July 22nd, 2010
Inception came out last week and my good friend Katelan Cunningham reviewed it on The District. I did an illustration to accompany her write-up, and to experiment with some new tools. Go and read her article!
One of my favorite scenes that usually ends up as an afterthought for most people is the one where Cobb tells Ariadne that you can never really remember the beginning of a dream. He asks her how they ended up at the cafe, and all she can say is, “Well we came from the.. uh..”. I really like that idea so much, especially because it is a scene in a movie. Movies have scene after scene strung together, and sometimes they jump time. We don’t always get to see what happens in between scenes where a character might be getting ready in his bathroom, then ending up at work in the next scene.
Nolan points out that movies aren’t real and that they mirror our dreams more than they mirror life. It’s references itself by pointing out that Inception is just a movie, by not showing us exactly how they got the cafe: just that they ended up there. And as seriously as some of us take our movies, deconstructing plausibility and finding plot holes, you have to keep in mind that movies have no reason to make sense. My dreams never do.
July 12th, 2010
Have you ever done a MAD Fold-in? You know, those things on the back cover of MAD Magazine? It was a riddle of sorts, where you read the set-up, folded the page over, and got the punchline!
Now, I wouldn’t ask this of anyone who comes to the website in any other circumstance, but in order to really fully experience this piece, you have to print it. Print it out, and fold it, and laugh or feel enlightened. That’s right, PLEASE PRINT THIS OUT AND FOLD IT TO GET THE PUNCHLINE. You can print the above image, or download the PDF by clicking here.
[UPDATE: It will also work if you print it in black and white. This really is the one and only time I would ask ANYONE to print something from my website, after years of giving my art and comics for free. Thanks!]
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June 30th, 2010
It’s almost been a whole year since I started performing regularly at the Sentient Bean. I’ve missed some months in the 09-10 year, but it’s been a year nonetheless! And I’ve been making posters as frequently as I could, too. My approach to the posters have mostly been to improvise it with no planning, but this one in particular I decided to sketch out beforehand.
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June 21st, 2010
Click the image above to read “New York Bagel”!
New York is a magnificent place. Can you believe that I went there for the first time ever?? I had a blast with my classmates, Ben Frisch, Amber Gant, Lilly Higgs, Caleb Soloman, and Dean of SCAD: John Lowe. It was a brilliant week, felt longer than 8 days, and it’s too bad I won’t be back for a long long time. I kept a log of it in my sketchbook. It’s filled with visits to plenty of professional offices and practicing artists, including:
- Mickey Duzyj
- Rebekah Isaacs (whose name I spelt wrong throughout my journal, SORRY!)
- Cliff Chiang
- Paulo Rivera (whose name has a ‘o’ in place of the ‘u’. Gawrsh, I’m a great journalist).
- R. Kikuo Johnson
- Sean Chen
- Peter Kuper
- DC Comics
- Marvel Comics
- First Second Books
- ….and more!
- Special thanks to my great friend Alyssa and her family for housing me for a period of time (she’s in the journal for a bit, too). Hope you enjoy these 20-24 pages of my vacation/class!
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June 7th, 2010
I’ve got my feet in both comics culture and the culture of stand-up comedy, and I’m seeing two similar conversations happening. Female comedians and female comic readers both face similar issues being that stand-up and comic books are largely male dominated.
First off, I am not a woman. I do not claim to be an expert in feminism or femininity. Just check my dating track record with women. (Hint: it’s non-existent.) But my audience is surprisingly mostly women. I’ve received more responses, comments, and e-mails from women than men. Most of the people who have approached me after a stand-up show are women. And the people who most get excited about seeing my work at conventions and end up buying my comic books and prints are women.
THE RESOURCES
- Jessie Geller writes how she feels as a female comic.
- Here’s the article by Kate Hendricks linked to at the bottom of previous source, here. Also, here is the Vanity Fair article, “Who says Women Aren’t Funny?” from 2008.
- A new web documentary series called Welcome to the Stage recently just popped up. It’s about stand-up comedy in San Francisco, and though it hasn’t really brought up the issue of “female comedy”, it follows 4 female stand-up comedians exclusively.
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