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Michèle Laframboise a.k.a the Sunday Artist, works seven days a week, at new stories, novels, and graphic novels!
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I send news, texts and surprises from time to time.Maragi's Secret, published in Asimov's May-June 2024, now available as a book!
In the Gardener's Service in Asimov's July-August 2025 issue
Lady Byrd featured in the Crime and… anthology

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Category Archives: humor
Fun at the Signing Table – The Contract!
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I just signed the contract for my 17th novel which gave me the idea. My first contact as a budding writer, years ago, was a not such a good one, and I was saved only because the publisher went bankrupt. This contract is my third with this publisher and their conditions are fair.
There’s a lot more than the traps told by the snakes. CAVEAT: I’m not a lawyer. In case of problems, the best is to consult an IP specialist.
The Writer’s Union of Canada offers sound advice too. More precisions on the US Copyright Office. The website Writers Beware presents a good overview of rights vs copyrights. For those of you pondering about indie publishing, I do recommand the very well-organized series of articles The Business Rusch by the poly-genres author Kris Rusch.
My husband often wears a Marillion T shirt in the comics, a group that he likes.
The page is my hidden homage to Andre Franquin, the creator of the pesky “laughing” Gull featuring in the Gaston Lagaffe series. And in this comic. As for my own signature, it figures in the middle of the page for a change…
And, about the copy…
Tagged art, budding writers, Cartoon, Comics, Franquin, humor, Writing advice, Writing Contract
Fun at the Signing Table – Hyperboles, again!
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Meddling with physics is still big fun for a SF writer!
Thanks to my hyperboles suppliers Pascal Colpron (eternity), Robin Dumont (hair) and André Lavoie (minus a thousand). The ET visitor comes from a Le Bob original creation.
Matter falling in a black hole get heated up, so much that it emits a stream of X rays. In the panel with the car in space, a Cygnus X1 like binary system is illustrated, a star with a companion black hole.
The mean universe temperature is about 3 Kelvin. The fossil microwave picture is a courtesy of NASA.
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking was an inspiration for the universe 4-dimensional models. The Hawking radiation is the name given to a black body radiation when a black hole evaporates.
As for the Big Crunch, well, there’s still some time before, if it happens!
Posted in Art, Comics, humor, Science-fiction, sciences
Tagged artist, Comics, humor, Hyperboles, Physics, Stephen Hawking, Universe, Webcomics
A Half-Glass of Water
Fun at the Signing Table – Hyperboles!
In mathematics, an hyperbole is a curve obtained by cutting a plan trhough a double cone. In day-to-day life, an hyperbole is a wildly exaggerated statement.
And yes, this majestic wave stems from an ancient (around 1830) japanese woodblock print !
Fun at the Signing Table – But You’ll get Exposure!
But you’ll get so much exposure! Why should we pay you for the favor?
Should you work for free? This chart by Jessica Hische might help you!
Posted in Art, Comics, humor, Society
Tagged art, artist, exploitation, Exposure, wealth creator, work-for-free
Fun at the Signing Table – Spring Gardening
The joy of gardening, when spring comes so late!
This comic was “drawn in the dark“.
Imagined, scenarised, pencilled and inked on my Intuos wacom tablet between 8 am and 14h30 today. English translation thirty minutes later.















