moon

Sketch of fashion blogger Yiba Jaba on the moon

la mort d'un maître

RIP Moebius

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Year 3179, Age 35

Oh, Woody

I've never found 'last panel suicide' gags particularly bleak, depressing, or even dark. It seems like they've been present ever since I've seen comics, kind of like a 'jazz standard' of the gag comic strip. Similar to (but not as ubiquitous as) the super hero comic book story. Tony Millionaire does the suicide gag so well.

Guess who this one's about:

Wallace Wood

After trivializing McQueen's suicide, I automatically started thinking about Wallace Wood's suicide. I picked up a few of his biographies from the library recently :




and eagerly await the arrival of IDW's collection of original artwork:



I find Wood's style to be antiseptic and asexual but beautiful. Sure he draws pretty girls and creepy, drippy aliens but his line work and black spotting is just too perfect to elicit any guttural response from me. I mean this as a compliment- if I had pursued a career in the arts, I would have aspired for this type of style.

Alexander McQueen

Thinking and talking about next the next Jerks In Space mini-comic, Alexander McQueen's name came up. I'd call him the Paul Pope of the fashion world: undeniably talented, well known outside of his field, and in possession of a catastrophically individual style.



This sketchbook comic was drawn yesterday, on the 2nd anniversary of McQueen's suicide.