“Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.” — Goethe Here is a micro-peek. Final art is nearly complete for Potato Nose: Narratio Retrógrada. Next stop: scanning, printing, and finally mailing copies to the Kickstarter backers! Potato Nose: Narratio Retrógrada is a 24-page, self-published, midi-size comic with a…
Tag: creative non-fiction
Kill your darlings: a sampling of pieces that didn’t make it into my graphic novel
My graphic novel, Salt Green Death (Conundrum Press), is a work of creative nonfiction born out of historical research – a Vancouver-based family saga spanning mainly 1924 to 1968. Salt Green Death, Katarina Thorsen, Conundrum Press 2025 (Video and music by Julian Bowers) Salt Green Death contains 165 hand-drawn pages. Of course, there is a…
Process: the Afterword page
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“What do we know?” Drawing conclusions from the facts. #graphicnovel
My graphic novel is more of an illustrated thesis rather than pure graphic novel. My words are based in fact. The drawings are where I can take a leap of faith- a surrealistic interpretation. It is creative non-fiction. I literally DRAW conclusions based on the evidence at hand. That is my artistic take on it. But the story…