Polished Scrawl :: A production journal by James LeMosy

This past Thursday evening, Sara and I had a great opportunity to go hear a lecture at ISU in Ames by comics guru Scott McCloud. I read Scott’s book, Understanding Comics, during high school and later it was required reading in my sequential art classes at SCAD. The lecture incorporated some of the ideas I [...]

It’s obviously taken me a bit longer to write an update here than I had anticipated. The last time I posted, I mused about my ability to devote some kind of regular schedule to this project of mine. That notion was immediately put on the backburner by preparations for (and execution of) moving in with [...]

The past month has been a busy one. Between working late, cleaning up after the second-wettest summer in Iowa history, weddings, birthdays and a well-deserved Labor Day vacation, I haven’t had much extra time over the last 34 days to spend working on Drendel. Which has brought up a very important question: how do I [...]

Two of my earliest artistic influences were Garfield and Looney Tunes, so when I was eight and was tasked with creating a character, I produced something of a combination of those two influences: Daffy Duck as filtered through Jim Davis’ style as interpreted by an eight-year-old’s drawing ability. The end result was Drendel. “Drendel Duck [...]

When I was eight years old, I got an assignment at school: create a character, then write and illustrate a story about them. My story was about Drendel, a cartoon duck who had a heck of a time dodging hunters, speeding traffic and angry bears while trying to get to a skating rink. As time [...]