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Fun at the Signing Table – Snobbery!

Fun at the Signing Table - Snobbery

Splendours and Miseries of the Signing Table – The Busy Fans

The Busy Fans  - Texts and art by Michèle Laframboise  -  There are lots of way of telling others that  you're busy

The Busy Fans  – Texts and art by Michèle Laframboise  –  There are many ways of telling others that  you’re busy…

A Fresh Comic Page for the New Year

une page en tons de gris de la Route des honneurs

For 2014, here is this fresh comic page, scanned at 600 dpi, resized to 300 dpi, then retouched in greytones. It will be the first page of Honors Road,  a science fiction manga, from my  own Gardeners universe.  (It will be published in French and English). It is always a challenge for me drawing sea shore, especially  the foreground shallow water.

On the last day of the year, I set myself time to  draw comics. Allan Watts suggested to think about what would you like to do if money was no object. Drawing comics is my favourite activity. It helps me crating or re-creating  new worlds, and adding to the collective imaginarium.

And this is valid for all fields. Reading, sciences research, music, or even contemplating nature in silence feed our imagination.

Here are two artists-bloggers I discovered recently: Melanie Gillman, who make a good use of color pencils.  And I visit the Zen Pencils blog, by artist Gavin Aung Than. The artist draw cartoons from inspitrational quotes.

Jarre à biscuits de Melanie My good 2014 resolution : each month, I will choose a graphic artist website and give a small amount (5$, a large gourmet coffee)in his or her Cookie Jar.

Artists, musicians, writers, even the more popular among us, do not accumulate great riches. Bottom line-seeking companies, even the most successful, now frown upon  paying the artists and even steal their work when they can get away with it.

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Despite the freezing cold, I wish you all a new year filled with joy and creativity! 

One hour at the signing table

Here is the photographic adaptation of the comics in the previous post, by an enthusiastic fan.

The one hour signing session at  a literature event

Réalisation by Christ Oliver, with Jean-Louis Trudel, a fellow science fiction author.

Now we are hoping for the movie adaptation.  It would not be a big-budget feature, but it would certainly echo with the many writers almost drowning in a sea of publications traveled by big corporate ships chasing the elusive best-sellers…

A tribute to all of you, artists able to create without the pressure of success!