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The Rhinosferatu Show

As soon as I got off work today I biked off to my studio and RX Comics. People from The Express on Shaw TV were coming to interview Jeff about the Cloudscape Comic Collective, of which I am part. We’re publishing a comic anthology, and that’s what the Rhinosferatu origin story is for. After the interview everyone went to The Grind where they continued to film us all working on our comics. I’m told that it airs Monday at 6pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, and 10:30pm, and it will probably be about a 2 minute segment.

Here’s some roughs:

and also some studies from the various comics I bought at Sunday’s Comicon.


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My Trip To Vancouver Comicon

My cunning plan worked almost perfectly, with one fatal flaw – the comic convention closed at 5pm! When I woke up this morning I had a bold idea. I would take a sketchbook to the comic convention and get the artists to sketch Rhinosferatu. Not just out of the goodness of their hearts, though there was that, but also if they wanted me to post it on my blog with a link back to their site, I would happily do so! But I didn’t get to the convention until about 2 and I woefully underestimated how much time the artists would spend on their rhino vampire masterpieces. I sadly didn’t even get to the out of town artists like Francis Manapul who draws Legion of Super-Heroes. But I got some good stuff which I will post. But first, here’s my reference which I provided as an optional springboard to the artists:

I’ll post the results of the grand experiment in installments.

I also got killer deals on Justice League #s 1-7 for which I’ve been hunting forever!

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Rhinosferatu at the VAG?

Cloudscape is a sort of comics collective. They’ve put out issue number one and now are working on number two. I’ve submitted to get some pages in it and that’s what I’m currently working on. For the second issue the organizers decided that it needed a theme so I have been putting my mind to coming up with a story of “history” that doesn’t have to do with Spaceship Zero or the other comic that I actually have finished pages for.

So, World Wildlife Federation of Justice.

In Tudor times a family of rhinos goes to a castle inhabited by a bat. Spending the night, the husband wakes up to find his family gone so searches the castle. I won’t spoil any more except that this is the origin story of Rhinosferatu. I’m only planning two, maybe three pages so it can’t be too complicated.

In the meantime I’m also working on the other comic and hope to have lots more work done before Comix & Stories, the annual comic convention that this year is being held at the VAG as part of the KRAZY! exhibit. Mark Sunday Aug 24 on your calendar because that’s the day you’re going to come and visit me at my table at the VAG. It’s gonna be cooooooooool.

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Ponce's Pants!

Here is a drawing of Ponce de Leon that a video game guy got me to do under the pretense of paying me.

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Art: Mostly Dull

Best and I went to the VAG last Thursday (ps – Tuesdays are now “pay what you can” days) to see the exhibits and hear a lecture on early photography. We looked at The Tree: From the
Sublime to the Social. There were a few good pieces, but mostly dull. We checked out Emily Carr and the Group of Seven. One or two decent ones, but mostly dull. TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 had the highest amount of interesting stuff…but mostly dull. I found the information on the movements and the history to be the most fascinating, while most of the photographs themselves were unmoving. The lecture we attended was critic, lecturer and teacher, A.D. Coleman giving “an exploration of the history of pictorialist photography.” It was generally enlightening and there were some decent bits, particularly the catfight between Ansel Adams and…that other guy…with an M or an E in his name (that goes to show you how much I retain) but guess what? Yeah, mostly dull. In fact, don’t tell Deanna, but I almost fell asleep once during the lecture. Which is not to say that I didn’t have a good time or that it wasn’t worthwhile or that there wasn’t some great stuff, because it was and had all of those things…but it could be so much better. It’s telling that the biggest and most prestigious gallery in Vancouver is constantly shown up by the smaller indie ones around town.

But I am looking forward to KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art which is coming in May.

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Red Ops 5

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