Neither Abstract nor Comics. Discuss

Andrei Molotieu very kindly decided to include my work in an anthology of abstract comics (called…Abstract Comics) that should be coming out this summer from Fantagraphics. There’s a blog up with more information here.

Anyway, folks are posting art and such up on that blog. I’m cross-posting mine below:
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This is something of a collaborative piece. I drew directly on some photocopied conceptual illustrations done by my good friend Bert Stabler for a video project The Intangible Under Umbra. (Scroll down and you can see an excerpt; I did the voice for the talking brain plant thing.) The drawing itself is based on one of Bert’s surreal Peanuts pastiches (this one, in fact.)

Anyway, a lot of explanation for a fairly small drawing. Here ’tis.

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  1. I think that’s quite good. Not to be indelicate, but how much did tracing influence the outcome?