Thursday, September 30, 2010
OLD ROCK
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Preview: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Secby Jacques Tardi is being released in an English language translation by Fantagraphics this December. Publishers Weekly has a grand preview here.
The French graphic album is also a movie, released in April, 2010. There are no US premier dates as yet.
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Here is a piece from Japan that was an addition to a piece from back in the day.
Monday, September 27, 2010
GQ Political Comic Strip Parodies
Here are some more comic strip parodies. These are from GQ Magazine (where I could find no direct link), and are the subject of this Comic Riffs entry.
A big hat tip to Myron M. Meyer! Thanks, Myron!
Ward Sutton: Tea Party Comic Strips
From "Teanuts" to "Dennis the IRS Menace" to "Nancy (Pelosi)," they're all here. There are twenty of these "Tea Party Takes Over Comics Page" strips by Ward Sutton for the Boston Globe.
Hat tip Comics Reporter.
Sardonic Salad.
Normally I'm not that keen on salad, but this interesting blog, Sardonic Salad, is an exception. It's packed full of gag cartoons. Some are groaners, a few I don't understand and some are really excellent. The point is, even if you don't like the current cartoon, it's updated regularly, so it's always worth another visit to find those gems. And there's lots of gems within this cartoon blog.
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Anthropomorphic themes a plenty. Onions, Lettuce, fridge contents and talking teapots will be found on this cartoon blog.
If this blog was waiting for a prize on bullseye it would get the speed boat AND the Mini Metro to tow it! ( probably a talking speedboat)
Here's the massive link:
WEEKEND RECAP
On our way back home thanks to the guys at neighborhood we tattooed the head designer to say thank you for letting us be a guest at their tokyo offices . Here is flics of tattoo plus location.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Fat Cats
Saturday night: drawing a fat, happy cat cartoon. Above are some warm up sketches. My favorite is the one at the top, with his tummy so round that his back feet have to splay out.
TRAILER OF THE THE WEEK
Here is a PSA by George Carlin and a Trailer "It's Bad For Ya"
in one of his last live performances.
R.I.P.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Video: STAR TREK Enterprise Pizza Cutter
I just learned about this over at Brian Fies' blog and now here's the video of the thing.
What can I say but ...
What can I say but ...
An Ailing Halran Ellison Says Goodbye at MadCon
Wrenching news. Harlan Ellison, who is 76 years old and not in the best of health, says this weekend's MadCon will be his farewell convention appearance.
"'The truth of what's going on here is that I'm dying,' says Ellison, by phone. 'I'm like the Wicked Witch of the West -- I'm melting. I began to sense it back in January. By that time, I had agreed to do the convention. And I said, I can make it. I can make it.'"
Writer Josh Wimmer has more at The Isthmus.
Above: Harlan Ellison and his typewriter (now for sale).
Related: video: Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
Hat tip the person who put this on their blog or Tweeted about it but whose name I sincerely cannot recall nor find.
Ed Stein's New Comic Strip "Freshly Squeezed"
Hilary Copsey, Features Editor for TCPlam.com, writes New comic strip explores dynamics of three generations living under one roof; a profile of cartoonist Ed Stein and his new comic strip "Freshly Squeezed," distributed by United Feature Syndicate.
Ed Stein talks about the feature and is asked if he worries about running out of ideas:
"I really try to design the strip as an ensemble. I go back to something that Charles Schulz once said, 'If you have enough notes, you can play anything.' You need enough characters, and enough different aspects of those characters, that you can play them off of each other. One thing I really try to develop is the interaction. There’s always something fresh going on."
Al Jaffee Interview in Mother Jones
MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee is interviewed by Michael Mechanic for Mother Jones magazine. The occasion: the publication of AL JAFFEE'S MAD LIFE, a memoir written by Mary-Lou Weisman ("She's an author and a more high-brow literary type."), with drawings by the Reuben Award winning Mr. Jaffee, natch! The book is due out from HarperCollins, in hardcover and eBook formats, on Tuesday, September 28th.
A MAD regular since 1955, Al recounts the life of a freelancer, then and now:
"No one knew that Mad was going to go on for 50 or 60 years. I figured, 'All right, I'll do the best I can with Mad for as long as it lasts.' When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on 'What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?' And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority."
His observations of adults fed his later writing:
"It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite—I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make sense of those things."
The rest is here.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Magic Whistle: SMOKEY STOVER Wednesdays
It used to be that if you visited Sam Henderson's Magic Whistle blog, you would get to read some new scans of Ernie Bushmiller's FRITZI RITZ every week.
Bad news is that Sam is out of them, but the good news is that he will run SMOKEY STOVER by Bill Holman every Wednesday.
Thanks, Sam!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB Original Art to Be Auctioned
Heritage Auctions will sell more than 40 pieces of original art by Garth Williams from E.B. White's classic CHARLOTTE'S WEB on October 15, 2010. Press release here. The seminal collection of drawings includes the iconic cover art. Click above for an amazingly large hi res image.
"'There are few people born after 1950, maybe even 1940, who are not intimately familiar with E.B. White’s timeless story,' said Barry Sandoval of Heritage Auctions, 'or with these amazing illustrations. The same cover image has been used for 58 years, and this may be the most-printed cover illustration of any book by an American author.'
"Now the Williams estate is making the art available to collectors for the first time. It was carefully preserved by the family in a bank vault since the artist's death.
"'When Garth started doing books in the 1940s, once he completed an illustration, those illustrations were forwarded to the publisher, used, and then returned to Garth,' says Williams’ friend and attorney Richard M. Ticktin, a spokesperson for the family."
THE OATMEAL's Matthew Inman Interview
There are some NSFW images and words linked below. Above: a recent OATMEAL cartoon.
Matthew Inman is best known as the cartoonist who draws THE OATMEAL. OATMEAL is described as "one of the Web's top cartoons" in this Seattle News Weekly profile by Abe Aboraya.
He isn't a waiter/cartoonist or a barista/cartoonist or a housepainter/cartoonist. He's not even a freelance computer geek/cartoonist. He stopped doing that work a year ago. Now, at 28, he draws comics, posts them to his website, sells merch, and turns a serious profit.
This is good news, and then the writer writes at length about Mr. Inman's cartoons. Sounds like Mr. Aboraya is a fan.
Now, what's a serious profit?
Well, here it is -- and this whole paragraph is just unbelievable:
Inman didn't know how much he was making until a few weeks ago, when he sat down and did some tallying for the Weekly. He estimates his take-home pay for 2010 will be just over a half-million dollars.
Uh .... if I was making that kind of money, I would know. It's hard to believe that a fellow as savvy as Mr. Inman appears to be has no idea that a half a million will be in his pocket this year.
Cartoonist Bill Roundy: ‘Get a dram at Dram’
The Brooklyn Paper's cartoonist Bill Roundy likes The Dram bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn so much that he had to draw about it. The rest is here.
I agree with the commenter: I do not know if this is an ad or a cartoon or both. All I know is $11 for a cocktail must mean The Brooklyn Paper's paying big buck to cartoonists!
And remember Bob Montana's advice: If you drink, don't ink!
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Yves Saint Laurent ... Cartoonist?
Yes, Yves Saint Laurent. THAT Yves Saint Laurent!
Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent dreamed up a character called "Nasty Lulu" in 1956, and there was a book published in 1960. He
"created a character who swills scotch, poisons her classmates and sets houses on fire.In TheStar.com, Chantal Braganza writes about it in ‘Nasty Lulu' Yves Saint Laurent's little-known creation."Her name is Lulu.
"Did I mention she's still in grade school?"
The book, a rare collectible among Saint Laurent fans, has been reprinted. La Vilaine Lulu is available in the EU and Canada.
KAMPUNG BOY To Be a Musical
Lat's autobiographical novel KAMPUNG BOY, about growing up and becoming a cartoonist in Malaysia, will be a musical theatre production in Malaysia this December.
"Needless to say, its creator, iconic cartoonist Datuk Mohd Nor Khalid, better known as Lat, is in seventh heaven.
Monday, September 20, 2010
THE HYPEBEAST INTERVIEW
SA Studios has been a lot more focused lately with greater visibility. We’ve been seeing collaborations with video game releases and more video content. Is this something we’re going to see developed more and more?
SA Studios has grown a lot and we’re able to do different collaborations now. Everybody’s ruining the word collaboration. But we’re a commercial company, and we need business to work. Throughout my whole life, I worked on keeping it real and keeping it hardcore. But with SA we will be doing big projects for big companies as an agency. If the work looks good and you’re true to yourself, you’re not selling out. We’re very careful in that aspect and we’ve turned down many projects.
I look at it as no different than what you do on the streets. You’re making a highly visible piece of art. People go out and paint on the streets to have their work shown, commercial work could be considered along the same lines?
It’s hard to maintain a hardcore image and yet work commercially. But if I make shoes I want to wear and the whole package is well done, I don’t see a problem. I think it opens the doors to so many other artists when they see somebody like myself who was able to design without going through design or fashion school.
Do you find it important to help bring up a new generation or at least help them out?
I try to start off by being an example. I’m a husband and a father now with four children. I’m a teacher with a protege that works under me. You can almost see the progression in my work. From when I was a single guy, smoking weed and drinking, I had a certain style. Then I stopped drinking and smoking, then came another style. I’m now 41 and married, so there comes a new style on its own too. I’m thinking a different way than when I once was a 20 year old kid.
Do you approach graffiti, tattooing and your other visual work the same way?
No, when I do graffiti, I’m usually thinking in the mindset of a vandal. Doing it fast, thinking the cops are coming. The goal is only to make it somewhat readable. When I’m tattooing, I’m more relaxed and I take my time. But when it comes to my other styles, I need to wear a different hat. A mural on a car under clear coat is different than being a designer with Illustrator. Each dimension of art requires a different approach and style.
You’ve become well-known for your graffiti and tattooing, but are there other platforms you’d like to make your mark on?
In the future, I want to get more into films and animations. I love designing electronics.
You did a few mobile phones?
Yeh I did a Side-Kick and two Metro PCS phones. Now I’m working on touch screen stuff, drawings, icons and different stuff like that. You get the sample back and you’re like ‘YOOOOOOO’. Just like when you get shoe samples back, your heart pumps. In the future I want to get more into cars. I want to bring car culture up to a new level.
Looking back, you’ve become an integral member of the Chicano community in bringing awareness to the culture. What are your thoughts on that?
I think it’s fair to say that Chicano culture and the Hypebeast crowd never really intersected before. They were far from each other but I like them both.
You’re sort of the point between both of them…
I need to be careful to make the right decisions such as protect the brand and everything we’ve worked for. It’s difficult to get respect from both sides. I’ve been drawing and designing for the “Hypebeast”/skate/shoe culture world, long before I was where I am now. I put up a mural inside of the UNION store in the 90s. Now people are like ‘come on in’. In this day and age, everybody is a critic and lots of are posting their comments. I don’t even read the comments cause it’s impossible to please everybody. The most important is your peer group and doing things for people you’re proud of. These days anybody can Google anything and they aren’t properly influenced. But there are those that look at Hypebeast and they can get so much information that would ever know.
Where do you think your success over the years has come from?
I don’t consider myself talented, special or really unique. Everything’s been done before. But can you take it, twist it and re-do it. I’ve been drawing my whole life and now people are saying ‘oh you’re talented’. I look at it more as a skill in an area I’ve been practicing for over 20 years. Some kids feel ‘oh I can’t do that’. I tell them I’ve developed the motions and the skills in my brain and reinforced it with my muscles.
Any last words?
For all the artists coming up, it’s important to visualize positive images. Don’t spend time talking shit about other people. Picture yourself doing straight lines, dig deep to create something old school and re-introduce it all while being as original as possible. Practice every day. If you work hard enough you can take care of people around you. I bought my mom a house and I don’t expect applause from it. I figure it’s what I’m supposed to do. I have an old school mind to take care of my family and children, and art has helped me do that. Additionally, through art I’ve been able to help and beautify my community. They say that the only thing that you can show at the end of your life is what you gave away, not what you collect.
Click here to see the full coverage of the OTW Shanghai Launch Party..
Video: Tea Party Express Derails GOP
Here os one of those Taiwanese animations about US politics that I see on TV. This is new and short and funny and will be on TV by tonight ....
Video: The Solo Adventures in 3D
Here is the award winning entry from the 2010 STAR WARS Fan Movie Challenge. It's put together by Daniel L. Smith and 2010 graduates of The Dave School. It's just over 5 minutes and very fun and if you have those red/cyan 3D classes, even more fun. I didn't have any glasses, but it's still a snappily written dun (and funny) bit of animation. Really worth seeing what The Dave School can do!
Hat tip Forbidden Planet! And as they point out, there are both 3D and 2D versions at Dan’s Vimeo page.
The Solo Adventures 3D from Daniel L Smith on Vimeo.
Hat tip Forbidden Planet! And as they point out, there are both 3D and 2D versions at Dan’s Vimeo page.
ICE C.R.E.A.M
If you have been wondering what we got going on next year here is just a preview of one..
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
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