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Nice, reminds me of a sketchcrawl an artist did where they walked around the town they lived in with a friend and stopped for half an hour in each spot to stretch wherever they were and exchanged sketches.
naturally, i can find neither the artist or said sketchcrawl.
i thought it may have been craig thompson, but no dice.
IIRC Craig, and people like Lucie Knisley & Natalie Nourigat have at least done cool travelogue sketchbooks, but I like your original idea just as much.
oh cool, i love travelogues.
you must have read habibi?
Ill save yourb content so I can look into nourigat and knisley.
I also love daily journal comics or autobio comics, i started with The Journal Comic by Drew Weing, do you have any journal comics you recommend?
Argh, a long time ago. I really need a proper re-read.
I've only read his first one, Set to Sea. So, what would his journal comic be called, then?
Guy Delisle often works in a 'journal-ish' style, and I found Shenzen & Pyongyang the best of those. James Kochalka is pretty hilarious and playful, and IIRC "American Elf" was quite nice. Manu Larcenet's "Ordinary Victories" was very good, and almost-kinda fits in there. Rabagliatti's "Paul has a summer job" and Vera Brosgol's "Be Prepared."
Sorry, I'm kinda blanking on the 100% pure 'journal' stuff, but maybe something else will come to me.
I'm in the same spot with habibi. beautiful, alluring, have read it once a decade ago, haha.
Weing's was either plainly called The Journal Comic or Journal Comic, but unfortunately he took down the archive some years back and i don't think it's been seen again.
i actually archived the entire thing but the drive died, sadly, and i lost aaaaa lot of arvhived favorites that way.
he hasn't responded to my queries about it, although i haven't tried in years, maybe he's nostalgic now, it was his first work in know about, many years before set to sea, documenting hai time as a fresh young adult and led right up to the point he met his wife Eleanor.
I love all things Brosgol since "I Wish" in the Flight collection, i might still have Be Prepared tucked beside Jellaby in a box somewhere.
I got into American Elf also but don't know the other names and will have to do a dive, I'm very interested in East Asian travels so Shenzhen and Pyongyang are calling my name.
Saved this comment for when i can dig in, thanks!
Hey, I think we're in luck with Weing's old journal! I double-checked various archive dates, and it appears the entire run had been finished and archived by 2004-2005 at least. So for example:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050403162830/http://www.drewweing.com/journalcomic/
EDIT: Hmm, some comics are missing here and there from that archive date. Possibly accessing an earlier or later archive date could be used to fill those in.
ah great idea!
i might make this my first reread then, haha, i read it annually back in the day.
fantastic!