Sketches from Spain...

Recently assembled sketches, done in a Miles state of mind...


















Hang in there, friends...
Lance Tooks

A work in progress...

...is life. Here's a glimpse of 3 tales to come...



Lance Tooks

Strange days indeed...

Hard at work on ANANSI'S DREAMBOOK, on various book proposals, and in a case of stranger than fiction, acting in a couple of TV spots for Spain's Turner Classic Movies. I play a preacher (which should make my mother awfully proud) and a rapper (well, maybe a bit less)... they shot me in front of a green chromakey screen, I'll let you be the judge as to how things turned out (Chamillionaire needn't lose sleep).

Here's a couple more bar sketches from Fin Del Mundo...


Had a great time in Granada at the Salon de Comics, my eleventh year in attendance.


Happy birthday, Seanie!
Lance Tooks

Fin del Mundo...

...is the name of the Madrid bar I visit one night a week to sketch unmolested. Here's a couple of drawings done over beer and olives. Still hard at work on ANANSI'S DREAMBOOK and another dream project, to be discussed at a later date.





Happy '09!
Lance Tooks

2008 drawn to a close...

...and have quite a bit of published work to show for it (see previous entries), other work hanging in various American galleries, started renting a work station in an architectural studio, acted in a film (of all things) and even managed a bit of voiceover work. Much of this was unplanned, so who knows where we'll be this time next year... hopefully out of debt!

I created this avatar for my friend Abha’s travel blog…

My book NARCISSA had the recent honor of being subject of a comparative lit thesis by a professor at Dartmouth College...

I attended the 2008 Madrid Expocomic salon and had dinner with good friend and fellow invitee Miriam Katin...

The Secular Culture & Ideas section of JBooks.com featured an audio conversation between Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle, and they ran an advertisement for the issue in the New York Times Book Review using my caricature of Harvey from THE BEATS Graphic Novel...

And I rambled on in English and Spanish on various websites and television interviews about the election, my doubts thus far unfounded, thank goodness...

If I don't see you, have a great new year!
Lance Tooks

Anansi's Dreambook...

Select images from the current NBM Graphic Novel Project, written and illustrated by Lance Tooks. (click image to enlarge)









Takin' it one panel at a time,
Lance Tooks

"Too many words..."

...he said, acknowledging respectfully his critics' most familiar complaint.
Here are some Lance Tooks press clippings from over the years, most unseen before on the web, beginning with an image from American Cinematographer Magazine, 1989... an animated Chex commercial fully painted in the style of Norman Rockwell...

New York Newsday, 1997 and the 20th anniversary of Star Wars commemorated with Tooks illustrations on bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Mountain Dew...

New York's Amsterdam News, 2003 and a few words about the Doubleday/Random House graphic novel NARCISSA...


Black Ink, Doubleday's retailer mag devoted to African American fiction, 2002...


A typical rave from the Comics Journal, 2003...

Ideal, Spain... 2004 and the Spanish language edition of NARCISSA...

A word about the 2006 "Sistuhs on Narcissa" roundtable discussion @ the Chicago Black Age of Comics Convention (The next one's in October 2008, and I'll be at the 2009 convention)

Last year at the Madrid Salon de Comics, noted in the newspaper ABC...

Thanks to all for helping spread the word about my work!
Lance Tooks