graphic novels are incredibly difficult and solitary work. However, getting to knowing that someday a book like this will be on a shelf, and people will have a chance to learn how to yell at someone in arabic makes it all worth it :')
Here are some of the concepts I pitched initially. Notaila Rashed was always described as joyous and noted for her adoration of children. People who loved her comics would say her stories never spoke down to readers, were never just a moral lesson. I started with those feelings.
I passed in all 300 pencilled pages of SQUIRE for copy editing last night. This book finally feels like it is actually possible to finish, and this is the mood
For the record this is what a finished pencilled page looks like (tried to pick a non spoiler page)
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my artistic process lately
A quick refresher I did with my art team at @play_multiverse to practice how to understand your references, and use them meaningfully and in a way that keeps the energy in your sketches! our team does weekly foundation sessions together just to keep our brain juices going
No one did it like Bill Watterson
check ins
Me: please send me updates of my cat My lil bro: ok
Left: it's 2014, I'm a high schooler. I got my signed copy of the Legend of Korra art book when I met one of the co-creators. Told him I became an artist because of the Avatar series. Right: 2021. I get to share that I co-created an official Avatar story for Free Comic Book Day.
One of those days
you best believe it is the #sameartist
Market Day
With everyone cooking at home nowadays, here is a brownie-making illustration. ???? For the short story anthology Once Upon An Eid, out everywhere May 5th!
Icon vs me https://t.co/eR141xjZ3e
If you're following me it's probably because you like comics. Read "Palestine" and "Footnotes in Gaza" by Joe Sacco. If you want to see the reality of Palestinians, and hear their lived experience, but need distance from actual video/photos of war- read Joe Sacco.
