More progress on Mimes of Palopan project. Three pages completed 6/19-27/2026. 

Progress on the Comic Book Version of "The Mimes of Palopan"

 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:

The Gas Series and The 'Pataphysical Triptych by Mark P. Fisher at The Crown, Royal Coffee Inc. Laboratory and Tasting Room Feb-March, 2025

  LINK TO. FRIDAY, MARCH 7 RECEPTION EVENT:

 https://events.royalcoffee.com/EventFirstFridayArtReception-MarkPFisher#/

Theater Props and Paintings from the Play "The Mimes of Palopan" at Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Feb 17-21, 2025

 

Herbert Sanders SJSU 2025-36 

Herbert Sanders

Herbert Sand

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SJSU 2025-18 

"The Mimes of Palopan: A 10 Mnute Play" MOVIE directed by James W. Moore Released Today

Here is the YouTube link:

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

Mark P. Fisher Portraits on Baseballs at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 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. 

Here are the three baseballs exhibited there. They are Oil paint on an acrylic gesso ground onNational League Baseball. The three individuals portrayed are: Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Kevin Mitchell, and Willie Mays.

 The Gas Series - 12 Paintings- Painted in 2024

by Mark Porter Fisher