Great Art!

Posted on August 27, 2009 by robin

I grabbed this info from Paul Hornschemeier’s blog.

46 Million Art Auction


Inimitable Cartoonist and Fine Human Being Anders Nilsen has pulled together some great artwork for an even greater cause: health care reform. The participating artists are:

John Porcellino, Genevieve Elverum, Chris Ware, Ivan Brunetti, Dan Clowes, Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Jeffrey Brown, Paul Hornschemeier, Todd Baxter, Sonnenzimmer Print Studio, Adam Henry, Kevin Huizenga, Jay Ryan (The Bird Machine Print Studio), Lynda Barry, Lilli Carre, David Heatley, Kyle Obriot, Stephen Eichhorn, Buenaventura Press, Sammy Harkham and the organizer, Anders Nilsen.

The proceeds will go to Democracy for America Now, a national advocacy group running television ads to push the Public Option in democratic swing districts and offering support to congressional members who take a stand for the policy.

My art for the auction (from Beasts Volume 2) is here.

And you can (and should) see all the artwork up for auction by searching for 46 Million on eBay.

Please bid on something. If you’re feeling really generous, feel free to buy me that Todd Baxter photo. It’s amazing. But nowhere near as amazing as people finally having affordable health coverage. So bid now and bid often.

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Julia Wertz

Posted on August 26, 2009 by robin

The Fart Party herself, Julia Wertz, took time for a lively discussion of all things Julia. I really love reading Fart Party and you should too.

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Inkstuds Mixtape Vol 666 Tom Neely

Posted on August 23, 2009 by robin

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Tom Neely‘s contribution to the Cartoonist Mixtape Project, is probably the most thoroughly thought out yet. Tom has provided art work for people to print off for and use as the cover for a mixtape. Follow his careful instructions at the end of the posting here. Here is a high quality PDF of the cover art, which should be printed on legal sized paper. Please make note, that there are 2 separate audio files, Side A and Side B.

Side A:
1. intro – pussy galore
2. fucking viva – trap them
3. faction of dystopia – word salad
4. ground zero – ground zero
5. lesser animal – pig destroyer
6. like weeds – his hero is gone
7. why you gotta be like that? seriously. – hinges
8. castrating till the break of dawn – transient
9. reanimator – naked city (john zorn)
10. white trash headache- circle of dead children
11. hellspawn the rebirth – morbid angel
12. electrodes dictating – cripple bastards
13. burnt to death – chainsaw to the face
14. free at last – today is the day
15. where eagles dare – pajo

Side B:
1. little demon – screamin’ jay hawkins
2. this close – 7000 dying rats
3. nazarene decomposing – havohej
4. empty – corrupted
5. dagdad – ruins
6. rated X – miles davis
7. polygraph – cursed
8. edifice comples – swallowed up.
9. ghosts – severed head of state
10. la traición – brujeria
11. reevaluate life! – exit 13
12. pistol whipped – karp
13. the only cure, the only remedy – ludicra
14. dark – low
15. outro – corpus christii

Instructions for listening to this Mix-tape:

1. Get a 90 minute blank cassette tape.
2. Download “Corpsegrinder” from Inkstuds.com
3. Plug a computer into your walkman.
4. Record “Corpsegrinder! side A” onto side A of your cassette.
5. Flip the tape and rewind to the beginning of side B.
6. Record “Corpsegrinder! side B” onto side B of your cassette.
7. Unplug the computer from your walkman.
8. Flip the tape and rewind to the beginning of side A.
9. Print out cover.
10. Trim and fold cover to fit into cassette case.
11. Put on your headphones.
12. Press Play.
13. Sit in your room and draw pictures of skulls and devils while
banging your head.

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Dirtybirds

Posted on August 21, 2009 by robin

As I have mentioned before, I love getting folks to do drawings of the Inkstuds Dirtybird. This one is by Rachel Dukes, who put together the great Side B Anthology. She is currently doing commissions at the cheap price of $15 dollars. Do yourself a favor and get something. Will you do me a Dirtybird?

dirtybird

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Brandon Graham, James Stokoe,Marley Zarcone and Lars Brown

Posted on August 20, 2009 by robin

Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, Marley Zarcone and Lars Brown joined me in the studio today to discuss their latest books. All three of these boys will be apearing this weekend at Vancouver’s very own Comix and Stoies festival.

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Kate Beaton 09

Posted on August 20, 2009 by robin

The wonderful Kate Beaton joined the inkstuds for a second dose of my inane questioning. Her comics still continue to fill me with joy and wonder.

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Inkstuds Mixtape Vol 5 Jaime Hernandez

Posted on August 18, 2009 by robin

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Jaime Hernandez is truly one of the industry greats. It’s really great that he is taking part in this humble little project.

Stay – Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
Hang On Sloopy – The McCoys
A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harem
Get Up (like a sex machine) part 1- James Brown
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down – Johnny Cash
Everybody Loves Me, Baby – Don McLean
Then Came the Last Days of May – Blue Oyster Cult
Sweet Jane – Mott the Hoople
Come and Get Your Love – Redbone
Do We Still Do It? – Slade
Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
I Wanna be Sedated – The Ramones
Party Train – Gap Band
Looks That Kill – Motley Crue
Here Comes Your Man – The Pixies
Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A.
I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton

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Comix and Stories

Posted on August 17, 2009 by robin

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Hello People,

This week, I have a couple of interesting things going on, on the old Inkstuds Hour of Power. On Thursday August 20th at 2pm pacific time, Kate Beaton will be live on air, and listeners can call in ask Mz Beaton questions. The phone number for the station is 604-822-2487. If you want to listen live, go to www.citr.ca

Kate will only be on from 2-245. After that, from 245 -330, I will be joined in the studio by a group of degenerates, better known as Brandon Graham, James Stokoe and Lars Brown. The reason for the different programing this week – Vancouver’s very own Comix and Stories small press day of fun.

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Art Show

Posted on August 15, 2009 by robin

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Hey Everybody, if you are in Vancouve, go check out my good friend Guillaume’s art show. I will be there.

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I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist by Annie Murphy

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Carrie

Annie Murphy is a recent CCS graduate and I Still Live is her Xeric award-winning comic. ISL opens with a four-page, moodily illustrated quote from Ascha Sprague, the titular spiritualist that Murphy discovers while researching local Vermont history. In fact, much of I Still Live is illustrated passages of Sprague’s writing, interspersed with historical facts about her life and the Spiritualist movement, as well as a few pieces of the story of Murphy’s research into it all.

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The whole book is black and white, colored only by bluish shades of watercolor grey, highlighting the passages of Sprague’s words. Murphy’s rendering of faces and natural details are quite bewitching, making the reader stare into the staring faces of 19th century Americans, ravens and ornate gravestones alike, except in the case of drawing herself, where she just looks like a hastily sketched cartoon stand-in. Each page is laid out differently, giving the sense of a sprawling, illustrated poem in some places and a history or autobio comic in others. This method was a bit disjointed, but effective enough to tell the parallel stories of Murphy and Sprague.

The uneasy coexistence of the two stories is what undermined my enjoyment of I Still Live. From the cover depicting Murphy engaged in the Spiritualist practice of automatic writing, channeling this comic from the faces of the dead above her, I expected something more united in theme, a focus on one story or the other, or a more detailed look at both. Murphy sells her own story short by giving us only a sketch of her motivations and methods, and also gives short shrift to her subject by mainly illustrating her words instead of interpreting Sprague’s message for today’s audience. I am still left to wonder what was so personally compelling to Murphy about Sprague that she decided to do this project—disappointing in the face of Murphy’s obvious enthusiasm.

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