Art in 2012 UPDATED!

4/21/2012 Jurascals as published in Auburn Citizen, Auburn NY

Jurascals has been in print in the Auburn Citizen for a year (April 11, 2011 to April 11, 2012) and I am extremely grateful to Jeremy Boyer and the Auburn Citizen for allowing me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream. A cartoonist is someone who read comics as a child, drew their own comics as they grew and refused to stop drawing long after school had an "art class".  There are precious few opportunities to express oneself as a cartoonist in a print medium and I am grateful that I have that opportunity.

In 2012 I have a vision of what this comic strip can and will become.

The primary advantage is color and how the color is applied. The Auburn Citizen has the benefit of a new color printing system. Since April 2012, I have created the work with acrylic paint and then used some ink for definition of the characters.  So each day the reader will see a new painting of mine.

The idea of doing a daily workproduct is not an uncommon practice for creative folks: One twitter friend I follow endeavors to do a microfiction or flash fiction story a day, many bloggers write a blog a day, some photographers do a photo a day. My work is a comic strip a day that is actually a painting and printed in the newspaper. So the big question after understanding the process is: to what end? I will ensure that the subject matter warrants the new look.

I am blessed in that I know a worthy subject matter that is pertinent to the medium. It is art itself.
This idea could not have been done before the advent of affordable proper color newspaper printing technology. So this is right place. right time. nothing more.

I'm working on discussing Lichtenstein and Warhol right now. Here's the Warhol inspired work up close!

And here's a preview of the Lichtenstein!