RevolveR reviewed on popimage.com
Cool beens, Jonathan Ellis over at PopImage.com did a write up on my book RevolveR in his 02/23/05: UPFRONT: Playing Catch Up post, here's the bit about the book....
RevolveR
By Salgood Sam
Revolver is like a graphic novel journal featuring various projects and pieces by extraordinary artist Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas. This first volume contains excerpts of projects like Pin City and The Rise And Fall Of It All alongside other shorts, poems and sketches.
Sam is without a doubt one of the most talented artists in the field today. Whenever you come across a piece by Sam you're sure to feast on a visual treat, a true work of pure art. One of the details about Sam's work that stands out [aside from his strong eye for detail itself that is] is his strong sense of layout. Many people tend to accept comics storytelling as being panels and gutters but a curve here and a broken barrier there creates an eccentric fluidity that allows the story to flow, and not only is it natural but just absolutely lovely to look at. There's a palpable sense of effort and thought engrained into each smudge of lead and stroke of ink.
Sam experiments in a multitude of mediums and stylistic choices that I am continuously amazed by his ability and can only look forward to more of his work.
Will Eisner was in Toronto last year and he said to Sam "It's [creators] like you who'll keep this business going" and I can only hope we'll see more creators like Max Douglas aka Salgood Sam.
Nice! thanks for the good words Jonathan. I had met Eisner briefly only a few times over the years, always at conventions like the last time. In the past I had shown him my portfolio hoping for some advice from the master, and had gotten some, but he seemed to say mostly stuff like you got the right idea, and give me largely small pointers about details and layout “don’t forget to use some mid to long shots here, balance things out a bit”. Oddly enough i was kind of disapointed he didnt find more to coment on!
Don’t think he remembered me personally from any of these occasions, and though I would have liked more intensive critical feed back from him, I was always vary flattered at the way he responded to the work and happy to take what I got –it being most positive and supportive.
This last time, last summer, he was swamped by so many people all day, both days he was at the con, signing hundreds and hundreds of copies of his books. He looked good, but he was looking his age. I didn’t get him to sign my copies of is work, didn’t have any with me on the trip and I was pretty busy with my own table and failed to think to drop by to show him what I’ve been up to and see if he had any thoughts till late on in the last day there. Not sure if he would have even, I was told by one person in passing that he wasn’t looking at portfolios.
But i though maybe after having people want stuff from him all day it would be nice to give him something to take from the con, a gift. His work has been a huge influence on my own, the art in RevolveR ows a great deal to ideas I saw in Eisner's storytelling and sense of design. So just before the end of the last day I approached him to give him a copy before he left. He was his charming and ever sweet self, always struck me as very sincere. He seemed genuinely pleased with the gift even without looking at it, was passing it to a assistnat for safe keeping but then stopped short to look inside. I was very humbled by his words then, mostly because I don’t know that I live up to them yet. But now, especially in the context of Eisner's recent passing, I’m determined to have fun trying.
Book 2 of RevolveR is in the works, though slowed down a bit while i have to do some $ oriented work, but i hope to have it done by late summer 05' - you can buy your copy of book one from this site here and help to fund the continued efforts to expand and develop sequential art.
RevolveR
By Salgood Sam
Revolver is like a graphic novel journal featuring various projects and pieces by extraordinary artist Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas. This first volume contains excerpts of projects like Pin City and The Rise And Fall Of It All alongside other shorts, poems and sketches.
Sam is without a doubt one of the most talented artists in the field today. Whenever you come across a piece by Sam you're sure to feast on a visual treat, a true work of pure art. One of the details about Sam's work that stands out [aside from his strong eye for detail itself that is] is his strong sense of layout. Many people tend to accept comics storytelling as being panels and gutters but a curve here and a broken barrier there creates an eccentric fluidity that allows the story to flow, and not only is it natural but just absolutely lovely to look at. There's a palpable sense of effort and thought engrained into each smudge of lead and stroke of ink.
Sam experiments in a multitude of mediums and stylistic choices that I am continuously amazed by his ability and can only look forward to more of his work.
Will Eisner was in Toronto last year and he said to Sam "It's [creators] like you who'll keep this business going" and I can only hope we'll see more creators like Max Douglas aka Salgood Sam.
Nice! thanks for the good words Jonathan. I had met Eisner briefly only a few times over the years, always at conventions like the last time. In the past I had shown him my portfolio hoping for some advice from the master, and had gotten some, but he seemed to say mostly stuff like you got the right idea, and give me largely small pointers about details and layout “don’t forget to use some mid to long shots here, balance things out a bit”. Oddly enough i was kind of disapointed he didnt find more to coment on!
Don’t think he remembered me personally from any of these occasions, and though I would have liked more intensive critical feed back from him, I was always vary flattered at the way he responded to the work and happy to take what I got –it being most positive and supportive.
This last time, last summer, he was swamped by so many people all day, both days he was at the con, signing hundreds and hundreds of copies of his books. He looked good, but he was looking his age. I didn’t get him to sign my copies of is work, didn’t have any with me on the trip and I was pretty busy with my own table and failed to think to drop by to show him what I’ve been up to and see if he had any thoughts till late on in the last day there. Not sure if he would have even, I was told by one person in passing that he wasn’t looking at portfolios.But i though maybe after having people want stuff from him all day it would be nice to give him something to take from the con, a gift. His work has been a huge influence on my own, the art in RevolveR ows a great deal to ideas I saw in Eisner's storytelling and sense of design. So just before the end of the last day I approached him to give him a copy before he left. He was his charming and ever sweet self, always struck me as very sincere. He seemed genuinely pleased with the gift even without looking at it, was passing it to a assistnat for safe keeping but then stopped short to look inside. I was very humbled by his words then, mostly because I don’t know that I live up to them yet. But now, especially in the context of Eisner's recent passing, I’m determined to have fun trying.
Book 2 of RevolveR is in the works, though slowed down a bit while i have to do some $ oriented work, but i hope to have it done by late summer 05' - you can buy your copy of book one from this site here and help to fund the continued efforts to expand and develop sequential art.
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