haystack charm

lately i've really been into drawing musicians i like.

mars

i spent about 20 ninutes today looking at the surface of mars. neat stuff

http://www.google.com/mars/

three black chairs

i am sooooo bored.

Good graphic novels that have been made into good movies. check'em out

From Hell
Ghost World
Road to Perdition
American Splendor
Sin City
A History of Violence
V for Vendetta (coming soon)

can't stop listening to: The Professor -- Damien Rice

accordian calenders

this is a quick thing i did for emilee nimitz. everyone give emilee your best cuz she got into a car wreck on monday and her face is pretty beat up. but she's still as hot as ever.

i'll give you the original when i see you next emilee.

new bold

i rented and watched "thumbsucker" today. very good film. all music was done by the Polyphonic Spree, with additional songs by Elliot Smith.

Is art distracting me school, or is school distracting me from art?

or is something else distracting me from both?

Zen Album of the Day: Belle and Sebastian -- The Life Pursuit

Kakofonia

this is the most talented illustrator i've seen by far.

http://kakofonia.com/

but each gate will open another.

Flight Volume 3 will be out June 2006. everybody get excited.

sorry i haven't been posting anything substantial lately. i'm too lazy, and most of my artistic ability is being taken up by favours to people, and the sketchbook journal which is coming along very nicely.

man i apologize too much.

Zen Album of the day: Final Fantasy -- Has a Good Home

scripted lies

I think that sometimes there comes a moment in our lives when we wish things could just be a bit more like television. I know televsion isn't like real-life at all, but I believe that sometimes we just wish something we said was the perfect thing to say and not sound like some cheesy line.
Or you're with someone special and you just wish that you could say something totally sporadic, but important to the moment without them reacting like you're a total creepball.
The setting would be atmospheric, and the perfect song would be playing in the background just loud enough for the audience to hear the lyrics, but also be able to hear that one thing you've been dying to say all episode. Then after you've you've strung the perfect set of words together, the person reacts exactly as you want them to, the music grows slowly louder, the screens goes black, and the executive producer's name is displayed.

but life is not like that. and we have to ask ourselves, would we really want it to be?

mostly trouble

Today i cleaned out my closet, and that took me most of the day. it was tres messy. it was like looking through a five foot by five foot by two foot time capsule. I came across so many old drawings, and doodles, and many other little trinkets of my childhood and highschool career.
The coolest thing i found was my very first sketchbook.

Yesterday was a long kinda weird day. i was done school at like 11 am, and had nothing to do afterwards except get into trouble. which i did.

there'll be comic soon.

Zen Album of the Day: Cat Power -- The Greatest

worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

So it's a been a while, eh?

sorry my computer hasn't been working so it got sent away and now it's back, and it's fixed. i hope you can read the writing in the picture. if you can't it basically says that i'm starting a sketchbook journal. i'll post the entry from each day on here. it'll mostly be drawing of people, objects, places, etc. The idea was inspired by Craig Thompson's "Carnet de Voyage"; a sketchbook journal he made during his time in France, Spain, Morocco and the Alps, while researching his next graphic nov: "Habibi".

anyways, the last two week have been pretty uneventful... sorta. I got into the Bealart program, and i'm pretty happy about that. There isn't much more to say. i'm not a fan of advertising my life on the internet, except maybe through a comic if the mood strikes me.

Zen album of the day: Elliot Smith -- Figure 8.

Happy Birthday Geoff

Friday (Jan 20th) was Geoff's birthday. here's the card i made for him.
Happy birthday Geoff, from all of us here a Nobody Searches.

hmmm.... i need some more characters.....

put it in your laundry basket

this was the worst weekend in the history of weekends. when our grandchildren ask if we were alive during the second weekend in January 2006, we will say "yes unfortunately." and they will be astonished we ever survived something that bad.

By the way this weekened is now a deeply repressed memory, so never metion it to me again or you'll undo all of the therapy.

Currently listening to: Careful where you stand -- Coldplay

japanese serial number

The bad thing about first impressions is that you only get one.

-it starts stoppin' when it stops stoppin'-

Currently listening to: On my way -- Ben Kweller

So I realized that i haven't been posting anything in the "currently listening to" section so i thought i'd just do a post entirely on music.

here's my main playlist at the moment:

Casimir Pulaski Day -- Sufjan Stevens
Easy to Please -- Coldplay
Family Tree -- Ben Kweller
Falling -- Ben Kweller
Dienu -- Ben Kweller
Sleep Spent -- Death Cab For Cutie
The Legionnaire's Lament -- The Decemberists
Red Right Ankle -- The Decmeberists
Kidsmoke -- Wilco
Company on my Back -- Wilco
Weekends -- The Perishers
Across the Ocean -- Azure Ray
Jack the Ripper -- Colin Meloy
Penelope -- Pinback
Left and Leaving -- The Weakerthans
Girl Inform Me -- The Shins
The Greatest -- Cat Power
Everyone Needs an Editor -- Mates of State
Happy -- The Wrens
Hopeless -- The Wrens
Boys you won't Remember -- The Wrens
The Flurry (pt 1) -- Tracker
Guilty Cubicles -- Broken Social Scene
Anthem for a seventeen year-old girl -- Broken Social Scene
Shorelines -- Broken Social Scene
Elevator Love letter -- Stars
Monster Hospital -- Metric
Grow up and Blow away -- Metric
This Heart's on fire -- Wolf Parade
Spinning -- Zero 7
Hollywood Bedtime Story -- The Dears
Never Destroy us -- The Dears
Believing is art -- Spoon
The Two sides of Monsieur Valentine -- Spoon
Pink Moon -- Nick Drake
Don't die in me -- Mirah
Dreamboat -- Mirah
Phonecall -- Jon Brion

Ok that'll do it for it now. comic to come soon enough.

black is free

I friggin love inking. my favourite part of making comics.

stirring furnace

"Blankets" is my new favourite illustrated novel and it will most likely stay my favourite. Craig Thompson is master story-teller, and in-friggin-credible artist. I suggest everybody in whole world read "Blankets", even if you don't like comic books you'll like it. if you live in Canada it'll set you back about 42 bucks but it's worth every cent.

emo comic to come tomorrow.

i'm a cherry ghost

Iron and WIne is on the Late, Late show with Craig Fergison (spelling is obviously wrong but i'm not looking it up) tonight at 12:35 on CBS. so my suggestion is to watch Conan for 50 minutes then switch over and watch Iron and Wine, that's what i'm doin.

I bought "blankets" by Craig Thompson today. so far so great. posts about it to follow.

new year disillusion

comic journal stresses.


Where would we be without wishful thinking.

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!!!!