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Here is the poster I made for the 2012 Canadian Improv Games Saskatchewan tournament.
This year I tried to come up with an image comprised of incongruent elements, like an improv scene. Throw together a couple of unrelated characters, a prop. Boom! Instant improv scene! I’m telling you, this story writes itself.
And it’s a real tearjerker.
Back to School
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There was a week or two before SPX when all I did was complain about how busy I was. My apologies for those around me who had to listen to my whining. I had taken on way too much work between illustration gigs, reprinting comics, and starting my second year at the Center for Cartoon Studies, not to mention spending time with visiting family members.
It was worth it though! Sure I may not have finished the weird little comic I wanted to sell at SPX, but I did get to do a lot of work for Prairie Dog and Planet S and their big Back to School special.
Canadian Improv Games Poster
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In my other life, I do improv. There’s a nation-wide high school tournament in Canada called the Canadian Improv Games. I played on my high school’s first team in 1998. Since then I’ve volunteered for the Games, doing everything from delivering workshops, to hosting and helping to run the tournaments in Regina in Montreal.
Since about 2001, I’ve done illustrations and/or designed the poster for the Regina tournament. Here’s the poster for this year’s tournament:
And of course, you can’t have a tournament without tickets!
The Improv Games are often referred to as a ‘loving competition.’ And if the 1980s taught us anything, it’s that love is best personified as a bear shooting laser beams out of its stomach.
I’m really sad to miss Regina’s tournament this year. This will be the first time since 1998 that I won’t be present at a Canadian Improv Games tournament. Hopefully I’ll still be able to feel the tummy lasers from across the border.
Planet S Gets Energetic
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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.
Don’t Feed the Ants
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Someone in the office asked me to make a sign reminding staff to keep the lid on the sugar and creamer.
After all, we wouldn’t want to attract … THEM!
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This parody image was done for Planet S magazine’s music issue.
Oh, honey honey.
Does anyone remember that Archie I comic where they’re all cavemen, and Betty & Veronica start naming everything? When they give Archie his name he sings, “I’m an Archie, you’re an Archie, everyone’s a starchy-Archie! Don’t you want to be an Archie too?”
I like the caveman one where they discover fruit better though. Those crazy cave kids. They thought fruit was for some kind of game until Jughead accidentally got a peeled banana right in the mouth.
Anyway, I always wondered why Reggie would ever a join The Archies band. I mean, they don’t call him “I-love-me-Mantle” for nothing.
Old Trout Puppet Workshop
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The Old Trout Puppet Workshop is performing The Tooth Fairy at Regina’s Globe Theatre, and I was lucky enough to get to do the related Prairie Dog cover illustration.
Old Trout brought Famous Puppet Death Scenes to the Globe Theatre a few years ago, and it was fantastic. I still think about it on a regular basis. One of my favourite vignettes was about the death of a whale, and it involved a large window with a massive eye slowly closing. There was no dialogue, only the gradual death of a creature of implied immensity. I’ve seen few things in any medium that have been so simultaneously simple and moving.
It made me want to run away and become a puppet maker, but for now I guess I’ll have to be satisfied to be a puppet drawer.
I’ve got my ticket to The Tooth Fairy and it already looks like it’s going to be just as memorable.
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I was kept busy last weekend with a cover for Planet S magazine, and a comic for Prairie Dog.
Ragtime music playing in the background
The magazines were celebrating the best food and drink in Regina and Saskatoon.
It's like a pizza party
Illustration for Broken Pencil
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This illustration is in the current issue of Broken Pencil Magazine.
It was for a short story called “Texas Bound” by J Jack Unrau.
The story may or may not be about the narrator awaking at the side of a road to discover David Lynch, or a Lynch look-alike watching the narrator and masturbating.
This means that I have a sketch of David Lynch masturbating in my studio, which I didn’t end up using.
Instead I drew a landscape with the Elephant Man.
Maybe next time, David Lynch. Maybe next time…