Catch me at the Box Salon
Monday, July 7, 2008 · 2 CommentsI keep forgetting to post this, but I’ll be presenting some of my work at the Box Salon this Wednesday evening (July 9) at the Rivoli here in Toronto.
The Box is a quarterly salon night of readings, performances, screenings, interventions and networking that aims to bring diverse communities and audiences into an environment of artistic and social intermingling.
I’m still not entirely certain what I’ll be presenting, but it will most likely be a hodge podge of comics, illustrations, movie poems, and subway anagrammery. If I can find the time between now and then I’m going to try to put together a video/screencap of an illustration being completed from start to finish, which will no doubt work its way onto this site eventually. Recent deadlines have pushed my procrastination to new limits!
Anyhow, there’ll be plenty of varying presentations of art, music, and words, so it promises to be fun. See you there?
Cottage sketching
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 · 0 Comments
I’ve uploaded some sketches from a recent marathon drawing session up north at a friend’s cottage. Check ‘em out at Flickr.
Jumper
Monday, June 23, 2008 · 1 Comment
IMDb
2008 · Directed by Doug Liman
This wretched unwatchable sham’ll
remove the once-shining enamel
from poor actor Hayden,
whose star is fast fadin’
just like his precursor, Mark Hamill.
The Incredible Hulk
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 · 1 Comment
IMDb
2008 · Directed by Louis Leterrier
If movies be the food of love,
the first Hulk was inedible.
This reboot might be better, but
I’d hardly say “incredible”.
FiveRuns makeover
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 · 1 Comment
I contributed a number of illustrations for a recent makeover of the entire FiveRuns website. The illustrations were art directed by the handsome and talented Scott Boms of Wishingline Design Studio. FiveRuns delivers management solutions for Rails developers, and it was fun to create a series of mascots/characters and various illustrations throughout the entire site.
Doug Wright Award nomination
Thursday, June 5, 2008 · 5 Comments
Yesterday the nominations for the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning were announced. I’m thrilled to have my yearbook project, Excelsior 1968, nominated for the new Pigskin Peters Annual Award for Non-Narrative Canadian Cartooning (what a mouthful!). The new award celebrates works that are experimental in nature, or don’t follow a traditional narrative structure. Cool beans!
It’s an honour knowing that my work was selected by the likes of Seth, Chester Brown, and Jeet Heer to be included for consideration. I’m nominated alongside some tough competition: Emily Holton’s Little Lessons in Safety, Julie Morstad’s Milk Teeth, and Chris von Szombathy’s Fire Away—my book being the only self-published one in the group. Wish me luck! The ceremony is on August 14th here in Toronto.
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