Fuelly
Friday, August 8, 2008 · 1 Comment
Matt Haughey recently launched Fuelly, a social web app to help drivers monitor their fuel consumption. I contributed to the site by creating the mascot. Matt wanted a clean vector illustration, so I had to dust off my Illustrator hat, having not created any characters in Illustrator for some time.
Here are some of the sketches I worked up before Matt settled on the one he liked best:
Strip Stories: Excelsior 1968 on display
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 · 0 Comments
The original art for my illustrated yearbook project, Excelsior 1968, will be on display here in Toronto as part of Strip Stories [Canadian Cartooning Right Now].
The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning and BOARD OF DIRECTORS, a curatorial project at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Arts Projects, are pleased to present an exhibition of original work by some of Canada’s most recognized and promising cartoonists.Strip Stories features works by artists who focus on sequential arts and graphic novels, many of whom have either won a Doug Wright Award in the past or have received nominations.
The show also marks the first time Toronto audiences will get a chance to view originals from Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown’s critically-acclaimed graphic novel. Originally published in comic book form, Louis Riel was released as a book in 2003 . Publisher’s Weekly hailed it as “a strong contender for the best graphic novel ever.”
OpenSRS Rebranding
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 · 4 Comments
I recently finished work rebranding Tucows Reseller Services as OpenSRS. The project involved a complete creative redesign of the brand, and allowed me to create a logo and mascot for the company. You can see the work larger at Flickr, and can expect to see more as the weeks progress.
Flight Volume 5
Monday, July 21, 2008 · 3 Comments
This Wednesday the fifth volume of Flight hits bookshelves, and I’m thrilled to have contributed a story to the latest collection. The Flight blog has a great preview of some of the stories in the book, including Scenes in Which the Earth Stops Spinning and Everybody Flies Into a Wall, which was written by Ryan North and drawn by me!
The story’s genesis is from this episode of Dinosaur Comics.
There are so many great artists and stories in the book; it’s an honour and a thrill to be included among such great talent. Kazu and everyone else involved really outdid themselves.
Remux
Sunday, July 13, 2008 · 2 CommentsOut of procrastination comes another Muxtape. The tracklist:
- Ramones - Needles & Pins
- Crooked Fingers - Hurricane
- Graham Coxon - You & I
- Martin Tielli - Cold Blooded Old Times
- Bob Dylan - Moonlight
- Vetiver - To Baby
- The Beatles - I’ve Just Seen a Face
- Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken
- The Magnetic Fields - If There’s Such a Thing as Love
- Leon Redbone - She’s My Gal
- Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band - Swing a Lullaby
Time-lapsed illustration
Friday, July 11, 2008 · 10 Comments
Here’s the illustration I created for The Box Salon, and you can view the time-lapsed creation below. The inking stage turned out a little blurry after uploading it to Vimeo, so I clearly need to tinker with my compression settings next time.
Timpe Lapsed Illustration from John Martz on Vimeo.
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?
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