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Last week was beyond hectic. A whirlwind tour of the East Coast, taking in Vermont, Greenwich and NYC, followed by a stint hosting the Center for Cartoon Studies‘ table at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo. Here’s a photo of me at the table looking as primed as you can be after a non-sleep redeye the night before.
As well as manning the table, along with CCS students and alumni (thanks Gabby, Kenny, Denis, Colleen, Emilie and Lauren!) I ran a colour workshop with Jenny Hansen, veteran color designer who has worked on shows like Happy Tree Friends and Batman: the animated series. Jenny waxed lyrical about using value, hue and varied palettes to creating and emphasizing mood in comics, and I was humbled to have her colour one of my panels as part of the live demo, which you can see here.
Last but not least, here’s a caricature of Karl Marx strutting about like Mick Jagger that I did for a friend’s housewarming last night. No nods to the President Obama being a socialist thankyouverymuch. Cheers for the party Nikil and Shannon!
Next page from my strip on the Chilean Coup of 1973, and the shadowy US involvement behind the scenes. This introduction takes places at the Chicago School of Economics, where budding Chilean economists were brought from the mid-50s onwards to be influenced by Milton Friedman’s passionate enthusiasm of the free market and laissez-faire capitalism.
My new pages over at Bash Magazine have just gone up on their website, so check them out here.
The piece is called ‘Lunch on K Street’ and is a behind the scenes look at the machiavellian machinations that go on in Washington’s Capitol Corridors. So for an introduction to who lobbyists are, why they exist and how they influence government spending and appropriations – all in three pages – visit the link and please post your comments.
I’ve just got back from San Fran’s APE con, where I headed up the CCS table and co-chaired a colour workshop, as well as touting What a Whopper and my latest project – a longer version of the 3page Bash piece I did on the 1973 Chilean Coup. Thanks to those of you who stopped by – I’ll post photos forthwith. Enjoy!
I’ve just finished designing this here flyer for the Center for Cartoon Studies Colo(u)r Workshop that’ll be featuring at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo this year on Nov 1st and 2nd. Bit of a departure from my usual style, and a stark contrast to the 9/11 strip above – second page will go up after this weekend.
If you’re a Bay Area local, pick up and treasure your very own flyer from one of San Fran’s fine comic-selling establishments as of tomorrow, when I’ll be dropping them off all over the city.
