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Connie and Matilda are back!
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“Bechdel-Style Two-Colour Printing,” a reverse-engineered tutorial. The full comic that I made with this technique can be found here.
And, hey! if you want to buy the entire two-colour sea-themed anthology it will be in, we’re running a fundraiser with pre-orders for it until June 1st.
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An article I wrote for my good friends at Bettery Magazine detailing my experience in Iran, and the admitted absurdity of my initial expectations: http://bit.ly/14kLP9G
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Here is the next page of A Mad Tea-Party.
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Artist Spotlight/Waterlogged Preview!
Surely you know this man! How could you not, he’s walked Vancouver enough to have circumnavigated it 200 times! He’s a guaranteed guest at your art show! He’s Colin Upton!
This is a man who’s been making comics since some of us were in short pants, and it shows! Sometimes auto-biographical, sometimes fantastical, sometimes vengeful, his comics are always super fun to read. Visit his site here: http://www.colinupton.com/
or read some his comics in our webcomics section: http://www.cloudscapecomics.com/webcomics/
Or heck, just buy Waterlogged to read ‘The Tea Pirates’: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/waterlogged-tales-from-the-seventh-sea -
How Quebec Cree avoided the fate of Attawapiskat
The Cree of northern Quebec are writing a startlingly different story than their cousins in Attawapiskat and Keshechewan on the western shore of James Bay, with decent schools and development rather than flooding and despair. Terry Milewski talks to Quebec Cree leaders about their different path.
I don’t think you can take one success story and just copy it in other places and have any guarantee that it will succeed, but nevertheless, a really good success story like this one CAN be instructive. If you stop treating isolated First Nations communities like colonial vassals of the state while pretending that’s not what you’re doing at all, and instead treat their elected leaders like legitimate governments, everybody wins.
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Only two of these great collections left! Grab it while you can here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/waterlogged-tales-from-the-seventh-sea?c=home
We’re starting to get pretty close to our goal, with only 18 days left!
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Diabetes Funnies #2
2008
Black Prismacolour coloured pencil on sketchbook paper
Because of the rapid weight loss required to get the diabetes under control (and to get me off the diabetes medicines, I don’t like drugs) made me think a lot about body image and self-image. I was actually disturbed that I would no longer resemble the character i was in my comics, wondering if anyone would still recgonise me from my drawings. There was a period were I was quite gaunt, although I’ve regained some of the weight. Having to buy new clothes all the time really sucked, although I have a series of pants for the most part I use the shirts I wore before losing the weight. Notice that even though the first Diabetes Funnies was inked in brush marker and marker from now the DF would be “inked” in black Prismacolour coloured pencil, a much more urgent and loose drawing instrument.
Please note that this mini-comic and many others are available from Colin Upton Comics - colinupton@telus.net - both individually and in sets at reasonable prices.
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I love the inclusion of modern technology into the scene. It’s wonderful.
Yes, this is exactly what I’m trying to do with secret project number one.
Yes, perfect. Good.
sudden flashbacks to Everworld
This is a thing that I’ve been dwelling on: the alternative development of aesthetics.
The short and sweet version is that we tend to associate certain patterns of clothing, decoration, and ritual with different kinds of behavior. It’s a worldwide thing, and mostly unconscious. Men around the world wear European suits when they’re doing business, unless they have a particular reason not to. Facial tattoos are for ‘primitive’ tribes and members of Western countercultures. Essentially the same furniture and building styles are seen throughout the wealthy parts of the world, and showing the different methods used by other cultures is meant to show how primitive they are.
This is all, of course, horseshit. Art, fashion, motifs—they’re all just the window-dressing of a culture, and say little about how advanced or worthwhile it is. The prevalence of European styles in architecture and clothing isn’t because they’re just better than the rest of the world’s styles, it’s because European culturally brutalized the rest of the world and other cultures had to change to blend in.
What if things had turned out differently? What if some culture had stood as another example of what could be? What if more and more advanced technology had been molded into those alternate aesthetics? What might the world have seen?
(Slightly tangentally: This is why I’m okay with Zecora in MLP. Her aesthetic is indicative that there are cultures in that world that haven’t been homogenized by imperialism. That seems like an excellent thing.)
(Good) Mesoamerican-themed art always gets reposted.
(via fantasyofcolor)
As our search for the lost city dragged on, the party began to come apart. The hardships, the wild animals, the disease, these things we had come prepared for. It was the madness of our captain that would spell our doom.
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