April 2011
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A love letter to NoBrow Press
I think it’s pretty easy these days for comics fans to worry about the state of print, especially as larger publishers that only a few years ago started scooping up cartoonists are now cutting back on their graphic novel output.
But if my recent trip to New York’s MoCCA art fest and the upcoming TCAF in Toronto are any indication, print is alive and well in the small press world.
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Watchinspcollection:
Latest reel from Animator and Designer Claudio Salas.
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“That is, you see a picture of Jackson Pollock smoking a cigarette and looking...”
– Pippin Barr, The Meta-Aesthetics of Artists: how emulating the habits of successful artists is not the key to making art.
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Photobooth Reference →
A Tumblr blog where Illustrators submit photos they’ve taken of themselves as reference in their work. What is that, like, triple-meta?
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Jamie Baldridge →
Imagine a mash up of steampunk, Vermeer, and Dada, and you’ve got the photography of Jamie Baldridge. Disturbingly beautiful.
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Toronto Mini Maker Faire
The upcoming Toronto Mini Maker Faire is at 50% of its funding goal on Ulule (a Kickstarter-like website). Mini Maker Faires are a great venue for artists, hackers, crafters, and creative DIY folk. The event is a lot of work, so this kind of funding is integral. To help, I’m offering original watercolour drawings of robots (fitting, no?) to anyone who donates $25 or more to the project....
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“Nothing good can come out of dishonesty”: An... →
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New database of Victorian magazines →
This is a new database being built by people at Ryerson University in Toronto. They are digitizing The Yellow Book and other Victorian magazines, with links to related scholarly resources. Yellow Book is where Aubrey Beardsley really made his work known. Keep checking back over the coming months and years for more.
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Cool little known reference books on vintage... →
Since we Canadians are coming up to an election I thought I’d share something patriotic. Unless you are a postcard collector you probably won’t come across these books. They’re produced by Michael J. Smith, who has been collecting vintage Canadian postcards for a loooong time. Although written for collectors and focusing mainly on cataloguing, the book I just bought has 900...
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Phil McAndrew is Making a Book
philmcandrew:
But I need your help!
By pledging money, you’ll be buying me the time to give this project the undivided attention that it deserves. You’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you helped an up-and-coming cartoonist put out his first book. You’ll also get some really great swag. For more info, check out the kickstarter page!
Spread the word, my friends!
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The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why... →
“….Comics Chronicle last aggregated and estimated figures for direct comics, trade paperbacks, and magazines … for the year 2009. The total came to $428 million….”
BUT… then there’s the part readers of Drawn will be all too familiar with.
Image: Mitch O’Connell
