TIDBITS (RIFLING THROUGH COMICS ARTISTS' PERSONAL BELONGINGS)A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Comics Issue - Part 1
| Dave Cooper’s Stuff |
See Dave Cooper’s comic here.
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INK-BOTTLE RIG
This contraption allows me to dip my nib just inches from my drawing, thereby avoiding an exhausting reach of a foot or so waaaay over to the side table. I know it sounds wimpy, but when you’re dipping 7,000 times during the course of a day, it makes a huge difference.
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BAKELITE INK & PEN HOLDER
There was once a time when using ink and a nib was so commonplace that they’d design amazing desktop accoutrements like this Bakelite ink-bottle/pen holder. I got it at an antique fair. It’s so noble and handsome that I haven’t dared pour filthy, dirty ink into it once in eight years.
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WACOM WRITING TABLET
This thing is fantastic for coloring and manipulating things. I could easily do all my drawing and inking with it and nobody would be the wiser (seriously).
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OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
I’m more of a painter than a comics artist these days, so this is one of my most prized possessions. It makes my eyes well up a bit if I dwell on it too long. It projects a little sketch onto a huge piece of canvas. It’s so powerful, with a 1,000-watt bulb, and so sturdy that it makes the little plastic things you find in art-supply stores these days look like fucking Styrofoam egg cartons. |
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HUNT 102
This unassuming little tart is like a miraculously diverse minibrush. I don’t use anything else for inking or lettering. It can go hair-fine or savage-fat with graceful finesse. I buy them by the dozen. |
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| Jordan Crane’s Stuff |
See Jordan Crane’s comic here.
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TIN OF CRAP
I filled the bottom of this with pennies to give it some weight and make it a little more shallow, and voila: I had a place to keep all of my pens. Some other shit winds up here too. I have a comb that I like. Not that I ever comb my hair, I just like the comb. Also, I have this really long and thin pocket knife. It folds open to about 14 inches long and it’s only about half an inch thick.
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IBUPROFEN
It takes the pain away. Back pain, head pain, hand pain. But mainly head pain. I’m trying to drink more water, and on the days that I remember to do this, I usually don’t get a headache.
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BOOKS ON TAPE
I listen to books on tape as I sit at my drawing table. I’d like to listen to music, but it gets me too worked up and I can’t think straight. |
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LITTLE COWBOY
The old Playskool figures are so much better than the new ones. The new figures have clothes and faces and are little kids. The older ones are just so damn simple, they can be whatever you want them to be.
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INK GLASS
The glass of water that I used to wash out my brushes in kept tipping over, so I found a big wide glass and then affixed it to a saucer with clear caulk. I’ve had no tipping over since.
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 Anonymous, on Nov 7, 2009 wrote:
Hm-m-m, such a nice magazine were all the shit from over the world placed. Keep on | | Anonymous, on Jun 9, 2009 wrote:
golliwog candies!
if packaging in the us was that awesome, we’d have just about everything we need. | | Anonymous, on May 25, 2009 wrote:
sit on my face | | Anonymous, on May 6, 2009 wrote:
Tims makes the *best* Salt & Vinegar chips--and its amazing with Cabernet ;) | | Anonymous, on Apr 3, 2009 wrote:
Correction asshole: MUSICIANS benefit humanity. The industry benefits nobody but the industry. | | Anonymous, on Apr 3, 2009 wrote:
Fuck you Vice for promoting music theft and fuck snot-nosed whiny babies with an entitlement complex who cant shell out fucking 0.99 for a song you can play for the rest of your life and don’t care if they’re comlpetely destroying an industry that benefits humanity immeasurably. Cunts. | |
| crimewave, on Feb 8, 2009 wrote:
i recognized those xanax from a thumbnail. fuck. yeah. | | Anonymous, on Feb 5, 2009 wrote:
aw i love this | | Anonymous, on Feb 2, 2009 wrote:
i drove past sambo’s in santa barbara in april 2000 and everyone in the car had exactly the same reaction. the fact that there was a storm coming, so it looked like a ghost town just added to the "did we just drive back to the forties?" feeling. | | Anonymous, on Dec 2, 2008 wrote:
nacism? | | Anonymous, on Dec 2, 2008 wrote:
Don’t you know SHIT is the shit? | | Anonymous, on Dec 1, 2008 wrote:
POT
"Me and my girl rolled about three joints before watching The Ring and oh my god did we ever get scared. bollocks !!!
smoke 3 joints and walk around glasgow | | Anonymous, on Nov 28, 2008 wrote:
bag hutch | | Anonymous, on Oct 31, 2008 wrote:
sink ma teef innit
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| Tiago, on Oct 16, 2008 wrote:
The eyedrops are not american | | Anonymous, on Sep 5, 2008 wrote:
That is not a "cheap slingshot" in the rattlesnake egg envelope. Spin the plastic or metal ring that is suspended by the two rubber bands and put it back in the envelope like that.. then, when someone opens the envelope it makes a loud noise (as the rubber bands unravel, spinning the button against the paper)and they yell and then everyone laughs. say duh, you cheap thief. | | Anonymous, on Jul 13, 2008 wrote:
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! | | Anonymous, on Jul 11, 2008 wrote:
Edgy stuff!!!!!!!!!! | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2008 wrote:
I’ve been enjoying hot spotted cock for years. | | Anonymous, on Jun 22, 2008 wrote:
BOUDREAUX’S BUTT PASTE haha I saw that at work the other day and the bagger and I couldn’t stop laughing!
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