Welcome to another day of live-tweeted Calgary Expo comics. I have to give an enormous shout out to the Calgary Herald's Features Editor Tom Babin for linking my updates to the Herald's Expo blog. Hooray for creative local collaborations - and for newspaper comics!
Here's Saturday's batch. One more coming up after this!
Here's Saturday's batch. One more coming up after this!
I really enjoyed talking with my table neighbour Sho Uehara (and his "booth babe" Sebastian) about life, art, work, and the ongoing challenge of finding a balance between all three. Having friendly neighbours made the Expo even more fun. I like finding out what other Calgary artists are up to - especially when they incorporate local scenes into their work, the way Sho did with this recent cover for "Adventure Time!"
I feel pretty strongly that artists (and writers) should feel that it's ok to set their work in the real places they know - not just in famous locations or in nebulous nowhere-lands. Otherwise, how will audiences learn that these real places even exist? And how will those real places gain enough confidence in their own art-worthiness? Anyway, I say thumbs up to anybody who puts the Calgary Tower on their cover. Now if you really want to read a long, boring comic strip I wrote about my own path to discovering the courage to make my hometown part of my art - you can find it here.
I feel pretty strongly that artists (and writers) should feel that it's ok to set their work in the real places they know - not just in famous locations or in nebulous nowhere-lands. Otherwise, how will audiences learn that these real places even exist? And how will those real places gain enough confidence in their own art-worthiness? Anyway, I say thumbs up to anybody who puts the Calgary Tower on their cover. Now if you really want to read a long, boring comic strip I wrote about my own path to discovering the courage to make my hometown part of my art - you can find it here.
Now that's a good friend.
That previous one is a guest post by my 4-year-old son Alec who is a fan of drawing train tracks.
This was just weird.
"The 11th Doctor," a helpful twitterer informed me.
| Really, the longest line in the Expo was probably the line to see Stan Lee (pictured here in the alphabet I drew for the Calgary Expo Program Guide)!  |  |
| As I made my way through the crowds I saw a lovely display of artists' materials - a booth run by Calgary's Sketch Art Supplies. I was really just drawn in by the sight of all these Micron pens - which are the only ones I use (I'm addicted) - but later I found out a bit more about this cool-sounding shop from their website: "Sketch Art Supplies is a unique artist supplies store and gallery located in the Mount Pleasant area of Calgary’s Northwest. Our business is literally housed in a 1910 starter home. We feature fresh work by emerging artists, artist supplies, custom picture framing and adult art classes. The owner is resident artist Ljubica Todorovic, a recent Alberta College of Art & Design graduate (BFA Drawing 2006)."  |  A business in a house. A new business in an old house. A start-up in a starter home. I like everything about this (I've always liked the idea of combining a home/work/client/customer space). I am glad to hear that something like this is happening in Calgary! I will have to check this out... the next time I need to get my Micron pen fix (I mostly go through the 01's, but I drew most of these Expo comics with 1's because I wanted a good, thick, visible line that I wouldn't have to go over. |
I never found out what that thing was.
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