Some People...

October 31, 2009 11:52 AM

"Some People" is a comic about perspective, misunderstanding, and people. The artist writes a lot of interesting comics.
posted by Taft (22 comments total)

That's really cool, thanks Taft.
posted by doctor_negative at 11:56 AM on October 31, 2009

These are great. Is it wrong to hope he gets picked up by a (viable) newspaper chain and gets rich and successful from his art?
posted by bearwife at 12:01 PM on October 31, 2009

I liked this.
posted by The Whelk at 12:07 PM on October 31, 2009

where oh where have I seen it before? *scratcheshead*
posted by infini at 12:11 PM on October 31, 2009

bearwife :These are great. Is it wrong to hope he gets picked up by a (viable) newspaper chain and gets rich and successful from his art?

Well, other than newspapers as a dying, inherently-nonviable-medium-in-the-digital-age... ;)

Yeah, pretty cool work. I don't know how well the format would work for traditional print, though. Perhaps if you broke that into 3- and 4-panel chunks, it would work as a whole month's story arc. Something like that.

Hmm, but then a good number of them would pretty much suck, because it only really "works" as a larger whole.

Dunno, but yeah, I'd like to see more from him.
posted by pla at 12:19 PM on October 31, 2009

Woah, that first one was actually pretty awesome. It feels a bit like Chris Ware, in terms of art style, but less "artsy to the point of confusing nonsense" and more actual cleverness. I'm gonna read all his stuff now.
posted by Askiba at 12:20 PM on October 31, 2009

but less "artsy to the point of confusing nonsense"

A lot of his other stuff is much more confusing.

Although this one is just hilarious
posted by delmoi at 12:37 PM on October 31, 2009

Um, I think the comic doesn't work. Character is one generation younger at the end then at the beginning.
posted by leotrotsky at 12:41 PM on October 31, 2009

This is great.
posted by nola at 12:42 PM on October 31, 2009

Wow. That was pretty amazing. Thanks for posting this.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 12:49 PM on October 31, 2009

Um, I think the comic doesn't work. Character is one generation younger at the end then at the beginning.

I don't think it matters, but I counted it and it seemed to work out fine.
posted by cyphill at 12:51 PM on October 31, 2009

this one I thought was kind of poignant.
posted by delmoi at 12:54 PM on October 31, 2009 [1 favorite]

this one I thought was kind of poignant.

Amazing.
posted by Taft at 1:03 PM on October 31, 2009

Nice stuff; thanks for posting it.
posted by languagehat at 1:06 PM on October 31, 2009

Pretty cool. I don't like that many comics/graphic novels but thought this actually used the format really well as a method of communication for my taste.
posted by Not Supplied at 1:17 PM on October 31, 2009

That was pretty great, thanks for posting it.
posted by flatluigi at 2:44 PM on October 31, 2009

I love this. The balance of art and text is just perfect.
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 5:28 PM on October 31, 2009

I love it too! What a talented guy, he deserves to blow up big.
posted by saturnine at 10:59 PM on October 31, 2009

Perfect.
posted by converge at 5:38 AM on November 1, 2009

I loved this comic until the end, and then I thought, "well, what was the point of that?" That what we do affects other people a little? That we're all "some people" to someone? Those are rather mundane messages for all that story....it just felt like a fable with no moral or something, a terrific storytelling technique, very well executed, that wasn't telling much of a story other than, hey look how random people crossed paths and sort of thought the same thing at different points in time.
posted by LooseFilter at 7:12 AM on November 1, 2009

And that's not enough?
posted by archagon at 12:43 AM on November 2, 2009

And that's not enough?

Enough of what? Enough for my personal satisfaction with the piece? Clearly not, hence my comment.
posted by LooseFilter at 6:33 AM on November 2, 2009