A Corporal from the Royal Canadian Regiment leads members of the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club in training, 1928
Riverdance to the Stanley Cup, the Toronto way
(via historicaltimes)
I loved that portrait so much I made them take our picture with it
and then I married it
no I didn’t
(but I would)
Rob Clough has reviewed our kid-and-kitten-friendly comics A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories by John Martz and Cat Dad, King of the Goblins by Britt Wilson.
ON A CAT NAMED TIM AND OTHER STORIES
“I tested the book on my five-year-old daughter to see if she could follow it (she’s just learning to read), and the way that Martz continually subverted audiences expectations led to laugh after laugh … Martz’s cartooning rhythm is so steady that even an inexperienced reader could pick up on how to follow it.” — Rob Clough, High-Low
ON CAT DAD, KING OF THE GOBLINS
“Once the adventure starts, the book’s pacing is breathless. That said, the brightness of the colors and Wilson’s rendering skills give the book a flamboyant decorative quality that nonetheless doesn’t interfere with the book’s pacing. The reader is encouraged to stop and take a look around, but not for too long.” — Rob Clough, High-Low
Check out the full reviews here!
I love telling you guys about these books because they are, on top of being excellent for kids, made by some of my most talented and nicest friends in all of comics: John Martz, Britt Wilson, and Annie Koyama and her publishing team. Koyama Press is in my studio, and John comes by often, and Britt’s desk is next to mine. There are a lot of nooks and crannies in the Toronto comics scene, and I’m right at home in this one. Even if Britt threatens to fart at me sometimes, but hey, two can play at that game, Britt.
I want cable knit sweaters to be something they are not
Here is a sketch comic I made called Ducks, in five parts.
Ducks is about part of my time working at a mining site in Fort McMurray, the events are from 2008. It is a complicated place, it is not the same for all, and these are only my own experiences there. It is a sketch because I want to test how I would tell these stories, and how I feel about sharing them. A larger work gets talked about from time to time. It is not a place I could describe in one or two stories. Ducks is about a lot of things, and among these, it is about environmental destruction in an environment that includes humans. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
-Kate
I am reblogging Ducks to send you the link to Todd Korol’s photo series on the Alberta oil sands. It even comes with a scarecrow. My sketches are very loose, and suggest things that are bigger, but it is something else to see them, and it is rare for me to see a set of images that evokes the place so clearly. I think it is a good compliment to getting a bigger picture. (Link)
Exhibitionism: Fashion Fantasies – Fashion Plates and Fashion Satire 1775-1925
This blog post has a great deal of delightful satirical pictures to browse
I have been asking Kate Beaton to draw a Red Sonja cover for the monthly book since issue one. Since she hasn’t done a lot of covers, she was the ONLY female artist we asked who (reluctantly) turned us down.
I think she has agreed to do one if time permits, and she sent this on Twitter to hold us over and I just love it. Kate, you are awesome!
I picked up Red Sonja vol. 1 yesterday and read it cover to cover. I hadn’t really read the comics when I drew this doodle, but it was a super fun (and violent and all the rest) read!
Listen I can’t wait until July 1871 to get these tracks I need to hear them now
I have just read through some of the online exhibits here from the collection Children’s Books and War from Ryerson University. This is a sample of some titles, click through for more. They are short reads, with illustration, very good.
Ahh, more of the Miserable Father images from suffragette times. It’s a favourite old meme because imagine caring for your children? noooooo not my childreeennnn