Cats and Kings
This Illustration Friday bit flowed rather well. Was game to post it Friday but had to obsess over one panel. Finally I shot a photo and lightboxed it, not that you can tell.
A small restaurant I've been known to eat at. I can't draw perspective for shit.
For those of you spiraling in via the Illustration Friday link, I live in Cambodia and draw comics. Most recent efforts have been 'Komik Cambodia' exchange and 'Fantomes' student comic. More details here.
Jinja is kind of my totem animal in Cambodia. How do you know you've got a totem animal? You see and hear it constantly, it becomes a motif in your life. In Australia my totem animal was the platypus. In USA? Not sure yet.
'Jinja' (pronounced with an aspirated sound at the end, it could be 'jinjah') is the small ubiquitous sized lizard found everywhere in southeast asia. The larger ones are called 'teckai' in Khmer and can be heard chirping at night time. They can grow quite large. Jinjas are (alas) the favorite food of cats, though they both may look at Kings.
"Even a cat may look at a king" is a proverb that is centuries old. I'll be curious to see how it translates into Cambodian and how people react. After last week's condensed comic I'm allowing a little more breathing room for Khmer text when I translate it.
No contractions in this comic either, the more southeast asian readers I get the less slang I use. I guess I'm getting self-conscious. It's an interesting change, as weblogs and zines are tend to showcase slang and obscure subcultural references. That's my background, but it may not be where I'm going.
Thinking a bit lately about silent comics - now there's a way around the translation barrier.
Related links: http://del.icio.us/slugdog/illustrationfriday20012006
Tags: Cambodia,comics
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Jeez, you can even get 'indie' films on DVD in Cambodia, though this one was festooned with awards.
Now if we could only get more local films onto DVD.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Satanist Runs for Governor in Minnesota: Plans to 'impale' terrorists are a part of the platform. Includes photos with Bush clan!
Sunday, January 15, 2006
E is for Entropy
The comic was fun to do.
I'm no rocket scientist but my Dad was, and I picked up a fair bit of physics and astronomy just by growing up in a community full of engineers.
References: http://del.icio.us/slugdog/illustrationfriday13012006
Also:
Monday Begins on Saturday - Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
"Maxwell's Demon and Monsieur Ranque" - Arthur C. Parlett
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
"A Metaphysical Drama" by Vintersorg
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
"The Modern Demonology" - Isaac Asimov
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland - George Gamow
Oh My Goddess - Kosuke Fujishima
Her Majesty's Wizard - Christopher Stasheff
Maxwellsdemon.com
"Maxwell's Demon and Monsieur Ranque" - Arthur C. Parlett
Tags: comics
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Sign me up So while in the States (and had broadband) thought I'd take advantage of time to do a few web things. Mainly though I'm just going to use it to point people to my comics and bloggery. We'll see how useful they are...
Monday, January 09, 2006
Link Farming
http://www.jimwoodring.com/lr4mindstates.html http://www.johnshirley.net/DesktopDefault.aspx http://www.mondoglobo.net/neofiles/?p=29
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
It's good to Share
One thought for the new year: gotta produce. There are lots of good artists out there who don’t publish much. There’s lots of prolific artists who don’t have much imagination. If you can do good work on a regular basis, you’re golden. And if you can produce regularly, even if it ain’t good, you’ll get paid. Warren Ellis ( quote below) may be too mainstream for most people’s tastes but his commentary (much swearing) is genuinely amusing. Do you know some folks have gotten ‘Transmetropolitan’ tattoos? Yup. I've got forty books out there that some people wear on their fucking skin,
and I didn't manage that by arsing around on the internet all day.
That's right. I managed it AS WELL AS arsing around on the internet all
day. I have powers.
Tags: comics
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
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