With a Little Help from my Friends
A funny thing happened on the way to the printer… Actually, I was not on my way to the printer. Plan A, scrapped about the middle of last month, had […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
A Ginger Tabby Logo
I started today by going back to painting, after many very long days on the computer. It felt good. I was working on some images for the cover of Spam and the […]
Dialogue Balloons and Caption Boxes, Oh my!
I’m feeling a little quantum just now. The myriad potentialities of adding the dialogue to Spam and the Sasquatch have now been collapsed into one sleek and unified whole, and […]
VANCAF Bliss
I just got back from VANCAF, the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. It’s rather like TCAF (see my earlier posts for descriptions of that), but on a more intimate scale. The […]
An Interim Report — Spam and the Sasquatch
I’ve been industriously inserting dialogue balloons and caption boxes into Spam and the Sasquatch for the last few days, using InDesign. It’s actually kind of fun, but taking much longer […]
Celebrating!
I have finished the painting of Spam and the Sasquatch, a few minutes past midnight, so I’m too late to post today, because it’s now tomorrow! The work is not […]
Up a Tree, with an Eagle
In today’s painting, Spam the detective cat finds himself up a tree with an unsatisfied customer! I’m very, very close to being done with the painting; here’s what my table […]
Technique-of-the-Week: Polishing a Page
Making a graphic novel involves a lot of steps! I’m getting close to finishing the artwork, and running all the pages through Photoshop to get each one ready for publication. I […]
Jet Lag Blues
I have worked my way up the evolutionary ladder of post-jet-flight consciousness to at least Neanderthal; tomorrow I may be fully human again. I did get a start on the […]
So I’m an Optimist…
Yesterday I wrote that I’d be continuing the artist profiles today — I didn’t allow for the jet lag! I’m a little too foggy to entrust myself with a post […]
A Day Off
I’m taking the day off of blogging today; This is my day to fly home. Back again tomorrow with more artist spotlights, and some photos from my day today exploring […]
Featured TCAF creator: Joan Steacy
This is the second of my posts about artists who were at TCAF this past weekend. Today I’m featuring my friend and mentor, Joan Steacy! Follow the links in the […]
Featured TCAF creator: Sam Logan (and a trip to the ROM)
As promised, today begins a series of short features about some of the creators that were at TCAF this past weekend. My methodology for choosing them was highly personal; let’s […]
TCAF Euphoria
It’s over already! I’m tired but happy, having made some new friends, gotten to know others better, and stuffed my greedy little wheelie-luggage full of graphic novels. In fact, I’m […]
TCAF Delirium
TCAF has started in earnest! I packed my little wheelie bag lightly this morning, and pulled it along my morning kilometre walk like a pulltoy — a hungry pulltoy! It […]
Comics and the Big City!
Well, I’m here, revelling in my urban vacation, rubbing elbows with other folks who create and are passionate about comics! Yesterday I was up much too early, and on a […]
Off to TCAF!
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m off to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, to meet other artists, publishers, and fans. Take a look at the link — there is a lot […]
The Disappearing Fish
I’ve taken a day off of painting today — it was time for some life-things that needed to be taken care of (eventually the laundry HAS to get done), and […]
Cheeze It, Sasquatch!
Today in Spam and the Sasquatch, our young Sasquatch is in a spot of trouble with the law. Here’s a couple of my favourite panels from today’s painting efforts. (In […]
Sasquatch Zen!
There’s been lots of progress on Spam and the Sasquatch today — here are a panel and a page that pleased me greatly. (In case you’re just tuning in: Spam and […]
Fish Negotiations
Tonight’s sneak peek at Spam and the Sasquatch involves diplomatic relations between Rocky the Vampire Cat and Renfrew the Raccoon over the possession of The Fish (deceased). (In case you’re […]
Meeting the Sasquatch
The Sasquatch of Spam and the Sasquatch finally makes her appearance! And right away there is trouble… Not long ago I posted the ink-only page with the first two of […]
Rocky the Vampire Cat
Today I’m going to post a whole page, just because I like the way it came out. Spam has encountered his pal Rocky the Vampcat, or Catpire if you prefer, […]
Karen Gillmore Art 