Tell me about your comic creation process and how you've refined it over time. GC: False Knees seems to blend black line art with a mix of traditional watercolors and some digital flat color. I don't want them to become pants-wearing, humanoid hybrids.Ī post shared by False Knees on at 11:41am PDT I want the animals of False Knees to stay as animal as they can (while speaking English). I don't think there has to be a compromise between style and content. JB: It's just the way it comes out, I guess! I really believe that comics are a phenomenal visual art form and it strikes me as such an opportunity to produce something visually appealing.
How did you arrive at this stylistic juxtaposition? GC: False Knees contrasts accurate drawings with cartoony situations. I grew up in the countryside and I love camping and traveling to see forests in other parts of the world. Most of my adult jobs have involved trees either planting, pruning, or removing them. In hyporeality, which occurs in my head, I am in a dense forest lying face-down in a heap of moss. Are you an outdoorsy kind of person? What's your connection to nature? GC: Much of False Knees is rooted in the natural world. People have been so supportive of False Knees right from the beginning and I am not ready to let any of them down.Ī post shared by False Knees on at 3:17pm PDT Also, peer pressure is a great motivator. I'm rarely totally satisfied in my comics, but I think I'm headed in a good direction. Though it is encouraging for me to look back and see how some things have improved. The first few comics took far longer to make than I will ever admit and are objectively pretty awful to look at now. I had never done a comic before–other than tracing Calvin and Hobbes as a child–so I had no idea what I was doing. Joshua Barkman: A friend of mine was working for a student-run newspaper and told me they were doing a call for submissions. What inspired you to create the comic and what's kept you going all this time? GoComics: You've been drawing False Knees for just about six years. How does Barkman strike just the right balance of realism and absurdism to delight readers? We got in touch to find out. It's a style that stands in brilliant contrast to their personified dialogue, which frequently shows that the critters we share our space with have just as much - and often, as little - on their minds as we do. Unlike the stars of some of our more anthropomorphic catalog, however, Barkman's beasts are decidedly more scientifically illustrated.
The comic's birds, raccoons, and other hybrid country/city creatures are a welcome addition to a site that's already home to a host of cartoon cats and dogs. Canadian cartoonist Joshua Barkman's False Knees came to GoComics earlier this month, bringing a veritable ark of animals along with it.
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