I won’t lie: I forgot to make this shirt until right before I was going to bed. But at least it wasn’t late!
This was my contribution to the 2017 Moebius Time art project, combining Adventure Time and Moebius. This drawing is based on my favourite Moebius cover for “L’Homme Est-Il Bon?”
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Last year I participated in an online art project called Moebius Time, created by Bryce Martin. The idea was to combine elements from the cartoon series Adventure Time with the famed French comic artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.
I contributed a drawing called Finn Est-Il Bon? based on my favourite Moebius drawing, a cover illustration of his short story L’Homme Est-Il Bon? (I even traced his original hand lettered title and rearranged and changed the letters to make the Finn part.)
I first saw this cover on an 1980s English edition of his work called Moebius 4: The Long Tomorrow, reprinted by Epic/Marvel Comics, and it had an absolutely profound effect on me.
This particular cover got me hooked on Moebius in the early 2000s. I had only been vaguely familiar with his work prior to that, most notably his famous Arzach story. Around that time I was reading a lot of European science fiction comics, and I got addicted to Moebius’ unparalleled work.
I take a lot of inspiration from different artists, most notably Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd), Carl Barks (Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge) and Herge (Tintin), but my main and most apparent influence is Moebius.
Now I’m certainly not claiming I draw anywhere near as well as Moebius, but what I am saying is that he’s the one I steal from the most. Not stealing as in copying or tracing, but more like subscribing to his artistic school of thought.
I have a stack of books by my drawing table to see how artists like Moebius draw things that I simply don’t know how to draw. Sure, drawing a building sounds easy, but what about putting in all the details for a futuristic building? Or how about just drawing fire with smoke so it doesn’t look like an eight year old drew it? Not so easy I tell you.
Drawing influence and studying a master like him has taught me a lot, and while that only goes so far, right now I just want to draw in that style. I believe that Moebius has a become a genre, and it is the genre I want to work in because it appeals to me the most.
-Love Nick.
Man, this “remember to make new shirts every month” thing is hard. I definitely blew my self imposed deadline for this shirt by about three days, but I eventually remembered!
Anyway, I always preferred this comic in black and white. I wasn’t thrilled with my colours on it, and it kind of muted the fact that I tried to put as many lines on this drawing as possible. I think I wrecked a brush pen with this one page. Don’t let that brush pen’s sacrifice have been for nothing: you can get this new design in a wide variety of colors on different types of merchandise!
You can buy this rad new shirt and others HERE at my online store!
A couple of years ago, my friend Nathan had a very serious workplace accident. He’s fine now, but at the time he was rushed to the hospital, and even elected to have a pretty significant surgery to hopefully prevent any future health problems.
It was a really scary moment, because until then (and luckily not since then) I had never received a phone call like that. Where you suddenly find out terrible news about someone you care about. Information was scarce at first, and thankfully we quickly learned he was okay, but in that time in between all I could think about was how I had just seen him the day before, and just like that without any warning something awful had happened. It was surreal.
Anyway, apparently while he was in the hospital absolutely out of his mind on pain killers, he came to, looked at our friend Randy and said something along the lines of “I want one of Nick’s new shirts. The white one. In large.” That was it. He then just kind of nodded off again. I was pretty flattered to be honest.
So naturally I got him one.
He’s pictured here, wearing another one of my shirts he bought for himself as well. Hell of a guy.
-Love Nick
Okay! One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to get off my lazy arse and make more shirts! Here goes month #1! You can get this new design in a wide variety of colors on different types of merchandise!
You can buy this rad new shirt and others HERE at my online store!
-Love Nick
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