Stripburger is presenting its exhibition Greetings from Cartoonia in the independent cultural centre La Zone in the Belgian city of Liege from the2nd to the 8th May.
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Phew. That was a long and complicated post title. So this piece of work is from one of Submachine fans – Daniel Chaves and I’m letting him talk from now on:
I was thinking of what other classes of movers existed in the subnet. I wanted one that was powerful and versatile. So, I made one.
My plan for the whole room was for it to be machined out of 7075 aluminum, anodized to a custom color (R:82, G:103, B:100, excluding domes, which would function as lightbulb casing). For scale models, I turned to 3D printing. My school happened to have one of those (Dimension uPrint), and my teacher was kind enough to let me print it for free (ABSPlus plastic costs $7/in^3). Attached are images of the printed part, which required minimal post processing (but which happened to be a lot of work) to make the doors work (split the model, dug support out with screwdriver). The left door is very hard to close, so that door isn’t seen closed in the pictures. Not seen is the large “screen” on one of the walls that displays some sort of map, I don’t know which yet, and the light on the ceiling which lights up the whole room, except in the section view. Bonus images: STL file rendered in 3ds Max and interface, section (interior) view.
All I can say is – that is super cool. Thank you Daniel.
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Greetings from Cartoonia / Pozdravi iz Striponije
RAM hotel, Bologna, Eatalley
22. Jan. – 12. Feb. 2010
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Greetings from Cartoonia / Pozdravi iz Striponije
Slovenski etnografski muzej / Slovene Etnographic Museum, Ljubljana
22. Oct. – 31st Dec. 2009
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So I could explain what’s all this, but it is a bit too european for you americans out there (it involves football, which goes by the name soccer in the USofA only God knows why). The main info here is that it’s me drawing it this clip, so there…
the organisation and the goal – here.
movie produced by KarabinMaszynowy.
muzyka – Snake.
I suggest watching it in HD on youtube.
Few photos from the shoot:
photos © Małgorzata Grześkiewicz | KarabinMaszynowy.com
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So – here is the new issue of Stripburger special. Greetings from Cartoonia – the Essential Guide of the Land of Comics sports quite unique idea – gathering artists from different countries and asking them to write down 3 things that are crucial to their home country. Then they swapped those things between different artist and asked them to create a comic about them. Phew. That’s Cartoonia allright. So I got someone’s three things , and somebody else got what I came up with for representation of Poland.
You can see few pages of my contribution here >>.
Enjoy them in color, because they’re printed in grayscale. But not to worry, I’m pretty sure this comic will end up in a separate, full color album one day. Anyway – it was supposed to be a small comic, but turned out to be a 20-page story. It’s Revolutions – my main comic series. My three objects that I had to base my comic on were: wayside shrine, the neanderthal flute and Janezek of Carniola (who turns out to be the main character of the story). Can’t tell you much more about the story…
You can buy the comic book here >>.
In Greetings from Cartoonia, 12 modern comic creators, half of them from Slovenia and the other half from various European countries, entered a colorful comic-book-styled intercultural dialogue. The results of this irresponsible behavior are fantasy-filled postcards from the involved countries that don’t pay attention to stereotypes. Slovene authors used their foreign colleagues’ homelands (Italy, Finland, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Romania) as motifs for their comics. Slovenia was used in the same manner by other artists. All authors have used ‘objects of inspiration’ gathered from the cultural treasuries of the involved countries. Among these are architectural types, animal species, car models, traditional folk products, mythological beings and so on. Each artist created a comic story that takes place in the chosen land based on a handful of objects typical for that country. The emerged comic-portraits of the countries quickly got out of hand and mutated to Cartoonia, a completely new, original trans-national entity. A safe haven for those that think the world lacks sympathy for comics, an art form they create or worship. The book is an indispensable guide to this unpredictable, sometimes dangerous, wonderfully bizarre and bizarrely wonderful country.
That was an official promo that I found on Top Shelf’s website. The book came to me in a nice package with lots of additional stuff:
Cartoonia postcards. Those sheets of paper were used for twitting before the twitter was invented. It’s quite the same, only in real life. People used to send them to each other from vaactions or trips to foreign countries, as in you go somewhere, buy a postcard there and send it back home to your folks to let them know how good you have, and they would get it and envy you.
There’s also this big map of Cartoonia with all objects indicated as long with names of countries they’re from (countries’ names are purposely misspelled to indicate the fantasy nature of the whole project).
Cartoonia pencils, unfortunately they came too late for being actual tools in the creation of Cartoonia comics. But they’ll probably be used in next projects, mine for sure, as well as other comic artists that took part in this project. So there will be a itsy bitsy tiny bit of Cartoonia in upcoming comic books from all over Europe. That’s what I think.
And there are also Cartoonia erasers. It’s a piece of rubber used to ctrl+Z when you’re drawing on an actual paper. But it can only remove the pencil featured above as I assume, so it’s like really old-timey ctrl+Z. But still. You can correct your errors to some extent with this item. Not that I make errors. But still.
And there was this extra package:
Inside there were 20 copies of a poster I created for Cartoonia. There are only 40 copies in existence, and the other 20 will be available for purchase. Each artist was supposed to create one, and they printed those using an old method of screen printing (40 copies each). This method is so old that even I can’t explain you what that is. But here’s the poster:
So I’ve got 20 of those. If you’d like to purchase a numbered, signed by me copy for yourself – leave me your price proposition in the comments. ;)
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… then think again. And take a look at those pictures of Jennifer. You think you can top that? That’s a Submachine loader tattoo in the back of her neck right there. Epic. The artist was Kaylene from Wicked Ink in Sydney. I’m kinda speechless.
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This is how we roll.
Once a group of polish graphic novel artists get together, they tend to get a bit drunk. And then they like to draw comics together. One way to do it is a comic battle on an easel in front of a cheering audience (well, more screaming from the top of their lungs then cheering). On this photo easels pictured, afterwards, partly destroyed because there was no way to make a decent photo during the event – too crowdy:
On the next picture you can see Bartosz Sztybor, well known polish story writer, the only person to win two awards at the International Comic Festival in Lodz in one year (that record was set last year, as he won in two different categories with different short graphic novels) as he attempts to draw something, because the word spread the he’s not only great story teller but graphic designer as well. See for yourself:
I’m not too convinced. You can’t be THAT good at everything, mate.
So as far as the battle is concerned, there could be only one winner:
That’s Jaszczu, and yeah, you can see that killer instinct in his eyes, which is neccesary to slay all other contestants. Just look at this happy care bear:
that’s Krl, the runner up. He did not stand any chance whatsoever against that killing machine above. You might ask yourself how did I do in that battle? Well I was wise enough not to take part in it. This way I’m covered in full extent. Once the battle was over and dust settled, we thought it would be a good idea to draw each other. So:
That’s me drawn twice by this dude:
and this is him:
drawn by me. The resemblance is in deed striking, you must admit:
And once again me:
drawn by no other than forementioned Bartosz Sztybor:
So maybe he DOES have a good drawing hand. Because I look exactly like that. EXACTLY.
The third and final way to release your drawing force fueled by some alcohol is to take part in a freestyle jam, which is a comic story made up in real time by different artists, based on what-did-the-person-before-you-do rule. Basically lots of profanity ensued. But there were some hilarious moments of utter genius in that work. Something worth a good laugh. Unfortunately I don’t have that comic, it went home with the sketchbook owner as I imagine. But here are the geniuses hard at work:
And there – three ways to run a nerd party at a comicon. I can’t really say anything more about the comicon itself, because I didn’t participate in any way, but I heard it was good. You can read some reviews here (if you know how to read polish): Olga, KRL, Jaszcz.
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this picture was taken by Bruce A. Rogers on September 4, 2007 in the old walled city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. I’m speechless. Seems like one of my gnomes run away into reality. :D
For your convenience I added a magnifier so you can track him down easily. As if you’d have any problems spotting him ;)
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This may come to You as a surprize, but Covert Front is not the only thing we’ve created together, me and Karol. A graphic novel entitled “Pan Blaki” is about to be published, in a month or so, and here’s one of the first previews of the album.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, take a look at sample pages of the album.
Warning! Polish language below!
Mateusz Skutnik rysuje komiks na podstawie esejów Leszka Kołakowskiego
autor: Przemysław Gulda 2007-08-06
Wydawnictwo Znak przygotowuje się do wydania komiksu “Pan Blaki” Mateusza Skutnika i Karola Konwerskiego, opartego na esejach Leszka Kołakowskiego.
W tej sprawie wszystko jest niecodzienne. Krakowski Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, stateczna oficyna, kojarzona przede wszystkim z wysublimowaną literaturą, dziełami filozofów i religioznawców, przygotowuje się do opublikowania pierwszego w swej historii komiksu. Ale i sam komiks nie będzie zwyczajny – nie znajdzie się w nim nic, co zwykle – nie do końca zresztą sprawiedliwie – kojarzy się z tą formą twórczości artystycznej: superbohaterowie, wybuchy i ratowanie świata przed groźną galaretą z kosmosu.
Mateusz Skutnik i Karol Konwerski przygotowali bowiem drugą część swego wspólnego dzieła – albumu Blaki, zatytułowaną “Pan Blaki – filozoficzna powieść graficzna”. To nie przypadek: książka zawierać będzie kilka opowieści o tytułowym bohaterze, a każda z nich oparta będzie na tekstach największego współczesnego filozofa polskiego, Leszka Kołakowskiego z popularnego tomu “Mini wykłady o maxi sprawach”. Autorzy nie zilustrowali po prostu poszczególnych fragmentów dzieła Kołakowskiego, ale zaczerpnęli zeń inspirację, wplątując swego bohatera w sytuacje, wymagające zadawania sobie pytań na temat “maxi spraw”.
- Wszystko zorganizował mieszkający w Krakowie Karol Konwerski, scenarzysta, z którym współpracuję już od dawna – opowiada gdański rysownik, Mateusz Skutnik. – Wydawnictwo Znak okazało się bardzo zainteresowane taką formą prezentacji filozoficznej tematyki. Nie kontaktowaliśmy się z samym Kołakowskim, to pracownicy Znaku dotarli do niego, żeby zdobyć zgodę na wykorzystanie jego dzieła. Podobno nie robił żadnego problemu. Powiedział pewnie: komiks? niech sobie robią komiks.
Skutnik zapewnia, że na ponad 50 planszach swej najnowszej pracy zachował klimat pierwszego tomu opowieści o Blakim – będzie to więc czarno-biały, prosty, choć jednocześnie wysmakowany graficznie komiks, którego bohaterem jest nieco tajemnicza postać w czarnej, powłóczystej szacie, borykająca się z problemami współczesności.
- Z technicznego punktu widzenia jedyna różnica to większy rozmiar stron – opowiada Skutnik. – Przygody Blakiego pojawią się tym razem w formacie A4. I tak jak w poprzednim albumie w nowej książce znajdzie się 6 czy 7 osobnych opowieści, z których każda będzie liczyć kilka plansz.
Premiera albumu przewidziana jest na ostatnie dni września. “Pan Blaki” będzie kolejnym w tym roku albumem, pod którym podpisał się gdański rysownik. W ciągu ostatnich kilkunastu miesięcy ukazały się, powstałe w ciągu kilku poprzednich lat, zupełnie odmienne, jeśli chodzi o styl graficzny, albumy: “Czaki”, z historią na podstawie scenariusza Dominika Szcześniaka, satyryczne “Wyznania właściciela kantoru” i cyberpunkowa “Alicja” do scenariuszy Jerzego Szyłaka.
Sztandarowym dziełem Skutnika wciąż pozostaje czteroalbumowa seria “Rewolucje”, w której autor stworzył bardzo spójny i zadziwiający swym bogactwem świat, utrzymany w konwencji steampunkowej.
Źródło: Gazeta Wyborcza Trójmiasto 2007-08-06
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