the 2nd one i have met in the span of 8 months.
he gave a small lecture in bennington VT @ the library there - i happened to catch a flyer for it by chance while wandering around bennington over the weekend. really weird.
so i went to this lecture, and there was about 6-7 of us there, half of which were actual librarian who prattled on and on about 'graphic novels' and 'that graphic novel sin city', kind of losing sight of the fact that this was a lecture on the evolution of the horror illustration as used in comic books (the only reason i attended). it's amazing to me that a discussion most often gets sidetracked (backtracked) by the event organizers themselves, it's something i've always noticed.
anyhow my mind was blown because, due to a misspent educational phase while i was younger, i never quite learned to draw or symbolize as best as i can, and this guy is apparently teaching a "comic history course" (bleh) at a comic book illustration school, the 2nd of it's kind on american soils, opening this fall in upstate VT.
i nervously approached him after the stupid Q&A session (about sin city, which he had nothing to do with), fought for his attention w/ a total comic book guy, and stammered that i always liked his work, stupidly noted that "he's one of my 4 favorite artists" (still cringing on that one), and tried to tell him that his work always conveyed the atmosphere of VT and southern NY perfectly (because the lecture ended, strangely enough, on the topic of frank miller's VT-centric life and how he wound up drawing citiscapes, while lecturer in question stuck with rural themes), and that i always admired that/aspired to grasp that.
my reason for posting this is this: has anyone ever met a craft-oriented "idol" figure and been inundated with SO much information that you've felt completely confused for days afterwards? i mean, i know i'm a little too hypersensitive to targeted issues (even at this old age), but fuckkkkk
**ps: this is probably really arrogant and not even worth mentioning but i don't even really like or follow comics, and told him that
he gave a small lecture in bennington VT @ the library there - i happened to catch a flyer for it by chance while wandering around bennington over the weekend. really weird.
so i went to this lecture, and there was about 6-7 of us there, half of which were actual librarian who prattled on and on about 'graphic novels' and 'that graphic novel sin city', kind of losing sight of the fact that this was a lecture on the evolution of the horror illustration as used in comic books (the only reason i attended). it's amazing to me that a discussion most often gets sidetracked (backtracked) by the event organizers themselves, it's something i've always noticed.
anyhow my mind was blown because, due to a misspent educational phase while i was younger, i never quite learned to draw or symbolize as best as i can, and this guy is apparently teaching a "comic history course" (bleh) at a comic book illustration school, the 2nd of it's kind on american soils, opening this fall in upstate VT.
i nervously approached him after the stupid Q&A session (about sin city, which he had nothing to do with), fought for his attention w/ a total comic book guy, and stammered that i always liked his work, stupidly noted that "he's one of my 4 favorite artists" (still cringing on that one), and tried to tell him that his work always conveyed the atmosphere of VT and southern NY perfectly (because the lecture ended, strangely enough, on the topic of frank miller's VT-centric life and how he wound up drawing citiscapes, while lecturer in question stuck with rural themes), and that i always admired that/aspired to grasp that.
my reason for posting this is this: has anyone ever met a craft-oriented "idol" figure and been inundated with SO much information that you've felt completely confused for days afterwards? i mean, i know i'm a little too hypersensitive to targeted issues (even at this old age), but fuckkkkk
**ps: this is probably really arrogant and not even worth mentioning but i don't even really like or follow comics, and told him that
sat is my sister's birthday also. but like yea i mean i will be there until sunday
