This just popped up in my feed. Wonderful. Kurt Weise alone as covered in just this recent video was a standard in my search through books at Landon Library on Quebec Street – when you went up the stairs, left, right and straight back to the corner shelf of children’s
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doug at samupress: Try something
Testing the wordpress publish ability #idea ![](Dougs%20door%20plan.jpeg) So let’s see what happens.
Continue readingcartoon life: The blessing of the herd
Gather, please.I share quite fairly.Who among the chosen herdwill gain the blessingof the word: immunity
Continue readingcartoon life: Yes, I am working on this project….
And no I am not daydreaming off some field. Seriously, some thumb pain.
Continue readingcartoon life: Lemon Aid.
Mistake! Loaded a reference photo and drew on another layer not realizing it screwed up the size and pixel density making the inking fuzzy from resizing. Should have loaded a page then added the reference. Also I could have resized the ink and copied over it for sharper lines. Live
Continue readingcartoon life: Watching the world burn
An insane animal is in charge of the world Filed under: art, cartoon, illustration Tagged: Cat
Continue readingcartoon life: This is my spot
Maybe a little cheating using Procreate’s perspective grid. Well, for the couch anyway.Filed under: art, digital, illustration Tagged: Cat, couch, futon, my spot
Continue readingArt Threat: Artist says Nope to Stephen Harper (again)
Four years ago, Bob Preston found himself in the same position as millions of Canadians: he desperately wanted to see prime minsiter Stephen Harper turfed from office. Influenced by Shepard Fairey’s iconic
Continue readingcartoon life: Calico on her rocker v.2
Here we go. Final version. Mugs upcoming. Filed under: art, design, drawing, illustration Tagged: calico, Cat, madeWithPaper
Continue readingcartoon life: Stop waking me up I’m trying to sleep
The digitizer on this iPad has some brain dead spots, it seems, where Pencil in Paper looses its brain. Either it’s Pencil, some sensitive coding in the app or the digitizer, or memory, or processor speed on this 3G iPad. So the black line work was done in Paper with
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat responsible for Global Warming
Filed under: art, comment, design, digital, drawing, illustration
Continue readingArt Threat: Hugs With Arms will put affordable art on your walls
After seven years of putting political art on your computer screen, I’m now hoping to put some art on your walls. We started Art Threat in 2007 because we felt that artists creating socially-engaged work weren’t getting the attention they deserved. After 1200+ posts over the years (and many more
Continue readingcartoon life: Blue checkerboard cat flag in landscape
Filed under: cartoon, digital, drawing, illustration Tagged: Cat
Continue readingcartoon life: Where can I find your free ebooks and stuff? Hmmm?
I can haz free cat books? I’m switching out stuff from Dropbox to Google Drive. The eight wallpapers I posted earlier have a new home, and all the free ebooks, cats and landscapes are also there. The 100 cats (nearly 150 cats only $0.99!) ebook is still at iTunes, along with
Continue readingcartoon life: Poilievre’s opinion
“I never made such a gesture.” responds Pierre Poutine, in response to critics of the so-called “Fair Elections Act’”. Filed under: comment, digital, illustration, photo Tagged: bill C-23, Canada, CPC, democratic reform, Pierre Poilievre, politics
Continue readingcartoon life: Insomnia
Filed under: art, cartoon, comment, digital, drawing, illustration, iPad, life Tagged: insomnia
Continue readingcartoon life: more 22 cats tiny book: the PDF
A tiny delightful book of cat art It’s available at this dropbox link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23273/more%2022%20cats.pdf Filed under: art Tagged: art, cats, delightful book, ebook, free download, illustration, pdf
Continue readingArt Threat: Joe Sacco depicts one dreadful day of The Great War
The latest book by comic artist Joe Sacco isn’t really a book at all. The Great War is a single 24-foot-long panoramic image that illustrates the first day of the battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. And while the style is certainly Sacco, The Great War differs from
Continue readingArt Threat: Bank of Canada cries counterfeit over Duffy Buck cartoon
Editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy has created a parody of a Canadian bank note featuring maligned senator Mike Duffy — he of the fraudulent $90,000 in expense claims. The humourless Bank of Canada, however, demanded the cartoon be removed in an email sent from their “anti-counterfeiting compliance program.” The Bank argues
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