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somewhatreal: Siddharth Parasnis Neighborhood # 2. Oil on...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:30:53 -0400

Siddharth Parasnis

Neighborhood # 2. Oil on canvas, 70 x 48”. 2012.

Three Houses in the Country #2. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60”. 2010.

Two Houses and Ladders. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48”. 2010.

Eternity #15. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30”. 2009.

Two Storied House with a backyard. Oil on canvas, 38 x 52”. 2011.

bifanoland: Last weekend I had the pleasure of tableing at the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:30:16 -0400

bifanoland:

Last weekend I had the pleasure of tableing at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. I met a ton of super nice people, jaw-droppingly talented artists and sold a ton of prints to boot!

Thanks to everyone to stopped by my table to chat with my dumb face, and to those who picked up some mini comics, postcards and prints! I’ve still got the warm fuzzies.

And thanks to the people who organized such a rad event!

I got to meet this *awesome* artist at VanCAF and cannot recommend enough that you check out her work!

tomfowlerddd: ∆∆˚∞8w’a the grey. Loving Tom Fowler’s...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:30:16 -0400

tomfowlerddd:

∆∆˚∞8w’a the grey.

Loving Tom Fowler’s dndndrawing tumblr!

intooishun: Dino Apocalypse - One Horse Town Illustration...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:30:19 -0400

intooishun:

Dino Apocalypse - One Horse Town Illustration Studio

bycrom: Here are a few sneak peeks from the behind the scenes...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:12:10 -0400

bycrom:

Here are a few sneak peeks from the behind the scenes pinups that are going into the book! Or teasers, maybe?

I don’t know how to explain how much fun I’ve had drawing Conan doing silly mundane things but maybe these teasers will begin to communicate it?

avo-lifts: the-iron-angel: The Great Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton -...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:30:26 -0400

avo-lifts:

the-iron-angel:

The Great Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton - 1917 - 2006

HELL THE FUCK YES

timecowboy: The Dungeon

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:30:16 -0400

timecowboy:

The Dungeon

cultqueens: Sandahl Bergman training for “Conan the...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:48:58 -0400

cultqueens:

Sandahl Bergman training for “Conan the Barbarian”.

Badass woman alert!

portablecity: Toons on Tap lifedrawing! If you like costumed...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:52:58 -0400

portablecity:

Toons on Tap lifedrawing!

If you like costumed life drawing, I’m updating my art blog daily with drawings from Toons on Tap, a local costumed life drawing night run by excellent animation friends.

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:30:31 -0400

portablecity: Here’s a timelapse video I made of the painting...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:04:18 -0400

portablecity:

Here’s a timelapse video I made of the painting process for this illustration of Conan chasing Greg (the cat). I’m saving the final piece as a reward for people who preorder The Collected By Crom, but you can go see the inked pinup over on the By Crom blog here.

I’m also happy to answer any process questions you guys have or take feedback on this video stuff - it’s new to me and I’m pretty pumped about it!

So yeah, any questions?

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:46:37 -0400

verwho: friendshipedition: Hey guys! So CAKE, the Chicago Alt...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:37:35 -0400

verwho:

friendshipedition:

Hey guys! So CAKE, the Chicago Alt Comics Expo is just around the bend! I’ve enclosed a map so you can find your FAVOURITE COMIC MAKERS EVER, Friendship Edition, where me (Kat) and Gillian B. will have a table with all kinds of books and prints.

At said table, you will be able to purchase the first issue of MEAT&BONE in print, and will be the SECOND ISSUE the monthly mini, TOWERKIND! “Feature Creature” sticker sets (ALL 3 VARIETIES!), a variety of prints, and the newly-launched H.P. Lovecraft Fan Art Book, “Puffed Shoggoths”, as well as the also new “Moon Power” Sailor Moon art zine, and loads of other comics.

June 15 & 16
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted

CHICAGO?!?!

A Toronto based collective of illustrators, cartoonists and zinesters.

Jenn Woodall - www.jennwoodall.com
Trevor Henderson - trevorhendersonillustration.blogspot.com
Katherine Verhoeven - www.verwho.com
Gillian Blekkenhorst - http://www.blekkenhorst.ca
Jj Tebrake - ohanntebrake.blogspot.ca
Mary Verhoeven - illustratingmary.tumblr.com
Erin Ornstein - www.erinrei.com

Just a reminder, CAKE is THIS WEEKEND!!

Friends! Are you in Chicago? Check out my buddies at Friendship Edition this coming weekend at CAKE! They will have all of that snazziness listed above AND ALSO they are being saints and bringing a few convention-edition By Croms with them! They will DEFINITELY be worth checking out.

theartofanimation: TangoCharlieESQ

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:30:24 -0400

theartofanimation:

TangoCharlieESQ

sabinaheysabina: incandescentquill: tatterdemalionamberite: binghsien: aporeticelenchus: heidi8:...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:41:25 -0400

sabinaheysabina:

incandescentquill:

tatterdemalionamberite:

binghsien:

aporeticelenchus:

heidi8:

sonneillonv:

dressthesavage:

narwhalsareunderwaterunicorns:

anglofile:

spicyshimmy:

how is it possible to love fictional characters this much and also have people always been this way?

like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO HATH SLAIN ME WITH FEELS’

was caesar like ‘ET TU ODYSSEUS’

sometimes i wonder

oh my GOD

the answer is yes they did. there’s a lot of research about the highly emotional reactions to the first novels widely available in print.

here’s a thing; the printing press was invented in 1450 and whilst it was revolutionary it wasn’t very good. but then it got better over time and by the 16th century there were publications, novels, scientific journals, folios, pamphlets and newspapers all over Europe. at first most were educational or theological, or reprints of classical works.

however, novels gained in popularity, as basically what most people wanted was to read for pleasure. they became salacious, extremely dramatic, with tragic heroines and doomed love and flawed heroes (see classical literature, only more extreme.) books in the form of letters were common. sensationalism was par the course and apparently used to teach moral lessons. there was also a lot of erotica floating around.

but here’s the thing: due to the greater availability of literature and the rise of comfy furniture (i shit you not this is an actual historical fact, the 16th and 17th century was when beds and chairs got comfy) people started reading novels for pleasure, women especially. as these novels were highly emotional, they too became…highly emotional. there are loads of contemporary reports of young women especially fainting, having hysterics, or crying fits lasting for days due to the death of a character or their otp’s doomed love. they became insensible over books and characters, and were very vocal about it. men weren’t immune-there’s a long letter a middle-aged man wrote to the author of his favourite work basically saying that the novel is too sad, he can’t handle all his feels, if they don’t get together he won’t be able to go on, and his heart is already broken at the heroine’s tragic state (IIRC ehh).

conservatives at the time were seriously worried about the effects of literature on people’s mental health, and thought it damaging to both morals and society. so basically yes it is exactly like what happens on tumblr when we cry over attractive British men, only my historical theory (get me) is that their emotions were even more intense, as they hadn’t had a life of sensationalist media to numb the pain for them beforehand in the same way we do, nor did they have the giant group therapy session that is tumblr.

(don’t even get me started on the classical/early medieval dudes and their boners for the Iliad i will be here all week. suffice to say, the members of the Byzantine court used Homeric puns instead of talking normally to each other if someone who hand’t studied the classics was in the room. they had dickish fandom in-jokes. boom.)

I needed to know this.

See, we’re all just the current steps in a time-honored tradition! (And this post is good to read along with Affectingly’s post this week about old-school-fandom-and-history-and-stuff.

Ancient Iliad fandom is intense

Alexander the Great and and his boyfriend totally RPed Achilles and Patroclus. Alexander shipped that hard. (It’s possible that this story is apocryphal, but that would just mean that ancient historians were writing RPS about Alexander and Hephaestion RPing Iliad slash and honestly that’s just as good).

And then there’s this gem from Plato:

“Very different was the reward of the true love of Achilles towards his lover Patroclus - his lover and not his love (the notion that Patroclus was the beloved one is a foolish error into which Aeschylus has fallen, for Achilles was surely the fairer of the two, fairer also than all the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still beardless, and younger far)” - Symposium

That’s right: 4th Century BCE arguments about who topped. Nihil novi sub sole my friends.

Note that the printing press in China is invented much earlier and it has basically the same effect. Social conservatives in the censor bureau censored huge amounts of literature and poetry because of the devastating effect it had on the literati class (who formed most of the government bureaucracy, let’s not forget: So your state governor can’t work this week because he’s having Baoyu / Daiyu feels.) This did not stop it from leaking out anyway, in secret editions and hand-copied versions. And OMG the feels that these people have. There’s basically a constant struggle between the censors and this underground fandom, most novels are copied chapter-by-chapter, with people inserting fanfic chapters when they don’t have all the material (so if you have chapters 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 of your favorite book you might write your own 5-9 and circulate them) or just writing straight-up fanfic (famously in Water Margin and Red Chamber it _becomes canon_ after the author’s death.)

This post is the best thing, every part of it. Nothing to add except wow.

I’ve reblogged this before, but it had less information on it then. Shakespeare is almost entirely stuff we’d call fanfiction nowadays and his histories are RPF. We have evidence medieval nobility did things a lot like weekend-long LARP as entertainment, with paid performers as game organizers and NPCs. For centuries, there have been rumors that Queen Victoria knighted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in order to pressure him into retconning Reichenbach and continuing to write Sherlock Holmes stories.

I was an enormous Tolkien geek in middle school, and went as far as reading a lot of his letters/a lot of Simarillion meta. The short version is, he deliberately left gaps in the Silmarillion because Tolkien, as a professor of language and mythology, believed that for nearly all of human history storytelling had been participatory and involved many tellers of the same tales. He thought early-to-mid 20th century pop-culture and mass media were destructive because people did far less telling of stories, claiming of stories, and reworking of stories. I am pretty sure that, despite being a stuffy old professorial Christian white dude who would probably not read any porny fic or watch shippy vids, Tolkien is beaming in his grave over such things’ existence - over participatory storytelling having finally made its glorious comeback, over the 20th century’s approach to narrative being firmly established as an abberant nightmare that is thankfully mostly over. Did we get mythos we all reference and participate in to come back in style? Oh, by Harry Potter’s scar and every Jedi’s lightsaber, have we ever pulled that one off.

SUPER FASCINATING

Historical fandom studies?!

dungeonsandfashion: Corellon Larethian is the creator and...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:30:27 -0400

dungeonsandfashion:

Corellon Larethian is the creator and preserver of the elven race, and governs those things held in the highest esteem among elves.

Guys. GUYS.

bycrom: Oooooh what could all these add up to…? Check here on...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:02:42 -0400

bycrom:

Oooooh what could all these add up to…? Check here on Tuesday to find out!

Click over to By Crom tomorrow to see what exactly this here Conan and cat combo is… (there’ll be a timelapse process video too, if that tickles your fancy!)

feministdisney: lizparlettdraws: Sleeping Beauty It’s been...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:30:25 -0400

feministdisney:

lizparlettdraws:

Sleeping Beauty

It’s been a while since I posted some work, but here’s a concept I did remaking the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale in a fantasy India. There were a lot of issues and in the end I’m not totally satisfied with how everything from the project turned out, but these are the drawings I was still pleased by, so I thought I’d post them here!

beautiful, and intriguing. I want to know the story. Is it similar to the original? Is “sleeping beauty” like Maleficent?

nevver: Antonio Caparo

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:30:21 -0400

antoniocaparo.com

antoniocaparo.com

nevver:

Antonio Caparo

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:30:07 -0400