Daniel Lafrance

The Slow Shrug of Stones

I found this old comic I did in 2007. It’s just in pencils, never finished it properly. I wanted to do it in watercolors but I never got good enough with that technique. I’m posting it anyway now because I really like the story. It’s an adaptation from a story by Caleb Monroe.

Next Graphic Novel

For reasons that would be too long to explain here, I am not going to do the WW1 story that I talked about earlier as my next book. But there’s another story that I’m really excited about doing as my next graphic novel. The publisher is on board, but I won’t make anything official until I sign the contract.

Here’s two studies for that one. I’m thinking no colors, just black and white with washes.

Children book idea

Thinking of re-visiting this old idea Nadia and I were developing.

Toons On Tap session

My first time at this costumed gesture drawing sessions. I really liked it and I hope to be able to go to their next session. The theme this week was film noir. If you are an artist in Toronto, you should check out Toons On Tap.

These were 10 minutes poses.

Next Graphic Novel

Thinking about my next Graphic Novel…One of my first choice is a story taking place during WWI. I did this sketch to play around with how I would draw a battle scene.

War Brothers now in stores

Some reviews

“In this graphic novel version of War Brothers, artist Daniel Lafrance captures the terror, poignancy, and hope expressed in the text. In the best tradition of the graphic novel, this one brings an immediacy and power to a story that will sear itself into the mind of every reader.”

“This graphic novel (…) is one of those special books that act like a punch-in-the-stomach when it comes to the story that they have to say(…)I’d highly recommend this exceptionally good graphic novel to simply everyone who gives a dime about the world around him.”

“Switching from white to black borders between his panels during the time of captivity to intensify the atmosphere of terror, Lafrance puts shadows or at least a little visual distance between viewers and violent acts. Wrenchingly, though, he ramps up the immediacy and emotional intensity by cutting again and again to the wide-eyed, tear-stained faces of children forced to do or to witness those acts(…)Powerful storytelling(…)”

Blogging again

I’ve decided to do the blogging thing again, it’s been awhile. I kept a working blog for War Brothers while I was working on the book, but I need this space again to share new sketches and new story ideas. So here we go again!

My Haiti story

Here’s a preview of a story I’m trying to do…it’s a difficult one…it’s about a difficult experience during my week in Haiti…

New project

A writer who wrote a book with child soldiers as subject has contacted me to see if I was interested in illustrating the book in graphic novel form. There’s an editor interested. So we are going to do a proposal and submit that and see what happens. Here’s a study for this project.