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Canadian Improv Games Poster
Posted In: Blog, Illustrations
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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.
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The first page was drawn while visiting my friend Graeme Zirk, a stand-up comic and cartoonist; a comic who draws comics. The second page was done while hanging with some of Regina’s local comics guys on Free Comic Book Day.
The tuff guys were an attempt to break my habit of drawing the same three male characters: guy with glasses, bald guy with glasses, and fat bald guy.
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