tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64075707691289023252024-03-12T19:50:58.376-06:00Derek Langille<br>ILLUSTRATIONIST FOR HIRE!Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.comBlogger397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-12127314919927043082016-01-22T19:49:00.002-07:002016-01-22T23:20:30.350-07:00DAVID BOWIE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I never thought about David Bowie’s death. It never occurred to me. A lot of us have probably wondered about Keith Richards. I’ve thought about Joni Mitchell this year - preparing myself. Bowie? He was almost like a fictional character, or an idea. Santa Claus died? Are you sure? What do you mean Venus has cancer?</div>
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If I’d been forced to speculate, I would’ve thought… nanobots in the bloodstream maybe? or his consciousness uploading into a white hole. Fucking cancer. “<i>My entire career, I’ve only really worked with the same subject matter. The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety, all of the high points of one’s life.</i>” I hope he found some answers. As well, for all the adulation, we should remember that there’s a 16 year old girl who now has to finish growing up without her father.</div>
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When I was 13 Bowie shifted my consciousness a few degrees. A Rock Star, to be sure, but in a (perfect) suit and tie. He sang a song about Chris Burden. He sang a song written by Bertolt Brecht. He hung out with Julian Schnabel. He studied with Lindsay Kemp. He interviewed Balthus for Modern Painters Magazine. He played Andy Warhol in a movie. He played John Merrick on broadway. He wrote songs using William Burroughs cut-up method. His work was, for me, always a source of entertainment, inspiration, and education. I’m glad I was able to shake his hand once and thank him for that.</div>
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Joseph Campbell said ”<i>There is something magical about films. The person you are looking at is also somewhere else at the same time. That is the condition of a god</i>." In that sense, Bowie was already immortal. You’re reading this on a computer screen. In 10 seconds you can hear him sing. Hear his voice. See him act. Watch an interview with an older, charming, funny, debonair man, or an interview with a young, coked-up paranoid with no eyebrows.</div>
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Can I paraphrase Batman? “<i>People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy… as a man I'm flesh and blood - I can be ignored; I can be destroyed; but as a symbol, I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting</i>.” Bowie left us with a brand new album, a show that opened in New York a few weeks earlier, and a couple of cool portraits in a (perfect) suit and tie. I would say that it’s almost <i>as if </i>he planned it, except that he did, of course - like everything else he did. It was classic magician misdirection. There he was, the whole time - redshifting into Myth.<br />
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Jack Kirby would have been 97 had he not died in 1994. He created a bunch of stuff. If you go to the movies, you may recognize some of them:
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Nope. <b>Jack</b> goddamn <b>Kirby</b>. "Are these all of Jack Kirby's creations?" Not even close. Just the ones they've gotten around to.</div>
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-48293455181589954732014-08-01T21:09:00.000-06:002014-08-01T21:12:43.645-06:00200 LADIESFrom <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/08/01/the-line-it-is-drawn-200-brand-new-super-teams/" target="_blank"><b><i>the Line it is Drawn #200</i></b></a>: "The theme is a revisit of one of my all-time favorite topics, Week 50′s “Super Team.” Make up your own super-team consisting of 1 Marvel character, 1 DC character, 1 character from an independent comic book company and 2 characters from any other form of fiction (novels, movies, whatever)." <a href="https://twitter.com/micQuestion" target="_blank"><b><i>micQuestion</i></b></a> suggested: "Storm, Vixen, Michonne, Promethea (Sophie Bangs), Yoruichi (Bleach)"
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-10030284671214561572014-07-12T13:53:00.001-06:002014-07-19T22:43:02.602-06:00JLA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This kind of shit is important. Baby steps in the right direction. Let's start sprinting.
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I was contacted by <b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/PaulsBoutiqueVC" target="_blank">Paolo Gilli & Fabio Suanno</a></i></b> about doing a poster for their very awesome, very ambitious project, a visual companion to Beastie Boys landmark 1989 album Paul's Boutique. When they showed me clips of the completed film, how could I say no? <b><i><a href="http://www.paulsboutiqueavc.com/" target="_blank">Dropping July 25th</a></i></b>!</div>
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Bill Walko asked some people to contribute works while he takes a break from his weekly comic <b><i><a href="http://www.theherobiz.com/2014/06/30/comic/temp-work-guest-strips/temp-month-entry-20-bravados-break/" target="_blank">the Hero Business</a></i></b>.<br />
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As part of "Temp Month", I drew Bill's character Bravado chilling in the lunch room. It's just like the one you eat <i>your</i> lunch in.<br />
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-38666784100089022042014-05-21T21:52:00.000-06:002014-05-21T21:52:15.382-06:00COMIC TALK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-87922525250239096032014-05-09T00:27:00.000-06:002014-07-14T20:59:20.281-06:00STRANGE ADVENTURE
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From <b><i><a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/05/09/the-line-it-is-drawn-189-avenger-time-cmon-grab-your-friends/" target="_blank">the Line it is Drawn #18</a>9</i></b>: "It’s Avenger Time…with Finn and Jake! Mash-up a member (or members) of the Avengers with the world of Adventure Time! Black Widow and Marceline, stuff like that. Thanks to the first family of the Line (Thea and her little brood) for the suggestion!". <b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/JohnnyUnusual" target="_blank">JohnnyUnusual</a></i></b> suggested "Forest Wizard Vs. Dr. Strange" (Dr Strange was an Avenger?).
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From <b><i><a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/05/02/the-line-it-is-drawn-188-spider-man-team-ups/" target="_blank">The Line It Is Drawn #188</a></i></b>: "In honor of his new film next week, it’s Spider-Man team-up time! Just pick a fictional character from any medium you choose (Comic books, movies, TV shows, novels, epic poems, songs, whatever strikes your fancy) to team-up with Spider-Man!" <b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/BigMike20X6" target="_blank">BigMike20X6</a></i></b> suggested "Sister Voodoo".
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From <b><i><a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/25/the-line-it-is-drawn-187-superhero-spring-break/" target="_blank">The Line it is Drawn #187</a></i></b>: "It’s Spring Break time! So suggest something that a comic book character would do for spring break! Somebody better suggest Batman water skiing!" <b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/dranj70" target="_blank">dranj70</a></i></b> suggested "Legion girls playing volleyball, using Bouncing Boy as the ball". Can you name them all? No fair looking at the tags!
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<br><br>Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-53428405618949173532014-03-21T20:53:00.000-06:002014-07-14T21:17:29.513-06:00BROKEBACK HAWKEYE
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Some comic book artists draw female characters quite disrespectfully. Particularly egregious is a pose which has come to known as the "brokeback" in which a woman is drawn twisted so that both her breasts and ass are visible like so:
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To demonstrate how ridiculous these drawings are, a movement started (I think by Noelle "<a href="http://gingerhaze.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><i><b>Gingerhaze</b></i></a>" Stevenson?) wherein artists would draw the male comic book character Hawkeye (from the Avengers) in the same demeaning pose and/or clothing as the woman in one of these illustrations. It came to known as the<b><i> <a href="http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/" target="_blank">Hawkeye Initiative</a></i></b>.
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Also, read Nicole Stevenson's fantastic <a href="http://gingerhaze.com/nimona/comic/page-1" target="_blank"><b><i>Nimona</i></b></a>!
<br><br>Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399682913402666873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407570769128902325.post-50852294155197897742014-02-28T19:24:00.000-07:002014-07-13T21:13:58.213-06:00QUEST FOR HELLBOY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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