solar and battery

this is what i've been working on all week.
that's my house.

Holly Jolly

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

there'll be a new comic next week but for now, i'm on holidays!!!!!

In the new year i'll be accepting small commissions for small prices, so if you ever need anything for a project or gifts or for yourself, just ask or email me at

montadrew (at) Gmail dot com

ba for now!!!!

i don't think so

So as i was researching for a mod west essay i had to write earlier today about how the enlightenment impacts pop culture, i came across an essay comparing Calvin and Hobbes to the movie Fight Club.

According to the author of this piece of crap essay, Edward Norton's character is a grown-up Calvin and Brad Pitt's character is Hobbes reincarnated.

I don't even know where to start.

First of all the essay creates a made-up story-line about the time in between the cartoon and the movie, and what spawned Hobbes' tragic demise asa tiger and triumphant return as a bad-ass.

The essay points out several similarities, that are either too broad or too vague, between the cartoon and the movie. And although claiming to be a Calvin and Hobbes fan, the author has absolutely no respect for Bill Watterson's work and should be ashamed for ever having made up this rediculous theory. He should've just let the cartoon be what it is, and not have over analyzed the movie. which by the way is a good movie, with an ORIGINAL story.

if you wanna read it, it's here: http://metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=29_0_2_0

My rant for the day.

bells on boptails.....what the f***'s a boptail!

ok so the fabled christmas card has finally been posted.

so now, imagine this, but times 20, and each one different.

Merry Christmas all.

currently listening to: Badly Drawn Boy -- Silent Sigh

stolen clothes

so between making christmas cards, and school, and having to redo a commission, i've been really busy. I 'm gonna really love the christmas break.

I recently got a copy of the Tenth Anniversary Calvin and Hobbes collection. It's really cool cuz there's an original introduction and conclusion by Bill Watterson, plus captions underneath some comics explaining the inspiration, or why it was drawn. It's really helpful for a couple of projects, AND my life's ambition because Watterson's words are words to live and die by if you're a cartoonist.

And if you've got $200 lying around, or under the couch cushions, the complete Calvin and Hobbes box set compiles every strip ever printed into three hardcover volumes. It weighs literally like 30 pounds, and can be found at most bookstores. I hear Costco's got it for $119, so i might pick it up there after christmas.

Currently listening to: Colin Meloy -- Jack The Ripper

dixon trend

my inking's been sloppy lately. i'll do something about that.

Currently listening to: Ben Harper -- Walk Away

dark blue mexico

update: Drew busy.

I think that one of the most overlooked christmas heroes is the guy with the big boots and shovel from home alone.

she later described

so i actually drew a comic for today, but now i'm too lazy to go downstairs and get it. sorry.

The best webcomics of 2005 were announced last week, by the Webcomics Examiner.


http://webcomicsreview.com/examiner/issue051212/best2005.html

check some of them out, i think you'll find you like a lot of them. i do.

Also, if any of you have a comic book fan on your christmas list this year, or you're one yourself, Fantagraphic Books has a wide array of amazing books that you can order from their site: http://www.fantagraphics.com/recent/bks.html
If i had any money i'd order them myself. alot of them sound like great stories.

currently listening to: Tracy Chapman -- O Holy Night
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egg handling

yeah, so about the whole "try to post something as frequently as possible" art-wise.... eff it.

I've realized i have a lot to do this month before the christmas break, and a small space of time to do it in. so it looks like most of my talent will be going into presentations, essays, projects, and christmas cards. plus i'm doing some small commission work.

but if ido get a free moment to think of something funny to do a comic about, i'll try to squeeze it in. but in the mean-time, anyone have any time-managing tips? cuz i could really use some.

currently listening to: Leslie Feist -- Mushaboom

door orders

promise kept.

lindsay shannon, you are a bad-ass

currently listening to: Tracker -- Flurry

photo clip

hoo-ray. i have my computer back. but there's nothing to post. i feel bad i haven't posted anything for a while. i hate seeing my site and looking at just words.

i've been making all my christmas cards this year out of watercolour and ink so that's why i haven't done any new comics or other paintings. i'll post a finished card when it's closer to christmas.

but because i feel i've let you down, i'll post a one-frame comic tomorrow. and from now on i'll try to have something new up here as frequently as possible.

currently listening to: Iron and Wine -- Cinders and Smoke

cloud cover

recently discovered a new illustrator i like.
lucy knisley
www.stoppayingattention.com

i'll link to her later, but for now you can check'er out.

me likes her style

califone 3068AV

sigh............

My computer and i have always had this love/hate relationship. well now it's just hate.
it decided to stop working on me yesterday and now something inside is kaputz and it won't start.
so i am currently in the library, wishing i could post a comic about my shitty computer, but i can't.
so now i gently weep at the loss of my crap-ass CPU, and hope i can produce so much artwork to scan by the time it gets fixed, that it'll blow up again.

i'll post something as soon as i can, cuz i know you're all dying to get a fix of me (not), and you will shortly start the withdrawl process, which i might add, is extremely painful.
i'm totally kidding, it'll only hurt a bit.

currently listening to: Blonde Redhead -- Bipolar

best priced jewlers

you know what i love?
i love when i think of something moderately funny to draw, so i can entertain you all, draw it, and then try to post it. but alas! when i go to post it there are errors.
i love that.
friggin love it.
wouldn't you?

sorry folks i guess my computer just loves to hate.... my work that is!
so have some Dumbledore.

currently listening to: The Decemberists -- The Engine Driver

just call me Captain Backfire

one more thing.
I also updated my links (right sidebar) with my friends' sites and some other sites of people i am greatly influenced by, and whose work i admire.

Surprise!

yup i changed the format. i was sick of looking at dots, and i needed some instant gratification, so... voila!
hope you like it. and i don't really care if you don't, cuz i do. i really should get a real site...(kg...)
but this is still good for now.

i'm also gonna start doing a "currently listening to:" portion at the end of every post.

so... currently listening to: The Wrens -- Happy

at the end of the millenium

i know this post is pretty emo. i don't care.
everything seems to be emo these days.
the buzz-word of our generation.

back to the dashboard

in mod-west now.

everything outside is more interesting than in here

i am anti-productive.



----a poem by drew shannon

studio two

Saw the new Harry Potter film on thursday night at midnight with phuc and kyle. it was awesome (duh). I can't believe it's over. sigh..... by the way... i'm a geek.

I moved my work area outta my room that night too. it's in the room next to it. i'll post a picture of it later. but there's more space, and other perks.

i have nothing new art-wise. sorry. soon though. well i gotta go play "medal of honor european assault" with KG. enjoy your week fellow prisoners.

galactic rebel

Yesterday was Remembrance Day. Hope y'all wore your poppies and took a moment of silence to remember our fallen hereos.
I went to the market yesterday before going to the Knight's game and had coffee and drew a picture of a soldier, surorunded by a cross and poppies. maybe i'll post it later. anyways, the entire time i was drawing this picture i was kicking myself for not doing it earlier, because then i could've walked up to a random veteran, and given it to them. Y'know one of those senseless acts of beauty things. Well it was too late by then cause there weren't any veterens around to give it to, just crazy hockey folk. maybe i'll give it to my g-pa. he's a veteran.

That's all for now. nothing too special to report about. I gotta make a new comic for the school paper by tuesday, and the christmas comic is coming along nicely, i've never finished more pages of a comic in my life!

I'll have da special

i was sick today. that was not fun.

On monday night i had the opportunity to meet one of my favourite illustrators, Kean Soo. For those of you who don't know who he is, he an artist who lives in Toronto and has had comics published in both volumes of the graphic novel, FLIGHT (www.flightcomics.com). He also has a website where he ran a comic journal about his life for the year of and around 2003 and also has a bunch of autobiographical shorts set to music (www.keaner.net). His current on-running comic is Jellaby which is about a little girl who finds a big purple monster thing. it can be found at http://www.secretfriendsociety.com/.

He and another comicker Ryan North were presenting at macmaster university in hamilton as a part of a series called the "creator series". They were discussing comics online and in print, and the pros and cons of both. Ryan North's site is www.qwantz.com. his comic is very unique, in that the pictures never change but the text is different everyday.

wow long post, but i was so happy to meet one of my idols! I just had to tell you all!

I've decided that since it's close to that time of year again, when the snow falls and the clouds decide to stay, I would get myself into that romantic wintery mood by making a comic with the same kind of lovey theme, with pathetic fallacy to the max.

I won't divulge too much information at this time about the plot, but it's basically about a lot of really interesting human situations... or whatever. I hope to have it done around christmas, but if you know me, christmas = three years from next july.

this is the cover image and a title that is subject to change as the story unfolds.

so long past. hello present!

why draw my own comics when i can just direct you other people's funnier ones?

www.blankwatercomics.com

that's why.

Unhappy Hallowe'en

dear faithful User,
"there were errors during upload"-- with love, Blogger

The post i worked so hard to make isn't uploading. i have a complicated love/hate relationship with this computer. but don't mention it to me or you'll undo all the therapy.

google "a premature burial" by edgar allan poe, and you'll know what my post was about. but picture it in comic form.

i'll keep trying to post it, maybe tomorrow....

where i live

if anyone's interested besides the "make comics forever" people and even they might not care, this is where i work and do all my drawins. it's tres messy at the moment cause i'm pumpin out artwork for the david suzuki (spelling?) assembly.

I'll make you laugh by acting like the guy who sings

I made this back in the summer for Anja. I believe the one and only print is still hanging in her room. This was one of my first attempts at colouring with Photoshop. It's very amateur.

"he brokeded ma nose!"

whoa. double whammy. it looks like i used the program Paint to colour this. but i used photoshop. it's supposed to be in a sort of mike mignola (hellboy) style.

that was a good one

it's not inked. i don't care.

you're letting snow in

there may be too much detail in this picture. i hope you can still read it.

i made a life-size "poster" of Detective Woods a while ago and i want to get rid of it, to free up some wall space. if anyone wants it, it's free. just lemme know if you want it and i'll bring it to school for you or something. i took a picture of me next to it to show you a comparison of size.

I haven't drawn a Harry Potter pic in so long, so this has been a long time comin'.
I hate Harry's wand hand in this picture. I'm excited for the new movie, only a month and a half left!!

and he shouted to the rain, "you're late!"

with winter towards the door

Today was a very beautiful day. that thunderstorm made me the happiest person alive.

torn-out

you look like an irish proverb

lyrics by Interpol

people, man. people

"Crash" is an incredible movie. go buy it.

he will gather the like terms

post-mortem dancing

if you are a boy and you were once eight years-old, you cannot say you didn't like ninjas. ninjas and Batman.

ugh.... second day of school and i'm already sick of it. oh well, only 194 days to go.

the luxury of boredom

There is actually a lot of things I could've done better with this picture. I honestly don't really like the tree at all.

The Big Fat Kill

walk down the right

backalley in Sin City and

you can find anything...

Saint Simon

well everyone, it has been a great summer. good luck to you all this school year, and I'll see you in the halls.

It's been undeniably dear to me, I don't know why

When every other part of life seemed locked behind shutters

I knew the worthless dregs we are,

The selfless, loving saints we are,

The melting, sliding dice we've always been.

lyrics by the Shins

"squeeky door's okay when it's the mail-lady"

The last frame with the kite has nothing to do with the comic. it's me filling up space.

my first question is never going to be asked

If I had a window like this, I'd try to sit there every night. no exaggeration.

I know my posts haven't been comics lately but, for the last couple of nights I've been feeling a lot more creative than just making sequential art.



I may sell the original of this later, so if anyone's interested lemme know and we'll talk.

written insanities plural themselves

tasteful lies and wasteful ties

Hooray! it worked. enjoy.

slow down and grow up

This was supposed to the post with the comic I made in colour. except my computer sucks and won't upload the picture. I'll try tomorrow.

gardening for pressure

here's a little teaser page of the upcoming "Woods" graphic short story. I posted this so I would be forced to finish it. I hope to have the whole thing done by the end of october. for now enjoy the first completed page.

sigh..............

nobody knows how goddamn unlucky i've been lately.

too late to wait for you

This post does not have a comic attached to it. sorry all. but I cut my baby finger on my left hand and the stiches prevent me from drawing well.
just gimme a week, or i'll try to adjust to my stiff finger.
over and out

open-ended and broken-hearted

Today's post isn't a comic. it's just a piece of art I finished using Photoshop. I actually don't really like it that much but I'm still a little happy about how it turned out. I think it's the colours that bug me, they aren't that accurate, but who cares. enjoy.

your tongues and lips were moving, but you weren't talking

Okay so it's not in colour. it's actually not fully in black either. So I got lazy, sue me already!

The colour one's coming nicely though. : )

green towers make up the skyline of my kitchen counter

I don't like the image quality of this one. Oh well. a coloured one is coming soon, so everyone get really excited!

just a chameleon with a good idea

I was going to colour today's comic, but I was too lazy to do all that photoshop nonsense. feeling blah.

August 13th 2005 -- after this building's window

I can't figure out if it's inspiration I'm lacking, or enthusiasm.

Sorry about the one-framers guys I'll post something sequential tomorrow.

August 12th 2005 -- chucked out of doom into safer nights and entropic days

I would like to thank Bill Watterson and Sam Beam for a wonderful afternoon.

pieces of peaces past play parts

August 9 2005 -- Even Superman sleeps in a queen-sized bed

Heather is leaving tomorrow to go out east with her Pa. This one's for you Heather. Have fun. we'll miss you.

August 8 2005 coffee-cupped to the table I shoot

When Guns Go Bang

This is the design for a movie poster for a short film my friend Krys is making called "When Guns Go Bang". He sent me a copy of the script and after reading it I came up with this design. He likes it and I hope he uses it as the final poster.

August 7th 2005

entered

I'm starting a blog as an easy way for me to make a comic journal. Hopefully this is just temporary until I get a real website. It'll be just like any other weblog except that the posts will mostly all be short comics about my day.
Enjoy viewing my pretty much mundane life....

August 6th 2005 -- Stamps and Subs