I will be at CanZine this coming Sunday November the 1st! Come by and say hi!
I’ll be selling some copies of the 24 Hour Comic, possibly some leftover prints and bookmarks and things from Fan Expo, old valentines, and a Very Special Zine project about a topic very close to my heart. WHAT COULD IT BE?
It's about terrible-amazing movies and these are some roughs.
Another day, another artdump! Another story illustrated for Rubicon Publishing. This one’s about a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) kid, his birthday, his favourite meal, and his grandmother.
And speaking of children’s illustration, check out the work of Julia Denos, an illustrator who I found yesterday through Stumbleupon, of all things, and spent my evening fawning over. Love her blog. Her stuff is all kinds of adorable.
I fixed up this piece from a few months back for the recent 8 Bit show, but never reposted it here. Well, now I have!
Other things – I’ve been featured on Bizzom.com – thanks a lot for that, it’s an honour!
Also, “set up on Society6″ has been on my to do list for like 2 months now, so today I just did it. I now am on Society 6, with pictures and everything! If you have an account, feel free to follow me, I’ll follow you back!
All for now, more art tomorrow. I’m a bit backlogged on blogging, but I’ve been productive and inspired over the past few days so I’m catchin’ up!
For the first time in human history, the number of hungry people worldwide will exceed 1 billion this year…
Around the end of the school year, my final project for both my computer and my information illustration class was an infographic-y video about Free Rice, a division of the United Nations World Food Program and an excellent, easy way to earn money to help combat world hunger. I sent them the video, hoping they could use it for something. While that animation has yet to see the light of day, it led to this opportunity – to do another short video, this time for their new Billion for a Billion campaign.
It’s been an interesting time. Very powerful subject matter, so trying to do it justice hasn’t always been easy, and I’m certainly new to work requiring so much revision – others have worked on it at various stages; the version up on the site isn’t entirely my own work – but overall, an amazing opportunity, working with some wonderful people for a fantastic cause.
This past weekend, I participated in 24 Hour Comics Day at the fabulous Kingston comic store 4 Colour 8 Bit. I was down there anyhow, for my very own art show at this very same store – it was great fun, and thanks a ton to Kevin for putting it together, and Nick for allowing me to spend entirely too much time in his store despite the fact I don’t think I bought anything but Pac Man power pellet candy.
I forgot my camera for the opening, but look, art!
24 Hour Comic Day BEGINS
I suppose it was something of a cheat, since my comic was a collaboration with m’dear friend Aggy. The story came from both of us – we couldn’t decide what on earth to do a comic about, so we just decided to do EVERYTHING, and base it on our stupid conversations. She did the lettering, erasing pencils, and filling in large black areas, not to mention writing the old-man rants, which was a task in itself. (And the Cleavager is her fault. I will take no credit for that one.) So while the art is basically all mine, I couldn’t have done it without her, not to mention having somebody to yell at me to stay awake. When she was awake.
A sleepy Aggy sometime in the last few hours
Other adventures included drawing at Denny’s in the middle of the night, being interviewed for the Queen’s University TV channel… all in all, a crazy weekend! God, I love Kingston.
