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So here's the front and back cover for my biography of William Seabrook. Coming in January 2017 from Drawn and Quarterly. 300 pages duotone.<br />
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-56295573481905610112015-06-24T11:34:00.002-07:002015-06-24T11:34:40.914-07:00ripped off juvenaliaI (badly) copies these Arthur Sudyam pages from Marvel's Epic Magazine when I was maybe 12 or 13.<br />
I remember showing friends and passing these off as my own work. What a turd I was. I always felt guilty about that looking back. I got to meet Mr. Sudyam at a convention once and told him and apologized. He just laughed.<br />
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ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-26926610114875631132015-06-20T19:16:00.003-07:002015-06-20T19:48:21.203-07:00seabrook book spreads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm still working away at old Seabrook. Some spreads.<br />
Three scenes, Haiti, Africa and New York City.</div>
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-17193000292687927072015-05-12T06:25:00.005-07:002015-05-12T07:19:20.909-07:00TCAF 2015 Report: blurry photos, yes, but lots of them.<div style="text-align: left;">
Good ol' TCAF is over here's my tired, footsore report. </div>
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This seemed like the biggest, best-attended version of </div>
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an already enormous festival and it runs smoothly </div>
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because of the great organization and the millions of </div>
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cheery volunteers. Thanks and congratulations to the Library,<br />
Peter, Chris, Andrew, Miles and everyone involved<br />
in forming this elaborate, giant human pyramid.<br />
(amended: File under, I'm Senile and a monster:<br />
Forgot to mention, Conundrum's Meags Fitzgerald<br />
won The Nipper at the DWAs for Photobooth AND<br />
congrats to Drawn & Quarterly for 25 years of making<br />
great comics, AND Peggy Burns taking over from<br />
Chris Oliveros as publisher and Chris returning to drawing comics (yay!).<br />
Congrats to all of you and I don't have any photos.</div>
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with Andy's iceberg lettuce “bun.” </div>
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Which inspired another shitty noo yorger cartoon (below).</div>
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assembles his pan flute, getting ready to kick out the Peruvian jams.<br />
His Diary Comics from Koyama is beautiful, buy it!</td></tr>
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Team Koyama won at pervy scrabble.</div>
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This was the ONE book I had to get at TCAF, </div>
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a new comic from one of my favourite cartoonists in the world.</div>
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The great Jordan Crane signs his new book. </div>
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How did I get the shot from this angle? </div>
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Yeah, I got behind his table and was being a pest in general.</div>
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but honch sounds better) Brad McKay,<br />
duplicating those old celebrity reading about them <br />
self in Mad Magazine's letter page,<br />
imagine “Brook Shields reacts to our version of The Blue Buffoon.”.<br />
(that's frontier he's holding from Ryan Sand's Youth in Decline. <br />
Ryan has impeccable taste as a publisher<br />
and gathers the absolute best artists. Jillian Tamaki's in issue 7 <br />
was the best story I'd read in a long time, and Emily Carroll's story<br />
in issue 6, made the hair on my arms stand up. A comic book did that! <br />
That has never happened to me before.<br />
So good!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">The fantastic Nina Bunjevac,<br />
won the Doug Wright best book award for the wonderful Fatherland,<br />
and Lynda Effing Barry presented it to her!!<br />
This is Nina, kindly signing her Conundrum book, Heartless,<br />
dressed as one of the stars of Fellini's 8-1/2<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Cartoonist, and dreamboat, Pascal Girard<br />
unveiled his new longer hair to the crowd's audible swoon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Non-stylish, hiking shoes are your feet's best friend,<br />
when “sitting isn't selling” is the old guys' buzzword at these things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine. I never get over how<br />
TCAF makes me giddy,with my favourite cartoonists <br />
in the world are just standing around chatting <br />
like normal people. and me skulking around taking their photos.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">National treasure, good old Jeet Heer and daughter Bella.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Good cartoonist, good kid, Dakota McFadzean.<br />
He's one tenth of my age, but grows a more manly beard.<br />
No one said life would be fair, but seriously, his beard is bullshit, he's like 17.<br />
I'm 77, where's my facial hair? His new Conundrum book,<br />
Don't Get Eaten by Anything, comprising<br />
3 years of daily comics is both impressive and fantastically funny!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Good buddy, and fellow Hamiltonian, the great Dave Collier.<br />
Dave did a great job presenting at the Doug Wright Awards.<br />
Dave's hard at work on a new book for Conundrum!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Good people! Hope Nicolson, R Sikoryak and Kriota Wilberg.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">The smashing Jessica Campbell and equally smashing, <br />
Zach Worton shooting the shite, yeah, I used to live in Montreal too, guys.<br />
Zach's new Conundrum book, The Disappearance of Charlie Butters is great, buy it!<br />
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Jordan Shiveley and Ed Kanerva find the convention</div>
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badges too heavy for their pencil-thin necks.</div>
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ha ha, both lovely dudes. </div>
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but both physically frail.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Robert Sergel and Leon Avelino from Secret Acres.<br />
Nice guys. Leon called the Doug Wright Awards “the Dougies,” Which I thought was great and appropriately evokes Bob and Doug MacKenzie.<br />
Robert was right behind us, and conventions are like this,<br />
I suddenly realize he creates Eschew, a comic I love. Got the new issue.<br />
The new issue of Eschew.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">My daughter Liz dropped by, looking stylish, while my hair looks<br />
like the hill billy kid's in Richie Rich comics.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Saw mom on sunday mother's day before the show.<br />
She pretended she got a phone call so I would leave.<br />
The show doesn't start til 11 today, mom!<br />
I gotta take this call, son.<br />
but mom, the phone didn't…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">it's over. this empty crumpled cup represents something…<br />
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ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-50769709654167082952015-04-13T10:06:00.000-07:002015-04-13T10:06:24.560-07:00Mocca 2015It was a fun weekend with my homeboy and publisher (I also think a lot of people think we're married as well) Andy Brown of <a href="http://www.conundrumpress.com/" target="_blank">Conundrum Press</a> in NYC at Mocca.<br />
Andy already beat me to an action-packed recap of the weekend <a href="http://www.conundrumpress.com/events/mocaa-fest/" target="_blank">here</a>. And the smashing Heidi Macdonald also has a great post <a href="http://www.comicsbeat.com/mocca-2015-in-pictures/" target="_blank">here</a>. Look, I got the same pictures and they stole all the good jokes, so this Mocca report is gonna be a real sad sack.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I met Andy at the Toronto Airport. “I'll be wearing a professorial <br />corduroy jacket” he told me. <br />He would later be taunted by NYC thugs who derisively called him “patches.” </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Setting up is a sweaty, anxious business. <br />Oh my God, too many books, oh my god, not enough books.<br />It always works out.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See, it's fine. Let's do this. Nice venue, lots of light. <br />I liked the dark Armoury too though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love these two. Two of the nicest and best publishers in Canada.<br />and the order of Canada goes to Annie Koyama and Andrew Brown.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cutie buddies. Jeez. love.<br />Deforge updated me on the whole <a href="http://www.michael-deforge.com/blog/2015/3/7/best-butter-tart-festival" target="_blank">butter tart affair</a>. <br />It's for real and it's on. I think I'm going to attend.<br />I am also going to get Michael one of my mom's butter tarts.<br />You know who makes the best butter tarts? My mom. <br />(I know that's a Regular Show reference and he's not affiliated with them, relax!)<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">braaaaains… I mean, boooooks… excited crowds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old pal, Jillian Tamaki signs copies of her <br />Conundrum book, Gilded Lilies.<br />Great to see her and get her <a href="http://www.youthindecline.com/" target="_blank">Youth in Decline</a> book<br />which she signed to“old Joe.” Jillian is the best.<br />It was good to meet Ryan Sands, who is lovely and is publishing <br />some of the most exciting comics out there. <br />He also has books by Sam Alden and Emily Carrol <br />which I have to get, they look insanely good.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dakota, one of my favourite people and a great cartoonist, at work on more daily comics<br />People were very excited about his new Conundrum book, <a href="http://www.conundrumpress.com/news/dailies-preview/" target="_blank">Don't Get Eaten by Anything.</a><br />Handsome smiling guy is Andrew Warner, cartoonist and publisher of the excellent anthology <a href="http://irenecomics.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Irene</a> .<br />He let Conundrum use and abuse his credit card swiper and saved our asses and was completely<br />kind and gracious about it. Glad to have got to meet him.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-48882359832116384582014-10-25T18:51:00.001-07:002014-10-27T08:02:38.227-07:00Seabrook's Asylum William Seabrook has inexplicably been out of print for years. Thankfully, Dover Publications is remedying that, starting with a new edition of Asylum, Seabrook's true account of his stay in a mental hospital to cure his late-stage alcoholism.<br />
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I may have mentioned I'm working away at a graphic novel based on Seabrook's life and I'm excited that I'll be doing the cover for this new Dover edition of Asylum and will be writing an introduction in comic strip form for the book.<br />
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This is what the cover's looking like so far. And below that, are some of the roughs.<br />
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Asylum is one of the best of Seabrook's late career books. You should read this when it comes out!<br />
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I stayed with Pascal Girard in Montréal recently. Here's what he looks like these days.<br />
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This post it note, drawn by M. Girard, was left on the door to remind me to take the Montréal smoked meat out of the fridge for my mother-in-law.<br />
none of which is a euphemism for anything.ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-37956787851939774072014-09-02T07:14:00.002-07:002014-09-02T07:14:27.155-07:00sam in jasper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-53630476782602907372014-07-16T20:00:00.002-07:002014-07-16T20:00:51.611-07:00William Seabrook in HaitiI'm back drawing the biography of Seabrook, and he's in Haiti right now.<div>
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-91496198491188787672014-06-18T13:24:00.000-07:002014-06-18T13:24:26.982-07:00Seabrook chapter portraits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first two portraits of William Seabrook that I'll be using as chapter title pages in the book I'm doing. I'm set to get back to drawing again as the <a href="http://www.conundrumpress.com/forthcoming/happy-stories-about-well-adjusted-people/" target="_blank">Happy Stories About Well-Adjusted People</a> book design is done. The next chapter is set in Haiti. Seabrook's book <i>Adventures in Arabia</i> is a best-seller and he doesn't rest, but decides to write a book about voodoo and ends up living in Haiti with a voodoo priestess, Mama Celie for a couple of years. The book that comes out of Haiti, <i>The Magic Island</i> eventually will become the Bela Lugosi film <i>White Zombie</i>. As I have been telling anyone who will listen, Old Seabrook's claim to fame is that he is credited with introducing the word zombie to the English language.<br />
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-84391361527154532452014-05-21T12:42:00.004-07:002014-05-21T12:44:02.822-07:00fries and lies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-59576270276174313242014-05-14T07:13:00.003-07:002014-05-14T07:14:46.867-07:00The smuggest “nice” country on earth…An old strip about the myth of nice ol' humble ol' Canada. The bland, wolf-eyed devil Stephen Harper should have killed any last vestige of that old Canadian nationalism, masquerading as a humble pride.<br />
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ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-63690598451785502402014-05-12T11:17:00.000-07:002014-05-12T14:18:42.432-07:00Highest percentage of blurry photos in any TCAF report you'll read this year <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob Sikoryak! I love this guy! and one of the deftest, ablest, smartest and funniest cartoonists alive. I wish Bob was my neighbour too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lovely and talented Vincent Giard canNOT keeps his hands off me. He's another Brecht Evans. Yeah, those are my real teeth, not giant false ones. Can't believe how old I look in some of these photos, like this one below with me and Matt Forsythe:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(My grandkids, yeah, I have grandkids, think I look like the Colonel.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hollywood has NOT ruined these two guys. Another shot with old Buddy, the sweet and talented Matt Forsythe had a short nap on my shoulder.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Daughter Liz came out for a drink after she watched her old man lose the Doug Wright Awards. Julia from D & Q sat next to her and they were rocking the same frocks! Cute!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love them. Rebecca Lloyd and my sweet Pascal Girard, getting ready to spit a “chaw” of tobacco I think. Next to Pascal, Réal Godbout, who debuted (is that word? Spell-check is not offering: do you mean Dubrovnik?) his Conundrum debut in English, his stunning adaptation of Franz Kafka's <i>Amerika</i>. Great to meet Réal, a master clean line cartoonist (<i>Red Ketchup</i>) and to watch him, calmly and politely handle this exchange:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's fine that I didn't win, I'm happy for my pal Michel. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TCAF 2014, DONE. Thanks Peter Chris Andrew Gina all the volunteers, the Library. Everyone from America for not mentioning that Rob Ford shit at all. So many other people I saw and I love and didn't get pictures of. If you're not in here, it's because your picture was too blurry even for this post. I love you still. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend was a really a time to Appreciate comics and comics creators and comics publishers and writers about comics and people who buy read and are excited about comics and I feel really inspired and grateful for you all. No joke to end it off, just being sincere. sniff. </span><br />
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ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-22838470836488322132014-05-01T07:09:00.002-07:002014-05-01T07:11:01.202-07:00fold -inI did this fold in for the Hamilton Spectator back in 97 I think.<br />
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ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-16075434910270730052014-04-26T11:29:00.003-07:002014-04-26T11:29:48.340-07:00bird and beheading. insane juvenaliaI was 16 and I wanted to be both Frazetta and Boris. I was neither.<br />
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-1142298970997338212014-04-19T18:10:00.002-07:002014-04-19T21:07:07.051-07:00a comic I might make a movie of one day…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-89604335877136157682014-04-10T16:11:00.000-07:002014-04-10T16:16:52.095-07:00Milo & SamAndy Brown has published a tiny book of me and him and our two boys<br />
Milo & Sam when we all lived in Montreal and we were all a lot younger.<br />
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Here's a Milo & Sam strip that doesn't appear in the book.<br />
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This is the cover and this<br />
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More info about the book <a href="http://www.conundrumpress.com/news/fall-2014-titles-announced/" target="_blank">here</a>:<br />
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<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-81619569454453092682014-04-10T16:08:00.000-07:002014-04-10T16:08:03.284-07:00I got two new books (sort of) coming from Conundrum Press<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He might have added, stop abusing my cartoonists, Ollmann.<br />
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Here, I'm ripping pages out Collier's sketchbook.<br />
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Here, Chihoi awaits a roundhouse to the right cheek.<br />
It's a greeting here in Montreal, buddy. Smacko.<br />
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what's wrong with me?ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-78878921824692015202014-02-07T11:39:00.002-08:002014-02-07T11:42:31.518-08:00more Seabrook pages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm inking pages set in the middle east today. Seabrook lived with the Bedouin for several years, the source of his first book, Adventures in Arabia. Lot's of Kifeyahs and too many damn horses (not shown). Got a bit of dry brush going on there. I rarely use that, but it's a new year. Note the graphite and ink-smeared hand of a messy artist.<br />
<br />ol' joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247563571354313031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456010541185922789.post-37876914715779979762014-01-23T09:56:00.001-08:002014-01-23T09:56:16.316-08:00sinclair lewis and william seabrookWilliam Seabrook was great friends with Sinclair Lewis. This portrait of Lewis from a scene of them together in my biography of Seabrook is less cartoony than you might think. Lewis was a strange-looking man.<br />
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