BBB's Blog
If you've ever wondered what it's like to run a magazine or how crazy my personal life is, be sure to read the behind-the-scenes peek at the daily trials and tribulations of running True West. Culled straight from my Franklin Daytimer, it contains actual journal entries, laid out raw and uncensored. Some of it is enlightening. Much of it is embarrassing, but all of it is painfully true.
In addition to this current journal, my early journal entries show the rocky road and money lost in the True West Business Timeline.
Bob's biography - The Unvarnished Truth
August 18-19, 2007
Stayed home and worked all weekend on images for the graphic novel. Didn't even go up to the office, as I often do on weekends. Here's two pages I did on the plane ride home from Guatemala. The stewardess came by with drinks and cracked, "Hobby?" looking at the sketchbook on my lap with a sarcastic grin. I pointed at her drink cart and said, "Hobby?"
Actually, I wish I'd said that, but of course I thought of it after she left. What I actually said was, "No, it's an obsession." The hobby comment really got my goat, though.
I was quite impacted and influenced by all of the textile colors I saw in Guatemala, as is witnessed by these sketch pages I did when I got home and had access to some colored gouache paint (below):
Had a good phone conversation with Paul Hutton on Saturday and he suggested more of a Honkytonk Sue look as a possibility for Mickey Free. As you may have noticed, I went through a color phase on Sue (in True West magazine), then went back to the black and white because it's cleaner and stronger. Shifted gears, on Saturday, and decided to aim for a cleaner black and white look. Hard to do. I'm so used to cross hatching and shading:
I hate it that I'm still failing so much on these images. I wonder what Annie has to say about this?
"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose—not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
—Annie Sullivan
Bob Boze 9:28 AM
Stayed home and worked all weekend on images for the graphic novel. Didn't even go up to the office, as I often do on weekends. Here's two pages I did on the plane ride home from Guatemala. The stewardess came by with drinks and cracked, "Hobby?" looking at the sketchbook on my lap with a sarcastic grin. I pointed at her drink cart and said, "Hobby?"
Actually, I wish I'd said that, but of course I thought of it after she left. What I actually said was, "No, it's an obsession." The hobby comment really got my goat, though.
I was quite impacted and influenced by all of the textile colors I saw in Guatemala, as is witnessed by these sketch pages I did when I got home and had access to some colored gouache paint (below):
Had a good phone conversation with Paul Hutton on Saturday and he suggested more of a Honkytonk Sue look as a possibility for Mickey Free. As you may have noticed, I went through a color phase on Sue (in True West magazine), then went back to the black and white because it's cleaner and stronger. Shifted gears, on Saturday, and decided to aim for a cleaner black and white look. Hard to do. I'm so used to cross hatching and shading:
I hate it that I'm still failing so much on these images. I wonder what Annie has to say about this?
"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose—not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
—Annie Sullivan
Bob Boze 9:28 AM
