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CHECK OUT THE COMIC

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.

FOR THE HORDE PROJECT ROOFTOP!!

Oh god I can’t remember the last time I coloured this way. Seriously, it’s been years. And Wolverine looks like a fireman clown in a marching band. From space.

At least he’s not a mountie this time.

With all the shenanigans going on in the Canadian parliament at the moment this whole thing feels sort of absurdly moot, but I drew it, I finished it, and up it goes. Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been notorious for several funding cuts to arts and culture, saying that Canadians don’t care about art, and canceling the National Portrait Gallery project. This inspired some to fight back with a portrait gallery of their own, and since I still needed a final person for my Interp likeness project, I figured hey, why not take a shot at it. I don’t think it’s as subtly elegant as Rosemary’s (okay every time I look at that picture I laugh for like five minutes) but it’s something.

Something late and thoroughly ridiculous for that meme. Probably can’t submit it now, even though I drew this like the day the meme started… I just finished inking it today, because I’m, uh… I believe the word is slow.

Yeah, it’s… silly. The ink style might look like it came outta nowhere, but that’s only because I haven’t uploaded my end-of-the-year animation yet. Did I mention I’m slow?