tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298678678560134832024-03-05T05:35:52.183-08:00Cypher ComicsBrad Tearehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04311014022243382658noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329867867856013483.post-78096423932483617122012-02-18T11:19:00.002-08:002015-03-09T10:02:45.563-07:00Dreams Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">O</span></span>NE REASON I POSTPONED </b>writing <i><a href="http://subtchronicles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Subterranean</a></i> was I wasn't sure it would work in scratchboard. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Michel de Montaigne</span></a> suggested the path to success was to <i>create within a genre but in a new way</i>. It occurred to me that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd never seen a superhero comic done in scratchboard and it might be something new I could bring to the medium. I soon found there are good reasons artists have avoided scratchboard–it lends a fantastic mood but it's a lot of work!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the second page of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cypher-Brad-Teare/dp/0879058005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317765926&sr=8-1" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Cypher</span></a> featuring The Subterranean he ruminates on his anger management issues. His personality hasn't changed much in the new version. He might be even angrier. Click twice on the image below to get a super close-up view (to read the text in the balloons):</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">T</span></span>HE SUBTERRANEAN APPEARED</b> in <i>Cypher</i> in the last story entitled <a href="http://cyphercomics.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">SubWayward</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">.</span> It is the most personal in a collection of highly personal, surreal stories. The protagonist is given a book (entitled<i>Dreams</i>) and as he thumbs through the book he finds it's a comic book about a superhero called The Subterranean. The theme of the story is about how subconscious thoughts percolate up through our consciousness. A friend told me it was a cool idea and that I should illustrate an entire comic of The Subterranean.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the time I was concerned about finishing the sequel to <i>Cypher</i> and I dismissed the Subterranean project. <i>Cypher</i> is a more cartoon version of reality and I wasn</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'t thinking of The Subterranean as a realistic super hero. When I started doing the sequel to <i>Cypher</i> eight months ago The Subterranean completely took over and soon evolved into a realistic comic book in a scratchboard style.</span></span></div>Brad Tearehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04311014022243382658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329867867856013483.post-73775625314016570732012-02-18T11:18:00.001-08:002013-08-31T17:21:37.586-07:00Poe Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But it wasn't until I read the book <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Realism-Paint-Doesnt-Exist/dp/0740785508?ie=UTF8&tag=sancom0a-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Imaginative Realism</span></i></a><i><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sancom0a-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0740785508" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: none !important; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: none !important; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i> </span>that I fully understood their purpose. The comic illustrated below was the first project where I used maquettes.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the story <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The Bureau d'Echange de Maux</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sancom0a-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0978791975" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: none !important; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: none !important; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">(see link below)</span></span></span></i> there are basically two characters. I needed to keep these characters on-model, that is, looking like themselves no matter what the lighting or angle. The story would not work if any ambiguity was introduced. Plus I wanted to maintain a higher level of reality than in my previous comics. To keep things simple I used plasticine clay and modeled the two main characters in busts about the size of my fist.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story was quite short but the two characters appeared in nearly every scene and to keep the narrative from getting visually boring I needed to show them in a variety of poses. The maquettes allowed me show that variety and keep my characters on-model. The technique was so effective I adopted it in <i>The Subterranean</i> making maquettes of all the characters in white <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sculpey-Original-Polymer-Clay-1-3/dp/B0016N6CMU?ie=UTF8&tag=sancom0a-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">sculpey.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sancom0a-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0016N6CMU" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: none !important; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: none !important; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span> Since <i>The Subterranean</i> takes place in an even more realistic world, using maquettes has been an invaluable aid in maintaining the realism desired and keeping a complex cast of characters on-model.</span></span></div>Brad Tearehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04311014022243382658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329867867856013483.post-31932860442208660692012-02-18T11:16:00.001-08:002012-02-18T13:10:12.697-08:00Oz Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was years before I abandoned trying to imitate his elegant style and embraced the rough-hewn look of scratchboard, a style truer to my own personality.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cypher-Brad-Teare/dp/0879058005?ie=UTF8&tag=sancom0a-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Cypher</span></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sancom0a-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0879058005" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: none !important; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: none !important; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i> story <i>SubWayward</i> many allusions to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/L-Frank-Baums-Wonderful-Wizard/dp/0520058224?ie=UTF8&tag=sancom0a-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The Wizard of Oz</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sancom0a-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0520058224" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: none !important; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: none !important; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are apparent. There are even clock-work creatures similar to Tik Tok. For many reasons <i>SubWayward</i> was the most personally meaningful of all the psychologically charged <i>Cypher</i> stories. It was also the story in which The Subterranean appears for the first time.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With such a background, when the editor of Graphic </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Classics asked if I would do an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">L. Frank Baum</span></a> story, I couldn't say no. The resulting comic, a somewhat obscure story called <i>The Glass Dog</i>, appeared in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Classics-Graphic-15-Eureka/dp/0978791932/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1315328442&sr=8-3" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; color: #990000; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Graphic Classics Volume 15</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">.</span> Page one is posted below.</span></span></div>Brad Tearehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04311014022243382658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329867867856013483.post-80421929200964275342012-02-18T11:15:00.001-08:002012-02-18T13:11:47.301-08:00H.G. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My point here was to sketch the various fields of endeavor while casting the scientists as blasé observers of their amazing scientific virtuosity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The experiment demonstrating brain transference was one of the clichés of the science fiction of my era. I'm striving for irony here, hoping to demonstrate that landing a job at this lab might not be such a great opportunity.</span></div>
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The idea that the brain was split into two halves was first introduced to me in the book <i>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain</i>. It was a popular idea in the 1990s, spawning a veritable cottage industry of books elaborating how one could exploit the full capacity of one's brain. In retrospect it all seemed a bit naïve although a clearer view of the brain's duality still suggests that certain functions are compartmentalized in the two hemispheres.</div>
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So while the story partakes of some of the mythology of the era I think it actually holds up rather nicely as a meditation on duality.</div>
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More scene setting with distant and seemingly indifferent scientists.</div>
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The story Hemispheres is not only about intuition and rationality, but also other archetypal opposites. I like symbols that contain such oppositions. There are two on the screens of the computers, one, a circle with a dot in the middle which Carl Young claimed was a universal symbol for femininity. But in this case represents the element helium, or He, in obvious masculine implications. The other symbol, a symbol for power, is a spiral, a feminine symbol, with the arrow representing the masculine.</div>
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Once again Cypher is stepping into water a symbol of subconsciousness and a foreshadowing of future illumination.</div>
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Invariably a job that initially seems like a dream turns into a nightmare. The fog bank through which Cypher descends represents the penetration into the subconscious which is represented by the watery globe. The desk chair represents the state of inquisitiveness, like being in school.</div>
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One of the most important questions people can ask themselves is what is the purpose of life? I have Cypher ask that question here, posing it to the subconscious mind. An answer is given by whom? The subconscious? The hand of God? I leave identity ambiguous as expressed by Cypher's perplexed expressions.</div>
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The downdraft forces Cypher further into the subconscious. Apparently I like repetition of motifs because we see another allusion to the hemispheres of the brain in the part of Cypher's hair. Underscoring the possibility that the previous hand launching the paper airplane might be some omnipotent, all-knowing being, we see here an allusion to Moses crossing the Red Sea.</div>
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The one of the artists that was very influential in my youth was MC Escher. His style is often characterized as being highly cerebral if not mathematical. I use him here as a symbol of the rational. Knowing that few would recognize him I restated the symbolism with the chess board, a tessellation, an art form Escher took to new heights. Chess itself as a symbol of rationality as well as being an homage to the movie <i>The Seventh Seal</i>.</div>
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It is often difficult to make a decent segue between two critical scenes. In this case I made the transition quickly and radically and added a bit of humor as well.</div>
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