http://blog.drawn.ca/post/23808048021

Monstrous cake animation from Alexandre Dubosc, via Colossal. An homage to Tim Burton.

http://blog.drawn.ca/post/23800186607

Benoit Tardif is a great Montreal illustrator.

Here he’s capturing the casseroles - Every night at 8pm, Montreal neighbourhoods take to their balconies and streets, banging pots and pans in support of the student protests - which have gone on for over 100 days now. The Guardian is covering this pot-banging protest today also.

Check out all of Tardif’s amazing work.

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The top comics-related news stories from May 19 to May 25, 2012:</b>

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Winner Of The Week

Losers Of The Week

Quote Of The Week

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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The top comics-related news stories from May 19 to May 25, 2012:</b>

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3.

Winner Of The Week

Losers Of The Week

Quote Of The Week

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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The top comics-related news stories from May 19 to May 25, 2012:</b>

1. Not only is there still apparently an Everybody Draw Mohammad Day, but Pakistan is apparently still deeply fearful of what it might do were it allowed unfettered access to that country's social media.

2. Comics awards season swings into full effect, with Stan Lee, Eagles and Glyph Awards taking the first week with the NCS awards including the Reuben being announced this weekend.

3. The divide between many in the comics and the comics professional communities on basic issues of creator's rights was put on display with an essay by webcomics creator Scott Kurtz and responses by people like Christopher Bird.

Winners Of The Week
Take your pick; it's awards season.

Losers Of The Week
Anyone that spent any time debating the propriety of drawing a Hitler mustache on a state politician, and the people that did so driving those people to debate.

Quote Of The Week
"A quick survey of recent Birds of Prey covers reveals an inordinate number of battles with tentacles." -- Laura Hudson

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/05/gaiman-and-mack-team-for-tattooprint-that-benefits-the-cbldf/

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Writer Neil Gaiman and artist David Mack have teamed up to create a new piece of art that features a poem written by Gaiman. The CBLDF are selling a print of it to raise funds for their cause, limited to 90 copies, but the rarest version is on the back of Burton Olivier:

“He’s the person who wrote to me and asked if I’d write a comic for his back … and I said yes, if it could also do some good for the CBLDF,” Gaiman said on his Tumblr. “And then I asked who he’d want to draw it, and he said, David Mack. So I asked David, who also said yes.”

The CBLDF is selling the “variant blue test run” versions of the print, which were created in very limited quantities prior to the standard edition grey run. Check out the print, which is on a French paper called Madero Beach rather than, um, human flesh, after the jump.

The poem:

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends. -Neil Gaiman

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/05/a-reboot-of-intellectual-property-that-favors-creators/

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Tim O’Neil is proposing a hard reboot of all our thinking about intellectual property laws. Here are his four proposed rules, quoted in full:

Ideas belong to their creators.

Any permanent transfer of IP ownership from a creator to a corporation is and always has been morally wrong.

Permanent IP transfer under any circumstances is and has always been theft.

All money made by corporations from the exploitation of stolen IP is and will always be stolen money.

O’Neil admits from the get-go that there are situations in which it makes sense for a creator to sell his or her intellectual property rights, but he sees these rules as a goal to strive for, not a set of absolutes. If nothing else, they make for an interesting thought experiment, as they turn the old model of work-for-hire on its head.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/05/fantagraphics-bings-back-strombergs-black-images-in-the-comics/

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Comics have long been home to a variety of races, be it alien or underground or from an alternate dimension. But in the 100-plus year history of comics, one of the toughest for creators to portray accurately is that of black characters. And now Fantagraphics is putting back in print a key work examining that strained relationship, Fredrik Stromberg‘s Eisner-nominated Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History.

Originally published in 2003 but long out of print, Black Images in the Comics  surveys the depiction and characterization of blacks going back to early comics like The Katzenjammer Kids to startling portrayals in Tintin in the Congo and The Spirit, all the way to their induction in superhero comics with the likes of Black Panther and John Stewart and the empowering comic strip series The Boondocks.

In this new collection, Stromberg has added over a dozen new entries in the encyclopedic-like presentation of Africans through comics’ history. The foreword by the author of Middle Passage, Charles R. Johnson, adds much to the overall understanding of the book.

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Sullivant revels in the big, goofy, rounded forms, contrasting them with the skimpy plumbing, the small bottle, and the little cigar perched on the rim of the bathtub.

This drawing, "The Daw in Peacock's Feathers" is by Valentin Serov (1865-1911). He was better known as a portrait painter, but he drew a number of animal caricatures to illustrate Krylov's Fables. He shows the imposter and the reaction of the peacocks with simple gestures that are true to the actual animals, but say volumes about us humans, too. As with all good caricature, it's not just about the lines and shapes, it's really about the attitude.

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