Watching Days Become Years #3 by Jeff LeVine
"When I sit down at my drawing table, scratch that because I don't really have a drawing table anymore...actually most of these comics were drawn on the fly, on the road, wherever I happened to be - sitting in a cafe, on a street corner, on the sidewalk, in a park - wherever. The goal is to capture that elusive something, possibly a little bit of the truth, through the wonderfulness of words combined with pictures i.e. comic books. At the same time the goal is to try to create something new, to find a new angle, a new approach - to challenge myself and hopefully the future reader.
"In the third issue of Watching Days Become Years the comics were drawn in California, between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The focus (as always?) is on the passage of time, on family, friends, books, music, movies, beaches, airplanes, boats, love and hate. The artwork is loose, immediate and lively, drawn in the nice, grey, pen and ink wash I've been working in forthe last few years. Hopefully it's also a comic book that will provide some laughs."
The first two issues of Watching Days Become Years are also available from Sparkplug.
"Watching Days Become Years seems to be sort of the ethos, as well as the title, of the book, as LeVine shows how the many mundane daily events add up to become our lives in retrospect."
"In Watching Days Become Years, Levine has struck his own unique vein in the mine first discovered by Harvey Pekar in American Splendor: namely, the interior life of the average guy with a regular job, the guy at the bar, the guy on the bus, the guy at home watching TV. It’s about trying to uncover beauty amidst the bland and even the ugly; it’s about trying to locate the eternal in the quotidian; and finally, it’s about striving to forge a personal style in and through which to represent the little epiphanies that are always there, and need only be looked for and then seized to bring a brief brightness of joy to illuminate what might otherwise be dark, dull and drab days."
Bill Bowser - Copacetic Comics
$5.00 including postage (40 interior pgs, 6.75" x 9.75", black & white)
To read a sample from the book click on the cover or here, please.