book opens with an introduction by Jenny E. The second exhibition of Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
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