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Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-1052696415202603772011-02-03T00:27:00.008-05:002011-02-13T18:57:04.305-05:00Meet the Artists: Sam Johnson and Bruno Letizia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><span style="color: #674ea7;">You've read about <strong><em>Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman</em>.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #674ea7;">How about a look at the creative geniuses behind the hit?</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #351c75; color: white; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Meet Sam Johnson and Bruno Letizia</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfm0EYh-1oueCF3TiZCR_FDZga8xyCMlq4sWpgBAOH8FabsOMWgdn3OO_mAuRkoitgNHvbFFlICzeeJg5gDGKl2Qa9FiaRvzAnjeD3zzSbwUtlZ9jCOsDJApFLBiX0LBs0P01CGJ7OrFM/s1600/SamJohnsonimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfm0EYh-1oueCF3TiZCR_FDZga8xyCMlq4sWpgBAOH8FabsOMWgdn3OO_mAuRkoitgNHvbFFlICzeeJg5gDGKl2Qa9FiaRvzAnjeD3zzSbwUtlZ9jCOsDJApFLBiX0LBs0P01CGJ7OrFM/s200/SamJohnsonimage.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><div align="center"><em><span style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;"><strong>Sam Johnson</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cabra Cini</b> creator/writer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sam Johnson</b> studied Creative Writing for Film & TV, came Second in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wizard</i> Writers Talent Search contest, and runner-up in AK Comics’ writers talent search. He started to make his mark in comics over the last few years,<br />
and is best known for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.geekgirlcomic.com/">Geek-Girl</a></i></b>…<br />
<em><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</span></em><br />
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When 'Little Miss Popular' <strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ruby Kaye </span></strong>lands a pair of super-tech glasses--invented by brainiac college geek Trevor Goldstein--in a game of Strip Poker, she's granted flight, super-strength, and--due to a flaw in the glasses' programming--<em><span style="color: black;">super-klutziness.</span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">Also from Sam…</span><br />
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</div><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Downtrodden housewife turned unhinged super-heroine <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ms. F</span></strong> takes on grotesque racial stereotype-perpetuating <em>Mr. Wang</em> in<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: large;"> Gold Town</span></em></strong><br />
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<em><strong><span style="color: #a64d79;">Bruno Letizia</span></strong></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>Cabra Cini</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> artist <strong>Bruno Letizia</strong> has previously worked on <strong>Interferenza</strong>: a comic book re-adaptation of the themes found in Mauro Garofalo's novel<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_229937738"> </a><em><a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1468493465235">Iolavorointivù</a> </em>(Iworkintelly). After having been used to help launch the novel, this short story is now available for free on Apple's app store. ‘When you work in television and your format has been cancelled, what are you willing to do to get back at your bosses?'</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bruno also saw a story he illustrated, Fall of the Fortress, published in issue #3 of Mark Millar's <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/CLiNT-Magazine/148086288558907">Clint Mag</a> recently. This short story follows the never ending fall of a shot down B-52 flying fortress.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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For more on their comics, check<br />
out Sam and Bruno’s Blogs:<br />
<a href="http://samjohnson-comics.blogspot.com/">http://samjohnson-comics.blogspot.com/</a><br />
<em>Where you can download/read online Digital Visions #4 FREE.</em><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://brunoletizia.blogspot.com/">http://brunoletizia.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And you can also add them on Facebook: </span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000273731519">Sam</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1655312843&ref=ts">Bruno</a></span> <br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">That's what we like to see, everyone playing nicely.</span></span> <br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">These two talented artists own the playground.</span></span> <br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Join the team and let us know what you think.</span></span> <br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">See ya.</span></span> <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman is published in</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Digital Visions #4</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's the first story in the mag. I read it online. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=233762"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Click here for that link</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and choose the </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>"Read Online"</em></strong> option to the right.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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We've got 8 pages of emotion, guns, some blood, a great story <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">written by </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_870658785">Sam </a></span><u><span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://samjohnson-comics.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Johnson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span></u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and unreal artwork</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; 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border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>"The Voodoo Lady".</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Cabra</strong> comes out swinging and never stops. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">She takes her moxie into a limbo</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">known as <strong><em>"The Infinity"</em></strong> in search of her prey, </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Tom Spelling</em>.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In the first half of our saga we meet</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Tom Spelling and Cabra Cini,</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">learn about Voodoo, Limbo, kill a few bad guys and get a Cabra Cini origin for good measure.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong><em>In Four Pages!</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYXEPhslDITRbNnBUYH6Ee0uDq82pH9tyFWWDqosE5hp0wnEtwfAkSljhlq1QG0GUCZBuYi1_CQ65KMLA1at6IQWvJgdpqMMlG1FtbTSZ8uqXoJ2W3HgmGF5AF93dyyrFFCE9i_zWXP8/s1600/DV%25234Pic2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYXEPhslDITRbNnBUYH6Ee0uDq82pH9tyFWWDqosE5hp0wnEtwfAkSljhlq1QG0GUCZBuYi1_CQ65KMLA1at6IQWvJgdpqMMlG1FtbTSZ8uqXoJ2W3HgmGF5AF93dyyrFFCE9i_zWXP8/s400/DV%25234Pic2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I truly enjoyed her origin page.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Sam's <em>to the point</em> writing style along with </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bruno's top notch art and </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Rodrigo Diaz's</em></strong> coloring makes this an </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">award worthy page but </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the whole chapter is just as good.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Moving deeper into <em>The Infinity, </em>Cabra is confronted with her past. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A ploy used by Inifinity's ruler <strong><em>The Rook</em></strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Does she move forward toward her goal of finding Tom Spelling?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Can Cabra beat her own past?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And who is <strong><em>Mr. Mash-Up</em></strong>?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I could tell you but come on read it for yourself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=233762"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Click here.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'll say this, you will be happy you were let in on this little gem.</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sam Johnson's modern writing style is a nice surprise. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He gives us fewer words than most but brings us major impact</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in a story that I didn't want to end. Sam also brings in modern</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">references like "Blog, blue energy arrows and Milky Joe".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I like that too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-20262077563255489782011-01-24T23:12:00.000-05:002011-01-24T23:12:51.732-05:00Wake up folks!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4hYcJUk2gA3C56ujKEP9Cn9DOYfT3e0iEvIpKI6LNJqavXKlT0dEy2QzjCaAAz4PHoK0Tmi63Z9hqzhuN5C74ZGgHOPryhdHY496-Ap6DxdnKrJLH1-p2-5PbPN8OhiazbPDB4hITT0/s1600/cc.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4hYcJUk2gA3C56ujKEP9Cn9DOYfT3e0iEvIpKI6LNJqavXKlT0dEy2QzjCaAAz4PHoK0Tmi63Z9hqzhuN5C74ZGgHOPryhdHY496-Ap6DxdnKrJLH1-p2-5PbPN8OhiazbPDB4hITT0/s400/cc.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white; font-size: x-large;">PRESS RELEASE:</span></em></strong></div><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><strong><em>Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman</em></strong> makes her color debut in <strong>Visionary Comics’ Digital Visions #4</strong>!</span><br />
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New up-and-coming writer <strong>Sam Johnson</strong> <em>(Geek-Girl, Gold Town)</em> and artist <strong>Bruno Letizia</strong> <em>(CLiNT Mag, Interferenza)</em> introduce us to a bizarre new world of horror!<br />
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<em>“Cabra Cini is a character close to my heart, whom I have big plans for,”</em> says Sam.<em> “There’s a one-shot already in the can, illustrated by Fernando Melek & Gaston Zubeldia, but this story--‘Voodoo Trespass’--is where Cabra makes her debut--and we’re thrown headlong into her twisted world.”</em><br />
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A world where Cabra, an ex-crack whore, has cleaned up her act and, for horrific reasons--revealed in Digital Visions #4--become a hitwoman. <em>“But not just any hitwoman,”</em> Sam adds; <em>“Voodoo is a weapon Cabra employs--along with her array of blades and guns--and she’s developed her own bastardized version of the art: which she uses to dramatic effect in carrying out her hits." </em><br />
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<em>“One of the ways she uses it is to access a dimension known as ‘The Infinity’--Limbo’s ‘crazy cousin--locked away in the attic’--which can serve as a dimensional gateway between where you are and wherever you want to go. Though, with what the ruler of The Infinity throws at its trespassers, the journey can come at a monstrously high cost, as Cabra--hired by bereaved parents to take out the guy who killed their daughter,‘playing vampire’--is about to learn…” </em><br />
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Digital Visions #4 also features:<br />
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Deity: The Darkness and the Light #0 by Karl Altstaetter & Robert Napton. An interdimensional war wages for the very fate of reality. Our only hope? A sixteen-year-old Earth girl. Can she survive the dangers of 2027 Los Angeles and avoid vicious aliens long enough to fulfill her destiny? Picking up where the first Deity series left off, this ‘jump-on’ story will introduce newcomers to both old evils and brand new ones!<br />
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Gangland Avalon by A. David Lewis, Michael Angelo Lee & Chuck Bordell. Sit in on a tense meeting with the Cavalieres and the Moores as they discuss control of the town. And this is a mob meeting with a difference, as both families aren’t just packing guns, they’re wielding magic!<br />
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Digital Visions #4. 30 pages. Suggested for Mature Readers. Available to read online or download FREE<br />
at <a href="http://samjohnson-comics.blogspot.com/">http://samjohnson-comics.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">CCU will review <strong><em>Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman</em></strong> as found in the pages of <strong><em> Visionary Comics’</em></strong> <strong><em>Digital Visions #4</em></strong> this </span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><strong><span style="color: #20124d;">Wednesday the 26th</span></strong>. Please spread the word and tell us what you think.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong><em>Stand By...</em></strong></span> <br />
</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-76647000091545067162010-12-09T00:56:00.002-05:002010-12-09T21:06:17.398-05:00A Belly Full of Art<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>“Webcomics: What’s Cooking? </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Comic artists doing their part </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>to help the less fortunate.”</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Written By: Carlo Jose San Juan, MD</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started out as a quirky idea between a few <em>webcomic aficionados</em>. Then, like many good ideas before it, that moment of quirkiness quickly became an <strong>inspiring movement</strong> involving many popular comic artists!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That idea is <strong><em><span style="color: #274e13;">Webcomics:</span></em></strong> <em><span style="color: #274e13;"><strong>What’s Cooking?,</strong> </span></em>a cookbook which features full-page, food-related comics by over <strong>fifty</strong> webcomic creators and artists with accompanying recipes to various dishes. The range of included recipes is quite diverse, featuring dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks as well as various beverages. This makes it quite likely that you’d find food to fit any taste bud at any time, in any mood!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That alone already seemed like a great idea. However, what really got everyone involved passionate about it was that this was a <em>not-for-profit project!</em> Proceeds from the cookbook sales are for the benefit of <strong><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_bank">National Food Banks in Canada and the USA</a>.</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time of this writing, these are the wonderful artists involved in this comic cookbook <em>(in no particular order):</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="background-color: white; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://www.galaxycorps.com/whatscooking.htm">CLICK HERE FOR LIST</a></strong></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spirited by the notion of not only showcasing their talent but to bring <strong>fun recipes</strong> to families and help bring hope to the less fortunate as well, these creators have combined <em>thousands of hours</em> of work to make this project a possibility! Furthermore, it features an incredibly diverse array of artistic styles. There is nothing out there quite like it and is a gem of an addition to any comic collection!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <strong>And it’s a great cookbook too!</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So <em><span style="color: #274e13;">“Feed your Family, Feed the World!”</span></em> The goal is to have this cookbook available in time for the 2010 holiday season and here is how you can help bring fun and food together in classic comic style and deliver hope to someone in need!</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tr1studios/webcomics-whats-cooking"><strong><em>Kick-start Webcomics: What’s Cooking?</em></strong></a> by visiting the project’s Kickstarter site! <strong><em><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/">Kickstarter</a></em></strong> is a fund-raising site for creative projects such as this one. An initial amount is needed to begin printing this cookbook and you’ll get not only the cookbook </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><em><strong>but additional incentives as well!</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.tgtmedia.com/preorder/">Pre-order</a> your copy of Webcomics: What’s Cooking? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">as each copy pre-ordered helps bring the project closer to print! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><em>You’ll also get it at a cheaper price.</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Spread the word! Tell your co-workers, friends, and family about this great project on <strong>Facebook, Twitter</strong>, and other </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>social networking sites</strong>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you’re a website master, you can add these <a href="http://www.tgtmedia.com/banners/">free-to-use banners</a> on your site and link them to the <a href="http://www.tgtmedia.com/">TGT Website</a>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So help feed yourself, your family, and someone in need this holiday season… and get a few laughs in the process! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All through this great comic cookbook!</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Carlo Jose “Caz” <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">San Juan</place></city>, MD writes and illustrates the </span><a href="http://www.callouscomics.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Callous</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> comic strip series</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> and is a contributor to </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><strong>Webcomics: What’s Cooking?</strong></i> cookbook.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><em><strong>Delicious. Nice going to all the participants of this fine project.</strong></em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">He's a very busy artist.</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, let's get to it.</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Meet the Artist - Jay Piscopo</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXNVfCEJqpzhO_R8XmuaYWAlKjEXpgbSQs3HSmS6sISwiZi4X5_D5PQGdQD75hKf_TYi0uraO9ueV0-Mlw_P6kySo_S836PoCUGS_O3Eu0TBgDQ8InFBd4Wev0btm2jv7hc2I7blosCk/s1600/jaypiscopoartist%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXNVfCEJqpzhO_R8XmuaYWAlKjEXpgbSQs3HSmS6sISwiZi4X5_D5PQGdQD75hKf_TYi0uraO9ueV0-Mlw_P6kySo_S836PoCUGS_O3Eu0TBgDQ8InFBd4Wev0btm2jv7hc2I7blosCk/s200/jaypiscopoartist%5B1%5D.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jay Piscopo is the author and illustrator of The </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli</em></strong> all-ages graphic novel series. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jay has been making state-of-the-art children's entertainment for nearly 20 years. His passion for using the computer as his canvas led him to develop his unique signature style of </div><div style="text-align: center;">combining 2D characters with 3D backgrounds. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He served as an art director at Tom Snyder Productions, where he led the creative team in the production of educational CD-ROMs, including the award-winning Fizz and Martina Math Adventures and was as an animator on the ABC Saturday morning show <strong><em><a href="http://www.skooldays.com/categories/saturday/sa1693.htm">Squigglevision</a></em></strong>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He was also the co-creator of the internationally distributed comic book series featuring the world's first disabled superheroes, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=return.issue">The Scrap City Pack Rats</a>, which he created in partnership with Goodwill Industries. They published a six issue series which received national media attention for its</div><div style="text-align: center;"> groundbreaking approach and subject matter. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jay is an engaging presenter with on-camera and radio experience who has conducted hundreds of comics workshops and classroom events teaching drawing and storytelling techniques. He resides in his home town of Portland, Maine. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Contact: <a href="mailto:jaypiscopo@captneli.com">jaypiscopo@captneli.com</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;">My primary work is on the Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli at </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.captneli.com/">http://www.captneli.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">there's an 8 page story with Captn Eli coming out in the </div><div style="text-align: center;">Reading with Pictures Anthology</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">There are 2 books available and a third coming out later this year-- </div><div style="text-align: center;">there is a <strong><em>Sea Ghost</em></strong> one shot coming out as well.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm also working on developing a webcomic called </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #990000;">The Last Dominion</span></em></strong> featuring public domain characters and</div><div style="text-align: center;">an anthology of science fiction comics called <strong><em>Star Police Adventures.</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-38518359428374660982010-07-21T23:02:00.000-04:002010-07-21T23:02:44.914-04:00REVIEW: "This Little Piggy GETS EVEN!"<div align="center"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is with great pleasure that your friends at </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><strong><em>Comic Creators United</em></strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;">recommend completely the great collection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #351c75;">from <strong>Francis Bonnet</strong> and his <strong><em>"Suburban Fairy Tales".</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/this-little-piggy-gets-even/11481275">"This Little Piggy GETS EVEN!"</a></em></strong></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Add<strong> 100 pages</strong> of an outstanding cast and fun</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> that never stops along with several sweet story arcs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">throw in great writing, art, a rad egg and a Pied Piper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that <strong><em>will</em></strong> make you laugh every time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and you've just read a winner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's a slice of the life that we all wanted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> We join the gang </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">at home and in school</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> as they deal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">with their enchanted youth. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What could go wrong?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just ask Little <em>Pig #3</em>...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">He's the one running from the wolf.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Look over there it's the <em>Frog Prince</em>. <em>Go on kiss him.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Pinocchio</em> tells it like it is...he has to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I found that once I started reading this collection </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I had to finish it right away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">That's how I felt in my youth reading "Peanuts",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Family Circus" and the like. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"This Little Piggy GETS EVEN!" brought me back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Francis in his wisdom has also included</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> from his sketchbook a love story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A frog, a puppet and <em>"Red"</em> work it out in a story </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that's presented to us in its raw state.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It works. As the reader and comic fan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> I thought it was a nice look at the creative process.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;"><em>The following strips are also in their rough state</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;"><em> and are not included in this collection.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;"><em>They are a gift from Francis to all of us.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Don't miss this collection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/this-little-piggy-gets-even/11481275">Click here for your own copy.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.francisbonnet.com/index.html">Follow the gang three times a week here.</a></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a thrill to be able to review this great book</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francis bonnet has a winner on his hands.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CCU loved it.</span></em></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">A New Collection From</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>GETS EVEN!"</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/this-little-piggy-gets-even/11481275">Go Ahead Click Here!!</a></span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Official Book Summary:</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/this-little-piggy-gets-even/11481275">SUBURBAN FAIRY TALES</a>, the popular web comic by Francis Bonnet, returns in an action-packed, all-new volume!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Featuring a cast of your favorite fairy tale characters thrown into a modern suburban setting, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/this-little-piggy-gets-even/11481275">THIS LITTLE PIGGY GETS EVEN</a> continues the adventures of <span style="color: #073763;">Frog Prince, Pinocchio, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood</span> and more as they make their way through high school! As an <span style="color: #990000;">exclusive bonus</span>, this book features an <span style="color: #990000;">original sketched story arc</span>, which was never published online! Don’t miss a single comic! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Whether you’re young or old, SUBURBAN FAIRY TALES will bring your favorite fables into the 21st century!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Comments:</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My last Suburban Fairy Tales book came out in 2006 and only had 15 months worth of strips in the entire book. The most obvious reason for such a long wait between books is because Suburban Fairy Tales had ended in 2006 and those 15 months worth of strips were all I had. But I can happily say that my newest book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/this-little-piggy-gets-even/11481275">This Little Piggy Gets Even</a> has almost two years worth of strips and it doesn’t end the series. In fact, I’m hoping that in another two years I can have a third Suburban Fairy Tales book out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So what’s with the name, This Little Piggy Gets Even? Well, the first Suburban Fairy Tales book was titled “Suburban Fairy Tales: The Complete Collection” (it has since been renamed to “<span style="color: #073763;">A Comic Strip Collection</span>”). The series was meant to end with the first book. But since I brought the series back, the second book needed a title worthy of standing on its own, and calling it “The Complete Collection Volume 2” was not only weak, it was also kind of stupid. This was a re-launch, after all.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">“ <span style="color: #990000;">This Little Piggy Gets Even</span>” just popped into my head after reading a book of nursery rhymes to my daughter. I thought it would be a funny and unique title and I couldn’t think of another book, comic, movie, or cartoon that has ever used that phrase.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> As a point I made sure not to reference that this was a “volume 2” anywhere in the book.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">As an added <span style="color: #990000;">bonus</span> I put in a <span style="color: #990000;">12-strip storyline that I never published online</span>. This story is told in <span style="color: #073763;">sketches</span> <span style="color: #073763;">taken directly from my sketchbook</span>. It’s the story of <span style="color: #073763;">Red Riding Ho</span><span style="color: #073763;">od </span>and how she fell out of love with <span style="color: #073763;">Frog Prince</span>. What’s unique about this story when compared to my other rejected stories is the fact that even though it didn’t officially make it into the series, repercussions from the ending of this particular arc changed the direction of the strip forever.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In case anyone is wondering, I’ve already thought up a title for my third Suburban Fairy Tales book. The book is still at least two years away, but it’s never too early to get a jump on things, is it?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Be here this WEDNESDAY, July 21st</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> for CCU's EXCLUSIVE review of</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">This Little Piggy Gets Even!</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #073763;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Catch a sneek peek and our comments...</span></span></span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">B.Y.O.B please.</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-15881702621623258592010-07-17T10:39:00.000-04:002010-07-17T10:39:17.261-04:00Francis Bonnet and his Suburban Fairy Tales SPECIAL EVENT<div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana;">It's a Crunchy, Made To Malfunction,</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><em><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suburban Fairy Tale. It's...</span></strong></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #274e13; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>Francis Bonnet</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’ve been working hard at comics for as long as I can remember.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I’ve always been drawing something, but it wasn’t until </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>2003</strong> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that I started seriously pushing my work and publishing it</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> on the web. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My first web comic was <a href="http://www.francisbonnet.com/crunchy_archive_2003.html"><strong>Crunchy</strong></a>, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">which was actually based on a character I created </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">in high school. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I worked on the strip for about four years </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>(the first year was never published online).</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;"><em><strong>ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After a while, I felt that <strong>Crunchy</strong> wasn’t really going anywhere.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I was sick of the main character and found myself writing</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> more about the <strong>side characters</strong>. It wasn’t the same strip anymore,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> so I wanted to try something different. I actually had two ideas </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for a new strip pop up in my head around that time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The first idea I had would be to put <em>fairy tale characters</em> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">in a</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> modern-day suburban high school. The second idea I had </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">would be about an <em>inventor and his housekeeping robot</em>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I decided to go with the fairy tale strip </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">as I thought </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">it might appeal to more people,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and thus <strong>Suburban Fairy Tales</strong> was born.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I worked on <strong>Suburban Fairy Tales</strong> for about 15 months.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> At around the 10-month mark, that previous idea I had</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> about an <em>inventor and his housekeeping robot</em> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">was burning a hole in my head. I really wanted to work on it,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> but I’m the kind of person who likes to put all his effor</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">t into</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> one project at a time. If I was really going to work on that new strip,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Suburban Fairy Tales would have to end. .. <strong>and so it did</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.francisbonnet.com/malfunction_archive_2006.html">Made To Malfunction</a></strong> was the strip to follow <em>Suburban Fairy Tales</em>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Instead of just a simple gag strip, it followed longer <strong>story arcs</strong> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">mixed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with science fiction and comedy. I worked on the strip for two years.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> During this time I was also sending my work off to the <strong>syndicates</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> To my surprise, <strong><em><a href="http://www.postwritersgroup.com/writersgroup.htm">The Washington Post Writers Group</a></em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> showed interest </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">in <strong>Suburban Fairy Tales</strong> and wanted to see more.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>My dilemma was that I wasn’t working on it anymore.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> So I had to end <em>Made To Malfunction</em> abruptly </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>(thankfully not in the middle of a story arc)</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and pick up working on <strong><a href="http://www.francisbonnet.com/suburban_archive_2005.html">Suburban Fairy Tales</a></strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m still working in <em><strong>Suburban Fairy Tales</strong></em> to this day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> It actually felt good to return to this strip as I felt it had ended </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">prematurely. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’ve been at it for almost <strong>20 </strong>consecutive months, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">which has now exceeded its original run. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I just recently sent a sample off to the syndicate, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>so I’m keeping my fingers crossed</strong></em>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When I’m not cartooning I work as a <strong>graphic artist</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I have a regular job and I also do freelance. Right now,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> one of my freelance jobs is a website called </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theecobabe.com/">The Ecobabe</a>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All the Ecobabe illustrations are <strong>my artwork</strong>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They were done exclusively using<strong><em> </em>Adobe Illustrator</strong>,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> which is different than I do my comic strips.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em> My comics are usually always hand-drawn.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Thank you Francis for sharing the interesting </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>twists and turns your artwork has taken.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>CCU</strong> is glad you've carved out a place in</span></span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> the world of comic strips...<strong>three times</strong>.</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What will you do next?</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Come back and show us ASAP. Until then we'll</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>live our <strong>Suburban Fairy Tale</strong> along with yours</em>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-45685313832268778622010-06-22T01:31:00.003-04:002010-06-22T01:48:59.822-04:00Steve Butler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Art and Stories of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am a <strong>pen and ink</strong> junkie and creator of <strong><em>Cuckoos Wear Black</em></strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although having spent most of my life addicted to the <em>joy of ink</em>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">my entry into the world of comics was a late one.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before that, most of my work tended to be single page commentaries</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> on whatever caught my mind at the time. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mostly incomprehensible ideas <em>but I know what I meant.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That all changed when I read <strong><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangehaven">Strangehaven</a></em> </strong>by<strong> <a href="http://www.millidge.com/home/home-index-frameset.htm">Gary Millidge</a></strong>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A <strong>soap opera</strong> written in <strong>comic format</strong>. It just sort of clicked </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">triggered all the bells that perhaps, <em>just perhaps</em>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the ideas floating around in my head would work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> And from there <strong>Cuckoos Wear Black</strong> began to evolve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The idea was to create a series of individual <strong>dramas</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> set in a fictitious English town. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>Richard and Julie's story</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> is the first in the Cuckoos Wear Black series.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The artwork for <em>Cuckoos Wear Black</em> is traditional </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with the exception of </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the <strong>dot tones</strong> and <strong>lettering</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">which are added later using <strong><em><a href="http://manga.smithmicro.com/">Manga Studio</a></em></strong>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I guess you can still get zip tones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but I wouldn't trust myself with anything sharp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The technique changed slightly during the comics development. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The early pages were primarily <strong>brush</strong>, <em>which I love</em>, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but the latter pages have tended to all be drawn with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> a <strong>Deleter G pen</strong>; an awesome pen, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">although it does </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">lay down a lot of ink </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">so inky forearms and smudges </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">are always waiting in the sidelines to grab me.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm not saying where the change occurred </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and hopefully</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>it's not obvious. </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If anyone is interested, I <strong>pencil</strong> in reverse </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on the back </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of the Bristol board </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and then <strong>ink </strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on the other side</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> using a <strong>homemade drawing board</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with built-in <strong>light box</strong>; <em>sounds much grander than it is.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although primarily working in <strong>black and white</strong> for comic work, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will often work in <strong>colour</strong> for other illustration work. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Most of my colour work is undertaken using <strong>vector</strong> colours.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alongside the <strong>comic illustration</strong>, I have also undertaken </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a number of illustrations for </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>presentation and promotional literature</strong>...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and of course, <strong><em>new commissions are always welcome</em></strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>So much great work. Thanks Steve. </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>We can't get enough of the inking style you've crafted.<br />
We want to see more and will follow the strips progress.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><em>About your "<strong>Mostly incomprehensible ideas</strong>"...</em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><em><strong>Please keep 'em coming</strong>.</em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-57257113078453895112010-05-31T14:51:00.002-04:002010-05-31T15:53:43.758-04:00The Art of Maurice Love<div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>Maurice Love</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.saywhatcomic.com/">“Say What”</a></em></strong> is the brain child of self proclaimed </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">cartoonist <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000968192255#!/profile.php?id=1625495997">Maurice Love</a></strong>.</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He’s been drawing as long as he can remember,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> but it’s been about</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>eighteen years</strong> since </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the birth </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of his comic strip <em>“SAY WHAT”.</em></span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Although he loved comic strips the idea for the comic strip </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">came from such <strong>TV</strong> shows as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Happening!!"><strong><em>What’s Happening</em></strong></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times"><strong><em>Good Times</em></strong></a>.</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Nothing would have more influence than </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the 1970’s movie <strong><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley_High">Cooley High</a></em></strong>,</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> but<em> <strong>Charles Shultz</strong></em> served as his idol and inspiration of quality</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and where he wanted to go in the business. </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Maurice believes he is the <strong>standard</strong> of comic strips.</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Upon graduating high school he began to send <strong>submissions</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to the various syndicates, such as </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.unitedartists.com/">United Artist</a>, <a href="http://www.kingfeatures.com/">King Features</a>,</em></strong></span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and the list goes on.</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> After years and countless rejections, he and two of his brothers</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> would form <strong><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GettosakeEnt">Gettosake Entertainment</a></em></strong>. </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A media company geared to all forms of entertainment,</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> such as <strong>cartoons</strong>, <strong>television</strong>, <strong>movies</strong> and <strong>comic books</strong>.</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>These were for a pitch we did at Disney.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> A boy with an imagination. Seen with his imaginary friends.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> I designed the look of the characters and the style we were using.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Gettosake Entertainment</strong> would go on to produce </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>comic books</strong> and <strong>graphic novels</strong> through such companies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> as <strong><em><a href="http://specialtyretailers.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=10-121">Dark Horse</a></em></strong> and <strong><em>DC comics</em></strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em><a href="http://specialtyretailers.darkhorse.com/profile/profile_popup.php?sku=10-493">Fierce</a></em> and <em><a href="http://specialtyretailers.darkhorse.com/profile/profile_popup.php?sku=10-121">Shadow Rock</a></em>, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">are some titles to name a few,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Maurice would aid in some coloring and lettering to the productions.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">One part of the design we did for the pitch at Disney.</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;"> A cartoon about my family, </span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">which had a mother and father with nine children, and a dog.</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Later the company would move into <strong>flash animation</strong>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> producing many animated shorts. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He would design many of the characters, the look, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and style of the cartoons. His favorites were the two </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">animated </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">shorts </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">they produced for</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the <strong><em><a href="http://www.freedomcenter.org/underground-railroad/#">Underground Railroad Museum</a></em></strong> in Cincinnati, Ohio</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> entitled <strong><em>The</em></strong> <strong><em>North Star</em></strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">These are designs I did for the </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">North Star animated short we produced, </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">about the </span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">underground railroad. </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">The animated shorts can only be seen </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75;">at the Under Ground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As of today his focus is, as he calls it, <em>his eighteen year old child.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Becoming a household name is the primary goal for the <strong><a href="http://www.saywhatcomic.com/">comic strip</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There are plans for <strong>monthly comic books</strong> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>comic strip collection novels</strong>, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with new as well as old comic strips.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>Cartoons</strong> are also in the plans, but he won’t get ahead of himself.</span><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Wow. A great new comic strip and awesome</span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">artwork, animation and design work.</span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What's next from Maurice and the Love brothers?</span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We can't wait. </span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I suggest checking out their "Chocolate Thunder"</span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">animation too. (a link can be found in the above video window)</span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We'll be watching and hope to have you back soon.</span></em></strong></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-15126920808153160372010-05-24T23:23:00.002-04:002010-05-24T23:33:01.987-04:00Denver Brubaker – Cartoonist<div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Denver Brubaker Presents</span></span></strong></em></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Denver Brubaker</strong> is a freelance cartoonist from Ann Arbor,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> MI.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He is the creator of the <strong><a href="http://www.thecheckeredman.blogspot.com/">Tales of a Checkered Man</a></strong> comic strip</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> which made its internet debut on <strong>April 6th 2010</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><strong><em>ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</em></strong></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Denver has drawn comics for as long as he can remember.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> This included a weekly comic strip in his college newspaper</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">called <strong><em>Alligator Man on Campus</em></strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He actually drew the sketch that would later develop </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">into his <em>patterned-protagonist</em> way back in <strong>1989</strong>! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He <strong>self published</strong> a handful of TOACM comics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in the late 90’s and mid 2000’s.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some of Denver’s favorite comic artists are </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Mike Allred</strong>,<strong> <a href="http://www.boneville.com/jeffs-studio/about-jeff-smith/">Jeff Smith</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.sergioaragones.com/">Sergio Aragonés</a></strong>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.artofmikemignola.com/">Mike Mignola</a></strong>, <strong>Bruce Timm</strong>, and <strong><a href="http://kirbymuseum.org/">Jack Kirby</a></strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>"I really dig The Checkered Man! </em></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Solid art with fun puns! That's the best and rarest team-up going!"</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">-<strong>CHRIS YAMBAR</strong> <em>(Bart Simpson Comics / Mr. Beat)</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Denver is always open to taking on <strong>commission work</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and suggests that you contact him at</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>What can we add that the experts haven't already said...</strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>swoop in with new artwork any time you're ready.</strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>CCU is quite down-to-earth so heights won't be a problem.</strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Thanks for sharing this fine toon and come back soon.</span></em></strong></div><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-18965779455899413702010-05-17T14:31:00.133-04:002010-05-17T15:48:54.519-04:00William Agosto is "Knot Rite"<div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">William Agosto's</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm a <strong>graphic artist</strong> with a flair for <strong>cartooning</strong>.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> My cartooning work has been published in the <strong>UA Journal</strong>,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong><a href="http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_digest.asp">Lighthouse Digest</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="http://www.adopt-a-greyhound.org/cgmagazine/about.html">cgmagazine</a></strong> <em>(Celebrating Greyhounds).</em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My work has been seen in corporate and union newsletters.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I've worked in a variety of companies in their respective <strong>art departments</strong>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Working on corporate presentations, web site design,</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> interactive presentations, animations, and general production work.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My current original cartoon is called <strong>"Knot Rite".</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>Knot Rite</em> was born from my warped quirky sense of humor.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Some have called me <em>"not right"</em> due to my sense of humor,</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> thus the title of the cartoon. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's subject matter is about <strong>anything</strong>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Animals, humans, relationships, puns. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anything that </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">finds </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">its way into my cranium</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> looking for release in a humorous way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I continue to sketch ideas for my "Knot Rite" cartoon.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Currently <em>Celebrating Greyhounds Magazine</em> is running</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> some</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> of my greyhound related cartoons. <strong><em>Rhode Island Monthly</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> has an article slated for publication in the <strong>July 2010 issue</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> about me and my cartooning. And I'm always on the lookout </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for that <strong>next interesting project</strong></span>.<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>MY BLOG:</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fromtheinsideofmycranium.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://fromtheinsideofmycranium.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>CARTOONIST FOR CG MAGAZINE:</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.adopt-a-greyhound.org/cgmagazine/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.adopt-a-greyhound.org/cgmagazine/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Thanks William for giving us an inside look at a pro in action.</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We want you back, but not any saner...it wouldn't be right.</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Reynard City</strong> is a collaborative project of</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Reynard City</strong> can be seen as a <strong><em>webcomic</em></strong> on </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.reynardcity.co.uk/">http://www.reynardcity.co.uk/</a>,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> we are also working on a <strong><em>cartoon pilot</em></strong>,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> with a view to producing a cartoon <em><strong>series</strong></em>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">People can check out the comic at </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.reynardcity.co.uk/">http://www.reynardcity.co.uk/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and can see some short animation tests here- </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmYTp9Lar4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmYTp9Lar4</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and here- </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_UGozxy_l0&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_UGozxy_l0&feature=related</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All the very best,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>Rob Turner</strong></em></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Polycomical</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><strong>Thanks Rob. We're psyched for Reynard City's future.</strong></em></span><br />
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</div></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-1835660827774519152010-05-03T16:41:00.000-04:002010-05-03T16:41:20.091-04:00Mike Spicer<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Cartoonist and Illustrator</em></strong></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am a freelance cartoonist and illustrator based</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I have been a contributor <em>(of)</em> newspaper editorials and book illustrations.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>ALL ART CLICKS LARGER</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I create humorous <strong>custom</strong> cartoons and <strong>caricatures</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> for private and commercial clients. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I always begin with pencil on paper and <strong>hand ink</strong> my artwork.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I feel this maintains a connection to the work.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I am comfortable with colouring by <strong>hand</strong> or <strong>digitally</strong>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">without over-using the <em>"bells and whistles"</em> of the latter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I like to maintain a certain <em>"raw"</em> look. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I feel my style lends itself to fit a <strong>variety of applications</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Very approachable to discuss commissions and client needs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>"Celebrity Clerks"</strong> depicts humorously, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">people of note </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">behind the cash-register of a convenience store. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The subject matter ranges from those currently in the <strong>public eye</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to those that are <strong>out of the loop</strong>, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but en grained in our collective conscience.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong> <em>And some off the wall stuff too..</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>"Celebrity Clerks"</em></strong> has been very well received </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on <strong>Internet social networks</strong>, <em>enjoying very positive feedback</em>,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and the <strong>online creative</strong> <strong>community</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><strong>Thanks Mike. It's always nice to meet an artist who's </strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><strong>taking the hands on approach.</strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>CCU gives you a big hand for your great work and would like</strong></span></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><strong>to extend our hand to you with the hope you'll come back</strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><strong> and show off some more fine artwork.</strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-53412463086203335702010-04-26T14:06:00.009-04:002010-04-26T14:21:18.928-04:00Chris MeaD and Harrison Ambs " Distilled Reality"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>They're young and</em></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em> they've </em></strong></span></span><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>got something to say about life...</em></strong></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi, I'm <strong>Harrison</strong>. I'm one of the guys on <strong>Distilled Reality</strong> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>(the one with the bitchin' goatee)</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Harrison, No one thinks your goatee is bitchin'.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's <strong>Mead</strong>. And I think my goatee is bitchin, so obviously </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>SOMEBODY</em> does. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore your argument is invalid. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-You're invalid. And you don't count, because it's YOUR goatee. </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Remember when I drew racing stripes on my shoes because</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> I said they would <strong>let me run faster</strong>? </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>You told me that my opinion doesn't matter,</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> because physics said it couldn't happen. <strong>This is the same thing.</strong></em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not really. Physics doesn't decide the bitchin'ness of goatees. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides, racing stripes don't make things go faster. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Then why are they on race cars?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it looks better on camera, I think. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Then why do people go to the track, </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>if the cars look better on camera?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably for the same reason that a concert is always better</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> than listening to music on a CD in your house. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Then why don't people do what we did a few years ago</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> and trick a band into playing at their party?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah, I can't believe they fell for that. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or that you were able to make a neon sign</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and turn your place into a <strong>bar</strong> that quickly. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-You'd figure the fact that it was in an apartment complex </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>would have given it away, but go figure. </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Oh, remember how you got drunk and broke the drum set?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't break it. Don't listen to him. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Okay fine. Remember how you got drunk </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>creatively disassembled</strong> the drum set? That was awesome.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> I have pictures of it on my <strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a></strong>. They were so pissed at you.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not as pissed as they were at you for <strong>not paying them</strong>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-I offered to design their t-shirts! <strong>And I gave them like, two drinks.</strong></em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You gave them two drinks <strong>total</strong>, not each. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even I thought that was a dick move. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Heh, you said 'dick move'.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think we're supposed to be talking about the <strong>comic</strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Nice transition.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like I was saying, I'm <strong>Harrison</strong>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-<em>And I'm<strong> MeaD</strong>.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why do you do that? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Do what?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Capitalize</strong> the last letter of your name like that? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-I have no idea what you're talking about.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I'm Harrison, that's Mead- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>-MeaD</em></strong> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's the difference? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-The difference in what?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The letter...</strong>nevermind. Anyway, we're <strong>graphic designers</strong> in </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleveland, Ohio,</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and we work for an advertising....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">seriously, do you pronounce it differently or something? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-<em>What? How can you not tell? You're in the room with me.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this is text. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-Then how are we talking?</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>.... </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>-.... </strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was that? How did those <strong>dots</strong> get there? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>-I don't know, man. I just say we bail and get out of here.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Done. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">----------- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Distilled Reality</strong> is the story of two post-graduate twenty-something</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <strong>graphic artists</strong> struggling to keep their <strong>independence</strong> and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> wonder in a world of conformity</strong>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some<em>(often)</em>times </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gets them into more trouble than it should. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The structure of the comic is divided up between long stretches of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> storylines </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the garnish of a few one-off comics here and there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We've structured the site and built the updates in such a way </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that if you come into a story mid-steam, there's a <strong>link</strong> available </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that will take you right back to the first comic in the series. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This way you're not confused and can easily find your place.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The topics are very much grounded in the real life experiences of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <strong><em>Harrison</em></strong> and <strong><em>Mead</em></strong>. Now, we've taken certain <em>liberties</em> with it, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but for the most part the central theme is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's <strong>actually</strong> happened with us</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The characters reflect ourselves to a small extent, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but we've tweaked them to nearly the breaking point, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>and they've taken on a life of their own.</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We kept the style <strong>black and white</strong> because it focused</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> more on the lines </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and less on the bright colors. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Besides, we deal with color all day, it's nice to have a break.</strong></em></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">CCU can't decide who got the better of that banter...</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">but it was fun to watch you guys go at it.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Distilled Reality is just as fun to read...and we will.</em></strong></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We look forward to posting more of your wit </span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">and your strips very soon. </span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Fight it out, and will the last man standing please</span></em></strong><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">send us more </span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">artwork!</span></em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-10850007038738954122010-04-12T22:28:00.010-04:002010-04-12T22:45:51.405-04:00Ryan Pagelow's "buni"<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #073763; color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>APRIL EVENT</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="background-color: #073763; color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PART TWO</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Ryan Pagelow</strong> has drawn comics for most of his life.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">His work appears in <strong><a href="http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2009/04/20/on-the-stands-mad-500/">Mad Magazine</a>, newspapers</strong>, and <strong>online</strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He was one of the <strong>10 finalists</strong> in the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Strip-Superstar-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=2128878011">Comic Strip Superstar Contest</a></strong> hosted by<strong> Amazon.com </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and also earned the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Charles Schulz National College Cartoonist Award.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When he is not working as a <strong>photojournalist</strong>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ryan draws the comic strips <strong><a href="http://ryanpagelow.com/"><span id="goog_1722775060"></span>Pressed<span id="goog_1722775061"></span></a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://bunicomic.com/">Buni</a></strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Raised in Madison, Wisconsin, he worked in Italy and Argentina</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">before ending up in Chicago where he now lives.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</em></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://bunicomic.com/"><strong>Buni</strong></a> is a dark comedy revolving around </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a hopelessly optimistic loser bunny named <em>Buni</em>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The girl he loves doesn’t love him back. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">His boss doesn’t respect him,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and he usually fails at whatever he tries.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> However, he remains unfazed and excited about life </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with his endearing snaggle-toothed grin.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Buni was selected as one of <strong>10 finalists</strong> in the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Strip-Superstar-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=2128878011">Comic Strip Superstar contest</a></strong> hosted by<strong> <a href="http://amazon.com/">Amazon.com</a>.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I created this comic strip when I heard about the contest because</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I couldn’t submit previously published comics. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had only <strong>three weeks</strong> until the deadline. I needed something quick </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and this strip has been in the back of my mind for a long time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I have always wanted to do a <strong>tragic depressing comic</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">drawn in a <strong><a href="http://www.sanrio.com/characters/HelloKitty">Hello Kitty</a></strong> happy-dappy-doo style. <em>Buni </em>was the result.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I wanted to incite a different kind of laugh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">than those normally found on the funny pages. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Less of a ha ha laugh, and more of a <em>“poor guy”</em> laugh,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> if that makes any sense. <em>You just feel bad for the guy.</em></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It’s my first comic that <strong>only appears online</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and not in any <strong>newspapers</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> so it feels like I have more <strong>freedom</strong> to draw the comics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> any way I want,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> though I usually stick to standard daily and Sunday comics sizes,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>just in case</em>. I’m also working in <strong>color</strong>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">which I normally don’t get a chance to do too often.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>I just do what I think is funny.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> There has to be a few more people on the planet</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> that have a similar sense of humor.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong> Unless, of course, I’m completely insane.</strong></em></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>To view more "<strong>buni</strong>" comic strips visit <strong><a href="http://bunicomic.com/">http://bunicomic.com/</a>.</strong></em></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You are not insane. Well, not completely.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> "Buni" is funi. Watching that fuzzy little guy come back for more</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">again and again reminds us all to keep plugging away at life.</span></em></strong><br />
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<em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>CCU is rooting for Buni. This strip is already a hit and </strong></span></em><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">we are </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">proud to help bring it to the masses. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We want to see him win, we do...just not yet.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #073763;">Thanks Ryan. We'll talk again.</span></span></em></strong></em><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #990000; color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>APRIL EVENT</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="background-color: #990000; color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana;">PART ONE</span></em></strong><br />
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</div><div align="center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Ryan Pagelow</strong> has drawn comics for most of his life.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> His work appears in<strong><em> </em><a href="http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2009/04/20/on-the-stands-mad-500/">Mad Magazine</a></strong>, <strong>newspapers</strong>, and <strong>online</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He was one of the <strong>10 finalists</strong> in the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Strip-Superstar-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=2128878011">Comic Strip Superstar Contest</a></strong> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">hosted by <strong>Amazon.com</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">also earned the </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Charles Schulz National College Cartoonist Award</strong>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When he is not working as a <strong>photojournalist</strong>,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Ryan draws the comic strips <a href="http://ryanpagelow.com/"><strong>Pressed</strong></a> and <a href="http://bunicomic.com/"><strong>Buni</strong></a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Raised in Madison, Wisconsin, he worked in Italy and Argentina</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> before ending up in Chicago where he now lives.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pressed is a comic strip for people who love newspapers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Depicting the people behind the news, <em><strong>Pressed</strong></em> shows a <em>reporter</em> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and <em>local politician</em> butting heads,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a <em>sportswriter</em> trying to be supportive of the local team as </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">it loses season after season, a <em>photographer</em> trying to get his shot</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> while camera hungry people poke their heads in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to try to get <em>“on TV”</em> and a frequent <em>letter-to-the-editor writer</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> venturing out into the blogosphere.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Pressed</em></strong> also offers a comedic look at the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> wider media landscape of <strong>24-hour</strong> news cycles,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Internet <em>“news”</em> and blowhard punditry, as well as</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">everyday </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">office politics of adults confined to shared cubicles.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong></strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Started in October</em><strong><em> </em>2008<em>, Pressed</em></strong> has run daily in the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/index.html">Lake County News-Sun</a></strong> in Illinois, online and in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>university papers</strong> in Madison and Milwaukee.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To view more <strong>Pressed</strong> comic strips visit <a href="http://www.ryanpagelow.com/">http://www.ryanpagelow.com/</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>"<strong>Pressed</strong>" is a top-notch strip, </em></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>but that didn't stop Ryan </em></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>from going that extra mile </em></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>to produce more </em></span><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">outstanding fun.</span></em> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>CCU</strong> is proud to bring him back for a second week.</span></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">(That's a CCU first)</span></em><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Monday, April 12th</span> </strong></em></span><br />
<em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You'll meet the one and only </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"><strong>"Buni"</strong></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Don't miss <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Part Two</span></strong>.</em></span><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-63968861271828895842010-03-29T20:38:00.025-04:002010-03-29T23:49:08.479-04:00Luisa Felix Presents *CANDY BLONDELL*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZsCMHVYu5CR3qPoCJAGTTTRrM9hnpblSliY_3daXNM6jsZoKFb4OtmV1vIBSOZdDs9mRXIYhim5o168AHsdPFwhJ-A4xoidPlUygXYflgoJiuUBV5OabSVqtfLq5dDUtDGAMoeDrbvo/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZsCMHVYu5CR3qPoCJAGTTTRrM9hnpblSliY_3daXNM6jsZoKFb4OtmV1vIBSOZdDs9mRXIYhim5o168AHsdPFwhJ-A4xoidPlUygXYflgoJiuUBV5OabSVqtfLq5dDUtDGAMoeDrbvo/s320/1.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>In Hollywood</strong>:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Candy Blondell </strong></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>*CANDY BLONDELL*</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>"CANDY BLONDELL"</em></strong> is a Nostalgia comic-strip about</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the <em>Retro old Golden Hollywood</em> of the Past. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Candy Blondell is a waitress who became the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">biggest star this imaginary <strong>Hollywood </strong>ever saw. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She is the Prototype who represents all <em>Hollywood blondes.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Created on </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>August 15, 1986</strong>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> she was inspired by photographs</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'd seen of actress <strong>JEAN HARLOW</strong>'s face.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHFmusLdsfKMhaJVt5Lhv872Y0Gwp2qjGw7lZ9mWdMxsAeEjfZgFvo8yjB0wjDzQwO29m0a_6nhd2rT6f1dNir0wuPGBAigNEoDIe6ICLEvTvLdmb4LnGwRYkS8QaaMQ1gfWukQzNNXTc/s1600/JH+-+best+head+ever+!!!!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHFmusLdsfKMhaJVt5Lhv872Y0Gwp2qjGw7lZ9mWdMxsAeEjfZgFvo8yjB0wjDzQwO29m0a_6nhd2rT6f1dNir0wuPGBAigNEoDIe6ICLEvTvLdmb4LnGwRYkS8QaaMQ1gfWukQzNNXTc/s200/JH+-+best+head+ever+!!!!.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Painted white hair and very luminous.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Totally fake, yet attracting attention.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She started out in <strong>Silent-Films</strong> as an innocent heroine,</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but became a favorite <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper">1920's Flapper</a></strong>!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8saw7LSltZykR6JpRNC3cnsJTdaBJJYcthstYMC17-BkUjkrjTNWiOVnVJ09AWlTx2NbaFfTpPfh-KDC2xmprkj6U66bLKoOmS42z6HMPbZeDwQOzEsGJ_eqQkoOsihwBRe6B7-pdsxw/s1600/Candy+Blondell+-+The+Roaring+20%27s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8saw7LSltZykR6JpRNC3cnsJTdaBJJYcthstYMC17-BkUjkrjTNWiOVnVJ09AWlTx2NbaFfTpPfh-KDC2xmprkj6U66bLKoOmS42z6HMPbZeDwQOzEsGJ_eqQkoOsihwBRe6B7-pdsxw/s320/Candy+Blondell+-+The+Roaring+20%27s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I figured that if I made my CANDY a flashy </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">blonde,</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> that she would attract attention </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">too. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I also felt </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">something was needed to </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">compete against <strong><a href="http://www.bettyboop.com/forums/">BETTY BOOP</a></strong>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Betty<em> </em>is </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">thought of as the only female in cartoons of</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">importance. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No one has ever competed against her</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">except </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>CANDY BLONDELL</em></strong>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I asked myself,</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Why should Betty Boop be the only one </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">in the game?</span></strong></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Candy was created specifically to be <em>Boop's</em> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">competition.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C22wxyunnkspzZU-qMBkGRa1deANrdCT3_S2gjFsRCEz8STzp-VOOCAch3cEMEWPMZTFX9NAIOKNoJtrnAEXePw2RHmgJdZF-n9Y-uVXkGu8ngKj9zBUU1V5o42Vtn8aequUqCgoIsI/s1600/sit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C22wxyunnkspzZU-qMBkGRa1deANrdCT3_S2gjFsRCEz8STzp-VOOCAch3cEMEWPMZTFX9NAIOKNoJtrnAEXePw2RHmgJdZF-n9Y-uVXkGu8ngKj9zBUU1V5o42Vtn8aequUqCgoIsI/s400/sit.png" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All movie stars change and develop/improve.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When Candy started out as a <strong>Silent-Film star</strong>, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">she used </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">her </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">own natural curly hair and round </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">eyebrows. This was the <strong>1920's</strong>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-ZskTqmKdJ6sa02TAVJxd2ChyMGwckybYeRFN9zub562yaE5gRvQAiR6_nMpYj4-SsTQAWSrpZBLlq53DVJuuRvudyuXq16s0o_Qs64YqXqerSLIyMfJkp2iZgaBKiVUrqqp3Gfn7g0/s1600/round.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-ZskTqmKdJ6sa02TAVJxd2ChyMGwckybYeRFN9zub562yaE5gRvQAiR6_nMpYj4-SsTQAWSrpZBLlq53DVJuuRvudyuXq16s0o_Qs64YqXqerSLIyMfJkp2iZgaBKiVUrqqp3Gfn7g0/s320/round.png" width="233" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When Candy started out as a <strong>1930's Talkies </strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>star</strong>, </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">she had a forced hair-do and pointed </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">drawn eyebrows.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These are the two faces by which she is known by.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDVA6JVcFto94lpUbfQpUyrsqtNMHEljq1gOTb7fJjS8CyIP2GByvfnlfSwufKX3ENuozNm0rDEO8ewZ5013m3xp5WHF9-Oqg8ExQOClLTMm6amvrXrrpR__1Aibqm4btCPpPpghH8Ug/s1600/CANDY+-+1930%27s+Face+1920%27s+Face.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDVA6JVcFto94lpUbfQpUyrsqtNMHEljq1gOTb7fJjS8CyIP2GByvfnlfSwufKX3ENuozNm0rDEO8ewZ5013m3xp5WHF9-Oqg8ExQOClLTMm6amvrXrrpR__1Aibqm4btCPpPpghH8Ug/s320/CANDY+-+1930%27s+Face+1920%27s+Face.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Below <strong>DOCILE POMPUS</strong> can be seen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He is Candy's <em>desperate</em> and <em>sneaky</em> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hollywood Agent.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> She is always in a conflict </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with him.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9idOGYuUtvbbMfYIAWFLv2NdhKVmi6xTou0QSYF-cWkfZ9mMafaJstGY4u3NGEkuSpu5aPbmU2LwZDYHQvSKYnrzK1krUy3GRRa04q47q1EH8_sQKDnBhSw7BTAH8pdqO7osGkkwdiOw/s1600/bmn2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9idOGYuUtvbbMfYIAWFLv2NdhKVmi6xTou0QSYF-cWkfZ9mMafaJstGY4u3NGEkuSpu5aPbmU2LwZDYHQvSKYnrzK1krUy3GRRa04q47q1EH8_sQKDnBhSw7BTAH8pdqO7osGkkwdiOw/s400/bmn2.png" width="313" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Some of her other roles include:</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The Ax Murderess<strong> "LIZZIE BORDEN",</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the Gun Moll in <strong>"Bonnie and Clyde"</strong> and as,</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">murder victim <strong>Dot King</strong> in <strong>"Broken Butterfly".</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Other Co-stars Include:</em></strong></span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Silent-Film queen,<strong><em>TIARA VAMP</em></strong>.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is Candy Blondell's rival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They are always fighting over everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>REEF VALENTINE</em></strong>, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The man CANDY<strong> loves</strong> but cannot get.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Jut Nozzle</em></strong> drinks coffee. A tough guy with orange hair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">talk-Balloon </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">dialogue in comic-strips. This new FONT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">will speed things up so I can do more stories </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">faster.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Cartoonist Luisa Felix does CHARLIE CHAPLIN.</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>Retro-Cartoonist Luisa Felix at MOCCA, year 2009.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>What am</em> I<em> doing now?</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Preparing for New York's <strong><em><a href="http://museumofcartoonart.org/">MOCCA</a></em></strong>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am stapling booklets together to </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">present to the audience. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>"BURY ME NOT"</em></strong> is one of them.<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>"OBSESSION"</em></strong> the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>WHAT REALLY GETS ME ANGRY?</em></strong></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cartoonists who quit their comic-strip without</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">thinking about their audiences feelings and needs!</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am not a </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">quitter. Ever!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is it hot in here..or is it Candy?</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I think I've fallen for her. No doubt there's plenty</span></em></strong><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>of other star-struck lugs below to break my fall.</em></strong></span><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Oh, Please say you'll plan a return engagement.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We here at CCU miss you already.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You can't see me but I'm blushing.</span></em></strong><br />
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</div></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-5519005732730359882010-03-22T22:41:00.003-04:002010-03-23T00:19:22.366-04:00Benson Comics<div align="center"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>You've seen the whole </em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>One Artist, One Comic thing. Right?</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Pfff! Child's play. </em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Dig this...Two Guys, One Comic.</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #4c1130; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Benson Comics</strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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<em><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</span></em></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Bio:</em></strong> <strong>Peter Durston</strong> and <strong>Tristram Baumber</strong> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">have been doing <strong>Benson Comics</strong> for as long as they remember,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> but that's only because they have done </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>terrible, terrible</em> things </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">to their minds </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that mean they can't remember their childhoods.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The strips come from a love of <strong>classic comic strips</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a passion for car maintenance,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> although the car maintenance side </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of it</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> has never made it into the strips. <em>Still waiting for the right time!</em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Each strip is constructed by one artist <strong>drawing</strong> and <strong>writing</strong> a frame </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">before <strong>handing it over to the other</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> and then repeating until finished,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> resulting in complete insanity and randomness.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We think you'll love the character of<strong><em> Benson</em></strong> </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and his <em><strong>crazy cast of friends</strong></em> just as much as we do </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>(and we love him a lot because he looks us in the eye,</em></span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em> <strong>and we're suckers for that</strong>)</em>!</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Benson History Month:</em></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> All through <strong>March</strong>, Benson turns his skewed eye </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">to</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the events </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that made </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>today </strong></em></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>the day we're experiencing today</strong></em> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">- for Benson History Month!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> From <strong>Ancient Rome</strong> to the <strong>Industrial Revolution</strong> and beyond,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> no one is safe from the <em>razor blade wit</em> and <em>wooden club rhetoric</em> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of<strong><em> Benson P. Bensonheimer III</em></strong>, famed historian. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So come and enjoy the fun and forensic archeology at</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em> </em></strong><a href="http://bensoncomics.com/"><strong><em>bensoncomics.com</em></strong></a>!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Double crazy. Twice as fun.</strong> </span></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Thank You, Thank You for sharing this <strong>twofold </strong>toon.</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Please guys please, come back a <strong>second</strong> time </em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><span style="color: #073763;">and bring more phrases like <strong>"wooden club rhetoric"</strong>.</span></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><span style="color: #073763;">I get it...it just sounds so cool.</span></em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="color: #073763;">Tweet with Benson too:</span> </strong></em><em><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/bensoncomics">http://twitter.com/bensoncomics</a></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Contact them at:</em></strong></span> <a href="mailto:peter.durston@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>peter.durston@gmail.com</strong></em></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:tristram.baumber@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>tristram.baumber@gmail.com</strong></em></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-65727953779046355222010-03-22T00:11:00.011-04:002010-03-22T00:27:49.378-04:00United Planet...Broken Legion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQ2_Jm0FCSCQqoC0HcZuqdomRY9pTDYlv_hADloAN71gzJEN_dFBuAjVvyWX49km-f3DzPcIfYtmg5DY8KMj8w6VTW9xtogt5xluiuP9lQ2-zIoL5P4cGFaIwC4U7TfoIDQrPEiqz55M/s1600-h/STEVERINO+RR+BLOG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQ2_Jm0FCSCQqoC0HcZuqdomRY9pTDYlv_hADloAN71gzJEN_dFBuAjVvyWX49km-f3DzPcIfYtmg5DY8KMj8w6VTW9xtogt5xluiuP9lQ2-zIoL5P4cGFaIwC4U7TfoIDQrPEiqz55M/s320/STEVERINO+RR+BLOG.png" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Steverino</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">here to escort you into the future.</span></span></strong></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's a frightening look at Earth</span></strong></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">in the year 2994.</span></strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>The Legion of Super-Heroes</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">DC Comics: NO 1, Nov, 1989</span></strong></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>plot & pencils:</strong>Keith<strong> </strong>Giffen<strong> diaologue:</strong>Tom & Mary Bierbaum</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>co-plot/inker:</strong>Al Gordon <strong>letterer:</strong>Todd Klein <strong>colorist:</strong>Tom McCraw</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Five Years Later"</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's dark. It's bleek. It's not much fun...and not a bad first story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">An attempt to revamp a <em>"Team</em>"<em> </em>title that was doing fine until</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong> </strong></em>the<strong><em> "Crisis on Infinite Earths"</em></strong> made it necessary </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">to alter the status quo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Five years older and with the <strong>United Planets </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">about to<strong> </strong>collapse the<strong> LSH</strong> has been forced to disband.<br />
<strong>Reep Daggle,</strong> aka <strong>Chameleon 'Boy'</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">wants to put the team back together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That's the meat of it. It is confusing. There are no real costumes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">logos or super names. Just a brooding <strong>Rokk (Cosmic 'Boy') Krinn</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">without his powers (Due to a battle.The reader of this <em><strong>first</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">issue should fill in the blanks) and his pregnant wife <strong><em>Lydda</em></strong>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">He wants her "off planet". She won't go without him. Yawn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Chem</em> makes his pitch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">There is this cool retro look back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And <strong>three</strong> pages of this stuff.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> <strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;"> This may be the best looking page in the comic.</span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am glad I pulled this out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Now I've just gotta find <em><strong>"Emerald Dawn"</strong></em>.</span><br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-65959045093149106802010-03-15T17:00:00.011-04:002010-03-15T18:51:53.115-04:00Bristow Art<div align="center"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>Stand Back Folks. </strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>It's "Mad" Bristow Art.</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="background-color: #351c75; color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Bristow</strong></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #351c75; color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Hello everybody… welcome to my first blog! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">My name is <strong>Bristow</strong>, and I am the creator, artist and writer </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">of my own comic strip – “<em><strong>Mad Mouse</strong></em>”.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZKPQ45mdHbOwmu_2za-3bMzehfA5JGSewDfuCrG10-OyjofXGOuggAhk_uHVHeszvmD-JM_vqMC85xlFJnjK_RVTUuvz9Yw_U9yojP_wmH6cWR-kS6oRoZnQByfDaFkKsR5pYAFo4Z8/s1600-h/_Mad+Mouse-title+page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><strong><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZKPQ45mdHbOwmu_2za-3bMzehfA5JGSewDfuCrG10-OyjofXGOuggAhk_uHVHeszvmD-JM_vqMC85xlFJnjK_RVTUuvz9Yw_U9yojP_wmH6cWR-kS6oRoZnQByfDaFkKsR5pYAFo4Z8/s320/_Mad+Mouse-title+page.jpg" vt="true" /></strong></a></span></span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-small;">ALL IMAGES CLICK LARGER</span></em> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m a little uneasy with self-promotion, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but I doubt anyone else would have nice things </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">to say about me, <em>so here I go</em>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHiwAnvHCGu4iumGzcYBoSKvjJvWVVjmXXOd7mlrM_kSboSGiPWfDQGBQaUaQSjvndOyk-XlabYT9-MgQucBRMA0ZzAfxyiyeukF9aOcnEtGJXOi70M9gHhpE48oyJd10_HeyS7EWKEwk/s1600-h/mmstrip1.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHiwAnvHCGu4iumGzcYBoSKvjJvWVVjmXXOd7mlrM_kSboSGiPWfDQGBQaUaQSjvndOyk-XlabYT9-MgQucBRMA0ZzAfxyiyeukF9aOcnEtGJXOi70M9gHhpE48oyJd10_HeyS7EWKEwk/s400/mmstrip1.bmp" vt="true" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“<em><strong>Mad Mouse</strong></em>” is a life-long <em>(so far)</em> culmination of what </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’ve</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> ingested from the comics world. As a boy, I loved </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">magazines like <strong><a href="http://www.dccomics.com/mad/">MAD</a></strong> and <strong>Zapped</strong>. I was an avid reader of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the <em>newspaper funnies</em>, paperback compilations of <strong>B.C.</strong> and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the <strong>Wizard Of Id</strong>, <strong>Archie</strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/richie.htm">Richie Rich</a></strong> comic books. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To me, <strong><a href="http://www.lil-abner.com/">Lil’ Abner</a></strong> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">was serious literature and there was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> much more</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to learn about life from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.zippythepinhead.com/">Zippy The Pinhead</a></strong> than from the Brady Bunch.</span><br />
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</div> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was never certain that a career <em>drawing</em> comics was for me.</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was a good enough artist, just had no vision for it as a young man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I hid behind the pen and paper, really. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The role of<em> class-clown</em> was appropriate - I just preferred</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to remain anonymous and let <strong>funny drawings</strong> tell all my jokes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I was the kid who would draw a cartoon of you doing something silly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> add a little <strong>social commentary</strong>, then pin it on the bulletin board</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> before class. It was generally accepted as <em>good natured humor</em>…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> okay, <em>most of the time</em>. Boobies on my sister’s paper dolls and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> cartoons of hot dog like people shouting obscenities </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the pages of our Church Hymnals,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> would soon put me on the <strong>blacklist</strong>. <em>I loved it</em>.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Growing up in <strong>Southern Indiana</strong> was not conducive </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for an aspiring <strong>satirical cartoonist</strong>. Nobody there, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">who was actually looking to hire an artist, shared my love for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.crumbproducts.com/"> R. Crumb</a></strong>, <strong>Bill Griffith</strong> or <strong><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/k/kurtzman.htm">Harvey Kurtzman</a></strong>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>Commercial Art school</em> was only good for a year and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>creative writing courses</em> at the local college were good for even less.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> So I did what any other intelligent person would do… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>I moved to <strong>Chicago </strong>to make it big as a comedic actor.</em></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even though drawing took up very little of my time </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">during </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">next several years, I believe it was the experiences </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">everyday life as a young man, <em>on my own</em>, <em>in the big city</em> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that were forming the foundations for “<strong>Mad Mouse</strong>”. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I wasn’t aware of that part yet, but when I did begin to sketch again,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I found that I had not lost my ability to satirize </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">using two little farm creatures as my <strong>spokespigs.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Unfortunately, these two little swine </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">never made it out of my drawing books.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By the time I had<em> landed-in, burned-out-on, </em></span><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">escaped-from</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>Los Angeles</strong>, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had found a new desire to <strong>create comics</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and was working on a character based on a drummer </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">friend of mine who played under the moniker, <strong><em>“Robnoxious”.</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> A couple of these were used in <strong><a href="http://www.moderndrummer.com/">Modern Drummer Magazine</a></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> as advertisements… <em>but nothing else came of it.</em> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Working on these strips, however, was when I really began</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to sink my teeth into the <strong>storytelling</strong> aspect of cartooning.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Although I had a lot to learn, I was letting my guard down </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">allowing the cartoons to do my talking... <em>albeit, a little bizarre</em>.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now was the point in the blog where I was going to introduce </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">how <strong>“<em>Mad Mouse</em>”</strong> came about, but I thought </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I would share</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> with you</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> a few other <em>–unrelated-</em> works first.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> During my last year living in <strong>California</strong>, so unsure of </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">which direction</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to take my art in, I took on a <strong>tattoo shop</strong> apprenticeship. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was a very interesting life experience. I had the opportunity</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to create some cool flash art and study an entirely different genre,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em> but the bloody skin thing…</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“<strong>Mad Mouse</strong>” really does have it all – <em>if you have a distorted </em></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">view </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of the ways of real life like I do.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where else would you find the life and times adventures of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>a <strong>divorced, middle-aged, underachieving, </strong></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>alcohol and nicotine addicted, human-like rodent</strong></em> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">who just can’t seem to get things right despite</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> his </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">desperate search for <strong>the meaning of it all</strong>? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I mentioned his troublesome best friend, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but wait until you meet his teenage, lesbian, daughter </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">who just </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">moved into his tiny apartment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“<em>just until her band makes it</em>”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Or his beautiful, successful <strong>girlfriend</strong> who is determined </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">to help him change his ways. And what creature of such</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> questionable values would be complete without a <strong>conscious</strong>…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in this case that would be <strong><em>Jesus Mouse</em></strong>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the omni-present meddling voice of reason. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>It’s bound to get interesting</strong>.</em></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well folks, there you have it… for now anyway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> You can <strong>read</strong> <em>(and even subscribe)</em> daily to </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>“Mad Mouse”</em> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on <strong><em><a href="http://www.gocomics.com/">Go Comics</a></em></strong>. There is a site there called <strong>Sherpa</strong>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> especially for up and coming cartoon strips and their creators</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> looking for <strong><em>syndication</em></strong>, and/or<strong> <em>exposure</em></strong>. <em>I am seeking both!</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Go to: <a href="http://www.comicssherpa.com/">http://www.comicssherpa.com/</a> and click on <strong><a href="http://www.gocomics.com/mad-mouse/2010/03/15/">“Mad Mouse”</a></strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> either the thumbnail, if a new strip has been uploaded that day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> or find the title under “<strong><em>See All Comics</em></strong>”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Feel free to comment on the strip as well. It’s <strong>free</strong> to subscribe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and the numbers could only help in the development of my strip.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Comic books are in the future plans for “<em>Mad Mouse</em>”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> with <strong><em>edition #1</em></strong> currently being drawn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>I’d like to thank<strong> Comic Creators United</strong> for</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em> posting my work on their blog this week.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em> They’ve been great and always have something fresh </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>and very cool to look at. <strong>Thanks guys!</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>If you would like to contact me regarding </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>“Mad Mouse”</strong> you can do so through my artist <strong>email</strong>:</em></span><br />
<a href="mailto:madbristowart@yahoo.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>madbristowart@yahoo.com</em></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>A big thanks goes out to you Bristow.</strong></em></span> <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>As "Mad Mouse" continues to break new ground,</strong></em></span> <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong> CCU </strong></em></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>can say "we got you at the start".</strong></em></span> <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>We're gonna miss that crazy mouse.</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong> Come back </strong></em></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>and </strong></em></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>shake things up again soon.</strong></em></span> <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong> We'll follow you to the cheese</strong></em></span> <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong> as long as you tell us how to steal it.</strong></em></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Mad Mouse can also be found <a href="http://www.comicspace.com/madbristowart/">HERE</a>.</strong></span> <br />
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</div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-66454067836737495012010-03-08T14:19:00.009-05:002010-03-08T19:44:15.374-05:00"Callous" Comic Fun<div align="center"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>She's a Doctor. He's a Duck.</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>What could happen?</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>by<strong> Carlo Jose S. San Juan, MD</strong></em></span> </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hello! I’m <strong>Dr. Carlo Jose “Caz” San Juan</strong>, 32, male, husband, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and father of one son. Other than being a <em>physician</em>, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am a </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">professional</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>voice actor</em> doing occasional work </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong>television</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">shows and <strong>radio advertisements</strong>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But that’s not why I’m here. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m here because I’m a<strong> <em>cartoonist</em></strong> as well!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like many cartoonists before me, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">drawing comics</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> has been a passion of mine since my very early youth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I grew up reading a wide variety of comics but my daily delight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> came from within <strong>newspapers </strong>in the form of the <strong>funny pages</strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> They were a daily treat and eventually became huge inspirations. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I joined student publications in high school, college,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and medical school and drew comics there.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However, from my fourth year of medical school onwards</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> life as a <em>doctor-in-training</em> and eventually as a new physician</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> became particularly hard so I had to put my cartooning on hold</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> for </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">several years, during which I got <strong>married</strong> and became a <strong>father</strong>.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In September 2009, while playing around with a <em>free</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>online hosting service</em>, I slowly made a website for <strong><a href="http://callous.yolasite.com/">Callous</a></strong>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">an <strong>award-winning comic strip series</strong> that I began in </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">my college student newspaper in <strong>1996</strong>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I started making <strong>daily comic strips</strong> with no intention to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">keep it up for any prolonged period of time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I just wanted to see if I could do it.<strong><em> </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, it turned out that I could and I haven’t stopped since.</span></strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It all started when <strong>Rianne Nicah</strong>, a medical student at the time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> woke up one morning and found </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a <strong>duck</strong> clad in plaid flannel in her home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He introduced himself as <strong>Cal Duck</strong>, Rianne’s<em> guardian duck</em>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Similar to guardian angels, guardian ducks are guides to becoming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the best person one can be. Unfortunately, unlike guardian angels,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> guardian ducks are <strong>not invisible</strong>. Furthermore, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rianne was Cal’s first charge, and initially much to her chagrin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> he would often be accompanied by his mentors:</span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong><em>Mallard Duck, Decoy Duck, and Ling Duck.</em></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today, she continues to brave the world as </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a <em>struggling new physician</em>. Life still teaches many lessons and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">she has her good friend, <strong>Cal Duck</strong>, to help guide her through.</span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Art, Writing, and Challenge of Callous</span></em></strong></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the <strong>webcomic</strong> world, there is an increasing trend toward</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> producing a comic mostly, if not entirely in the <em>digital format</em>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I am a bit of an <strong>old-school</strong> artist who still uses black pencils </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and ink prior to scanning. I’m more comfortable that way and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the roughness of line work adds a bit of “<em>warmth</em>”, in my opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Archie</strong> artists <strong>Stan Goldberg</strong>, <strong>Dan DeCarlo</strong>, and <strong>Henry Scarpelli</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> formed the initial influences of my comics, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">particularly on facial expressions and word balloon use. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Later on in the mid-<strong>1990’s </strong>an anime explosion led me to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the epic <strong><a href="http://www.funimation.com/dragonballz/">Dragon Ball-Z</a></strong> and a charming little series called</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong><a href="http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/nintama/">Nintama Rantarō</a></strong> which influenced how I currently draw hair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Years of reading <strong>Charles Schultz’s Peanuts</strong>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong> Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes</strong>, and <strong>Walt Kelly’s Pogo</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> showed me the importance of <em>character</em> and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>relationship dynamics</em>, as well as how </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>not</em> every comic strip has to have a joke to be enjoyed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have recently been told that my art style, particularly the line work,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> falls under <strong><a href="http://www.andrewcusack.com/tag/ligne-claire/">ligna claire</a></strong> and I somewhat agree.</span> <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When I started making Callous comics strips <strong>daily</strong>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I would <strong>pencil</strong> and <strong>ink</strong> during my lunch break</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> at </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">work</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in the hospital. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With that situation I had to keep my </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">drawing </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">instruments light so I restricted myself to <em>one pen</em>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">one pencil,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> a ruler,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and a sheet of copy paper.</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> In order to separate my foreground from the background </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I would use a high contrast of black, white, and gray </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">between them.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> When I started publishing in color,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> my choice of hues were also highly contrasting, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">probably</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> subconsciously influenced by years of reading the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong><em><a href="http://www.tintin.com/en/">Adventures of Tintin</a></em></strong> series by <strong>Hergé</strong>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This led to the current similarity to <em>ligna claire</em>, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a look I’m </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">quite pleased with especially with what little materials I work with.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Story ideas</strong> come from everyday life in and out of the hospital.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I type little notes in my smartphone whenever I see or think </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of something I’d like to make into a comic strip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Apart from the Callous comic series and the occasional </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>guest comic</em> I do for other webcomics, I currently have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> no plans to draw anything else. Perhaps after a year or so </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’ll try producing a compilation book of<strong> Callous comic strips</strong></span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Other than that, I am writing a comic story called <strong><em>M.O.U.S.E.</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> about a <em>cybernetics and robotics student</em> on her last year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> of training who is inadvertently assigned to intern at a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>mad scientist’s laboratory</strong>. I tried drawing it myself but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I figured my art isn’t right for the tale. In my dreams </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’d have someone like <strong><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/massimiliano-frezzato/">Massimiliano Frezzato</a></strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(<em>my favorite comic artist</em>) to draw it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Right now, however, I’m in the hunt for a <em>proper</em> artist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Links</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>The Callous Website</strong> – </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the official website of the Callous comic strip series </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>(<a href="http://callous.yolasite.com/">http://callous.yolasite.com/</a>)</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>The Callous Comic Series Fan Page on Facebook</strong> –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Callous-The-Comic-Series/124724964411">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Callous-The-Comic-Series/124724964411</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Callous Comic Strip on Twitter</strong> –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (<a href="http://twitter.com/callouscomics">http://twitter.com/callouscomics</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Thank you, Comic Creators United,</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em> for the opportunity to share all this with all of you!</em></strong></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>Right back at you, Carlo. Wow.</em></strong></span> <br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A Doctor, writer, cartoonist and I'm sure, a </span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Man-about-town. </span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">He's left nothing for the rest of us. We still win.</span></em></strong> <br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If "Callous" is an indication of the rest of the</span></em></strong> <br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">good Doctor's endeavours we're in good shape.</span></em></strong> <br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> When you get a free minute please come back and bring</span></em></strong> <br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">us an update on your work. </span></em></strong><br />
</em></strong> </em> </div></div></div></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337172787339392830.post-88103824473473543422010-03-08T01:56:00.004-05:002010-03-08T02:16:29.687-05:00Cool, Really Cool, Dud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmd0k8VRvzMxpJZOOvGwoKbAc9LnqEreKmGYStjF8ijz0O2AlNtPEZZ8snNsUTHYk_wHyJnk9dsJEFoSxI0jqy3GJQXeRwuhZZApXM7dywXakPCZ9RMziJp7KPQKvrI5q-gjMwt7Uqj0o/s1600-h/STEVERINO+RR+BLOG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmd0k8VRvzMxpJZOOvGwoKbAc9LnqEreKmGYStjF8ijz0O2AlNtPEZZ8snNsUTHYk_wHyJnk9dsJEFoSxI0jqy3GJQXeRwuhZZApXM7dywXakPCZ9RMziJp7KPQKvrI5q-gjMwt7Uqj0o/s320/STEVERINO+RR+BLOG.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">This week I went deep into <em><strong>THE BIG BOX</strong></em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and came out with a bunch of <em><strong>cool covers</strong></em>, a few </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><strong>cooler covers</strong></em> and one <em><strong>not-so-cool</strong></em></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">darn near</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong><em>painful</em> </strong>front sheet.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">First up:<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>BATMAN</strong> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>331</strong> </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">JAN, 1981</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmioewK7EnnagdyKDzXwtuvonZoDJ5TtMAqW76D0OQ14xzWS7I0CTNORZn6ag_v9eM_BApX-2Oz-6a6LOZbyrJSrxyE6z9NGnTa_Nkf4WudF4cvFyYSEv4fLaSRyW-BlrDWAnAMSo5BlU/s1600-h/bmcvr+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmioewK7EnnagdyKDzXwtuvonZoDJ5TtMAqW76D0OQ14xzWS7I0CTNORZn6ag_v9eM_BApX-2Oz-6a6LOZbyrJSrxyE6z9NGnTa_Nkf4WudF4cvFyYSEv4fLaSRyW-BlrDWAnAMSo5BlU/s640/bmcvr+001.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Cover Art by <strong><em>Jim Aparo</em></strong></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This is a sweet cover produced at the start of </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">what would be a very </span></em></strong><span style="color: #073763;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">tough decade for cover art. </span></em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">New printing technology </span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">and </span></em></strong></span><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">young artists </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">made this simple style tough to find for a while.</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;">ZERO HOUR:CRISIS IN TIME</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>4</strong> Sept, 1994</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0O8UDYGtYo5dMOee-jPqCP0ZflQj4eJ1VNnDnu3Dfw-xy3Pupx2mkd9kZBc9Ey5WT8dnMYjeN12pGwSKWL1w_cFrOOqOdTBvk0vl7pEVD0138zPe90H1rlRyjjh7oTW3zf9z78GCpiyc/s1600-h/zero+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0O8UDYGtYo5dMOee-jPqCP0ZflQj4eJ1VNnDnu3Dfw-xy3Pupx2mkd9kZBc9Ey5WT8dnMYjeN12pGwSKWL1w_cFrOOqOdTBvk0vl7pEVD0138zPe90H1rlRyjjh7oTW3zf9z78GCpiyc/s640/zero+001.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"> Art by <strong>Dan Jurgens</strong> and <strong>Jerry Ordway</strong></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>This is just one of many very nice covers from the </em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Zero Hour </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">saga. Each story kept my interest much like this </span></em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Superheroes mask/cowl themed cover. So cool.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>I love Hawkman's cowls along the bottom.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>I do not love the bar code box.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;"><strong>POWER MAN</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>29</strong> Feb, 1975</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd5fsFmY65bcpBui42MCa3G2R10u5plnNOGX8JeOb_WU21VvDW_Pmas2zwrBdx7tarF8aChgeZD-MONrdjCop10N7HIOEFENpDVVwavMGX9Jx0B0DprOMGn_1ND9I1Yv_kIr8ghofdmPo/s1600-h/powerm+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd5fsFmY65bcpBui42MCa3G2R10u5plnNOGX8JeOb_WU21VvDW_Pmas2zwrBdx7tarF8aChgeZD-MONrdjCop10N7HIOEFENpDVVwavMGX9Jx0B0DprOMGn_1ND9I1Yv_kIr8ghofdmPo/s640/powerm+001.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Art by <strong>George Tuska</strong></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Very good art, composition, color and fun 'make' this cover.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Another reason I miss the 1970's pop art.</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And by the way...Cage won't be joking about your looks</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">now that he's heard your name. "Mr. Fish".</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;">GHOST RIDER 2099</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>10</strong> Feb, 1995</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCDxASspPDzi14GWNp8LeEsi3lq8WHDToY-TzXO0HSqdtgPjyITWSMq2E2EjAAQ4xPZfyQuADSMb3irVsAz48yKeDZ96kgHSq7T2cFveQzlX-dMWRM0OOoRYNMHhzVBqxB8SIausmdQA/s1600-h/ghostr+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCDxASspPDzi14GWNp8LeEsi3lq8WHDToY-TzXO0HSqdtgPjyITWSMq2E2EjAAQ4xPZfyQuADSMb3irVsAz48yKeDZ96kgHSq7T2cFveQzlX-dMWRM0OOoRYNMHhzVBqxB8SIausmdQA/s640/ghostr+001.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>What can I say. It's creepy good.</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>It's so weird you've got to pick this issue up and read.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Inside you'll see lots of splashy art (that was the 90's) and </em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>not a lot of dialogue. I kinda like that.</em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>You will also find a four page Fleer ball card ad.</em> </span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;">DAREDEVIL</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>327</strong> April 1994</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuXZbOBCG1PIoBpyyTgruVGhykdko_zUmUCSdZgk6FMkXtA5shhF6CwpmpZujV-n2SrD1QLfy7NXN1DRdmRrkRiXRXsiAorCbI3PRGicKRIxlApl82IrgyMjF73BEJeDJ-mkK8iMXIj3s/s1600-h/cap+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuXZbOBCG1PIoBpyyTgruVGhykdko_zUmUCSdZgk6FMkXtA5shhF6CwpmpZujV-n2SrD1QLfy7NXN1DRdmRrkRiXRXsiAorCbI3PRGicKRIxlApl82IrgyMjF73BEJeDJ-mkK8iMXIj3s/s640/cap+001.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Cover Art by <strong>Scott Mcdaniel</strong></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>The outstanding cover art was carried throughout the </em></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">"Tree of Knowledge" storyline. The almost non out-lined </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">artwork on the interior matches the covers appeal.</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;">MOONSHADOW</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>1</strong> Sept, 1994</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvkOFG53mLNcUSafZjg63_lwZlDoQENdfplUOeDXCgZzixFHlH2cAFW4PnHkBCFTJnWzpuz2pHfW1-7z4INM6BWKKuD85Smz-wncWT_AHoa-pT_7WjJZbTOktR1sPtS9MGLEAiubaCeA/s1600-h/moon+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvkOFG53mLNcUSafZjg63_lwZlDoQENdfplUOeDXCgZzixFHlH2cAFW4PnHkBCFTJnWzpuz2pHfW1-7z4INM6BWKKuD85Smz-wncWT_AHoa-pT_7WjJZbTOktR1sPtS9MGLEAiubaCeA/s640/moon+001.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>I just dig the orange Moon thing and his funny grin.</em></strong></span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>It is a neat cover to a strange story.</em></strong></span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>The inside pages are also low gloss water colors of a </em></strong></span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>child like story for adults.</em></strong></span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><em>A nice piece to hold in your hands. </em></strong></span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Did I say it's suggested for </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">mature readers.</span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And now this public service message.</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;">DEMOLITION MAN</span></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">no.<strong>4</strong> Feb, 1994</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPaMDnDL_1mgiaykMZVjH__x5KrFMhLkXCD2QUL6fN-0GKREsUG8Fsh9n4G1HOPPu3-a3BJj0WkpxKVpAuxnK2RCK0g2lGmI3-_BCAWCrcwwha9BMyzMTld-1md_u4xToOJaSWnN6tOU/s1600-h/bad+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPaMDnDL_1mgiaykMZVjH__x5KrFMhLkXCD2QUL6fN-0GKREsUG8Fsh9n4G1HOPPu3-a3BJj0WkpxKVpAuxnK2RCK0g2lGmI3-_BCAWCrcwwha9BMyzMTld-1md_u4xToOJaSWnN6tOU/s640/bad+001.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong>I wouldn't have signed it either.</strong></em></span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Simon Phoenix in the back there only has </span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">one and a half legs... but he's drawn well. </span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The </span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">colors are fine too but 'what up' with John Spartan?</span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What's he looking at for one thing? </span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Do I even need to bring his arms up? It's anarchy.</span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The page art is much better.</span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I dare say it's good. </span></em></strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Sell this one inside out.</span></em></strong></div>Withttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10930860757487197076noreply@blogger.com0