May you have peace and joy, a warm home, good friends and a chance to rest.

No ghoul posts today. Starting tomorrow I’ll be posting rough sketches for some of the interior illustrations of the book. Today I’m just hanging out with Nizzibet, eating, watching movies and probably working on some of those illustrations.

If you’re reading this in the USA, I hope you’re surrounded by as much family, friends and food as you want and enjoy. If you’re reading this elsewhere in the world hopefully you’ve got a pleasant day going, holiday or not.

Cheers y’all!

I won’t be posting on Saturday or Sunday. I’m going to be out of town and away from computers.

The inability to form more than a sentence per post continues.

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Little Nemo in Slumberland is one of the classic comic strips. It features some of the most amazing art ever published. Read on a weekly basis it was probably mind blowing. Read in a collected edition it can get a little dull. All kinds of amazing stuff happens to Nemo and his friends but it just happens. Most of the time it could be happening to anyone. Nemo is never really the agent of any of the action.

Two characters who do tend to stir things up are Flip (on the left) and Impy (on the right). Both characters are basically escapees from minstrel shows. In the original Impy is your basic racist caricature.

Little Nemo is the public domain. Has been for years. It often seems odd to me that no one has picked it up and continued it.

This is also the last page in this sketchbook.

Where the Hell is Matt? from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

The next few posts are of sketches I did recently at the day job. It’s not that things were slow. I just haven’t been able to draw much either at home or at work and I really really needed to. A lot of the time when I haven’t been drawing much I end up with pages of unfinished overlapping indistinct shapes; a riot of images that I can’t focus on enough to complete any particular one. Somehow these sketches resulted in complete images.

I just let myself draw whatever came to mind. In fact, I purposely avoided drawing anything I might have drawn before. I have no idea what this thing is.

This the illustration of George that went to the designer for vectoring.