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Apologies for the delay in serving up the next instalment to you, dear reader – the second year of CCS has kicked in now, as well as pre-promo work for San Fran’s Alternative Press Expo, which I’m doing the flyer for (I’ll post the mockup forthwith).
Other big news is that the Comite de Defensa del/a Trabajador@/Worker Defense Committee in Seattle, Washington want to translate my What A Whopper Comic into Spanish, as part of their Spanish-language radical lending library. They’re a worker-led organization working to develop a community of day laborers in Seattle empowered to stand up for the rights of their compañeros through public campaigns against bad bosses and unjust systems. Visit the Comix section of this site to read the first 8 pages of this soon-to-be international comic.
Speaking of which, here’s the next equally international instalment of Cuba Libre, fresh from October’s issue of Bash Magazine. Enjoy.
It’s been too long since my last post I know, but there’s been a lot happening, so bear with me:
I submitted a poster for Moveon.org‘s Obama Poster Campaign:
It didn’t make it to the DNC (old hat of a news story now), mainly cos it looks like they were after more art with a capital A : click here for the paintily finalists. I’ve also been working on a new strip for BASH around the Sept 11 Chilean Coup that brought Salvador Allende’s Socialist regime toppling down, though you’ll have to wait a bit before I post it online. PLUS I’ve finally become a star of the silver screen!! I’m in a trailer for a new documentary out about the Center for Cartoon Studies, made by the award-winning Tara Wray. Click here to watch it.
One of sketches features around 30 secs in too. I don’t remember why, but I also provide sagelike advice on why you should never trust clean shaven men. Which I stand by.
AND most importantly of all, I got ENGAGED!! All my love to my blushing, supportive and amazing fiancee Jodie.
Here’s the next page in the Cuba Libre story running in August’s issue of Bash Magazine – read the earlier ones by clicking in the side bar menu. In other news, Microcosm are now distributing my What A Whopper comic across the US of A.
Bash Magazine, a free comics monthly, has now launched in Washington DC, complete with 3 pages of my ongoing strip Cuba Libre. You can download a PDF of it here.
Here’s page 2 of the strip above. I’ll post the next one shortly.
Part 2 of the Comic Book Creators’ excerpts, as well as the good news that a regular publisher of my monthly comics, London’sThe Other Side Magazine, was recently featured in The Guardian‘s media section. Click here to read the interview with Sam, TOS’s fresh-faced Editor.
Details aplenty from Nate:
As promised, here are a few excerpts from the comics created by my students over the course of the last 2 weeks. In no apparent order, we have:
Pablo the Sacred Runyip by Spencer
The Epic of Mibus by Gavin
The Sweet Escape by Maggie A Ghost Aghast by Haley
Yep, that’s right. The Comic Book Creators session at Galileo Summer Quest came to an end today, with nearly all of my 32 students walking away with 10 copies of their very own comics (see below for proof). And not just comics they’d banged out in clipart a la David Rees (not to knock the magnificent Get Your War On), but real comics that they’d thumbnailed, pencilled, inked, scanned, photoshopped and coloured. Not bad for 9 days work!
I’m so proud of all the students in both my classes (spanning 5-8th grades) that I’m going to stop gushing and sit down with their comics for a good read. What better praise is there.
I’ll post excerpts over the weekend, but just to whet your appetites, we had comics covering: an escape from a haunted town; a star wars take-off, done with sausages; an epic knight’s tale; a man who’s shrunk and can only communicate with his dog; a space story with a twist in the tale; Hercules fighting Kung-Fu Panda; a nature documentary featuring a Runyip (from Star Wars – come ON); unemployed taxi drivers panhandling; more plots to take over the world than I could ever have imagined; and even the odd (semi) wordless piece. An ink-stained pat on the back to everyone involved.
PS It’s also given me an idea for posting tutorials on this site, which I’ll do imminently. Keep your eyes peeled for a new section on the main menu bar.
Click here to read a review of my latest comic, What A Whopper, published on the Optical Sloth website. For those of you daunted by the prospect of a whole paragraph in these ADD-crazed times, here are the highlights:
“A comic with a message! Sorry, even with all the chaos in the world I rarely see something cross my desk that’s this socially conscious, with all sorts of links to boot. ”
“a powerful, concise and even entertaining recap of the circumstances a good chunk of the unseen population of this country lives with every day”
