Happy Holidays everyone. Did this drawing in honor of the season. It's Generic Holiday Claus, perched atop his Level 5 mount, preparing to rain both terror and merriment in equal measure on all the children of the world. While I don't actually celebrate Christmas, I appreciate the veneer of it. Outside the commercial and religious aspects, I think the atmosphere is actually kind of nice. Besides, it's hard not to get behind a time of the year that encourages you to spend time with your family and be nice to people, especially when it's so dang cold outside.
So Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Joyous Kwanza, Happy Solstice, and all those things! And remember - without mass market holidays, our economy would collapse! See you in the New Year. Stay classy.
Hey all! Sorry for the lack of updates this past month or so. I'm gonna level with you, I've been starting to delve a lot deeper into my work as of late. This might mean a slight decrease in the regularity of some of my posting for a little while (though hopefully not quite to the recent extent). Please don't take this as a sign of neglect! I still love you, Internet! I just need to ride this wave of recent creativity to its natural end before I can return in full force. In the meanwhile, here are a couple of quick things I've been up to this past month!
The above is a photo from a few weeks back, when I had a chance to speak to a couple of classes of grade 7 and 8 students at King Edward Public School. They recently completed a unit on comics, and had invited me in to talk about the craft, and what it's like to work on comics all day everyday (in brief: it's pretty awesome). It doesn't take much in general to get me excited about talking about comics with any age group, but these students came off as particularly bright and eager and were a real pleasure to talk to. Big thank you to Miss Venn for inviting me, and creating this opportunity.
Then secondly, because I have trouble bringing myself to put up a blog post without some actual drawing in it, here's an excerpt of some recent work I've been doing for the upcoming documentary Cartoon College. It's a documentary about the comics school I went to, as well as about cartooning in general, and is full of some exceptionally awesome people (including Chris Ware, Lynda Barry and Art Spiegelman, to name drop a few).
I'm in it as well - likely acting like a generally silly dude, as is my wont. I'm fairly proud of some of the drawing I recently completed for it though, which is perhaps a thing of note. Anyway, more on all that as the film approaches completion and release, but keep checking here for updates as time goes on.
