Behind the scenes

Some exclusive footage for you until the hotly awaited new Corvin pages are done and uploaded.

First, here's a snapshot of my "studio". If you take a closer look at the drawing board, you can see a new page in the course of being pencilled. To be honest, this is not an ideal drawing table, but maybe one day I'll have an adjustable one. Also, sorry for the wallpaper...

There's always some good stuff at hand on the sofa to provide help with drawing. Scott McCloud's Making Comics is an extremely useful manual for comic work and Jeff Smith's masterpiece is also very handy to consult for the composition of panels and loads of other practical things.

While I'm at it, two photos about the crew of the comics course held in last November:

From left to right: Ági - creator of artistic drawings that depict the modern individual's twisted psyche , Edina - co-writing a story about a group of student acting out Romeo and Juliet, me - uncombed hair, raising my head instead of straightening up as one should, Csongor - our instructor, also with a preference for the topic of urban neurosis, Gergő - Garfield fan and author of the wicked penguin's adventures, Józsi - coming up with a strip about the kung flu slug, Dosadi - excelling in manga with fantastic colours thanks to ProMarker pens.

...and a more spontaneous shot with nothing much happening. Behind the camera Zsolt, inspired by Frank Miller in creating hard-hitting stuff about the darker aspects of our world.

So, thanks for joining me on this footage about the "Fabulous Life of the Hobby Cartoonist".
O yea, comments are absolutely welcome! A blog without comments is like a fish without a bicycle or some sad sight of that kind :o)

Remarks on Corvin

The previous post contains the first pieces of the story that started to formulate in my head after reading Bone by Jeff Smith. To be honest, I'm also curious to see how it will proceed. Maybe I can give away as much that it is loosely based on a significant event in Hungarian history, but I prefer to treat it more like a fantasy story. The historical source is a good thing, as it provides the backbone, it's only the flesh - a lot of it - that needs to be added.

What I have on my mind is clearly a comic story of some bigger length. These are usually called graphic novels, but at this point it would be premature to state that I will deliver one. Anyway, new pages will appear here from time to time, preferably with the text in English below them.

Also, something ugly happened to the layout of the blog while doing some further editing on the previous post. Hopefully I can restore the original features soon. If you click on this and the first post, you can see the proper layout again. If someones knows what's screwed, just gimme a shout.
See ya soon