It’s been a while since I’ve posted something other than daily comics, so I decided to break that trend tonight.
The new year has brought me a few new cover-gigs with Prairie Dog and Planet S. Note Prairie Dog’s spiffy new website!
What love looks like
I enjoy doing this stuff because I don’t have a lot of time for my own comics at the moment. I’m still working a full-time job until I make my trek to the Center for Cartoon Studies this fall (Note CCS’s spiffy new website!).
These covers make me feel like I’m still active as an artist … or at least an illustrator.
The editor overlord asked me to draw a dissected heart with lots of cross-hatching reminiscent of the drawings Andreas Vesalius. But honestly, I wasn’t really listening after he said ‘lots of cross-hatching’. I don’t cross hatch as much as I used to, but I still really enjoy it when situations call for it.
No, that’s an understatement. I love cross-hatching. Cross hatching takes me back to my late teens when I was first exposed to Robert Crumb’s work. I have a lot of happy memories of drawing comics until four in the morning, trying to hatch like Crumb.
Anyway, Prairie Dog’s new graphic designer worked the image into the cover:
Neat-o!
If you can guess to which species of animal it belongs, you will win … well, nothing. I don’t have anything you would want. But still, guess away!
The next cover was for International Women’s Day. Editor overlord wanted an image of Rosie the Riveter, updated for today, with doodle-art style tattoos that reference the 60s/70s feminist movement.
I’m not totally satisfied with the results, but it’s mostly due to small things like the figure’s line of action. The original image of Rosie the Riveter has a dynamic angle in her pose. I had to dampen it a bit so that the tiny men-relieved-by-feminism wouldn’t look cluttered. The finished product lacks some of the oomph of the original. Also, I didn’t really capture that defiant look in her eyes.
We are doing it
That’s all for this week. I’m going to be doing another Prairie Dog cover for next week … which may or may not be Hawksley Workman. We’ll see!
And if you’re really lucky (or rather, if I get off my ass, and onto an ass equipped with a computer), I’ll post my special Valentine’s Day comic that appeared in Prairie Dog.
Lovely to lovingly love your love…
Two kitty comics in one week?! You lucky people!
Other life-altering things that happened this week: got new glasses. Shaved my moustache. Faced death, in pigeon form.
Kiai!
Aww
The truth ain't easy
Lactation is popular among mammals
Great disguise
Bad disguise
It's a hard-knock life for pigeons
This week’s comics feature all of your favourites: poop, ghosts, swearing, babies, and swearing about babies.
Enjoy!
Mature joke
Educational joke
No joke
Scary joke
Where's the joke?
Sleepy joke
Forgot to joke
Due to many late nights, there’s some pretty nonsensical comics this week. Except for the Growlywog one. You can’t front on Growlywogs.
Boring life
Terrible
A TRUE STORY
Use your powers
Cowboy Poetry
...
Remember this?
My apologies to both of my readers for the lateness of this post. I had a busy weekend working on a illustration and comic for the next issue of Prairie Dog and Planet S.
Anyway, here they are…
Favourite Story
True Story
Scary Story
Sad Story
Story of my life
Disappointing Story
Is this even a story?
When a co-worker offered me a box of tissue I was given a choice between a box with a floral design or one with a photo of a cute bunny.
Awwwww...
“The bunny, obviously,” I replied.
Then one day I grew bored and decided to pay my respects to the bunny, one of nature’s fiercest creatures.
Auuugh!
Fun Fact: Bunnies, though known for being timid and amorous, are actually ferocious and amorous. My parents have both a domestic rabbit and a wild hare, and they are both more fearless than any other animal I’ve met.
My mom was once trying to put on the dog’s hilarious winter shoes, and as the dog started whining, the hare appeared out of no where to save the day! She aggressively defended the dog, who she normally hates, but still! It was the principle of the matter.
Well, a week has passed, and I’ve really been enjoying my time drawing before bed. In the last year, it seems like I’ve always been too busy to draw for pleasure, but this daily strip gives me a brief moment to relax each night.
That said, so far I’m really disappointed with most of the strips. This means one of two things: 1) It’s going to take time to get back into a good groove of cartooning spontaneity. 2) My best work is behind me and I’m doomed to a life of extreme mediocrity.
Either way, here are the strips from last week…
I love snow.
Craziness
Handling criticism
Haircuts are nice, but expensive.
Happy!
This one was better in my imagination.
Force of habit
Below are the first two weeks of my daily diary comics. Now that I’m all caught up, I hope to post these every Sunday from now on.
I think the duck one might be my favourite this week.
Laura's Birthday
Feeling Sick
A bum or a boob
Walking to work
How about 'Rock Harding'?
I once read a tijuana bible sort of like this
Beatles: Rock Band!
Seen him? I hardly Gnome
Budgies
Radio
I don't know what I was thinking...
Rabbit-face
Dinosaurs
Incentive
CBC Saskatchewan will be featuring one of my daily comics on their site each week. The link is:
http://www.cbc.ca/afternooneditionsask/comics.html
To celebrate, here are some doodles from meetings at work … my workplace is a pro-doodling kind of place!
Pigeons
Velociraptors had feathers
Faces
This is Art!
Wingding Comics!