The Moon Prince Page 285: Aaaraahh!

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Forest Mutant

The Moon Prince Page 284: Sorry, Molly!

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Eichmann's Throat

True story!

The Moon Prince Page 283: Oh Oh Oh...

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Failing Better

I sometimes coach a group of teenagers in comics-making, and I often use Samuel Beckett's idea of "failing better" to encourage them not to despair about their imperfect anatomy, or perspective, or composition, or whatever else. Instead of measuring success by perfection, Beckett said to treat everything as a failure, and to simply try to "fail better" every time.

In this case at least, I practice what I preach. Here's a little animation showing some of the revisions I've made to a page from my "Fantastic Life" comic starting with the original drawing from 2007 and culminating with yesterday's latest version. I swear to God(ot): this time it's finished!

The Moon Prince Page 282: Nothin' Important

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The Moon Prince Page 281: Blood Lust

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The Moon Prince Page 280: Moonflowers

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Officer Tim Page 13: Respect For the Force

Here's the last page of my autobio story “Officer Tim”. As I mentioned last week, one name has been “redacted” out of respect to an old family friend.

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The Moon Prince Page 279: I Can Hear It

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Officer Tim Process Post

Dear Readers:

The Rough Pearl will be on hiatus for a couple of months while I draw new pages. In the meantime, here's a “process” animation showing the steps I used to make page 10 of my “Officer Tim” story.

Thanks for reading!
Kevin