cartoon life

David Apatoff does some fine posts, and really likes great pictures. I must direct any visitors here to THE MAD ECCENTRICS. 

In the course of just 100 intense years, comics have displayed the personalities of some deeply odd people …Why is this? Perhaps the medium combines the privacy for artists to sit alone at their drawing board– a little incubation chamber for their neuroses and quirks– with a wide daily audience for the resulting work product. Or, maybe the pressure of putting out a daily strip for decades simply drove them nuts. 

This is a special super bonus for you Londoners brave enough to venture out onto the internets and actually come to this blog, a special treat for all you Barber, Baechler, Branscombe, Bryant fans - or detesters - for all you fans of the Killer Bees, a special poster just for you. Click that picture on the left, or this link to see the 8.5 by 11 inch ‘colour-it-yourself’ poster image of the Killer Bees!

And hey! You’re welcome to save the image to your computer and print it out. Use freely on your refridgerator or dartboard.

Killer Bees Poll; A force for good or evil? And just a reminder, my cartoons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. This means you can copy, print, share and use for your own non-profit use.

 You can get Killer Bees cups and cards online. 

I caught the last half of an interview by Kevin Sylvester on Sounds Like Canada with Sarah Lazarovic, illustrator, about her founding of The Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada.

The Torontoist post fill in some details.
Sarah sounds like a fun person, and while we wait for Bev Oda to decide what to with $45 million, she set up this gallery in her garage. I lived for a time on Crawford Street, so I know that garage.
BTW Kevin, that is a great portrait of our dear Stephen.

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From this story at CBC.ca News, an artist’s rendering of the creature.

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Permits? Permits? We don’t need no stinkin’ permits!

While digging about in old stuff in the basement for some other purpose, I came across this old illustration. I found it at Ernie Rentz’ downtown ‘Ye Olde London Antiques and Junque Shoppe’, that he opened after selling the bookstore - some 20 plus years ago… really… wow…I bought it because it was the illustration in a grade school reader from a story I remembered, likely early 1960’s? I couldn’t recall the gist of the tale right now, but it involved this unfortunate little sedan which wound up towed to the garage, for what was, in hindsight, likely a transmission problem. I think he just couldn’t make it up the hill, or something.It is on a piece of 10 inch by 15 inch High Art #79 illustration board. The 3 1/2 scale guide measures 4 inches, or 12.7 cm for the Imperially-impaired. A small line of pencil written copy in the upper right says “little green car” and the writing at the lower right says:Gears & Gasolinetop l h pagep 12That is where the illustration was in the book, on the top half of the left hand page.There are various bits of wonderful tight brushwork, white, likely gouache, which was used at the time, to sharpen black edges, add detail and lighten the hatching in the tow-truck body shadows.Large image of the artwork