I've been snapping pictures here and there throughout the last month or so, and here they are. Click on the pictures to see the full images and to read my comments about them. Quite a few of them seem to be of things that made me say, "what??!!"
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augustus
6/2/2014 01:42:41 pm
Roy O looks more like Ernie on Sesame Street gone punk...or hip hop... 6/3/2014 04:47:14 pm
Well, you've gotta work with what you got. The other current favourite is Steely Dan (!?), but luckily we haven't had any requests for their Fisher Price incarnations yet... I don't even know what that would look like!
Lisa
6/2/2014 01:59:15 pm
I get off the bus in the morning along side of Knox United. I have often thought about which window it was that you cleaned. For some reason in my head it was much smaller! 6/3/2014 04:42:24 pm
I can't believe you remember that. (Well, it was a weird thing to do!!) Walking around downtown Calgary, there are a lot of things that are really new and different, but I guess there are a few of the same old windows and bus stops still around. Thanks for writing!! Leave a Reply. |
sam hesterI am a graphic recorder based in Calgary. I like local stories. I write comics when I have free time. And I leave eraser shavings everywhere I go. Looking for a
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Some nice things people said about my work:
“If Breitkreuz and Foong [founders of the Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo] represent the Type-A side of Calgary's self-publishing community, Hester may be the community's right brain.” – Tom Babin, FFWD Magazine
“…A strong graphic style similar to other autobiographically-inclined Canadian cartoonists like Chester Brown and Julie Doucet.” – Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal
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