Vibrant worlds patterned with inviting alien designs paint a backdrop for the swirly-eyed characters by Patrick Kyle. Patrick is an illustrator and cartoonist whose ideas fill his lively compositions full of energy and colour.
As he goes on to describe in more detail, Patrick’s process takes him through a range of techniques working by hand, digitally and, in the case of his comics, in print.
But throughout, he maintains the rawness and fun, rough edges of his drawings, blending them with the sleeker colours of the computer. Some of his pencil and charcoal lines look particularly good in his risograph printed comics.
‘New Comics’ is a series of collected short comics Kyle puts out twice a year. Describing the publication, he says, “my intention with this series is to experiment with diverse approaches to the medium and to create poignant, thought-provoking narratives”.
Kyle tells us more about his work and process below.
I am an artist, illustrator and cartoonist from Toronto, Canada. I work as a freelance illustrator by day and the rest of my time is dedicated to creating comics and other book-works.
I self publish between 4 and 6 titles a year— drawn, printed and assembled in my home studio. In April, I self-published the sixth issue of my series New Comics.
All of my drawing’s done with brush and ink and pilot pens. I utilize a lot of different rulers, french curves and other funny stencils.
I used to work entirely analog, but my recent illustration work is drawn by hand and then finished digitally. My self-published book works are printed using a Risograph RP6300 and an Risograph RP3105u.
Last September, my second graphic novel Distance Mover was released by Toronto-based Koyama Press.
© Patrick Kyle, 2015
