Comics – because it’s there

ByElayne Riggs

Via Lisa at Sequentially Speaking, Joao Garcia climbed Mount Everest’s north side eight years ago, and has decided to tell his story via comics, publishing a limited, 2,000-print adaptation of his Everest story book A mais Alta Solidao (The highest solitude), illustrated by Ricardo Cabra.  Read his interview with ExplorersWeb here.

This appears to be something of a trend among Portuguese creative folk; a few days ago ExplorersWeb interviewed artist Antonio Coelho about his climbing experiences.  Both interviews are well worth scoping out for the copious numbers of illustrations therein.

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    1. Steam heat in the loft– can't turn off the radiators. Horrible, but there it is. (That's our story and we're sticking to it.)

      1. Ah, what a flatter does… The flatter goes through the art in something like Photoshop, breaking it down into its basic components, separating areas with flat colors which are rendered, detailed and finished by the main colorist. Although flatting isn’t glamorous, it is a necessary stage in completing a comic nowadays.Flat colors were what most comics looked like prior to about 1985 or so, then we started using airbrushes, watercolors, markers, and other neat effects.A lot of inkers do similar things with assistants, I just prefer to make sure mine get credited.Mark Sweeney has a good tutorial on flatting at http://www.mark-sweeney.com/Site-Pages/Tutorials/…

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