Scott McCloud's Awesome Infinite Canvass

Paper, a cloth canvass, a wall, 140 characters on Twitter, they are all restraints on dimensions. Price/advertising space on newspapers force comic strips to be usually just 3 small panels for this reason. And of course computers and that sort of stuff has been eroding these size restrictions gradually on the web, cartoonists tend to forget that really, a comic strip can be pretty much any size!

Reading through genius comic artist Scott McCloud's website, an article precisely about the infinite canvass (a must-read for comic artists!), he gives us a few examples of ways in which we can elegantly defy size. Because size matters, yo.

This one by McCloud himself: (click on the images)

Pup: Heat Death - by Drew Weing

So, as Tool say in a song of theirs

And following our will and wind,

we may just go where no one's been.

We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Talking Correctly v.s. Talkin' Sensibly

Ok, I made this comic strip but I don't really think it's that funny, I mean, the punchline... what is it?
Ok.. yeah.
Go to this image's page instead.


Henry Fowler by ~skinsvideos21 on deviantART

Weaving Goddamn Webs

Do you use Twitter? Perhaps, if you have the time to indulge in such things. Facebook? Probably unless you're worried about privacy and well, you realise that nobody really needs one. A blog? Like this one or something else (even if it's the lame Fotolog)? If you have more than one account on anything in the web it probably means you have the time for that. I am sick of it, I don't want to sift through Facebook messages, or in any other social website (I have Multiply and it's the same story...). There's a lot more important work outside to do.

''But dude, then what are you doing posting on this blog then?''

Takes less time. Nobody else needs to have an account to comment. No hassle. Dunno, I thought it was a cool idea when I started it. I thought the same out of this stupid Formspring account but it seems it's dead. You can ask me something but who are we kidding, eh? The Multiply account I mentioned before, also. It was a nice place where to post random things, a lot like this place too. I befriended a couple of people there from all over the world and share things about anything. Really nice and fun people. Although we're all just online identities here, it's a shame maybe. I feel clogged up with all this stuff.

But then, Google Sites came in handy. It's like my own portable bookmarks page with anything I find useful. So that's more personal.

But then things mount up! For instance, my music project at Reverbnation, and then I'm releasing the music in Bandcamp too! Aaargh! It seems like it may save some time or be helpful promoting the music, but this is maybe a bit too much.

Then there's DeviantArt. I'm okay with it... I won't complain...
*coughlotsofmessagescoughcough*


However, there's an even more pressing issue here; if you've everywhere, it may be good when you're trying to promote something (so far my music and art provide me zero income), but it also makes you vulnerable to being found, um, and many other things. Here's Juanelo (in Spanish and translated below) summing up an important idea!


Juanelo belongs to Marco Canepa. All rights reserved. Vida larga a Juanelo.

Scrotoss! - It's nuts!

The sport that was supposedly going to grab the world by storm.. and didn't. Plenty of fun! Tell all your friends!

Scrotoss headquarters? ---> http://scrotoss.blogspot.com/





What are you still doing here? Shouldn't you be enlightening your friends?

22 Ways to Draw Obama Caricatures

Politicians aren't more than humans like you and me (despite all the things we will say), but cartoonists know well the potential that exists in someone's countenance, their facial features and the way they speak. As Daryl Cagle, political cartoonist notes on an article in The Moderate Voice;

''When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without much exaggeration. As time goes by, political figures morph in cartoons into caricatures of caricatures; George W. Bush shrank to knee height and grew huge bunny ears; Bill Clinton lost his pants and grew fatter (even as he got skinnier in real life). At the beginning of the Obama administration, everyone is watching to see how the cartoon Obama evolves.''

A cartoonist's job can be seen pretty much as that, they forge an alter-ego for whoever they draw (well, it's a lot more than that but hey!). And I noticed, that in Obama's case, sometimes the cartoons don't even remotely look like him, yet, and somehow, we still recognise them as him! How's that? Some are even contradictory, he has massive ears and tiny nose in one, and the other way round in another! I invite you to see 22 ways in which I've seen 'Bama being drawn:


And now, after showing you the wide gamut of Obamas that have been conceived, I show you my more or less moderate depiction of him I used in a silly comic:


Obama Gets Some Help by ~skinsvideos21 on deviantART