John Martz

Posts tagged “Seth”

How great is this poster by Seth? I see some familiar names — if not necessarily familiar faces — and there’s even a bearded, bespectacled Martz in there (middle, second row from the bottom).
(Bigger view here)

How great is this poster by Seth? I see some familiar names — if not necessarily familiar faces — and there’s even a bearded, bespectacled Martz in there (middle, second row from the bottom).

(Bigger view here)

If the drawing is going to be coloured mechanically […] there is usually a whiteout stage as well. I painstakingly fix up every line to make them more perfect […]

If the artwork is going to be coloured directly on the paper in watercolour, I can’t do this “fixing” stage because the artwork obviously cannot have whiteout all over it […] That means […] when I ink for watercolouring, I simply don’t make any mistakes that need whiting out. It’s a trick of the mind. If I can do this for the watercolour drawings, why can’t I do it for the mechanical method? Who knows. All I know is that if I am allowed to make mistakes I will make them — if I can’t, I won’t.

Seth, describing his process on creating a cover for The Walrus.
Comic artists spend a lot of time working alone, and isolation is conducive to introspection and interior reverie. For me, comics and self-expression go hand in glove.
Seth, The Art of Compression: Comic Conversations