Are you sick of hearing about TCAF yet? Well, look, here’s one last update — I’ll have this 11x15 print on hand. It’s archival quality on beautiful watercolour paper, and if you didn’t know better, you’d swear it was painted right on the page.
See you there! Table 238. Here’s what else I’ll have on hand, if you missed it.
In searching my files for original art to sell, I came upon this highly accurate self portrait. (Taken with instagram)
Some quick housekeeping. I’ve moved all my Globe and Mail comics out of my personal Machine Gum section, and into their own place, accessible through the More Comics section. If you subscribe to the Machine Gum RSS, they’ll still appear there, and if you subscribe to the blog RSS, you’ll still get everything.
One of my Machine Gum strips is reprinted in this collection, certainly marking the only time I’ll share a newspaper page with Blondie.
The Cartoon Crier is a sadness-themed newsprint comic strip anthology, put out as a collaboration between the National Cartoonists Society and the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.
It’s a tear-filled collection with work from both the newspaper strip world (For Better or For Worse, Mutts, BC, Beetle Bailey, etc.) and indie comics (Chester Brown, Joe Lambert, Laura Park, Michael Kupperman, etc.)
Pick up a copy at TCAF this weekend, or read it online.
TCAF 2012
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is this weekend. This weekend! It’s my favourite weekend of the year.
Books
Here are the books I’ll have for sale this year:
- Heaven All Day
- The big hardcover Team Society League Omnibus
- Team Society League #4 (NEW!)
- Dear Flyary, my first kids book (NEW!)
- Machine Gum #2
- Machine Fum #3 (NEW!)
I’ll also have prints, and a handful of copies of Machine Gum #1, and TSL Books #2 and #3. Get ‘em while they last because they won’t be printed again. Excelsior 1968 is officially out of print.
Also not pictured: Team Society League fans can expect a collectible teaser for an upcoming project with the First Lady of Canadian Comics.
Comics vs. Games
Also also, I’m also part of the Comics vs. Games jam as part of TIFF Nexus. It’s currently on exhibit at Magic Pony, but will be at TCAF all weekend, so come play Cumulo Nimblers, the game I made with Farbs. It’s part Super Mario, part Pinball, all awesome. Here’s the launch screen and the project trailer:
Panels
Programmingwise, I’ll be on two panels this year.
The first is the Comics vs. Games panel at 12:15 on Saturday to talk about making the game. I’ll only be there for the first 20 minutes, after which I must rush off to battle some Australians at 12:45 on Saturday for the Ed Mirvish Rollerball Derby Draw-Off at the Pilot Tavern where three Aussies from the Caravan of Comics take on three Canucks to duke it out on the page.
Doug Wright Awards
Finally, I was on the jury for this year’s Doug Wright Awards, so expect to see me at some point during Saturday night’s ceremony.
See you there! I don’t think the floor plan is finalized as I write this, but I thiiiink you can expect to find me on the second floor this year, I’ll be at table 238.
If you ever wanted one of my comics printed right on your chest, now’s your chance. The newly-launched Comic Strip Tees offers a new t-shirt every day from a different cartoonist. The shirt’s $20, and available for only seven days after which I’ll just have to draw it directly on your body with a Sharpie.
I took part in this jam between game developers and comic artists called, appropriately enough, Comics vs. Games, as part of TIFF Nexus.
Come play the game I made with Farbs called Cumulo Nimblers. It’ll be showcased at Magic Pony (680 Queen Street West, Toronto) from april 29 to May 3rd with the closing reception on May 3rd. Then it’ll be at TCAF On May 5th and 6th.
(Source: youtube.com)
Dissecting the intricacies of slapstick, from today’s Globe. (Taken with instagram)
