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A quick reminder

Thursday, August 7, 2008 · 0 Comments

Tonight:

And tomorrow:

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114 - Inventory

Monday, August 4, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Remux

Sunday, July 13, 2008 · 2 Comments

Out 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

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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.

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Catch me at the Box Salon

Monday, July 7, 2008 · 2 Comments

I 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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