Toronto Comic Jam

 

I was reading Lynch on Lynch and finding it quite inspiring. Just different things that would get David Lynch jazzed up or intrigued. Like houses. And darkness. So I had that in my head as I started drawing, and sort of had this idea of bodies as houses, or bodies with features of houses. And also I was still thinking about those demons, looking for a way in.

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I keep thinking recently about the contrast between the day job and the life outside the day job. The adventures and then the Daily Planet. And then this morning what came into my head was stuff in the Prophet of Yonwood, which I just finished last night, stuff about loving the big weird wonderful world.

Anyways I have been better about keeping Another One Hundred Page Project updating than I have been about posting here.

I'm opening up ten $15 US commission spots for 5x6 ink drawings on bristol. Please ad $1 US for shipping within North America and $2 US for everywhere else. Limit to two characters per drawing. Payment through paypal upfront, and drawing will be completed and mailed within 1-2 weeks. Please send me an email at travale@gmail.com if you are interested! Thank you!

Here's some examples:

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ART!

I've actually updated my portfolio. MADNESS!

Bigger update showcasing what's kept me busy for the last month and a half is coming soon.

I'm hanging out on mixapp while I work if anyone wants to pop in and share some music! https://mixapp.com/g/19/982

Apparently cyclops' are born once in every 1 million. Wait... is it *born* or is it *conceived*? Anyway...

A cyclops was born in India recently, with the article noting that doctors recommended abortion but the parents declined. Fucking cool!

See, I'm convinced the *myths* of ancient Greece & Rome are amped up versions of real stories, just like your buddy's fishing trip last year & most of the crap in the Bible.

Near the end of the article is a mention of a recent cyclops born in St. Petersburg. It wasn't IDed as such until 7 months in, & it died shortly after birth. Additionally interesting is the proboscis protruding from its forehead, through which it was BREATHING!!!

My big question is: did it die of natural causes, or was it put out of what was assumed to be its misery? Which begs a second question: how often does physical deformity get infanticided when not aborted? As in this case, do the parents go ahead & the doctors in their *wisdom* murder in secret? I try to think of a doctor acting altruistically & not murdering under any circumstance, but we know how flawed human beings are. Doctors have the power to force medications that are unwanted & withhold meds that are needed, the former out of sense of duty & the latter out of arrogant belief.

I lost my train of thought.

Wouldn't it be cool if the Indian kid grew up to pioneer Bollywood horror films?

Oh look, Another One Hundred Page Project page 50! That was a little while back. I guess it was after TCAF but before MoccA, and my time in Ontario had completely thrown me off my program. So let's get back on track! I am still feeling that way - LET'S GET BACK ON TRACK!!!

The tomato plants in the first panel are now all grown up and living in the garden and look like they should produce a lot of tomatoes. The bike... I think it was from a photo online, but I really couldn't say for sure.

I still haven't upgraded my flickr account to PRO. So I have 200 pictures and they are long since used up and every time I add stuff, it pushes other stuff out of view. So I was looking to see what the oldest stuff was and it is from February 2006. Gosh.

And it was when Frank Miller was saying he was going to do a comic of Batman vs Bin Laden. Weird.
This was my imagining of what it would be like.

http://jasonturner.livejournal.com/36524.html

and some more here.

http://jasonturner.livejournal.com/36718.html

That is over three years ago! Holy smokes.

Overalls? Coveralls? This was on the way to TCAF, and these two were a couple. I had gotten up really early and felt like a fuzz-headed pile of crap, if I recall correctly. Anyways, the guy with the moustache looked like quite a character. His giant moustache, and denim overalls. A BELT over his overalls! And furthermore he  couldn't sit still, one of those people who have to kind of prowl around. Strangely there was another older guy also wearing denim overalls on that flight. Are they coming back?

...art by ME!

Heh - not so much. I have no idea if he or his *people* even think it's any good (they probably post everything) but my FBCC X-Men poster ('The Three Stooges' featuring Colossus, Wolvie & Nightcrawler) just got added to Stan's Facehack, Myspiz & Bebo fanart albums.

You've seen it before, but here's links for the morbidly curious.

Stan's MS

Stan's Bebo

Stan's FB (gotta have an account)

YAY! Shameless self-promo, courtesy of my favourite person... ME!

And the Winner Is . . .

The votes have been tallied, the results are in, and we have a winner (two, actually). Congratulations to the newly elected user representatives to the LJ Advisory Board: from lj_election_en, it's kylecassidy, and from lj_election_ru, it's nekbke! You can see the full breakdown of results for lj_election_en here and for lj_election_ru here. Thanks to everyone for your participation.

Here are some photos from the launch party on Saturday. It was a good time. A nice mix of people. A bit of rain didn't dampen our spirits. Fun fact: It also rained the night of our house launch for the first True Loves book.



Me and our sign. I decided to sport bare feet, inspired by Dalton in NYC.

( Some more pictores... )

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