Timber!
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Archive for March, 2010
Lumber-Odjits
Posted in Cartoons, Odjit with tags cartoon, comic, drawing, ink, old scratch, Pen and ink, timber, tree on March 31, 2010 by scratchybIllustration Friday-Expired
Posted in Illustration Friday on March 25, 2010 by scratchyb
All images © Eric Battaglia 2010
Domesticated Odjits
Posted in Cartoons, Odjit with tags Cartoons, comics, creatures, hammer, hanging, injury, monsters, nail Old Scratch, nice things, Odjits, pain on March 24, 2010 by scratchyb
“That why we can’t have nice things?”
All images © Eric Battaglia 2010
AAARGH!
Posted in Art, Illustration Friday, Process with tags Illustration Friday, mistakes, old scratch, scratchboard on March 18, 2010 by scratchybI haven’t screwed up like this in a while. I was happily working away at a scratchboard piece for Illustration Friday when I went and smeared silver ink across the thing. It’s repairable, but at this point, I don’t need to work on it tonight anymore, since the new IF topic is posted tomorrow. Me and my stupid silver ink.
One Too Many
Posted in Cartoons, Odjit with tags boat, draw straws, ocean, Odjits, old scratch, open boat, sea, sharks, shortest on March 17, 2010 by scratchyb
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Odjits in Hawaii II
Posted in Cartoons, Odjit with tags brains, cartoon, Hawaii, hut, island, monster, Odjits, old scratch, pina colada, tiki, tropical on March 13, 2010 by scratchyb
The Odjits were in Hawaii the past two weeks. The survivors have recently returned home.
All images © Eric Battaglia 2010
Zines are still kicking
Posted in illustrated books, writing with tags blogs, book, comics, independent, indie, indie media, self-published, zines on March 13, 2010 by scratchybMissed my self-imposed deadline for the Odjit cartoon last week. It’s almost done, and will be up soon.
Meanwhile, this afternoon I stopped by the Chicago zine fest. It’s interesting because I used to make zines in the 90’s, and was also involved in a local independent “newspaper”. I briefly thought about getting back into it, since I loved the independence of creating and designing my own little books. But the scene was filled with what amounted to photocopied diaries, and by 2004, I was certain that blogs had killed the zine format. So I went to this event hoping to see some interesting, innovative things that you can’t do online. And I did, at first. But then I looked at the other tables, and it was like I was right back there in 1995. I just wasn’t feeling it. Maybe it’s my age, but what I’d like to see is an independent book movement, something that focuses on quality handmade work, and not just some arbitrary value placed on a photocopy just because the original was pasted together with loving care.
Not to end on a negative note, there were some very cool artists there. I picked up a couple of cool comics by Will Dinsky (one with Japanese binding–put the stapler away), saw some great artwork by whoever the hell brosef stallin’ is, and spotted a few other people doing great work in keeping this medium alive.
