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Every picture of Louis Cyr is the best picture of Louis Cyr and also he has the best statue in all of Montreal. Click for MORE
This article has awesome awesome pics of old time ladies playing (and posing) sports!
A blog for you to check out - Vintage Books My Kid Loves
Does Celestino Piatti draw the best animals? We’re on the same page here, no?
A Comics Update
I promised when I slowed the website down that I would keep people up to date with what I was doing, comic wise. In this past while, when you haven’t seen me working on comics, I’ve been working on some freelance jobs. Just trying to become a better artist, picking up some jobs that challenge me. Color things, mostly, I don’t have much experience with color (you’ve noticed?), and backgrounds (you’ve noticed?) and I’m trying to learn. I learn best when there’s no going back. As much as I love comics, I always thought the way I made comics for Hark! didn’t necessarily bring out the most of my ability. This is for a few reasons, but probably mostly because I often took too much time coming up with something and writing it, and I rushed the drawings (relatively) in hopes of posting something ASAP, because I was always behind on the schedule I would have liked to keep. Starting a new comic from scratch every time is a challenge I enjoy, but it’s a time consuming one as well.
So I’ve been taking time to write and draw without the comic website ever-present on the table, and it has been good. I would like to be better at what I do. I became popular fairly quickly without much experience to back me up, and I feel the learning curve sharply. There are also those other opportunities I have mentioned, interested parties from different places, and possible jobs unrelated to comics, but nothing yet I can share. Hopefully some will work out! In the art world, you never know.
Anyway! What a mouthful. Other than that:
You’ve seen that I’ve been tinkering with those long, tall narrative strips. I’ve been thinking that I’d like to see the next book take a different direction than the last. Not just a Volume II, but something new to offer. And I’ve been ready to do something different as well. I’d like to tell some stories that mean something to me, with a personal connection. I was thinking of studying something like the place where I’m from, using comics, and you’ve been seeing stories about Cape Breton and the people from there for that reason. I am trying to find the tone I’d like, and practice a different way of telling stories. Collections of small stories that paint a big picture. It’s the little moments that interest me, human, and funny, and sad, because that’s life. Relatable, and real. I figure now was the time to do it since I impulsively start drawing those stories anyway, and have sketchbooks full of little scenes. If I made this book it would be a smaller think than Hark!, quieter, but I wouldn’t mind.
So, I think while I mull this over, you’ll be seeing more of this kind of comic, as I figure out the sort of stories I want to tell, and how to tell them. I don’t even know where to put them right now, they don’t really belong on the main website. Even if I do not make this kind of book this year or the next, I probably will sometime in the future. And I’m glad I have harkavagrant.com because I never want to quit it, if there’s a lull now while I shift gears, at another time it will slide back into my main focus.
That’s my update for now, I just wanted to keep you on the same page since you’re good enough to be here with me, still.
Visit
I made a visit to an old folks home and I really liked it, so I felt like drawing some of the conversations. Here, and also here, which was really cute.
Some pretty cute Robin Hood designs by Kenneth Townsend.
I will be at the Maine Comics Arts Festival this weekend! How about you?
Question for followers
Hey there!
Whenever I post a photo of artwork from someone, I make the photo itself a link back to that artist’s webpage, so you can discover more of their work! I am a firm believer in giving credit, all the time, where you can, not just saying ‘look at this cool pic.’ Artists deserve better! Cool drawings don’t just appear out of nowhere, someone made them!
So, with that in mind, tell me: am I doing it right? I was thinking just now that maybe people just scroll through the pictures they see on tumblr, and don’t notice the way I’ve been linking them. Sometimes I say 'click on the picture for more,’ but not all the time. Just making sure!
thanks guys, I am pretty new to tumblr, in case you haven’t noticed.
kate
Edit!
Very good very good! Thoughtful answers already. Do you know what? I’ve never noticed the 'content source’ option on the right hand side of the posting section. It’s always embarrassin’ when something super obvious escapes your attention, but hey, it happens! Thanks friends! I’m glad I can get 40 000 people to appreciate what an oblivious dope I am.
ps: you’re the best
Just going to drop this here! My director friend Alan Harris is looking for big investors for his 1st feature- a teen movie called Lotus! Know anyone? You can click on that picture for more info!
I’ve read the script (it’s great!), and was involved in a table reading with two other people, and even though we were totally perfect in all the roles, a whole movie probably needs a bit more than that to get it going.
These trailers are addictive! "Inside Out,“ the 2012 Toronto LGBT Film Festival. What a great looking line up! I jus’ lurve movie trailers
Have you read this beautiful comic, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, by Tony Cliff? It’s online and it’s FREEEEE
speaking of Fancy Dress parties
Gee whiz it’s like this guy time traveled to Right Now and went on the internet and asked what people think is funny. Because the answer is bacon, for reasons I know not.
But since he won first prize I guess they were all hip to the future back in ‘94. 1894.