“End of Side A,” pencil, 11” x 17” (3 pages), 2011.
Another piece from my second semester comics class, this may very well be my best cartooning work. Certainly, it’s my most deeply thought out, as well as deeply felt. Told with a consistent design layout throughout three pages, it’s about my once-turbulent relationship with my father… And trying to reconcile both “sides” of that particular record. It’s also vaguely about Ziggy Stardust, too, I suppose.
As an aside, I’d like it recorded for posterity here that James Franco was in this comics class with me. Seriously - this isn’t one of my usual, unusually dry and un-funny jokes: He was actually in the class with me. And it was notably weird. Especially when we’d critique something like this together, and I could feel him judging as he read about my family life… For this assignment he made a funny three-panel cartoon about his brother, which he made no effort to hide was drawn on his iPad…
Clearly one of us has a dedication to brutal honesty and the Blues ethic, and the other is a successful movie star.
-CR
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