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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Pixels Vs. Pigment – Make Up Your Mind!!!
Ink from a bottle or digital ink? The ENDLESS STRUGGLE continues, but this time the turmoil is WITHIN as I cast aside the new digital techniques and once again embrace the tools of old!
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Monkey & Bird, Pixels Versus Pigment, Technique
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic, comics, digital, digital illustration, Epson R-1800, Illustration, inking, Inkling, Intuos, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Raine Szramski, Sketch, sketchbook, Strathmore, technical pen, technique, Tina Garceau, Wacom
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Treading a Tightrope With Tina
This is an example of some of my work before I started fiddling around with computers. This is a collage assembled from photocopies and photo-stats done as a spot illustration for the food section of one of the local newspapers. … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration
Tagged analog, collage, handmade, Illustration, photocopies, Tina Garceau
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What I Miss About Comics Martial Arts Lessons on 12″ Long Playing Records
Learning the martial arts and becoming a Master of Men was within your grasp thanks to a correspondence course and a long playing 12″ 33 1/3 RPM instructional record which could be had for unbelievable price of 16¢ a lesson! … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Stuff Joe Likes, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970s, 1975, 50¢, 68 page Giant, comic, comics, correspondence course, Fantastic Four, Karate, kung fu, martial arts, Marvel, New Jersey, newsstand, record, vinyl
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Mrs. Crankipants Ponders: Is That All There Is To A Hurricane?
Irene had a wet and wild time rolling through town last night, but she seems sort of demure this AM. Did she do something she regrets? Does she hate herself this morning? Is she like a lot of girls from … Continue reading
Posted in Mrs. Crankipants
Tagged bimbo, collage, community college, fall semester, humor, hurricane, Hurricane Irene, Illustration, Mrs. Crankipants, Pop Yer Top, storm
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The Hurricane of 1938 – Sunday Matinee
A few years back I watched a fascinating PBS documentary about the Hurricane of 1938 that destroyed huge portions of New England. At the time, there was no radar or any of the early warning and tracking systems we have … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Movie Matinee
Tagged 1938, hurricane, Irene, New England, newsreel, WPA
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Mrs. Crankipants Vs. Hurricane Irene
Good grief, Irene! Well, it looks like a Hurricane Irene® is headed our way, and I just got back from the market. My fellow city dwellers were filling their carts with bottled water, Glade candles, Spaghetti-Os and D cell batteries. … Continue reading
Posted in Mrs. Crankipants, News
Tagged disaster, hurricane, Irene, Mrs. Crankipants, Pop Your Top, weather
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Monkey & Bird Mini-Comic: It’s a Folding and Stapling Party!
Last week I covered the digital side of producing our Monkey & Bird Mini-Comic. I told you about the layout and printing process of our little book so we wouldn’t arrive empty-handed when we went to the Philadelphia Alternative Comic … Continue reading
Posted in Monkey & Bird, Technique
Tagged bone folder, Bostitch #615, Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic, comics, digital illustration, fold, Gerry Giovinco, handmade, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, layout, mini-comic, Monkey & Bird, Pandora, Photoshop, production, Roku, staples, Swingline, Tina Garceau
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Loose Women and Pop Out Cakes
Keeping with our cake theme that Mrs. Crankipants started with yesterday’s rant about baked goods, here’s a pop-up birthday card I cooked up for a friend recently.
Send in the Clowns
Welcome, dear readers, to a new category at Willceau Illo News: Step Away from the Pastry Bag! I decided to create this category at Willceau Illo News when I noticed a growing plague of frosting encrusted atrocities prominently displayed in … Continue reading
