Dave Dugan's Comix

@dave-dugan

Dave Dugan

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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

I’ve been on Tumblr since 2010… almost 16,000 posts and reblogs, 53,000 likes. There’s no telling how many things I have flagged, this is just fucking ridiculous.

You can find me at my old blogspot, Zen Comix, or the instagram account I just opened,https://www.instagram.com/doog103

I’ll still check in here periodically to check messages, but I’m done here pretty much. – Dave Dugan

I’ve had several questions lately asking about this picture on the header of my Tumblr. It’s a watercolor painting I did in 1986, titled “Ben Lo Shoots The Tiger”, roughly 20”x30”.

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Play the Crowquill Drunk,

Like a Percussion Instrument,

Until The Bristol Board

Bleeds a Bit

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After The Goldrush, available as a pay what you want digital comic.

“That’s what I enjoyed most about this comic: the total, frenetic commitment to its concept. There are other touches, like blank doctor’s physical examination forms being used to draw on but also partly filled out in clever, telling ways. This comic is beautiful, strange, moving and psychedelic all at once. It is no more and no less a tribute to a friend, one designed to honor a friendship and history of collaboration entirely in the language of the nature of that collaboration: comics and music."— Rob Clough

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Front and back cover of a yet to be titled comic, with details, done on handmade paper by Allison Heady

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Memory Motel

an accordion mini comic contained in a cassette tape case

india ink and crowquill, watercolor and brush, on paper.

first part

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Tampon Platitudes #3

pen and ink, watercolor on a Hy-Vee grocery receipt, rolled up and stuffed inside a tampon tube.

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The Beerfoot Servants, India ink and watercolor on handmade paper, contained inside a cereal box painted with exterior house paint.

I’ll have these originals for sale next week at the Chicago Zine Fest.

I approach story telling/comic making in different ways, depending on the comic. Sometimes you know the beginning and the end, and you just figure out how to get there.

This is a “just making shit up as I go along” comic. Sometimes you draw someone, and let them tell you what the story is, like “This guy looks like a roadie that would fall asleep at the wheel for 17 miles while dreaming about a roast beef sandwich.”

At some point, somebody will remember what the guitarist looked like.

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Hand drawn/painted cover on handmade paper, perfect bound, for sale this weekend at The New South Fest in Austin.

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Unfinished mini comic

Ballpoint pen, india ink + crowquill, watercolor, colored pencil on handmade paper, bound with dental floss.

The only ones out in the noon day Austin sun…

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He stepped on one ipi that was eating a kamati with his tsinela.

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Watercolor and india ink on handmade paper inside a cardboard box painted with acrylics.

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I’ve taken some crappy cellphone photos of some of these pages before, but these are the first test scans, where I play around with sharpness/de-noising levels etc.

The top image is a cover, copper plate etching with added watercolor, then it’s pages 1,2, and 18, india ink and watercolor on handmade paper. I’ll have 7 copies of the comic, B & W, for sale at the Madison Print and Resist Show on Halloween, and I’ll have the originals for viewing and for sale (make me an offer I can’t refuse!)

Dave Dugan

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(via Spyrograph eyes #2 on Make A Gif)

Here’s an animated panel from page 76 of The Boy With The Spyrograph Eyes.

This gif’s not as shaky as the first one, as I rescanned the 20 drawings it took to make this.

This is the last week to get a digital copy of The Boy With The Spyrograph Eyes for the rock bottom price of $2.99. At the end of this week, I’m raising the price to $4.99.

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These are some of the first prints from the engraved aluminum plate on handmade paper. Some of the experiments were wetting the paper vs. not wetting the paper, and in the third image you can see where I wet the paper with a paint brush, it picked up more of the plate tone than the dry paper.

The top image is the full plate on paper made from the adjustable window screen I got at the Habitat Restore. The bottom two are on 9 x 12 inch paper from a silkscreen, printing just the top half of the plate. The bottom ones will be covers for comix, and I’ll add some watercolors to the images, the top one will be colored and be a stand alone image

I printed them on the motorized press, and I’m pleased with some of the prints, but some of them, the plate moved, and there’s a slight double exposure. The next batch I print, I’ll use the hand crank press to avoid the plate shifting.

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