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It’s been a while since I’ve done a proper post on this dusty old blog of mine. Classes at the Center for Cartoon Studies have been keeping me pretty busy, and I’ve been preparing to table at the MoCCA Festival this weekend in New York … not to mention the top-secret side project I’ve been working on(!)
Leave Luck to Heaven is a 32 page minicomic about the two gamers who occasionally show up in my Dailies. Take a peak inside…
Did I mention that there’s a colour spread in the book and that the whole thing looks like an NES instruction manual? If you feel like you’re not getting enough spiritual and aesthetic fulfillment from your video games, this book can help.
Also debuting at MoCCA is Holy Shit: A Comics Anthology. This is the book I did with Amelia Onorato, Moody, and Sean K., last year, and it’s finally available to all who are holy or shitty. This book is 64 pages, with a gold screenprint cover, faux-gilded edges, and a ribbon bookmark to keep your place as you read through our reactions to religion.
Also available at this show: Fable Funnies, and a full colour mini with 24 of my favourite non-autobiographical Dailies!
So, to my tens of readers out there, if you’re in New York on April 9th and 10th, I hope you’ll take in the comics madness that is MoCCA. I’ll be at table M-1 with Andy Warner, Billage, Melanie Gillman, and Nate Wooters. In fact, there is going to be a metric ton of CCS pals it this general area. Just think, an infinite nunber of cartoonists all under a single roof…
Hope to see you there!
How Not to Draw a Poster
Posted In: Blog, Illustrations
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Ahhh, rejection.
Rejection always brings up a range of emotions and thoughts; plummeting sense of self-worth, frantic doubting of one’s abilities and knowledge, questioning the critical worth of the rejector, elaborate revenge scenarios, and eventually begrudging (if not cheerful) acceptance.
The Cathedral Village Arts Festival in Regina decided to do something different with their posters this year. They hired two artists to design posters, with the intent of paying the winning artist more money.
Of course, most artists are always convinced that they can catch that delicious-looking carrot being dangled from the end of a fishing rod.
Needless to say, I felt the stinging kiss of rejection with this poster. The theme for this year’s festival is “Doors to the Imagination”.
I assume most people's imaginations look like this
First there was controversy over my use of knock-off cartoon characters. An argument which later turned out to be a non-issue red-herring.
Eventually the CVAF committee decided that they simply didn’t like my poster.
Oh well, you can’t win them all. I haven’t yet seen the poster that was chosen (nor do I know who the other artist is), but my excitement to see it is a perverse mixture of competitiveness and genuine enthusiasm.
Incidentally, the CVAF committee said that they might still want to use my illustration for promotional material (i.e., for the Comic Jam).
I’ll taste that sweet, fresh carrot yet…