Whew! After an intense couple of weeks of non-stop drawing, I’m back online and ready for some updates. To start, let’s get some god damn diary comics up! I’ve been trying to get these things posted every Tuesday. Technically, it is still Tuesday as I write this, so we’re still on schedule.
I was sick with the CCS Plague 2010 a couple of weeks ago, though I didn’t have it as bad as some. The worst part about it was realizing that standard Canadian remedies aren’t necessarily sitting on the shelf at the local corner store.
For my American friends who may be unfamiliar with Buckley’s Mixture. It’s a cough syrup that has been marketed with the slogan “It tastes awful, and it works” since the 1970s. It tastes a little like pine needles, mint, and gasoline, but it’s really not as bad as it sounds. And it really works. Oh how it works. It scares a cough away. I think you can actually get it in the States, but only at certain drug stores.
Just saying, if anyone is looking for a Christmas present for me…
Most of the time, I don’t think of my teenage years much. For the most part, I wasn’t a particularly exciting teenager. I went to school, and then went home and played video games and drew pictures. That was it.
But every time I find myself in a mountain forest, I suddenly have a jolt of memories.
This ain’t your grandkid’s Facebook. The Center for Cartoon Studies Facebook is one of the first major projects undertaken by new students each year. The idea is simple: everyone creates a bio that can be reproduced on a photocopier, and a self-portrait in the form of a screen print. Then everything is bound together to make a book of memories and friendship that students will cherish into old age when they are impoverished and alone from a lifetime of underappreciated cartooning.
I volunteered to be on the design team, along with Bill Bedard, Melanie Gillman, Sean Knickerbocker, and Katie Moody. After much nerdy discussion, we decided to work with an arcade fighting game theme for this year’s Facebook. So, Street Fighter II is what I’m trying to say, I guess.
I may be attending the most funnest school evar, but that doesn’t mean that the homework doesn’t get overwhelming sometimes.
A couple of weekends ago, I was swamped with work and only had time to eat, sleep and draw. When things get this busy, it’s important to take a break from all that work to keep from going crazy. So I did the only thing that made sense at the time: worked on a cover for Planet S.
The editor was putting together a feature on the dangers of energy drinks, and wanted a cover that was in the visual spirit of Rat Fink and Kustom Kulture. I’ve never tried to imitate that style before, and I’m being totally earnest when I say it was a fun way to spend a Saturday night!
Oh cross-hatching, let’s never fight again.