Charlotte #2
Another print of the radiant Charlotte. I think the problem with the last one I did is that it was too complicated. I like the photo it’s based on, so I’ll try again. Pretty, isn’t she?
NZ Comics Weekend is being organised this week. I don’t know how much I should participate. Last year was the first time I didn’t go to Armageddon – I sat in the Southern Cross instead, and hardly sold anything. I’m one of the few Wellington cartoonists who makes money at Armageddon, but I don’t know what I can have ready by this time next month.
There was no Robbie cartoon in Salient today, so the page is thrown out of whack. I like Matty Smith’s cartoons, but they don’t actually fit on the cartoon page. I would never submit something that was the wrong proportions. Oh, they printed Dave’s ‘Bollards!’ toon! Page 59, check it out.
Article by Molly Flatt in the Grauniad about graphic novels: Comic perfection
March 18, 2008 at 12:54 am
Did they? Cool. I only sent it in last wednesday. I measured the layout of some of their pages so it should have fit perfectly in one quarter of a page.
I thought of another one of those cartoons while I was converting that one (rather convolutedly) to greyscale. I should do that one too. I sort of understand how they’re supposed to work now.
I also asked them if they wanted to review my book but they didn’t get back to me. I’d ask anarkaytie to help me with that, but I prefer to rely on my wits rather than my contacts. That’s why I could never work in the film industry. Relying on your wits keeps them sharp; relying on your contacts encourages complacency and therefore inevitable mediocrity. God forbid I should ever take the easy road and lose any indie cred I might have.
March 18, 2008 at 10:01 am
I suddenly have a couple of days’ time on my hands, because the charges against my friends, dating from 2006, have been dropped, so I’m not going to be in Court; so mayb I can just do some reading & reviewing.
http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/71775/index.php#
Oh, Food not Bombs are doing lunch at 128 today – genuinely a free lunch!
It’s the 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq today.
I completed my GDArts, but they forgot to tell me last year… I think I’ve found out just in time to get into May Graduation ceremony.
So again, I’m available for trips to Art Gallery, drinks, or anything else celebratory, since I won’t be reporting a jury trial!!!
March 18, 2008 at 10:19 am
& having just taken the time to browse through it, that was a great post by Molly Flatt, thanks for linking ‘cos I don’t browse the Guardian nearly often enough. Must do better…
March 18, 2008 at 8:10 pm
charges against my friends, dating from 2006, have been dropped
Now there’s a surprise.
Lack of evidence or due process again no doubt… Cop drooled on the report and smudged all of his (misspelt) writing again perhaps?
March 18, 2008 at 10:14 pm
oh, yep, something mundane like, they’ve changed the charges several times since the arrests, and still haven’t found anything that they have evidence for that is actually an offense under our law.
Oh, and they’d have to admit to paying private investigation firms (ie: ex-cops) to recruit rank amateurs (ie: students) to infiltrate activist groups, people who were instrumental in making decisions about the kind of action being taken at any given protest, which is something I believe we call in law, entrapment.
In other words, a legal case without a leg to stand on, very embarrassing in the current political climate, if the media were to run with it.
So, I’m running it in Salient this week… with full blessing of Indymedia, from whom I’m pinching useful info by the armload. Hey, it’s all anti-copyright, anyway
Oh, lovely piccy of Char, btw, GB
March 18, 2008 at 10:16 pm
How did we get on this topic?
March 18, 2008 at 11:13 pm
ok, I’ve been very easily distracted today!
Having charges dropped for 6 of my friends does that, & we’ve all been a bit speedy on it all day!
FWIW, I like this #2 pic of Char more than the other one (she’s right, the flyaway bits made her look a bit ‘Scarecrow from Oz’ – it’s just the effect of the flat colour treatment, looks better with smooth edges!
March 19, 2008 at 6:05 am
Life also looks better with smooth edges.
March 19, 2008 at 8:16 am
Well, I don’t know if I’ve met her unless it was at a party and I was to ‘mellow’ (drunk) to pay much attention, but there’s definitely a lot of personality in that portrait.
March 20, 2008 at 2:47 am
Hmmm, my format gets a fail. I’ll have to remedy that. It was pretty retarded, come to think of it, upright A3 running on upright A4. Good to know people like them though, I find it a bit nerve-wracking, putting my stuff out there.
March 20, 2008 at 4:00 am
Jeez, is everyone reading this? I like it, it’s just hard for them to fill that little sliver along the side.
March 20, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Well, being old friends with Tristan, and having a boyfriend who is old, old friends with fiery-haired little Helen, and knowing Robyn Keneally, and having had exceedingly bizarre run-ins with “Real Fitz” (haven’t we all?), it doesn’t strike me as odd to have stumbled across your blog.
The world is infinitely smaller than you know my friend.
March 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I’m not sure how to take that!
I know exactly how small the world is.
I figured you were just egosurfing…