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so many shows coming up this weekend!
 Travis Louie (who always blows my mind with his crazy skills), has curated a group show "Monster?" at Copro Gallery this coming Saturday. an interesting interview with Travis here.  i painted my version of a japanese folklore creature, Rokuro-kubi, who is a normal woman by day, but by night they gain the ability to elongate their necks (with or without choice). ( ...my creepy little piece... )
 ~also our friends Stella Im Hultberg and Catherine Brooks are having a show at Thinkspace Gallery this friday! am excited for both of them. see some sneaks peeks of stella's upcoming works over at her blog and also here. and Catherine's here. ~also this saturday, is the Kokeshi show at the Japanese American National Museum. i am unfortunately not a part of it this year, but tons of other amaaazing artists and works will be featured here!! see sneak peaks here and here. yay!
 so i finished that etgar keret book, and two more of the narnia books, and now i've started "animal, vegetable, miracle" inspired by having seen the documentary "food, inc" earlier this afternoon. i love having a bookshelf of unread books so my reading choices can meander around organically like this. yesterday we went snorkeling again, this time at la jolla shores, and saw at least 300 leopard sharks and guitarfish. it's a strange thing, floating in water only a few feet deep with sharks swimming freely under you, more than you can count, until you feel positively surrounded. and when the waves push you closer to them, even though you know they're harmless, your heart skips a beat. it's a thrill. did you know you can get seasick snorkeling? i found out the hard way! that said, i hope i can build up my sea tolerance so i can go on long swims in the ocean before summer's over. born & raised a midwesterner, salty water with living things in it bigger than i am still freaks me out.
Finally here's the first bit of the latest Action Scene. Having some fun with big sweeping motions and fire. It's wordless so it reads quick, so I have been FORCED to give you FOUR pages instead of three. I've never really liked putting snappy bits of dialogue into violent bits, as seems to be kind of the industry standard. This stuff feels heavier and more believable if it's quiet, I think. Drawing drawing drawing. I plan to start up an email list in the near future, if I can figure out how. I know a lot of people don't follow every update of OoT, so it might make sense to alert everybody when a chapter has been finished, or something like that. It's very important to me that everybody at least reads it once it's finished.
Sheesh...does everyone have today off?
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I am told that a few days ago you had a "pacifist" pun on your site, which coincides with the one I've got on mine! You say on your site that I borrowed one of your jokes, and then you go on to say that now YOU look like a time-travelling joke stealer, since my comic was posted after yours. Finally you admit that you stole the joke from your girlfriend. WELL IT TURNS OUT THAT THE JOKE IS ACTUALLY ON YOU, DREW, as I as well can travel through time, and I have ALREADY set it up so that at some point in the future I go back in time, mess with some genetics, and arrange events so that I AM your girlfriend. The girlfriend that you are with, right now. That's me. I am now doubly-mad that you stole my joke but you are a good kisser so we are cool. It's good to have / to be having this off my chest now / in the future!!
Yours,
Ryan
PS drew i hope that if somehow our letters ends up on our sites it will be clear that we are both just joking!! :0 – Ryan |
http://drawn.ca/2009/07/02/abner-graboff/ http://drawn.ca/?p=7869 
Who was Abner Graboff? I had no idea. So, I decided to find out on my own.
Artist, illustrator & designer with a career that spanned several decades, from the 1940’s to the 80’s, Abner was best known for creating some of the most ingenious and vibrant children’s books during the mid-century era. But you’d never know it. There was practically nothing on the guy if you did a search online. It was frustrating for me, because I felt that his sense of construction and concepts when it came to designing children’s books was so fresh and bold. Surely there had to be something about the artist out there, right? Nope. Nothing. So I contacted his son, musician and producer Jon Graboff, and interviewed him about his father’s background, his influences, and overall career. The result of our conversations can be found on my blog in three posts:
Who was Abner Graboff?
The Art & Life of Abner Graboff Part 1
The Art & Life of Abner Graboff Part 2
Featuring scans from some of his kid’s books, cook book illustrations, jacket cover designs, as well as family photos. Jon’s been very cool in sharing with us his father’s fascinating life & career as an artist. A quote by Jon about his father says it all for me:
“He was artistically and intellectually curious by nature and he was always saying things like, I wonder why… I think that he believed that when you stop asking why, when, where, and what’s next… it’s all over.”
Who was Abner Graboff? Now, we can know.
More on Abner can be found here:
My Abner Graboff Flickr set
Abner Graboff in The Retro Kid
Abner Graboff on Biotope (Japanese site)
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Kevin sent in bottle, Andrea sent in shore, Maxam sent in dinosaur hills, Andrew sent in suntan, Robbert sent in crazy, Niall sent in sunset, Sisco sent in beach surfing, Nathan sent in BBQ times, Dante sent in stomp island, Cat sent in sinister beach, Jared sent in surf shore, Sarah sent in raptor picnic, Mike sent in T-Rex and Utahraptor in the tropics, Becky sent in snorkel times, Cho sent in photo background, Danielle sent in bikini sunset, Alex sent in this, Brian sent in the grand canyon, Greg sent in this scifi sunset, Cunzy sent in this, Michael sent in visit to the beach, and Aaron sent in weenie roast.
Okay wow! Some I can't use (they don't tile correctly) but I do really like a few of them. I may end up putting a few in rotation! For now I've gone with Danielle's bikini shot: it's fun! Thanks Danielle!
I'll do this again come fall. – Ryan |
Æthirus knows something, but isn't telling, WHAT ELSE IS NEW. I'm trying to build up a buffer so I can go on vacation with my family in a coupla weeks without missing a beat here, so I'm afraid I can't give you any more pages than these meager and melodramatic three... though the next bit is AWESOME. Our ending point here, I realize, is a tad reminiscent of Æthirus' earlier treachery. Wow, matter of fact, that's exactly 200 pages earlier. There is some sort of synchronicity here. Ordered those Huff shirts today, and should have them out and to all purchasers by the 20th of July on the outside. I think this has gone rather well; I want to do another shirt in the near future. I unfortunately lack capital to keep them in stock all the time, though. I have sent my money for a table to the good people at APE, the Alternative Press Expo. It is in San Francisco in October, and I have every intention of being there. BYEBYE!
If you are a professional reviewer of comics and/or young adult literature, AND you're attending SDCC, AND you would like a galley of my upcoming book, Mercury, please comment here–or tweet at me, or drop me an e-mail. I'm trying to figure out how many books to set aside for you guys.
 Enjoyed the Korean artists' show at LACMA.
http://drawn.ca/2009/06/30/cloudy-collection-edition-2/ http://drawn.ca/?p=7843 
David Huyck unleashed the second edition of his super stlyish, super fun, and super affordable letterpress print set, The Cloudy Collection.
Like the last set, this set of 7 prints is only $35 with free shipping, limited to 100 sets, and as of this writing there are 80 sets left. I snagged mine right away; love that pink and brown!
This set features prints from David, S.Britt, Vera Brosgol, Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos, Scott Campbell, Bwana Spoons, and Vincent Stall.
Previously:
Cloudy Collection, Edition 1 |
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