Thanks to Joseph Young (and Adam Robinson) for featuring me over at Everyday Genius – my comic “The Moon Gets Closer” was actually featured yesterday. I love big color one-pagers – I’ve spent a lot of time with So Many Splendid Sundays, over the past year (if you haven’t seen it, it’s a collection of Winsor McCay‘s Little Nemo strips printed at full size for the first time since they were originally published in the broadsheet newspapers; it goddam HUGE). I’ve also been studying Frank King’s Gasoline Alley layouts. And of all the great work in Mome over these past few years, the comics that have really blindsided and impressed me most are the strange and beautiful pieces by Conor O’Keefe. O’Keefe is primarily a landscape painter but he has certainly learned some valuable lessons from McCay, and created something incredibly new. These works were some of the stuff that was going through my head when I drew this comic. This is my first attempt at a color one-pager – I hope to do some more.

Today Joe is featuring another tale of the moon falling by Shellie Zacharia, whose work is new to me. This is a really good story. And, like my comic, it features the words “Such darkness.” It’s complete coincidence that Shellie and I gave these pieces to Joe when he asked us for something, but he said that once he got them, he had to feature them on consecutive days.

p.s. Joe’s book Easter Rabbit just hit the newsstands. His way of telling stories is very new. Go get it.