A couple more Page 100s, both of them from Cormac McCarthy interestingly enough.
Spiralstairs does the Road
Dan Berry takes on No Country for Old Men
Also, my plant comics from June are continuing weekdays over here.
I was watching the movie Bronson this evening and enjoying its theatricality. Lots of grotty cells and prisons that looked great but their reality was irrelevant, all that was important was that they were texturally appropriate for the scene in question. And that made me think that maybe these days movies are more likely to go for the loose realism of the Puffy Chair than the deliberate composed theatricality of Derek Jarman or Peter Greenaway.
Today’s sad news is that comics legend Harvey Pekar died, which hits me much more than general celebrity deaths. All the news articles I read today are short and garbling the details. This one is okay. I think it is most worthwhile for the second David Letterman clip posted. Not the Last Time on Letterman one, the other one. A crazy and heroic dismissal of Letterman.
The Pekar comic of his that comes up first when I think of his work was a page or two called Making Lemonade, which just showed him doing just that. Then enjoying a glass. I think it had a transformative effect on my mind, like “What?! Can… can you do a comic like that? But… nothing happened!” Seeing the beauty and magic in the everyday.
The Pixies album Come on Pilgrim keeps popping into my head after my Scott Pilgrim reread last week (so good!), and thus mutating into Come On (scott) Pilgrim.
Have you been following along with the 30 Days of Plant Comics? Those updates will continue on for the rest of July. I still need to figure out what I am going to do for the July installment of my Year 40 Project.
And there are a couple more Page 100s:
The Road by FHNavarro (scroll down a bit for the English version)
Game of Thrones by Brian Evinou
Hey those are both excellent books that I have actually read!
I got to continuing my leisurely crawl through Twin Peaks last night and did a drawing of this classic confrontation. The only part of drawing Sheriff Truman that interested me was his hair. And the wrinkles on his shirt.
Happy Canada Day! It is almost 1pm and I haven’t gotten dressed yet. I am listening to music from South Africa as I scan some comics. I am feeling happy thinking about (and twittering about) all the great Canadian comic people I know and enjoy.
Two new Page One Hundreds:
Colleen Frakes does The Prisoner of Zenda
Joe Decie does Charles Bukowski’s Women
Don’t forget to keep following my 30 Days of Plant Comics, updating weekdays. I just drew the last one today. What to do in July now?!
Where has the month gone? Every time I would wander over to put an update on here, I would get this horrible heavy feeling and I JUST COULDN’T DO IT! But here I am now, to update the month’s business.
Page 100 Project
A couple of new ones:
Small Gods by Arkonbey
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Steafan Collins
The list is here.
I finished posting the comics I did in May for the Year 40 Project, and now I am going to have the ones in June over here. I decided to do “30 Days of…” and chose to do 30 Days of Plant Comics.
I feel like there was more I needed to catch up on. Oh! I have a full colour story in the latest issue of Taddle Creek, so that was fun to do. And did you know I have been doing this column about comics (in the form of a comic) for Broken Pencil magazine for a while? I guess we can just leave it at that for now.
I decided on the weekend that I should really have my Year 40 Project displayed properly, so I am in the midst of moving things over to Webcomicsnation. I am putting links over here as I go. Currently I’m posting a page a day of the stuff I drew at the start of May, in Toronto.
Also, there was another lovely page submitted for the Page 100 Project: Sabriel by Arkonbey
I have watched a whole pile of movies recently, but two stood out as really exceptional. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Boy both of them just beautiful and strange and wonderful. I need to remember to watch awesome movies.
Some more Page 100’s:
Seph Hunter does Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle
kimiko does James Oliver Rigney, Jr’s The Shadow Rising
In related news, our friend Spiral Stairs pointed out One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick, which is quite the epic undertaking!
And an interview that spoke to me last week, with Harmony Korine, whose movies I love. On his latest, Trash Humpers:
I always wanted to be able to work as quickly as I could think, to not be precious about things. It was more about building up a body of work than anything else, you know. Making films for different reasons, just be able to act on a whim, you know what I mean? In some ways, to work like a painter. I just wanted to be able to move as quickly as I could think.
Finally loaded up some TCAF photos. I was starting to compose a little write-up about it, but I don’t seem to have the juice for it today.
If you are not interested in that, maybe you would like to read an interview with Grant Morrison.
And if that isn’t for you, maybe you would prefer an interview with Scott Pilgrim man Bryan Lee O’Malley
Gosh there are a lot of these floating around that I had no idea about!
Mark Oftedal has done Richard Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene.
Spiral Stairs has done Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
Dave Nelson did CS Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet
Get in Here did The Tao of Pooh
Christopher Downes did Ben Elton’s Popcorn
Anthony Woodward did 2001: A Space Odyssey
And Brian Moore did another! PG Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster Sees Through It