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I’ll be exhibiting as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend at the main Toronto Reference Library (Yonge & Bloor). I’ll be selling art prints, copies of the Makeshift Miracle book and also a new mini-booklet about Photoshop colouring/painting techniques.
The guest list is stellar, the panels they have lined up look great and the festival is FREE… yes, FREE.
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre
just released their annual book buying guide called “Best Books for Kids & Teens”.
This guide is an invaluable resource for parents, educators and librarians on recommended new titles to add to their book collections. In their Graphic Novels and Manga section, only 7 Canadian titles made the cut and one of the featured ones is Makeshift Miracle:
Needless to say, I’m ecstatic.
Quite a while back a gentleman named Andrew Armstrong e-mailed me asking if I’d give him permission to adapt Makeshift into a short student film. I told him that would be fine as long as he credited me with the original concept and what-not. A couple times since then he’s sent me small updates about the project and let me know that he still intended to see it through.
Below is the video he sent me yesterday.
It’s his final project for an ‘Introduction to Cinema’ course:
Yes, it’s a student film, with all the limitations inherent in that, but it’s still unbelievably cool and flattering to see some of the events visualized this way. It blows my mind that people I’ve never met would want to film my story. So neat!
I can’t imagine how much work they put into this short production. Film making is incredibly time intensive and finicky. You can see some of the earlier rough cuts, a trailer and other film work by Andrew HERE.
Thanks for the hard work, Andrew and crew.
I finally got a chance to overhaul this website and fix the ancient web code under the hood. Thanks so much to Matt Moylan for his help installing ComicPress and getting it working.
It’s been quite a while since anything changed here at all. Traffic still trickles in as readers sample the story and share it with others. It’s gratifying to see people still interested in checking out Makeshift after all this time away from it.
Since I was rejigging the website with fancy new blogging software and reorganizing the archives anyways, I used this as a good excuse to upgrade the comic images here on the site as well. The pages now in the Archive are from the remastered print version of Makeshift, cleaner and crisper than ever before, with better lettering and sound effects. Head back to the first page and you’ll see what I mean.
I also illustrated a new image of Iris for the front page as a little ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has recommended the site to others or passed their copy of the book to friends to share. Your support has made all this possible.
If you want to stay updated with newer artwork and all kinds of stories and anecdotes, please feel free to visit my livejournal and deviantArt gallery to see what else I’m up to.
Thanks!
