Monday, 1 June 2015

p e sososasaas oa

I drew some Pessoa a few minutes ago, because I found a book of his whilst trying to get my shit together literally and metaphorically. 

I have too many books.  too many things...  I just wrote a three paragraph rant, but I got shy, so you''ll just have to imagine.

Go see this film.... it's nice

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night


and this one...it's timely




   Timbuktu



and this song just 
hits home..



Smog - Say Valley Maker


Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Friday, 1 May 2015

I don't want t' dance, but I'll gladly sit here in the corner and read my book.


So, I done got all 52 pages of Nervous in a Cape 9 finished, on top is the title page for one of the stories. I'm just looking at various printers now, trying to find the right thing... I'd quite like to follow the trend in small press comics at the moment  and get it risographed.. as it'll have an "actual print" kinda feel (plus I just love that smell!).. anyway, its all in b&w so shouldn't be too expensive. I hope.. 

The second thing's is part of a three page comic about my time in New York two years ago.. I found an old sketchbook.. Kinda lame autobio, but what the heck.. I put it all up on my TUMBLR, OVER HERE.

Anyhow, two musical gifts...Early Jeffery Lewis, telling things like they are.

jeffrey lewis - So Long (i'm gonna go draw alone in my shack)


Holy shit, these guys are rad! Rad! RAD!

Los Saicos - Wild Teen-Punk From Peru 1965 (Full Album)


Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Home from home, and other tree houses I spend my days in


So, this is something that I'm working on. The next wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy overdue issue of my petite offering to the world.  I figure It'll be done in a month or so, but who's t' say...  I'm always promising that I'll get to work, and then never moving anywhere near the right direction. But heck, its fun to dream anyhow.

trying to think of a subtitle for this one... maybe 'astronautically challenged' ll do.. Its gonna be mostly the tale of an astronaut, I'm reworking that ol 28 pager i put up a few weeks back on tumblr so it'll look more like this:
also gonna have some of my daily strips in... with added texture. But still, alas, yawnworthy.


Anyway, the real reason I'm even posting right now is because a few days ago I went to see this film. which I had damn high hopes for. which exceeded all those presuppositions I'd dwelled upon. in short the film was pretty damn perfect. go watch it, really. 

So its four hours (with an interval) and 99 percent black and white. and German.. yeah, its arthouse. Go watch. In content t'is just the stuff of life, with a splash of magic thrown in..  funny, sad and poignent,  this film made my flipping week.  I haven't seen the heimat television show (of which this is a prequel) but if I can find the thing (1980's german tv..?!). Edgar Reitz's life project is well worth the time methinks. heck, Werner Herzog even pops up near the end (as he's so wont to do these days..)

HOME FROM HOME - CHRONICLE OF A VISION 




Saturday, 18 April 2015

Thursday, 16 April 2015

some stuff you don't need to know, (yawns incl gratis)



Playing with proper cartooning, drawing with ink. It can be nice at times.

Reading 'leaves of grass' by Walt Whitman.. I have some yawns, and then he'll bursts out with lines t' make the heart swell, but they're few and far...  Im still digging Frank O'haras 'meditations in an emergency', over and again. Fernando Pessoa travels with me in my bag most days.

JAUJA, a pretty (and pretty intense) film, I thought it was a damn fine piece.

I didn't like Noah Baumbach's latest (while we're young) so much, but it was at least entertaining.. nice piece from the soundtrack here:

Monday, 6 April 2015

I have this map. Its a damn bad map, leading to over there. Left foot first.




And sometimes you just set off without a clue, and six pages in realise its all too clumsy. sketchbook stuff.

I just felt I maybe owed a post or something. A few weeks ago I went to berlin with my bud JJ a swell city, full of girls laughing at us... When I was younger I really enjoyed drawing cities, but these days I just walk and look, so no sketchbook pages from there Im 'fraid.. anyhow here I  am  fighting a great white emptiness ( I didn't win)..


blah blah blah.

At work I was introduced to this Portuguese music man. Its pretty and melancholy. 

      noiserv - Bullets on Parade



Friday, 20 March 2015

L' astronaute returns, stays for brunch, and then leaves for a prettier face

I put up a little astronaut comic on my tumblr. OVER HERE.

pretty dull stuff as always. Sorry about that.

I listened to this amazing album whilst colouring this morn, because I couldn't see no darn eclipses from london town.

Ant Trip Ceremony - 24 Hours 1968[FUll Album ]


Monday, 9 March 2015

Ho Hummns part deux


Sketchbook works,

I've drawn a heck of a lot, but my books full of pretty personal anxieties et al, nothing really of interest, these pages are the two least embarrassing, so up they go.

Like a poor man's anders nilsen 

I was introduced to this band recently. Nice.

Future Islands - Inch of Dust




Ho Hummns part 1


So, I put some draws up on MY TUMBLR, more whining I'm afraid, but at some points I guess you just gotta accept except your natural voice, eh?

Its been the longest time since I posted anything here, and life's moved up and left and backward and everywhere in between since then.. I guess Im still half a real person, trying to figure out this o'l world... thats enough rambling narcissism for now instead Ill leave you to:

Tarheel Slim & Little Ann - It's Too Late