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(Whenever I haven't posted something by Friday, I'm going to share random art from throughout my life. Today I present to you . . . )
Original Quiss Comic #2 (From 1989)
(Tsk. I'm using Quiss to provide extra content for this blog, and it turns out she's also scrounging.)
To read the original, Original Quiss Comic, or for more of an explanation, click here. Or click on the "Quiss" tag below to see all posts featuring Quiss (so far just these two).
A couple friends recently told me their favorite post in this blog was when I illustrated that "Fortunately, Unfortunately" story. (Haha, thanks!! That was really fun.) So, during weeks where I haven't posted anything by Friday, I'm going to share art (either that's very old or new), hopefully to keep you entertained. (This will be embarrassing for me, which, by my best guess, is what you will actually find entertaining.)
Here is the the first Quiss comic I ever did, a small stack of which I recently stumbled across at my parents' house. Did you know I used to be a cartoonist? Me, neither; I forgot! I did these in ninth grade to entertain friends, and, eventually, our high school newspaper asked me to do a couple for them, too. I had no idea why they were interested, but it was very pleasing.
Original Quiss Comic, #1 (20th Anniversary Edition)
(Clearly I had intentions of coloring this panel.)
Some of you guys whose blogs have lapsed lately, I know you have old art threads kicking around, too. Maybe you could share on your blogs, too!
Love, r
P.S. The Quiss comics I found aren't the ones the newspaper ran. I'll look for those.
No theme this week. I'm feeling all kinds of lazy. So let us plumb the internet itself, sans rhyme or reason, and come up with tasty tidbits in and of themselves.
This one comes from Adrienne at What Adrienne Thinks About That. Her boss apparently sent it to her. Those of us in the profession can relate. And I was delighted to see that it also displays a death-by-closed-stacks portion that is reminiscent of a movie my husband made in college.
In the realm of "oh, THAT's how it's done!" I bring you an explanation for how graphic novel illustration works via computer. Like the Bone books? Of course you do. You are a beautiful, intelligent, highly motivated individual. As such, you will enjoy this view of coloring in Thorn from the books. I just think that it's cool that you get to draw on the actual screen.
Julie at Children's Illustration recently had a small tribute to Bill Baird and Company over at her site. First off, it's very interesting to watch pre-Muppet puppets. Plus the song is fairy trippy in and of itself. Betcha you won't see the iron lung coming, though.
How come no one names their daughters Cora anymore? I think Cora is going to have a second coming. GO CORA! Julie, I should note, also located this neat interview with Brian Selznick about his latest. You may have heard of it. It's something something Hugo something, I think.
Which led to me to the discovery of this Expanded Books website. And that, in turn, led me to the discovery of something the Buffy fans amongst us will find odd. Look! It's Tara! Writing books! The book itself isn't all that thrilling, but it's nice to see Amber Benson getting work of one kind or another.
We'll do a 180 after this and show the direct opposite of horror novels with an interview with Rosemary Wells. Anyone who has ever worked with Ms. Wells will tell you that the woman is... a pistol, let's say. Yes. That sounds about right. A pistol. Well, here she is doing the sweetness and light bit.
Pistol, I say.
2 Comments on Video Sunday - Misc., last added: 4/29/2007
Thanks for the link! It inspired me to blog about my years as a puppeteer.
BTW, Bil And Cora Baird had two children: Peter and Laura. Peter passed away in 2004. Is that the Cora you are thinking of?
Sadly, in the late 80's they had to auction off many of the Baird puppets to pay taxes.
I wish I had known about that auction! Guess it wouldn't have mattered, though. I wouldn't have been able to afford one then.
bookbk said, on 4/29/2007 7:13:00 PM
I know at least one toddler Cora. Her 6-year-old sister is named Hazel, and the family is wicked arty and cool. So I'd say you'll be seeing Coras at your storytimes soon.
Also--I just saw in the New Yorker that there were some screenings of Georges Melies's films this weekend and maybe even tomorrow. Not sure why I'm mentioning this as it's probably too late for anyone seeing it to go see the films; I just thought it was cool they were doing it.
Thanks for the link! It inspired me to blog about my years as a puppeteer.
BTW, Bil And Cora Baird had two children: Peter and Laura. Peter passed away in 2004. Is that the Cora you are thinking of?
Sadly, in the late 80's they had to auction off many of the Baird puppets to pay taxes.
I wish I had known about that auction! Guess it wouldn't have mattered, though. I wouldn't have been able to afford one then.
I know at least one toddler Cora. Her 6-year-old sister is named Hazel, and the family is wicked arty and cool. So I'd say you'll be seeing Coras at your storytimes soon.
Also--I just saw in the New Yorker that there were some screenings of Georges Melies's films this weekend and maybe even tomorrow. Not sure why I'm mentioning this as it's probably too late for anyone seeing it to go see the films; I just thought it was cool they were doing it.