Jumper
Monday, June 23, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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
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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.
Iron Man
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 · 0 Comments
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2008 · Directed by Jon Favreau
Iron Man’s name has some flaws. He
is crafty about it because he,
in truth, has a cranium
made of titanium --
but then where’s his themesong from Ozzy?
Home from New Orleans
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 · 0 Comments
I’m home from another trip to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards. This year the awards were held in New Orleans, and one of the highlights of the trip was spending a day building a house with Habitat for Humanity. There were plenty of jokes about the structural integrity of a house built by cartoonists, but at the end of the day I think we were all pleased with the effort we put in, and humbled by the entire experience. The subsequent tour through the devastated lower 9th ward where the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina was especially sobering.
It was great to catch up with all the friends I’ve made over the last few years, and spend time with some new faces as well. I was particularly glad to finally meet The Daily Cartoonist’s Alan Gardner, and Cul De Sac artist Richard Thompson.
There are some photo-rich updates from the weekend online from Mike Lynch, MAD’s Tom Richmond, and The Daily Cartoonist. Eagle-eyed viewers may spot a certain robot cartoonist in these links.
New Six Chix website
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 · 1 Comment
I recently designed and put together a new website for my good friend Rina Piccolo and the five other ladies behind the collaborative all-girls comic strip Six Chix.
Teen Meme
Monday, May 5, 2008 · 10 Comments
Couldn’t help but participate in the draw yourself as a teenager meme floating around the net.
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