Part of a strip Ive done doing for graphic classics in the new year.
http://www.graphicclassics.com/

Im in things....

I was in a exhibition in Italy 'humor at Gallarate' and was put in their pretty catalogue.
http://www.prolocogallarate.it/pubblicazioni/pubblicazioni.htm
Also I'm with cartoonists & poets in Going down swinging No. 30.
http://www.goingdownswinging.org.au/
For Italy-
http://beautifulartform.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-rip-off-my-own-ideas.html
For swinging-
http://beautifulartform.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-rip-off-all-my-ideas.html

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BLACKGUARD no.3

In 2007 Stratu, the editor of Blackguard asked me to do a colour cover for his up coming comic magazine ‘Blackguard no.3: the Fleetwood Mac tribute issue’. I said ok, but I stipulated that I wanted to draw exclusively in Photoshop. He said fine and sent me down about 50 images of Stevie Nicks as he wanted a cover of her dancing around in a cheese cloth dress.

It took me one year to complete, and meanwhile all those Sydney cartoonists were doing strips about Mick Fleetwood’s drum patterns & John McVie’s bass playing. Unfortunately Stratu didn’t my radical colour schemes & thought I was insulting the great Ms Nicks singing and body movements (in a static image I might add!), then wanted me to start from scratch.

But I didn’t have time, so I did a quick watercolour rough celebrating the time Lindsey Buckingham disguised himself as a mugger to rob some of his highly paid songwriters for cocaine money. Unfortunately the gun was loaded and he murdered the two men who wrote ‘Tusk’. But Buckingham was found surprisingly ‘innocent’. Apparently the judge was a huge Christy McVie fan and a lover of the song ‘Don’t stop (thinking about tomorrow) ‘.

Mr. Stratu had no choice but to use this cover as he knew my product would ‘sell’ units but the cover did not enforce the theme (in his mind) of the great Fleetwood Mac. It was easier to scrap the strips & get the cartoonists to cover the broad theme of ‘crime’ instead.

For information on this lovely tomb of men & women with no jobs, and too much time on their hands go here.

http://blackguard23.livejournal.com/44582.html

Bonus!!Neale&Emma tour of sydney!!!

Yay! Opera House steps!!!!

All day

2-hour

dog

We apoligise for any inconvenice

I rip off my own ideas!

Evolution of a colour thing for a Italian thingy.....

MEN!

I try to teach animation!Class exercise I did about 'acting' & posing.The last 3 work,but the other 3... "eh!"

HACK!

stand clear please

Express to ringwood not stopping at ringwood....

Zone 1 or Zone 2?

thumbnails

not funny.....

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/comics/worst-comic-strip-ever.html

the paperwork

Premise

A dog is on a desert island, it digs a hole & the island sinks.

Synopsis

A dog is on a small desert island. He thinks about how hungry he is. He thinks about a bone that he has buried on the island. He digs into the ground to find the bone. The island springs a leak. The island begins to sink. The dog & island sink under the ocean.

Treatment

It is a hot day represented by a burning sun. We pan down to a dog on a small desert island with one palm tree on a flat ocean. The dog is panting & holding his gurgling stomach. He starts to think and a bone appears within a thought balloon. This dissolves to show a silhouette of the island. Within this silhouette there is a cutaway showing a hole with a bone in it.

The dog grabs a shovel & begins to dig, slowly at first. This dissolves to show the dog digging faster as the hole becomes deeper & larger. The dog hits something within the hole that makes a large sound. He raises the shovel in a mighty effort to break the ground. The shovel hits the dirt & a gusher of sea water springs from the ground.

The dog is now out of the hole, looking upward at the gushing water. The island begins to sink slowly. The dog turns to the camera as the island keeps sinking. The dog waves bye-bye as he & the island disappear from the surface. Bubbles appear on the oceans surface & pop.

Script

EXT. TROPICAL ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA-MIDDAY

Fade in- A burning sun. Pan down to a solitary DOG on an island with a palm tree to the right side.

EXL of dog on island. He is panting.

CU of dog’s face looking worried. Pan down to him holding his stomach which starts to gurgle.

Back to close up of dogs head as he smiles

A thought bubble appears over dogs head in it we see a bone.

This dissolves to an image of a silhouette of the island within the thought bubble. It is a cut away and we can see the bone under the ground of the island.

MS of the dog running off camera to get something. The dog runs into frame.

MCU/ high angle of dog thrusting shovel into the air.

LS of dog as he begins to dig into the island.

Dissolves to MS of dog digging. The dog is a bit deeper in the hole, the sun is lower in the sky.

Dissolves to CU of dog whose head is now barely visible in the hole. A pile of dirt is on the surface. There is a metallic clunk sound.

The dog looks out of the hole elated.

He now digs faster & more furious.

A fountain of water shoots out of the hole blowing the dog out of the hole and on to the above ground.

ELS of the island and a large plume of water shooting from it.

WS of dog on ground looking up at water.

LS of island sinking.

CU of worried dog.

LS of dog waving “goodbye”. As he & island sink into sea

Bubbles rise & pop from surface of the ocean.

Shot list

ELS-Sun & lone Tropical Island in ocean

MS-Sun

Pan down to

EXL - dog on island

Slow zoom in

CU -dog

Pan down to dog’s stomach

LS-dog’s head in left hand corner

Thought bubble appears in same shot in upper right hand corner

Zoom in to the thought bubble

Silhouette of bone appears in thought bubble

Dissolves to a silhouette of the island within the thought bubble. It is a cut away and we can see the bone under the ground of the island.

MS - dog running off camera

The dog runs into back into frame

MCU/ high angle- dog thrusting shovel into the air.

LS - dog as he begins to dig into the island.

Dissolve/ MS- dog digging.

Dissolve/CU- of dog whose head is now barely visible in the hole. A pile of dirt is on the surface. There is a metallic clunk sound.

MS - dog looks out of the hole.

He now digs faster & more furious.

A fountain of water shoots out of the hole blowing the dog out of the hole and on to the above ground

CU-top of plume of water

ELS- island, large plume of water shooting from it.

WS -dog on ground looking up at water.

LS -island sinking.

CU - worried dog.

LS - Dog waving “goodbye”. As he & island sink into sea

Bubbles rise & pop from surface of the ocean.

design