Craig Thompson has posted samples of a pre-Chunky Rice artwork and talks about his projects that never made it. It’s a story about Elliot Chicken.
Craig writes:
My advice to young cartoonists is that the biggest and most important challenge is simply seeing a project to completion. I’d draw ten pages of a story, get bored or distracted, then dump ‘em in the drainage ditch, leaving a wake of unfinished books — until finally sticking with CHUNKY RICE. Below is one of my little rejected children – Elliot Chicken – and two projects left in purgatory.