Work Diary
My TCAF 2012 report!
Recorded some of the sights and sounds of various events on my trip to Toronto for TCAF this year.
I was a tourist this time for a change, so was able to take in a lot of stuff. Great fun and got to spend some quality time with lots of old friends. Also met and talked a few times briefly with Fabio Moon which was nice. Been an admirer of his and his brothers work for years. Ran into him last at the wrap party but was so wasted i probably gave him a funny impression! Ah well, they seem like very laid back guys. Hope to chat with them under more calm, less profession defined circumstances one day. Also had a few good short chats with Tom Neely, enjoyed a nice diner with James Turner, Brian Evinou, and Noel Tuazon. Also had a nice diner on the last night with my colaberator on Sequential Bryan Munn. Met Jason Bradshaw in person finally and got a full set of his Boredom pays minies including he said the last copy left ever of his first issue. Had a warm chat on the TCAF floor with Artist and printer Tyrone McCarthy. Oh i could go on and on probably but can’t recall all the names i should right now so lets get on with it. Here’s my Video log, links to stuff, and some of the audio I recorded over the course of the 4 days.
In order of appearance and with links as follows…
Comics vs Games Creative Jam art show at the Magic pony.
New Narrative V: Bodies/Citie
I recorded audio podcasts of some of this…
A few highlights of the first instalment of The Comic Book Lounge’s On the couch [should that not be chesterfield?] with Ty Templeton! His guests were Mark Askwith (producer, InnerSpace), Award-winning cartoonist Scott Chantler (Three Thieves, Two Generals), artist & designer Ken Lashley (Blackhawks), and Will Pascoe (director, Lost Heroes Movie).
And I got roped into this one too at the end. Sorry about my quite voice and poor rhetoric, i don’t level well in a setting like that, I have to be right on top of the mic to be audible most of the time. very low voice and I’m not in the habit of projecting it a lot.
That’s followed but a good 12 or so min of table porn, i tried to scan everything that was on display at TCAF. I missed a room in the back and a few other small spots but otherwise this is just about ever inch of exhibitors spreads, shot in the last hour of the show on Sunday.
Some shots of my Haul from the trip, 22 books i traded for, was given or bought. Look for a nice clean shot of that at the end of the post here.
Some footage of the kick off event, Jeff Smith, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon in conversation moderated by Mark Askwith! Listen to it here
And last, some snaps of the drawing jam between Becky Cloonan & Zach Worton at the Third Annual Official TCAFête – on the clip i misidentify it as the Topatoco’s Welcome to TCAF Party. Sorry, to damn tired to re-edit it to fix that….
It was all a blast! This is just a tinny bit of what i saw and did. TCAF gets bigger every year and this is my first time just going to hang out and take in the sights [i've exhibited i think every year since 2005?] It’s a hell of a lot more fun to attend then exhibit i have to say.
For more on the festival go here, for more reporting on the festival go here.
Spring sale, get 25% off production costs on RevolveЯ from Magcloud, $4.88 & $12.15 each
Hey, so pardon the shilling again i’ve got another good deal on my newly launched Print on demand book and art print offerings…
So yep there’s still a sale on all Society6 prints and cards, everything they make except the canvases and framed prints, you can get free shipping till Sunday. So the sticker price is the deal, quite a bit of savings potentially. My stuff is priced starting at $14 to $16 us. Check out the line i have set up there, i’m sure you’ll find something you like, or you can get something for that someone special. They have gift cards too.
To add to that offering, i also have a Mothers Day sale going till the 13th of May on Magcloud. So you can get both issues of my comix anthology RevolveЯ for 25% off the production costs! Basically the bulk 20 or more order deal for smaller orders.
Makes them just $4.88 & $12.15 each!
They come with a free digital issue too for your devices. Or just get the digital edition for 99 cents.
Full free previews on site of both issues.
So hey, help me support my independent publishing ventures by buying these for yourself, and letting the local comic shops know about the deal too – the brake on smaller ordering might encourage them to try the books out with a small batch of 5 or so each? Going to try to spread the word myself now, but i could really use the help from my readers too. Thanks!
By Salgood Sam in RevolveЯ
28 pages, published 4 MAR 2012
By Salgood Sam in RevolveЯ
52 pages, published 27 SEP 2011
Free shipping on the society6 prints this week…
Just noticed this last night, for the next week all shipping is free to anywhere, for society6 purchases.
So hey you can get my cheaply prints for $14 to $16 [us] for pretty much just that each.
They make nice looking stuff. This is their pitch.
“The artwork on Society6 is created by thousands of artists from around the world. When you buy a product from Society6, we produce it using only the highest quality materials, and ship it to you on behalf of the artist.”
I want to get one of My winged M1 from therefore repent on canvas 36″x22″ to hang over my desk. yeah… no free shiping for that yet though. But hey, if i sell enough prints maybe i can afford to get myself the big canvas! Hmmm. Ok, back to work.
My collection on society6, bellow a gallery of the set to consider, please consider my offerings for your home decorating needs! And yes i do take privet commissions. Check here for basic rates.
Early Zines
Have to digitize a few of them still, will add more to this in the future. But here’s a sketch book zine and a couple of pdf copies of old illustrated Lit zines i published way way back in the day.
A sketchbook journal titled CscdcC, I’ve cut the slightly embarrassing unworthy early attempts to write from this, but most of it’s there still. The fire damage is intentional. I really like working with fire, been a while since I torched any pages in my sketchbooks but I love the shapes it makes and the smoky pasterns. At the time here I’d use it to alter the shape of the page and then improvise around it. Fun way to change the way you relate to page.
Grab the popular CDisplay reader here for the CBR version. Also if you just re-write the .cbr for .zip you can pull the jpg files out of the archive.
Nisrigion.
A lit zine I illustrated, designed and published with my buddy Jonathan Sugarman [J.F.Sugerman].
The PDF of 2 features both the alternate covers for the issue, and the conclusion to J.F.Sugerman’s futurists gonzo dystopian play Drowning.
We published it in two parts. A third issue was in the works, but it never reached fruition.
Nisrigion one. - Nisrigion two.
The Italian Machine Project on redbubble.com
I’ve been exploring different avenues of making prints & things available online, little late to the game, there are a few interesting options.
I’ve decided that RedBubble is a good fit for publishing a few of Lionel’s photos.
I’ve just finished setting up the first 12 images I selected to publish, I think they make a nice set, looking forward to getting some of them as large prints for my house myself!
A little back story…
An archive of the words & pictures of Lionel Douglas 1944 -1979
A rare, complex being was Lionel Douglas. An activist in the truest sense, he was a surfer of the mind who greeted life with aplomb, satiric wit, and celebration. His photographs, born of light, display the extrovert, the polished eye of objectivity. His poems, born on the kitchen table, reveal the introspective ear, bent to the mystery of his own being. Just as he could intuit the heart of a Ducati 750, he made a vehicle of his insight into the human psyche.
— JOHN DOUGLAS [close freind]
Lionel Douglas was my father. He died in 1979, cutting short an intense and creative life.
I’ve been thinking I’d like to develop a memoir project about Lionel for a while now. & I’ve wanted to digitize his body of work, both for public consumption and for my own reference. The Italian Machine Project site has grown out of that.
After the first year of posting there is a huge archive of his work online, photos never seen since the negatives were packed away in 1969. Lionel was very active in Toronto in his youth so the first negatives i’ve been scanning document some of the headiness and culture of Toronto’s arts and Music scene, underground counter culture, and life in the streets in general.
He had a real talent for capturing moments, it’s been a joy documenting his work and cleaning up choice images to bring to the public. This first set of photos can now be ordered on cards, posters or prints, in a large range of sizes and framing/mounting options. They will make beautiful additions to any home.
Funds initially will go towards a medium format scanner with which to complete the proses of archiving all Lionel’s work.
carte blanche 14, the print on demand / digital edition!
Hi, I got news!
As some will know aside from being a cartoonist and intermittent blogger at sequential, for the last little while I’ve been editor @ http://carte-blanche.org, of graphic fiction [comics and other visual narratives, but basically comics].
Since I joined the magazine there has been talk of doing an print edition of some kind. We’ll here it is, least our first foray into it. We’re using HP’s print on demand service to publish our first hard edition, carte blanche 14: Obsessions.
I’ve used the service a couple of times now, it’s really good, commercial quality printing on good paper, I kind of wanted to do perfect bound but we wanted to make it cheep. 12.99.
I’ve ended up all over this thing, in a good way I hope. The theme-one of several suggested–the first thing out of my head and seemed to end up resonating the most with Ed in chief Maria Turner and the rest of my fellow editors. Not to take credit for it but then it became a bit of a obsession/preoccupation of my own as I took on the job of designing the magazine.
I enjoy this kind of work in general but it’s rare to have so much, i think quality material to work with. When i sat down with the full contents to read through them in full before starting the layouts, I was pretty blown away with it all. In part to satisfy my notions for the magazine & in part in response to reading the stories, I did 9 new illustrations for the issue to accompany the design. They join a short comics story A Sunrise by Daniel Ha. Pieces, another comic, by Ainsley Olsen. Paired by photographer Aurora Ira. Cover art and design elements by Billy Mavreas. And writing by Jaclyn Watterson, Clint Walker, Kathleen Winter, AC Fraser, Donna Caruso, Cynthia Dockrell, Janet Smith, Kathy Page, Rusty Morrison, Julie Mahfood, Lesley Pasquin, Priscila Uppal, Michelle Barker, Gillian Sze, Pablo Strauss Translating Raymond Bock. John Taylor Translating José-Flore Tappy. And a Q&A with Kathleen Winter!
12.99 + shipping, comes with a free digital edition, which if you like you can buy for $5 on it’s own.
Max
Press release from: carte blanche
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Subject: carte blanche introduces new formats
A look at what’s happening at carte blanche.
You asked for it and now we’ve delivered. carte blanche is very excited to announce the launch of our print-on-demand and digital magazine!
Purchase a digital copy and enjoy our Fall Issue (#14) on the reader of your choice, or get a print copy mailed directly to you and peruse it at your leisure.
Available via MagCloud: (When you buy the print magazine, you’ll also receive a digital copy free.)
As a special bonus, you get beautiful illustrations by our graphic fiction editor Salgood Sam, and unique cover art by Montreal artist Billy Mavreas in addition to all of the wonderful stories, poems and essays from Issue 14.
And our exclusive audio content is still online at www.carte-blanche.org. Let us know what you think!
Happy reading,
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Last call for submissions! : carte blanche 15
A reminder to all my cartoonist and doodling freinds, the submissions deadline for Issue #15 of carte blanche are coming up soon! March 1st, so you’ve got about half a month to go.
There is more than one way to tell a story.
Carte Blanche would like to know how you would!
There’s no theme for this issue, it’s wide open. There is a small honorarium, and you retain all rights to your work.
Stories can be 1 to 25 pages long – If you want to hit us up with something longer write first before submitting. We accept original submissions through our online submission form. See here for instructions. If you have problems using our submission form, please send us an email.
We’re looking for ‘grafic fcition’ anywhere from a page to 25 pages long, ideally has not been widly publshed yet, or seen at all perhapse? It could be an exerpt of a longer peice if you’re working on a graphic novel?
There’s no theme for this issue, and there is a small honorarium.
You retain all rights to your work, we just need a non-exclusive agreement that lets us publish it on the site, and possibly in a futrure print endition [we're putting out what we're calling our first 'pilot' edition of carte blanche with issue 14]
This is an international call, you don’t have to be local to us at all [Montreal].
Checkout the site for our current and past issues. http://carte-blanche.org/
We’ve recently merged with Tally Abecassis’s This Really Happened. A live nonfiction storytelling series. Which means we now have some great spoken word stories, along with fiction, nonfiction, peotry, photography, and graphic fiction!
For an idea of our editor’s taste in sequential art [that would be me, max douglas aka Salgood Sam.] check out the last few stories we’ve published. Stories by Daniel Ha, Ainsley Olsen, James Romberger, Shannon Wheeler, Nina Bunjevac, Mara Sternberg, & Dustin Harbin!
So, Do you have a story to tell?
Work Diary: Title card art for Dream Life and reference photos for act 3
Hey all, just a update for the site here about what’s up for the new year.
I’ve got a lot on my plate, trying to prioritize things and be more organised than the last couple months. 
Something to check out, on Carte Blanche we’ve posted a spoken work clip from the launch of issue 14.
“Bring the Doll to Life” was told by Taylor Tower at our storytelling evening, This Really Happened, at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011.
We’ll be presenting regular audio content from now on, keep your eyes out for the next This Really Happened.
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For Dream Life i just completed the second act!
Woot!
And posted the tittle card for act two : here’s a rough comp on the left of that, and on the right if you click through you’ll get the full final act.
Wrestling with the layouts now of act 3. And some work on Vlad as well. Going to try to get out and walk every day, then sit and treat myself to something hot and sketch page layouts. Plan for the week . [23-27/01/12]
Been mulling over plans with Bryan and folks about what to do for Sequential’s 10th anniversary, problem for me is I’ll have less time than usual this year to give over to producing the magazine. Need to find a designer[s] and funding solutions if Sequential Pulp is going to happen or be a part of the festivities. Anyone interested in participating should drop me a line. I’ll be posting a more formal note about this on the site later in the week.
Latest Illustrations…
Some spot illos i’ve been doing for a magazine…
Dream Life pg 92 & CH0-004 : “downtown”
Trying out this web tool, a simulated mix tape site.
Fun, limited but easy to use.
Still not quite the same
as mastering your own
analog tapes the way I used to,
but for a quickie it’s perfect.
By the by, a new page of Dream Life
is up today, check it out here!
2 hours of inking in 27 minutes
Filmed myself working last night and put it to some tunes…
The final art is posted here, and you’ll find several scans from rough thumbs to completion on my Flickr page here.
HENDRIX 03:05:69
I’ve posted about this project to archive and publish my father’s photos before, thought it was high time to share the latest cool find.
3 rolls of film of a historic Jimi Hendrix show, the night of May 3, 1969 at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Two rolls are up, next week or so i’ll post the last with news about further plans.
The first post is here, and the second here. I’ve still yet to scan the third, probably will do it next week.
The back story: Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix was arrested at Toronto International Airport on May 3, 1969 at 9:30 a.m. after customs found small amounts of heroin and hashish in his luggage. He claimed they were planted there. And he was acquitted later at trial. That night he made his gig, playing Maple Leaf Gardens. Lionel – my father – was there, he got some excellent shots.
I’m planing to publish a limited print run magazine, about 72 pages, not sure about the price but it will be a run of 200 only via MagCloud.
A BUSY WEEK! Expozine, Someday Funnies, & 3Macs carte blanche Prize!
Publishing a new Dream life page today, it’s a landmark, page 90! Just a pinch from 1/3rd done! I’m considering trying to put together the first 100 pages in some form for TCAF next year… Update: damn, the WP database seems to be down, wrote Ramon about it but till he fixes the site you can also read it here on G+ too.
Crazy week ahead for me.
Carte blanche 14 is live, and tonight is the 3Macs carte blanche prize! The three finalists are Howard Scott for his translation of Ex(o)ilium by Rodica Draghincescu. Gillian Sze, for her poem Like This Together. And Daniel Ha, for his story A Sunset! The juror for this year’s prize was Joseph Salvatore, author of To Assume a Pleasing Shape, and his choice will be posted on-line after the QWF galla tonight.
Tomorrow is the Launch of the Someday Funnies at the D+Q shop! Looking forward to that, i posted about it last week here.
The day after I give a talk to Kelly Tindall’s comics art class and spend a few hours subing with them in an inking workshop. Been thinking about teaching myself so looking forward to feeling it out filling in.
Then things get rolling for Expozine. Had fun last night coming up with a new light weight display for my prints.
Friday night there’s the Expozine 10th Anniversary and FOUR MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT launch! Going to try to make it to this year, sounds like fun.
Then Saturday & Sunday, I’ll be planted at my table solo most of the time at EXPOZINE 2011! I’m bringing posters and books including 25 copies of the new colour RevolveЯ!
And Saturday night is the EXPOZINE 10th ANNIVERSARY PARTY! 8 p.m. – 3 a.m., Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent, free admission. If i have anything to spare energy wize i might stick my head in, but probably after a day on the floor I’ll be hitting the sac to get up early for day two. But sounds like fun for the bunnies, Music by J.A.S.S. (Jazz Amnesty Sound System).
So that’s the week!
Oh, and any time you feel like it, drop on by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to check out the free Big Bang exhibition, featuring along with a lot of other cool stuff, a huge room of B&W murals by En Masse, including a few square feet of art by me!
He he. Bellow is a nice set of shots of the walls, but it’s nothing like being there!
And check out this group shot. That’s not even the whole crew, 10 are missing!
The Someday Funnies and BIG BANG with En Masse!
Sometimes you get to find yourself amidst historical events.
I had a small part in two major things launching this November!
Last summer was it? I got a message from Michel Choquette asking if I was interested in doing some colouring work on The Someday Funnies.
I ended up being one of a hand full of Montreal artists who helped Michel put the final touches on his long delayed monster project, an amazing anthology of original strips about the 1960s! Word that it had found a new publisher followed an interview with TCJ about it.
It was an honour to get to work on the pages of some amazing artists like Herb Trimpe, Ralph Reese, Bill Griffith, Bill Lee, Ed McCormack, Ed Subitzky, Ay Jay, Stelling, Picha, and fucking Pierre Berton! To name a few. I’ve worked on collections of classic comics as a archivist/clean up artist before, and as an inker. But this was my first colouring job outside of my own work.
And the big news is it’s all done now, and the first launch parties are booked! Starting with here in Montreal, at the Paragraphe Bookstore
Montreal, Thursday, November 10 at 6 p.m.
Choquette’s audio-visual presentation of the backstory will be given at the McGill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish.
Followed by a book signing just down the hill at Paragraphe Librairie / Bookstore. 2220 McGill College
Toronto, Saturday, November the 19th.
No details yet but hosted by The Beguiling. 601 Markham Street.
And then back in Montreal for November the 23rd.
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly around 7pm. No details yet. 211 Rue Bernard Ouest.
handily the one at Paragraph is close to home for me! And I just need to get out more often so going to try to make both. See you there!
And while in Downtown Montreal, swing by to see…
En Masse @ Big Bang!
En Masse is a loose collective of mostly Montreal artists run by Jason Botkin, Fred Caron & Rupert Bottenberg. Along with a large core group of artists and occasional stringers they’ve been putting up eye pooping B&W murals all over the place for a while now.
I’ve joined in the fun once before, and last week they invited me to once more, for a show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts!
Awesome.
A big gang of us covered the walls of one of the large gallery rooms with wild drawings. Only wish I had more energy at the time. I took a few shots with my phone the days I was involved, and my partner Angela got some of the final show the night of the Vernissage. And here’s a clip of the over all.
Had fun at the launch of Big Bang. I’ve got just a few square feet in this, i was not totally pleased with what i did but the great thing about these collaborations is someone will polish off something a bit unfinished if your not feeling it. The thing is amazing, much thanks to the gang for having me join in a little!
This was the work of: Andrew DaSilva, Antoine Tavaglione, Astro, Billy Mavreas, Carlos Santos, Caro Caron, Chris Dyer, David Samson, Dewey Thang Nguyen, Beef Oreo, Fred Caron, Fred Casia, Gene Pendon, Jason Botkin, Jason Wasserman, Kevin Ledo, Kirsten McCrea, Krista Bursey, Lisa Czech, Mark Unterberger, Melissa Del Pinto, Étienne Chartrand, Olivier Roy, Pascal Rodrigue, Peru Dyer, Peter Ferguson, Raphaele Bard, Rupert Bottenberg, Salgood Sam, Tyler Rauman, Tyson Bodnarchuk, Rage5, & Alan Ganev!
en masse
mbam.qc.ca: BIGB
safewalls.org: photos
Remastered RevolveЯ One
Hey, as you may well know I rebooted RevolveЯ last year as a web site, and now I finally got around to putting together a new colour edition of the first Vol.
Lot of the stories had been done in colour originally so this was always something I wanted to do. Thanks to the new larger form factor I had some space left over so there’s new content too. Check out the full on screen preview of the book on MagCloud!
Retailers; there’s a discount for bulk orders.
RevolveЯ One
By Salgood Sam
52 pages, Reissued in colour, 27 SEP 2011
$10 us or $1.50 for digital only.
20 or more, 25% off printing costs
This is a remastered colour 2nd ed of the 1st Volume.
With a little new back mater and larger format.
Seven short stories & assorted words & pictures, first published in B&W in 2004. Nominated Best Emerging Talent @ the Doug Wright Awards [2005] – Best First Issue in CBG’s Best of 2004 – & short listed in the 2005 Prix Expozine!
“[Salgood’s] buildings are magnificent things…” – Alan David Doane
“…clearly someone who is passionate about what he does … tries to blur the lines between comics and literature … RevolveЯ is a refreshing change of pace from the usual…” – John Martz
“Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas, master graphic storyteller. There you have it folks, he has given you a book. Go buy yourself a copy, buy one for a friend and be amazed. Truly one of our greatest talents.” – Guy Leshinski
Dream Life now weekly
Had a productive couple of weeks since FanExpo.
Been getting two to three pages done a week since, been in a good zone.
Decided to work on getting the book to a readable B&W stage asap, so to help I’m stopping short of colouring for a while, to help speed up the bulk of the work – Each time i stop to colour it feels like starting all over again when I go to the next page.
Waiting ’till later to do it cheats the pace i find, lets me move on faster for now. So as a result, Dream Life is back to regular posting and I think for a while i can up the pase; twice weekly!
Next tree weeks are already loaded up, you can peek into the future and see what I’m doing on G+ twitter or Facebook.
This latest page is one I really enjoyed coming up with – a peek inside Charlie’s anxieties via his media diet?
Fan Expo 2011 with the Royal Academy
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Lots to do still it feels like, but mostly just pack my personal stuff. Off for another fun week in my old home town of Toronto, for the massive FAN EXPO CANADA™!!
Here’s my page on their site.
Most of the books art and prints i’m taking are packed. I’ll have some copies of Therefore Repent, and some of the last copies of the old B&W RevolveЯ on hand. The first act of Dream Life. Some Sea of Red, Wonder Woman, & Ghostbusters books.
I’m bringing original art, trying to decide today how much, and what. And for sure I still have 4 or 5 of each of my last series of prints!
They went over very well at TCAF, hope I might be able to sell the rest of them this week. There’s a gallery of the posters at the bottom of this post.
I’ll be joining some of the TX creators and other members of the RAID studio at the Royal Academy booth, with an incredibly talented group of yahoo’s and layabouts. Kalman Andrasofszky, Andy Belanger, Willow Dawson, Scott Hepburn, Conor McCreery, Michael Cho, Rob Coughler, Anthony Del Col, Eric Vedder, Joe Vriens & Kagan McLeod!
UPDATE: If that wasn’t enough just heard that Becky Cloonan will be setting up with us in the Royal Academy section, presenting her book WOLVES along with other goodies.
You’ll find us all right next to Koyama Press, at tables 112/114/116. I’ve made a map from the one provided by the convention here, showing where you can find us. we’re right past the food court, near the front entrance. If you want to reach me at the show the best bet aside from showing up at my table, is to email me. Hope to see you there, and buy some of my stuff! 
carte blanche deadline is September 15th
A reminder to all cartoonists, the submissions deadline for Issue #14 of carte blanche are coming up in a month!
The Issue’s special feature is on Obsessions.
From your vintage stapler collection to spying on your exes,
we want to know about your passions, compulsions, and preoccupations!
The Theme is optional but it will win you brownie points if you can fit it.
Submission deadline is September 15th, 2011.
Being published in carte blance will put you in good company, our previous published graphic fiction submissions include stories by James Romberger, Shannon Wheeler, Nina Bunjevac, Mara Sternberg, & Dustin Harbin!
- -Submission can be between 1 and 20 pages! For anything longer please send a query first.
- -Original work, previously unpublished or limited [like on your web site] published stories.
- -Contributors receive a $45 honorarium per published piece on carte-blanche.org. And since I began editing I’ve published a set of the runner-up comics on Sequential too, with the permission of the creators of course.
Check out the submission guidelines for more information.
Please indicate in your cover letter if your your work is themed for the feature on obsessions.
Attention!: All submissions from Quebec residents that are selected for publication in carte blanche are eligible for the 3Macs carte blanche Prize ($300) sponsored by MacDougall, MacDougall, & MacTier Inc.
PS: carte blanche also is looking for submissions of Fiction and Nonfiction, Poetry, Translations, & Photography! Check out the submissions page for details!
PPS: carte blanche is a not-for-profit journal published by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. We rely on funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the support of individual sponsors. Our editorial staff is largely volunteer and generously donate their time to keep carte blanche going.
You can help us cover costs by donating to carte blanche. Your donation will help us pay our contributors honorariums, update our website, and explore new ways of distributing carte blanche (e.g. print-on-demand, apps, and eBooks). Any size donation is greatly appreciated
Some new old photos on the Italian Machine
Getting settled into the new studio space set up, and back into work routines.
Some pencilling going on, I’ll share some of that later today.
Last night I posted some more of Lionel’s photos.
Two sets, one of a out door concert put on by CHUM radio, and one of people hanging out, I think before and after a Frank Zappa show — photos of which will be going up on the site soon too.
The one I’m posting here below is significant for animation geeks, this is a young Clive A. Smith, director and co founder of Nelvana Studios in Toronto.
He was a friend of my parents and much later my mother would work at Nelvana starting out on Rock and Rule [poster on the right] and going on to be a senior director there for several years before going freelance. You can check out here work on this site.
As a result I had the good fortune to get to grow up running around a large animation studio from when I was 9 till 15 or so when I stopped going as often. Later I also worked there myself a couple of times as a designer. It would be an understatement to call that a formative experience. My first sexy girl drawings were attempts to reproduce drawings of Angel from the studio character sheets when I was 10 or so.
Call for comics on Obsessions
At carte blanche, where I serve as Graphic Fiction Editor, we are now open to submissions for the Fall Issue, #14!
The Issue will include a special feature on Obsessions.
From your vintage stapler collection to spying on your exes,
we want to know about your passions, compulsions, and preoccupations!
The Theme is optional but it will win you brownie points if you can fit it.
Submission deadline is September 15th, 2011.
Submission can be between 1 and 20 pages! For anything longer please send a query first.
Contributors receive a $45 honorarium per published piece on carte-blanche.org,
and since I began editing I’ve published a set of the runner-up comics here on Sequential too.
Check out the submission guidelines for more information.
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Honour Bound – The Exile of Adolf Busch
I worked on the art for this last year, the music is by the ARC Ensemble of the Royal Conservatory, enjoyed it mostly. Directed by James Murdoch and produced by Simon Wynberg and James Murdoch. To be honest I’m not entirely happy with how the art was animated, would love to have a go at that myself some time. But the short has been well received and is now officially up on the ARC site after it’s run on BRAVO. You can check out a full gallery of the art from this project here.
Work diary update | been busy!
{suggested listening | CBC’s The Signal w Laurie Brown The Signal}
Despite getting cleaned out by some kind of gastro bug last weekend and taking a day and a bit to sleep off the effects, I’ve been pretty happy with the pace on work last little while.
By Sunday I already had the next Dream Life page coloured and lettered [seen here in B&W] and composed this new version of Joseph’s sketches for Pin City – also for this coming weekend. Since then I’ve also mostly coloured another page, and done some prep work for other things. If I can keep this up I might actually get these monsters done! At the lest by the end of the week I should have a month of web comics posts backlogged.
For father’s day sort of, I put up some new posts on Lionel’s site, some photos and some poems. And have been talking to a few old friends of Lionel’s and some luminaries of the Canadian theatre trying to identify the play in the photos – so far no luck.
I’ve also been working on the site here, building new proper pages/galleries for my past comics work, under the menu you’ll fine ones for Ghostbusters Holiday Special: Tainted Love, REVOLUTION on the PLANET OF THE APES, Therefore Repent! & and one for Sea of Red I put up last week. That last one has hidden treasures. ;)
Emily Carroll won the Shuster for Outstanding Web Comics Creator /Créateur Exceptionnel de Bandes Dessinées Web – her work is well deserving of the honour. Looks like she got her site set up a bit more sorted out in time for the award, it used to be hard to find the comics but now it’s really nice and clean, check them out! Wish I could have made it to Calgary for the wards and the con, sounds like it was a fun show.
My Saturday morning cartoons | Dream Life & Pin City
Been at the desk a lot this week trying to get ahead of myself for a change. So far so good. First things first, new pages are up on my comics sites…
Dream Life page 71 is here,
And on RevolveЯ, Pin City continues as well…
And a peek ahead, after the jump you can check out my pencils for some upcoming pages of Dream Life.
New Dream Life, old Pin City, and other things I’m up to.
How ya been? I’ve been busy, doing shows like TCAF always take it out of me.
Takes a while to get back into the routine and catch up. I warmed up by rebuilding my home web page here, like the new look. Really converted to WP in a big way [have five sites working on the platform now] and i’m loving the themes from graphpaperpress.com [this is one with a few small mods and so is this and this]. I’ve installed wpStoreCart, working on building one now, wondering what kind of things to sell? Would love to have some feed back from you all. I’ve got posters and some books to start, anyone interested in that? What other sort of things would you be interested in?
Ok, comics, comics, comics.
Dream Life, page 70
On Revolver, PIN CITY, with new lettering.
And that’s just to start!
The newest edition of Carte Blanche is up – I’m the graphic fiction editor there. For lucky #13 we are happy to present a special feature on CRISIS. There’s a lot of great stuff in the issue, including two excellent graphic fictions stories by some heavy hitters.
From the Eisner Award–winning creator of ‘Too Much Coffee Man’,
Shannon Wheeler, a classic gag comic, ‘Oil Spill’.
And from James Romberger, of ‘Seven Miles A Second’, ’2020 Visions’,
‘Bronx Kill’, and ‘Aaron and Ahmed’, we are very proud to present
a 16 page short story, called ‘Raymond’.
We had many other excellent submissions we couldn’t accept,
but i’m pleased to present a few of them on Sequential HERE instead!
That’s two pages of my own comics and 5 other short stories!
PS: My editor In chief says we’ve not gotten enough feed back from the comics crowd yet so if you check out the site, take a second to tell carte blanche what you think about about it by filling out their short readers’ survey.
