the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
"we have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place."
---underlined in red colored pencil by...?---
February 15, 2008
at work on this site.he is oz, behind the curtain.
he is the battery in your hearing aid.
he is the spark in every autobot.
he is the "e" in ebay.
he is the honor roll report card on your fridge.
he is the guy who dips the ends of your shoelaces in hot plastic so they dont unravel, and are easier to lace through the holes in your shoe, which he is also responsible for.
he is a minority.
but he is a person....
his name is william donahoe....
he makes my website.
February 11, 2008
"...Women will always be a problem for guys like us, most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. Good-looking people have no spine!Their art never lasts! They get the girls, but we're smarter.---Great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... ---The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool."
---uploaded another piece, http://bishart.net/image.php?id=79
a somewhat older one i made using pen and ink, its not the best version of it because it is photographed and not scanned, but i tried to clean it up the best i could. i hope you like it. . .
"but its really just about you and me... and all we were ever really reaching out for was eachother."
February 10, 2008
should i try it....?February 09, 2008
I have no idea if this will work.
It's Will again. As you may have noticed, Ben has added a lot of images lately. That's awesome, but I'm not sure if it's going to work. I didn't really test the code for the thumbnails thingy to the right to see if you would actually be able to navigate more than 30 thumbnails. We'll see the next time Ben uploads an image.In other news, I'll be adding a next button soon so that you can navigate the hi-res versions easily without going back to the main page. all this in an attempt to make your life better. //william
February 09, 2008
new painting up, an XMEN sentinel... its most likely going to be the background for another piece im working on. but i couldnt wait to get it online. so there it is!its done in watercolor, and enhanced in photoshop.
February 08, 2008
...gotta love it.so yesterday was a really really productive day, i worked on the book, digitally inking 10 pages and then continued to work on the gambit commision, which is coming along great. everything was good until about 1:30 am when i looked out the window for the first time that day and realized it had been snowing, and snow in portland means you cant park ANYWHERE. so, sadly, but unsuprisingly my car got towed around 10pm yesterday, and i have to go picked it up today, which is going to cost me more than double what i got for the gambit piece.... awesommmmmeeeee.
i should leave the house more.
February 08, 2008
just posted up page 140 all digitally inked. check it out, first thumbnail.February 07, 2008
NATHAN THE CAVEMAN - i can almost see it....
the light, at the end of the tunnel.i did some counting last night. i have 75 more pages to digitally ink, which isnt that bad at all. i recounted all the pages of my book as well, and through the editing process its been reduced from 276 to 273, but its still huge, those were just 3 DUMB pages i guess. obsolete!
so 75 pages, if i do 9 a day...(foghorn) ill be done the inking by next saturday. lets hope for that. i still have to letter the entire thing, and paint the cover. but lets not think about that yet. it MUST be sent to XERIC ( www.xericfoundation.com ) by march 31...i can do that. i have to. they DO accept works in progress, but i dont want to do that. i want them to have the whole thing.
-also the plan is to start preorders around march 5th or so, and shipped in early april, so keep checking in, to be one of the first owners of this thing. the way it will work is ill send them out to you personally signed and with a sketch somewhere on the inside cover. maybe some other fun stuff, haha. we will see... anyway, back to work. 9 pages a day. 9 pages a day.
watch ben10.
listen to mayday parade.
eat cliff bars
drink less coffee
hunt and kill william donahoe
February 07, 2008
not today anyway, most likely tomorrow, i just received a comission for a GAMBIT piece, hes the guy from xmen....throws the cards. you know. anyway, im gonna hopefully have that done and posted up here tomorrow sometime after i get out of work. if you have someone or something you want me to draw for you, let me know....ive been really just working on finishing up the digitally inked pages of NATHAN THE CAVEMAN to make sure its ready for march. so be looking for that.February 04, 2008
new painting up!http://bishart.net/image.php?id=76
this i used pencil, watercolors, crayola crayons and my very own handwriting font i made. i hope you like it.
February 03, 2008
just posted up the first and final (if that makes sense) page of a 3 page sample i completed. the link is this. http://bishart.net/image.php?id=74check it outtttt.
and go see cloverfield, and pay attention.
February 02, 2008
Ben Bishop is BISHART. He is 24 and living in
Portland, ME. He recently self-published his graphic novel, Nathan the Caveman.
He drinks endless cups of black coffee out of a darth vader mug. He draws comics, designs toys, and illustrates for freelance and commision.
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