In 2025, I took a class in comic book making on the ELVTR on-line learning platform. My teacher was the insightful, informative, and accessible artist Tom Feister. An Eisner Award winner, Tom took the class through the comic book making hats of penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, and even editor. Professionals of each of these roles guest lectured our class. Tom is a compelling composer of splash pages and sequential art. Using class instruction, critiques ,and studying the drawings of guidepost artists such as Steve Rude and Andrew Loomis, I am endeavoring to produce a comic book of the play.
My art-making process is traditional . First pencil drawing , then ink, erase remaining pencil, and finish with watercolor. ZIG brand white-out paint used for corrections. Pages are usually 10 x 15 inch drawings on 11 x 17 inch Canson Comic Book Bristol paper.
The comic book contains one scene that is not in the play. That scene is where Jackson has a dream of he and his spouse, Lee Krasner together at a beach town.
Here is a cover page and that three page scene:
https://youtu.be/w2RyfzsTBVo?si=3Hq-iroI1WUUo_Bp
Filmed Nov. 21, 2023, Jo Farb Hernández Gallery, San José State University,San José,CA.
Director & Editor: James William Moore
Playwright & Paintings: Mark P. Fisher
CAST: Dr. Valerie Pusch - Natalie McBride, Mime Vaudie - Vaudie Bristow, Mime Laamie - Laamsha Young, The Police Man - Roston Johnson, The State Agent - Craig Sanborn, Jackson Pollock - Mark P. Fisher
Psychotherapy Office Set: Larisa Usich
I'm grateful to be included in the Fan Art section of the Get in the Game: Sports, Art, and Culture
exhibit at SFMOMA opening soon, and running through February 28, 2025. Thank you, SFMOMA!
The exhibit is in the Steps Coffee space on the second floor of the museum.
