Had a good time at the comic jam and the Comix and Stories. Between those and getting some comics done, it was a busy weekend. Ages ago, some more people sent me Page 100s. We have another Bukowski, Chris Woods drawing Pulp. And for a change of scene, Darko Macan takes on some portion of the Bible in Croatian! And then Darko got some of his folks to join in, so we have Jurica Staresincic doing Jean Baudrillard’s Fragments, David Vrhovski (age 14) doing a joke from a 3000 Jokes book, and Sonja Gasperov doing Akif Pirincci’s Felidae.

Late breaking news: Here is another Michael Darmanin does William Shatner’s 2009 autobiography Up Till Now.

A brief rant: I do not skateboard, but it seems like a waste of money to put big signs on the main drag/hill here in North Vancouver saying “SKATEBOARDING ON LONSDALE IS ILLEGAL AND YOU WILL BE FINED” like that is really that big a problem? I have seen two fender benders in the past month, no skateboarders involved. The bad drivers of North Van seem like a bigger issue to me, but then I am biased against cars.

Anyhow, here is another Page 100:
Bruce Otter takes on Illuminatus!, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

And here is a page from my July comics for my YEAR 40 Project. Last month I decided to try to draw a comic’s worth of pages in one weekend. It mostly worked. You can follow along as they appear here.

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.

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?!

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.

I have been lazy since I got home and have not uploaded any TCAF pictures or scanned any comics. Maybe tonight!

Meanwhile other people have been drawing, drawing Page 100’s!
Mark Campos has done another page! This time it is Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
and David Marmota has drawn Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton

I am away having a bit of a post-TCAF vacation, visiting my family in Ontario. The show was a great time with a really upbeat vibe. I chatted with so many nice customers and fellow exhibitors. And then there were parties, you know, every night. The closing one on Sunday especially warmed my heart, as I looked around the room and realized I knew quite a lot of people in some capacity or other. And I knew them from many different eras of my comics life. It reminded me why it is good for my soul to get out to the shows!

Also I have gotten two new Page 100 Project submissions!
Josh Bauman does Haruki Murakami’s Wild Sheep Chase
Dorian Lafferee does Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Two more people have taken on the Page 100 Project…

The hugely talented Matthew Daley draws Nick Cave’s And the Ass Saw the Angel.

And And Chilean artist Hugo Robles did this adaptation of Argentinean writer Adolfo Bioy Casares: “The Invention of Morel“

So ages ago, Dave Howard suggested to me that it might be an interesting idea for cartoonists to try adapting a part of a novel they liked. And then recently when JD Sallinger died, that notion came back to me, and then I thought oh it might be interesting to attempt to do a comic of some portion of one of his books. As I sat on the couch staring at the shelves of books, I thought it might be fun to try it with different books. Maybe just a page. Maybe the SAME PAGE from each book. Say, page 100. And thus…

THE PAGE 100 PROJECT

Feel welcome to join in. It’s easy: Just pick a book, turn to page 100, and adapt it as a comic. Let me know if you do one: jasonturner@jasonturnerproject.com

Here is a list of the one’s done so far:
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by me
The Fermata by me
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Jason Rainey
The Hawkline Monster by Rebecca Dart
The Master and Margarita by Mark Campos
The White Bone by Emily C
H. L. C. Jaffé’s book on De Stijl by Idiomdrottning
A Wizard of Earthsea by Melanie Carson
Farewell my Lovely by Brian Moore.
Carter Beats the Devil by Rick McGee
Capote – a Biography by Beldan Sezen
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Matthew Daley
The Invention of Morel by Hugo Robles
A Wild Sheep Chase by Josh Bauman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Dorian Lafferee
Red Harvest by Mark Campos
Island of Adventure by David Marmota
The Selfish Gene by Mark Oftedal
The Secret Garden by Spiral Stairs
Out of the Silent Planet by Dave Nelson
The Tao of Pooh by Get in Here
Popcorn by Christopher Downes
2001: A Space Odyssey by Anthony Woodward
Bertie Wooster Sees Through It by Brian Moore
The Shadow Rising by kimiko
Howl’s Moving Castle by Seph Hunter
Sabriel by Arkonbey
Small Gods by Arkonbey
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Steafan Collins
Engines of Destiny by Lee
Aliens: The Labyrinth by Lee
The Prisoner of Zenda by Colleen Frakes
Women by Joe Decie
The Road by FHNavarro (scroll down a bit for the English version)
Game of Thrones by Brian Evinou
the Road by Spiralstairs
No Country for Old Men by Dan Berry.
Illuminatus! by Bruce Otter
Pulp by Chris Woods
Bible by Darko Macan (in Croatian!)
Fragments by Jurica Staresincic
a joke from a 3000 Jokes book by David Vrhovski
Felidae by Sonja Gasperov
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Jason Turner
William Shatner’s 2009 autobiography Up Till Now by Michael Darmanin