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Here's another new video from NML! This one explores how comic book artists use collaboration to strengthen their work. Does sharing work and process create inspiration or tension? frustration or collective intelligence? Check out what Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi, and Mickey Duzyj have to say on the matter.
(I wanted the video to kind of look like the pages of a comic book...but now that I'm looking at it again, I am wondering if I've virtually decapitated one of our favorite artists!? You be the judge...)
Great video, Anna!
I think that Dean's comment about his friendly competition with Nick, with regards to both page count and layouts, really gets at why creative communities thrive and (can) become more than a sum of their parts- When colleagues critique each other's work, they both have the ability to recognize nuances unique to their craft and can offer informed opinions on each of their new creative explorations. This cycle of exploration/recognition/appreciation tends to renew itself as time goes on, which only aids us artists, and our community as a whole, in broadening our horizons.