Well at last, Nighthawks has reached the same page length as the Card Players when I finished it, and it’s about 2/3 rds of the way to completion. I lost steam sometime last week when I felt somewhat bored with the diner as well as the story, but in the past week, the momentum has picked up again. However, there won”t be any more updates for a week – until August, as I will be away in Karlsruhe and won’t have time to devote to Nighthawks, although I may bring along a sketchbook if I run out of other things to do.
I’ve also been looking at Peter Kuper’s books and had a first look at his adaptation of Kafka’s surreal short story, ‘Metamorphosis’. I had admired some of Kuper’s magazine illustrations before realising that he had taken on Antonio Prohias”s work on Spy Vs Spy, a strip that fascinated me when I used to read MAD magazine as an impressionable adolescent. The gags were never that funny but it was something about the stark, black and white drawing that I found compelling – as well as the looser theme of espionage, a subject that has intrigued me since early childhood. When I return from Germany, I will make it a point to search for some of Kuper’s books.
Music to draw to, Glenn Gould playing Brahms’ Intermezzos.
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