The Vertigo Comics blog has an article about Fogtown.
The Miami Herald reviewed Fogtown. They say that my art is “the perfect evocation of the story.”
A review of Fogtown in the Edge New York blog. They really liked it – “It transcends the comic book art form.” Hey!
FOGTOWN reviewed at The Shelf Life blog
Fogtown reviewed at TheOuthousers.com
A review of Fogtown in the Comic Book Resources blog: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/08/chain-reactions-fogtown/
This is part of the last batch of pages
that I penciled in the 9″ x 6″ format.
There’s a review of Fogtown in Frontiers now.
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Fogtown pages 70-71
This page is an example of my design strategy for the book. I established a fairly rigorous rectangular grid for the panel layout, with either two or three tiers per page, adhering to this for the most part. This produces a fairly even, metronomic baseline, which can be easily broken for heightened dramatic effect. For this near-rape sequence, I varied the panel shapes to slashing diagonals increasing in length during the four-page sequence, creating a feeling of descent.
Other examples are the meeting of Frank and Eliza Gray on pages 25-28 by using horizontal panels with each character on opposite sides of the composition, separated by their word balloons. Then followed immediately pages 29-31 where Frank threatened by Greg in Jack Kerouac Alley shown by narrow vertical panels giving a staccato, knife-like feel.
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Fogtown pages 64-65
Page 64 introduces Colonel Thorpe, the main villain of the piece, partners in crime with Madam Tse. He is a pretend civic-reformer, bully-pulpit-wielder. He is based on Karl Rove. One of Andersen’s main themes in “Fogtown” was to show that all the characters wore masks, were liars on many levels. Sadly, that aspect had to be given short shrift as the novel was repurposed to fit in the Vertigo Crime format.
