I went to a Canadian animation festival, put on by Articule, and saw lots of neat shorts, like a version of Amy Lockhart’s animation, “Walk for Walk”

Then I found out there’s a history of Canadian animation. Thanks to my coworkers Rebecca and Casey for telling me about these amazing Canadian animators,
Norman McLaren, “Neighbours”

Ryan Larkin, “Walking”

Gary Panter and Frank Santoro shared some of their favorite fine artists in a panel at MOCCA, and this blog post from Squally Showers has examples of those discussed. Lots of great artists, some I love and some I’ve never heard of. I’d love to see some Edward Paolozzi in person.

I’m in Montreal! At D&Q! I’ve had a very nice time looking through Tom and Chris’ collection of vintage manga, Swedish Galagos, Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, Raw one-shots… not to mention the entire D&Q catalogue. Also working in photoshop, retouching amazing projects to come. Thinking about Gekiga mangaka after reading A Drifting Life. That’s definitely one part of comics history I’m curious to learn more about.

I’ve set up End of Eros to run every day at my blog. You can start from the beginning by clicking here.

I’ll be posting the entirety of End of Eros online in June, going at about a page a day. It’s all free, but I’m also selling a mini-comic version, too!

It’s $3.50! The mini is printed in black n’ white and has a nice colored-construction-paper cover. I really intended the story to be read in mini-comic form, but figured I might as well post it online. While I only have 8 left with me here in Texas, I plan on printing more once I get settled in Montreal for the D&Q internship. Because the quality may change a bit, I’ll include some sketches to make it up.
I’m up for trading minis, too!

Some CCS alumni are putting together a new Sundays anthology for MoCCA, Sundays 3! This is an always-awesome anthology of beautiful artwork, unique story-telling and interesting book-making techniques. Check out the weekly comics section of their site to read some recent full-color comics by soccer buddies Joe Lambert and Ken Dahl.

I’m planning on using WordPress and ComicsPress for blogging purposes from now on. I found a great plugin that posts directly to livejournal, which is nice since almost every cartoonist I know on the internet I know through livejournal… anyway, there will always be that semi-annoying link to my wordpress blog on my lj posts now. I’m also still working on the design, which means a lot of guessing since I’m not too familiar with altering CSS stylesheets. Aligning tables=rocket science.

But check it out anyhoo… I’ve been uploading some old comics to the blog, such as Creation Myth and Personal Densha.

I’m in Texas, about to go to Mexico for the weekend, eat some cabrito, avoid the murky puddles, buy some new shoes. Also I’ve been in Texas for less than a week and have been to 5 different taquerias!

Today is graduation for the 2nd-year CCSers! Last night we had really good BBQ ceremony from Big Fatty’s BBQ, ending in meat-comas, as everyone’s stomach hurt after eating way too much pork and chicken.

Here’s a silly panel from End of Eros. I colored the comic using pink and purple highlighters. Is anyone going to the Maine Comics Festival tomorrow? I’ll be selling this at the CCS table.