The Birds
Occasionally I find it quite amusing where ideas come from. This one, for example, came to me when browsing the site of the great indie/experimental three-piece rock band Because of Ghosts from Australia. Their artwork often features birds, and/or flying people, and one drawing of a man being lifted by a flock of birds really struck a chord with me. (They have since changed their site, so I unfortunately can’t track down the exact image.) Anyway, I then started thinking why the birds would do such a thing, and the most obvious reason of wanting breadcrumbs popped in my head. The Disney-ish reference with the apron didn’t come into account until later when I started doing the sketches.
Okay, maybe that thought process wouldn’t be interesting to anyone besides myself, and dissecting it like this also made it completely unfunny, but I especially find it amusing because another strip idea came to me months later when listening to their latest album and reading one of the song titles off my iPod. Interesting!
I love knowing the process behind creative works, it is always interesting to know how ideas form. Your newest strips in Kollektivet left me in hysterics (the good kind of hysterics :) ), all of them are absolutely fantastic..hope to see the online version of them soon. You can never go wrong with narwhales! And the Newton strip..jesus christ :D
Thanks, I’m glad you liked ’em! And yeah, the online versions will definitely look better. The print in the magazine tend to be too dark, and the new paper texture in the new issues doesn’t really help either. Also, the web versions will of course be bigger, so no more squinting required!
*LOL* love it (^____^)
Just loved the disney gone wrong .:)
JAJAJAJAJAJAAJJA awesome.
I’d bet that firing that wouldn’t work
Then again, there are a ton of birds and death by bird (likepy including quite a few swans outside) seems more brutal than death by gunshot