Sunset Grove

Rebecca writes: Sunset Grove is located on the eastern coast of Fictionopia. There are not many things in Sunset Grove, but there is a one-room school (Taught by Meredith Rowsy) and a town square/chief’s house. The chief is Brandon Helter, with his wife Melody and his children Alexis and Joseph.
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Detail from opening image for the Fisheye Perspective chapter in my upcoming book Extreme Perspective! Curvilinear And Beyond.

I’m still working on splash panels for the chapters in my perspective book. Here’s the latest:
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For all of you who don’t happen to be regular readers of Back Issue magazine, there is an interview with me in the current issue by Los Angeles comics writer Michael Aushenker. Thanks to the glacial pace of print the piece is a bit of a time capsule, a transcript of a wide-ranging and somewhat incoherent phone conversation we had two years ago, months before my new book, Extreme Perspective! was even proposed (and at one point I tell Michael that I don’t think I’ll be doing any large comics projects anytime soon. Ha!).
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Splash panel for the chapter Wide, Wide Angle from the upcoming book Extreme Perspective! Curvilinear And Beyond.

Even though I’ve finished all the comics pages for my new book, I’m not QUITE done- I still have to draw introductory images to go with the text introductions for each chapter. Here’s one of them.

What are they saying? Don't ask me

More established cartoonists may take foreign editions in stride, but it is still a novelty for me to see my characters speaking in some language I don’t understand, as they did when both Perspective! and David Chelsea In Love came out in French editions. In my slow, deliberate campaign to cover the globe with my books the latest country to succumb is Japan, where an edition of Perspective! has recently been published. With the French books I was able to do a little second-guessing of the translations (does “parallelepipede” really have the same plain connotations in French as “box” does in English?) but given my utter ignorance of even the Japanese alphabet I will have to take it on faith that my translators know what they are doing. Evidently they are doing something right- according to my latest royalty statement, the Japanese edition is outselling the American version six to one.
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One question I get asked every so often is “When are you going to get back to drawing autobiographical comics like David Chelsea In Love?” For these fans, the long wait is over- I just posted a four panel autobiographical strip on the comics page of this site. I have grown a bit more reticent about revealing the intimate facts of my life than I was in the early 90’s, so I have altered a few minor details- like my age, my appearance, what I do for a living and the fact that I don’t habitually speak in rhyme. Otherwise, the guy is totally me.
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Caricature for Inx

See this week’s Inx drawings here