The INCREDIBLY talented Dale O’Flaherty has humbled me by drawing this amazing picture of yours truly. He’ll be ordering some special brush pens and will be inking it after the holidays, but I had to share this because it is just an amazing piece of work on it’s own.
Everyone go to his blog. If we all keep telling him to make a comic maybe he’ll do one and he’ll make loads of money and then buy Richard Dawkins to take him out to the pub and do his talks just for him.
Anyways. Dale O’Flaherty. Check him out. Go.
I originally wrote this as part of a Geek Carol contest for GeekGirls and I liked it so much that I thought I would post it here!
Carol Of The Bat (in the tune of Carol Of The Bells)
Hark see the light,
Up in the night,
It seems to say
Bad guys will pay
Parents are dead
Fucked up my head
Now in the night
I go and fight
Zing! Voop! Sop! Zong!
That is the song
Of fist hitting face
In a dark place
One seems to hear
Shrieks of good cheer
Before he kills
If he so wills
Oh how he smiles
In me he riles
Thoughts of the dead
Must pound his head
Gaily he spits
Blood and some bits
Take him away
I deeply say:
I am, I am, I am, I am Batman
I am, I am, I am, I am Batman
On on they send
On without end
Sane and the mad
Good fights the bad…
Goodbye mom and…dad…
My good friend Kevin Patrick Glover and artist Amanda Hayes have finally launched their web comic The Invisible Skein. I’ve been anticipating this for quite some time, as Kevin is a great writer (check out his column on Hypergeek) and Amanda is a wonderful young artist. The first page is already up and more to come this week! Check it out!
Yesterday I went to a small press book fair put on by The Toronto Small Press Group here in Toronto and have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. Normally my experiences with small press functions have been comprised entirely of people in what my friend Claro calls the “anarcho-hipster spectrum”. Here in Toronto we have LOTS of anarchists who love showing off just how anarchist they are. And don’t get me wrong, a lot of their zines are really amazing, but when the only people that attend and take part in these are the same, they’re just preaching to the choir. The book fair yesterday took away my hesitation for coming. There were some “anarcho-hipsters”, yes, but there were also middle-aged Wiccans selling history on Queen St. West, semi-formal old men with science-based poetry, teenage manga lovers pimping out their webcomic and a man who called out to me and said “excuse me, can I interest you in a story about people who have penises for faces?”. Wonderful mix of people and only $20 got me quite a few presents for the holidays (some I admittedly don’t want to give up).
And now I’ve been bitten by the Small Press Bug, it seems. I find I’m waiting with anticipation for any more events coming up and I’m looking at Microcosm Publishing and just drooling over some of the lovely finds there (including the art of Cristy Road). And I’m also considering putting a little something together myself. We’ll see where that goes, but right now I’m still getting over how awesome itis that I’ve found so many talented individuals.
So let’s see where that takes us.
Went down to the Distillery District today..beautiful day. It was my frist time going there oddly enough and I was quite surprised at how few distilleries there were and more wanky shops than I thought. Ah well.
