Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Frankenstein Réassemblé dans le Journal de Montréal.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Critique de Frankenstein Réassemblé.
Frankenstein Réassemblé sera chroniqué dans le Cahier WE du Journal de Montréal ce samedi 29 octobre.
Juste à temps pour l'Halloween !
Juste à temps pour l'Halloween !
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Montreal Comic Con, sept 2011
Hello !
Check me out at stand 161 at the Montreal Comic Con this Saturday and Sunday at Place Bonaventure in Montreal, Quebec, Canada-- I'll be there signing my solo and my collective books: Veena et les Spectre du Temps and Frankenstein Réassemblé. Stand 161 is the stand of Planete BD, representing my publisher 400 Coups.
I may have a new color print to sell. It's a little thing I just finished with Gogo Yubari, that Kill Bill iconic character .
Check me out at stand 161 at the Montreal Comic Con this Saturday and Sunday at Place Bonaventure in Montreal, Quebec, Canada-- I'll be there signing my solo and my collective books: Veena et les Spectre du Temps and Frankenstein Réassemblé. Stand 161 is the stand of Planete BD, representing my publisher 400 Coups.
I may have a new color print to sell. It's a little thing I just finished with Gogo Yubari, that Kill Bill iconic character .
Sunday, September 11, 2011
La vérité sur le 11 septembre 2001
À une journée de l'anniversaire du 11 septembre 2001, après dix ans passés à travers deux guerres et de multiples complots, je crois que nous avons tous déjà notre trop plein de récapitulations tristes sur le sujet...
Voici donc 2 pages humoristiques qui détournent le sujet...
Deux pages réalisées en temps record pour le magazine humoristique Safarir en 2002 sous la direction de Michel Viau et écrites par un comité de 7 ou 8 personnes...La couleur est de Richard Gagnon. Le résultat me surprend un peu maintenant puisque faire ce type d'humour alors aussi proche des événements, c'est risquer des regards perplexes, répondus par un "too soon ?".
Je n'ai pas retrouvé la version finale pour impression. Il manque donc le titre et l'intro, que voici:
La vérité sur le 11 septembre 2001
Page 1
Case 1 Un document officiel avec logo du FBI. Le texte est dactylographié:
Washington D.C., August 16th, 2002
Top Secret – For Your Eyes Only
Mister President,
Grâce à des recherches exhaustives, le FBI, en collaboration avec la CIA et la police d’Amqui, vient de découvrir la vérité sur ce qui s’est passé dans le cockpit du second avion qui a percuté la tour nord du World Trade Center. Nous vous invitons à visionner la cassette de la reconstitution de l’événement ci-jointe, sans porter de jugement hâtif sur les communautés ethniques impliquées.
D. Scully
Special Agent
Special Agent
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Les artistes de Frankenstein Réassemblé à la Comicon de Montréal les 17 et 18 septembre prochains.
Je serai présent au kiosque de Planète BD, pour y présenter mes 2 albums publiés chez Rotor/400 Coups (Veena et Les Spectres du Temps et Frankenstein Réassemblé). J'y aurai aussi peut-être quelques "giclés". Ça dépendra si j'ai le temps de tout préparer... J'aimerais bien voir si c'est une idée qui a du potentiel. Je vois que certaines choses qui vendent bien ne sont pas toujours des comics, surtout dans des événements comme Comicon qui deviennent de plus en plus multimédias et de moins en moins bd et comics.
Pour nous trouver, nous serons au stand 161
Voici donc l'horaire du groupe:
Samedi
14h – 15h Djief
15h à 16h Denis Rodier
16h à 17h Richard Gagnon et Michael Arsenault
17h à 18h30 Eric Thériault
Dimanche
11h à 12h Morrissette
13h à 14h Eric Thériault
Pour nous trouver, nous serons au stand 161
Voici donc l'horaire du groupe:
Samedi
14h – 15h Djief
15h à 16h Denis Rodier
16h à 17h Richard Gagnon et Michael Arsenault
17h à 18h30 Eric Thériault
Dimanche
11h à 12h Morrissette
13h à 14h Eric Thériault
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Black and Blind Dick Chick : page 6 is online.
Monday, August 08, 2011
The adventures of Tintin in the Uncanny Valley !
Joke for animators and 3D artists only ??
Uncanny Valley : "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of roboticsand 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness."
Uncanny Valley : "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of roboticsand 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness."
Monday, August 01, 2011
Pérusse Cité
En recherchant autre chose, ma femme est tombée sur un entrefilet sur le site de Cyberpresse qui me libère techniquement d'un secret professionnel. Normalement quand on travaille pour des clients en édition ou en dessin animé, on signe un contrat nous obligeant à garder le secret professionnel du dit contrat, les détails de la productions, les titres et les designs, etc. Mais si le diffuseur officiel peut le mentionner...je vois plus pourquoi je cacherais que j'étais désigner sur la nouvelle série de François Pérusse, Pérusse Cité et qu'elle sera en onde en janvier 2012.
L'extrait:
"Tel qu'on peut le voir dans la grille horaire - qui pourrait toujours changer d'ici septembre -, La galère revient dès septembre le lundi à 21h, avant d'être remplacée en janvier par Les Boys et Pérusse Cité, une nouvelle série d'animation signée François Pérusse. Espérons que ce sera meilleur que Vie de quartier."
Richard Therrien
Le Soleil
18 mai 2011
Voici aussi un petit extrait visuel.
L'extrait:
"Tel qu'on peut le voir dans la grille horaire - qui pourrait toujours changer d'ici septembre -, La galère revient dès septembre le lundi à 21h, avant d'être remplacée en janvier par Les Boys et Pérusse Cité, une nouvelle série d'animation signée François Pérusse. Espérons que ce sera meilleur que Vie de quartier."
Richard Therrien
Le Soleil
18 mai 2011
Voici aussi un petit extrait visuel.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
I'm testing a little thing in Google+ that...
I'm testing a little thing in Google+ that let me upload directly from my "flux" to Blogger without doing anything else. Yes, as you can see, I have a G+ account. So, yes, you can look me up there and add me. Even if I'm not your friend ! :) It's under my real name. |
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Black and Blind Dick Chick : page 5 is online.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Comix Box parle de Frankenstein Réassemblé.
La dernière édition en ligne du magazine Comix Box viens de publier un article, ma foi très élogieux, de Frankenstein Réassemblé. Vous pouvez le lire ici.
Le critique Nicolas Lambret a bien compris la nature du livre qui réplique la nature du monstre lui-même : "Sans verser dans le patchwork sans lien réel entre ses différentes étoffes, cet album très hétérogène dans son style graphique s’avère un excellent et cohérent recueil. Comme « L’homme à tête de chou » de Gainsbourg, cet album-concept prend son sens lorsqu’il est lu dans son entièreté. Bribe par bribe, d’hypothèse en délire créatif, il reconstitue et tisse avec un fil solide mais jamais masqué, la vie « réelle » du monstre génial abandonné il y a trop longtemps aux glaces du Pôle nord."
Lien:
Comix Box
Lire aussi : Comix Box a un article sur moi dans le numéro 62.
Le critique Nicolas Lambret a bien compris la nature du livre qui réplique la nature du monstre lui-même : "Sans verser dans le patchwork sans lien réel entre ses différentes étoffes, cet album très hétérogène dans son style graphique s’avère un excellent et cohérent recueil. Comme « L’homme à tête de chou » de Gainsbourg, cet album-concept prend son sens lorsqu’il est lu dans son entièreté. Bribe par bribe, d’hypothèse en délire créatif, il reconstitue et tisse avec un fil solide mais jamais masqué, la vie « réelle » du monstre génial abandonné il y a trop longtemps aux glaces du Pôle nord."
Lien:
Comix Box
Lire aussi : Comix Box a un article sur moi dans le numéro 62.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Une critique sur Frankensteinia.
"The scripts and art are excellent throughout (...) Frankenstein Réassemblé is an immensely satisfying read and a truly original contribution to the ever growing collection of alternate histories of Frankenstein."
Une critique de notre livre collectif Frankenstein Reassemblé. Il y en a eu peu, mais celle-ci me fait bien plaisir. Elle viens de Pierre Fournier, co-créateur de Michel Risque et de Red Ketchup et aussi grand expert en cinéma fantastique, et plus particulièrement sur Frankenstein. Pierre s'occupe du blog Frankensteinia qui est une mine d'or d'informations sur le sujet et qui a même gagné le Rondo Award !
Dans le but de rester objectif, je me dois de signaler que Pierre a contribué une idée pour une des histoires qui a ensuite été développée par d'autres mains - en autres Cedric Perez, Louis Lachance et moi-même. Une histoire sur le lien entre le monstre et le cinéma.
Pierre a de plus un second blog d'images de monstre et de cinéma fantastique, Monstercrazy.
Frankensteinia
Monstercrazy
L'illustration est un montage. De gauche a droite, des dessins de Denis Rodier, Gabriel Morrissette et moi-même.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Veena en Italien ? Veena in Italian ? Veena in italiano !
Je l'ai déjà mentionné sur Facebook, mais E.F. Edizioni vient de distribuer l'édition Italienne de Veena sur le marché la-bas. Ca s'appelle "Veena, Detective dello Strano ed Insolito" (Veena, détective de l'étrange et de l'insolite) et contiens le matériel du comic book 1-2-3-4, plus une galerie d'illustrations différentes de Veena réalisées pour différent zines et média en plus des croquis de la couverture, réalisé pour l'occasion.. Le format est 16,5x24 cm. J'ai reçu y'a un bout déjà mes copies par la poste et je suis content ! Le livre a 70 pages et a en prime I Seduttori, une petite histoire qui avait été faite originalement pour publication dans le zine italien Schizzo, mais ça ne s'est finalement pas fait. Le thème était le point de vue de l'étranger sur la culture Italienne.
Pour passer la commande je vous donne le lien, mais un minimum d'italien vous sera nécessaire:
EF Edizioni
***
E.F. edizioni just published and distributed the italian edition of Veena. It's called "Veena, Detective dello Strano ed Insolito" and contains material from issue 1-2-3-4, plus an illustration galery. Size is 16,5x24 cm. 70 pages. To order, here is the place. You'll need to understand a few italian words to navigate there:
EF Edizioni
***
Io non parlo italiano, ma Google mi aiuterà:
Ho menzionato in Facebook, ma EF Edizioni appena distribuita l'edizione italiana del mercato Veena laggiù. Si chiama "Veena, a cura di Insolito Strano dello Detective" e contiene materiale dal fumetto 1-2-3-4, oltre a una galleria di illustrazioni di vari Veena eseguita per diverse fanzine e maggiore attenzione dei media di schizzi, realizzati per l'occasione .. Il formato è 16,5 x 24 cm. Y 'Ho un pezzo già spedito le mie copie e sono felice! Il libro ha 70 pagine e mi bonus Seduttori, un breve racconto che è stato fatto inizialmente per la pubblicazione sulla rivista Schizzo italiano, ma alla fine non ha. Il tema era la vista dall'estero sulla cultura italiana.
Pour passer la commande je vous donne le lien, mais un minimum d'italien vous sera nécessaire:
EF Edizioni
***
E.F. edizioni just published and distributed the italian edition of Veena. It's called "Veena, Detective dello Strano ed Insolito" and contains material from issue 1-2-3-4, plus an illustration galery. Size is 16,5x24 cm. 70 pages. To order, here is the place. You'll need to understand a few italian words to navigate there:
EF Edizioni
***
Io non parlo italiano, ma Google mi aiuterà:
Ho menzionato in Facebook, ma EF Edizioni appena distribuita l'edizione italiana del mercato Veena laggiù. Si chiama "Veena, a cura di Insolito Strano dello Detective" e contiene materiale dal fumetto 1-2-3-4, oltre a una galleria di illustrazioni di vari Veena eseguita per diverse fanzine e maggiore attenzione dei media di schizzi, realizzati per l'occasione .. Il formato è 16,5 x 24 cm. Y 'Ho un pezzo già spedito le mie copie e sono felice! Il libro ha 70 pagine e mi bonus Seduttori, un breve racconto che è stato fatto inizialmente per la pubblicazione sulla rivista Schizzo italiano, ma alla fine non ha. Il tema era la vista dall'estero sulla cultura italiana.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Souche en Joual Vert !
Il y a quelques mois, j'ai mentionné l'illustration que j'avais faite pour ajouter un petit quelques chose sur Joual Vert, le blog qu'Harmelle, ma femme, avait commencé à tenir. 8 mises-à-jour plus tard, ses textes personnels teintés de dérision et de sa culture familiale, ont déjà mené à sa publication sur le site web de Souche, un magazine féminin multiculturel avec une version papier et une version web. Elle viens de publier sa 2e chronique sur la version web du site. Je suis bien content de voir que ses textes de blog trouvent déjà un auditoire plus vaste. Bientôt publiée dans le magazine version papier en kiosque ? Il y a pour l'instant 2 chroniques:
La Venus Noire
À cheveux tirés ou tiré par les cheveux?
Son blog, Joual Vert, est ici.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Salon International du livre de Québec et FBDFQ 2011.
Cette fin de semaine, je serai au Salon International du livre de Québec et au Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec (FBDFQ).
Voici donc mon horaire de dédicaces et d’activités :
Samedi :
Dédicaces: 11h à 12h
Les dédicaces auront lieu au stand des éditions 400 coups.
Dédicaces: 18h30
Les dédicaces auront lieu au stand du Festival (816).
Dimanche :
Dédicaces: 15h à 16h
Les dédicaces auront lieu au stand des éditions 400 coups.
Information :
http://www.editions400coups.com/qc/
http://www.fbdfq.com/
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
I just opened a Deviant Art account.
There. It's done. I have one now.
I was resisting having one. At first I thought only amateurs were posting there, but I've since changed my mind. A lot of beautiful artwork by gifted artists there is....
It's when I realised that Clement Sauvé had an account there, and many fans, that I changed my mind. I'll try to post a drawing each week.
mistertheriault.deviantart.com
I'm not crazy about the green ugly background, but I'll live with it.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Invité au Festival de Québec !
Je serai présent comme invité au 24e Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec. Je serai sur place le samedi 16 et dimanche 17 avril 2011.
Mon horaire du temps n'es pas trop précis encore. Je suppose que j'aurai quelques heures de signature au kiosque des 400 Coups, pour les livres Veena et Les Spectres du Temps et Frankenstein Réassemblé, mais rien de fixé encore.
Peut-être aussi un panel, une séance de dessin, ça reste à voir.
Pour toutes les infos, je vous invite à regarder leur site, ici.
La superbe affiche, qui fait référence à Blake et Mortimer et montre aussi le château Frontenac est de Philippe Girard. Le château est devenu un gag récurrent...
***
J'étais de passage à Québec le 11 février dernier pour une séance de signatures à la librairie l'Imaginaire. C'était un événement spécial pour souligner le lancement l'automne dernier de Frankenstein Réassemblé. J'étais accompagné de Richard Gagnon et Djieff, deux de mes collaborateurs sur le livre. Djieff avait aussi son tout nouveau Crépuscule des Dieux, tome 5 et tout ses fans ! François Lapierre était aussi avec nous pour son nouvel album Chroniques Sauvages.
Merci à tous les lecteurs venus nous rencontrer !
Moi-même en train de dessiner. J'oublie malheureusement le nom du lecteur devant moi. Désolé ! Mise à jour : Jimmy Beaulieu viens tout juste de me dire que c'est Éric Lamiot devant moi. Jimmy fait mieux que moi la connexion entre les visages et les noms !
Un dessin de Richard Gagnon basé sur son histoire, que j'ai encré. C'est la méthode que l'on a utilisé pour l'histoire et pour beaucoup de nos comic jam depuis des années...
Le plafond de la librairie, qui est à Québec, on ne peut l'oublier !
Les photos sont de Richard et, comme on peut le remarquer, avaient été faites pour usage personnel sans trop penser à une vue d'ensemble ou du nombre de visiteurs !
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Black and Blind Dick Chick : page 4 is online.
One more page from Black and Blind Dick Chick !
If you have the curiosity to know what's behind this story, maybe you'll want to see Cinecomix. That's the webcomic that Normand Labelle did a few years back. He did everything: writing, photo, manipulation, lettering, etc...It's a photo-novella. Basically, what i'm drawing now is an adaptation of that work in comic format.
If you have the curiosity to know what's behind this story, maybe you'll want to see Cinecomix. That's the webcomic that Normand Labelle did a few years back. He did everything: writing, photo, manipulation, lettering, etc...It's a photo-novella. Basically, what i'm drawing now is an adaptation of that work in comic format.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Frankenstein Réassemblé : Séance de dédicace à L' Imaginaire à Québec.
Quatre artistes viennent vous rencontrer le vendredi 11 février de 18h 30 à 20h 30. Trois d'entre eux sont du collectif Frankenstein Réassemblé. Il s'agit de Djief, d'Éric Thériault et de Richard Gagnon.
Ce sera aussi un lancement triple pour Québec puisque Djief lancera aussi son nouvel album au éditions Soleil, Le crépuscule des dieux, tome 5 et de François Lapierre son nouvel album aux éditions Glénat-Québec, Chroniques sauvages.
Vendredi de 18:30 à 20:30
Boutique Imaginaire
3e Étage, Centre d'achat Laurier, Québec
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Un Joual bien Vert !
Voici ma dernière illustration, produite pour illustrer le blog de ma femme. Un blog amusant, décrivant les petits malheurs de la vie quotidienne, teinté ici et là par la culture haïtienne.
Ça s'appelle Joual Vert, comme l'illustre mon dessin. Et pour vous attirer à le visiter, voici quelques sujets : les fesses et les cheveux frisés dans la culture Black, des collégienne catholique excitées par les beaux gars, un mariage arrangé, pourquoi faut pas voler de l'eau bénite et l'horreur de la glace quand ce n'est pas dans un drink.....
Ça s'appelle Joual Vert, comme l'illustre mon dessin. Et pour vous attirer à le visiter, voici quelques sujets : les fesses et les cheveux frisés dans la culture Black, des collégienne catholique excitées par les beaux gars, un mariage arrangé, pourquoi faut pas voler de l'eau bénite et l'horreur de la glace quand ce n'est pas dans un drink.....
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Working with Clément Sauvé
On January 26th, 2011, I lost a great friend and an extraordinary artist, a unique inspiration. Clément Sauvé died of a virulent cancer at the age of 33. He left us and nobody will ever fill this emptiness...
***
Summer 2000.
The first memory I have of Clement Sauvé is when I came in to share the studio space where he worked with Yanick Paquette. I think Yanick was interested in saving some money on the rent and wanted to add one more artist. I was looking for some working dynamic that was not the Drawing-table-next-to-the-bed thing. That might not have been the first time I met Clement, but that's the first I remember. A while before that, he was a student in Grégoire Bouchard's comic class at Cegep Du Vieux Montreal (Old Montreal College), and I may have seen him when I was a guest speaker there.
The loft was a thin long industrial space with greasy floors from the heavy machinery that was there when the Grover building was a factory, decades ago. Now it's a coop that rent loft space to artists, mostly.
We had three tables placed next to each other on the same wall. Yanick and Clément were working together on Gambit, then Codename: Knockout and Gen 13. Yanick was the main penciller and Clément was his background artist, also doing technical stuff like guns and spaceships. I was working on my indy comic book: Veena. Behind us on the wall, there was a sort of clothesline, where comics pages were hung. Yanick and Clément basically worked on many pages at the same time, and traded them back and forth. Clément was already a very meticulous and precise designer. His work was beyond what is usually expected of backgrounds in American comics and closer to what is the norm in European bd. In between some of the comic book work, he sometimes did animation design for a client. It's there that I could see the style that he would develop in the years to come. Less realistic, closer to Japanese stylization. But, it was hidden to fit his "master's" style. Yes, because Yanick called Clément, his personal slave ! Anyone else would have been really insulted, but Clément had a very strong and sarcastic sense of humor...he accepted this and even pushed the joke himself, loudly repeating this in conventions, very secure in the power of real work and confident that real compliments are earned.
Behind us, there was a small tv broadcasting bad sitcoms and some of the worst infomercials...an unlimited source of humour for Clem !
***
I'm trying to remember if we ever worked on something together...
Two things come to mind: In 2001, I published a book called Flirt. It was a black and white pin-up book with about 60 artists mainly from Montreal, but also from France, the US and a few other places. While I was at our shared studio, I asked Clément to contribute a piece. He kindly accepted and brought back a sort of android girl standing sideway, looking away with robotic arms. At the time, he was not inking himself. He asked his friend Serge Lapointe, still in Québec City at the time, to do that part. His themes were already apparent in this piece, the military attitude, the huge bolts and underneath all the flesh, a robot. This may be his first published artwork that was signed . At the time, his work with Yanick was uncredited.
The second one is an issue of Terra Obscura. Late in 2003, this is the last issue of the ABC/Wildstorm mini-serie and it's almost late. Deadline crunch come in and every penciller around Yanick Paquette pitches in to save time here and there. I did a full page, a flashback to the forties with the characters in their Nedor era costumes, my wife modeled as the first female black US president, Michel Lacombe did a 2 page spread drawn in the style of Egyptian hieroglyph and Clément was back in his role of background artist doing the toughest thing: one page full of old cars piled on top of each others...The day was saved, the book was on time !
***
Beyond those times where we worked closely together, during the rest of his career where he worked at home and he developed as a natural stylist, I basically saw him in the parties my wife and I did at our apartment, some book launches and his weekly visits at Studio 3265. He biked every week to the comic shop and he came to visit us before or after. Work usually stopped right there.
Clément was the soul of every friend's gathering, people came around to hear him tell anecdotes about the bizz and funny jokes. He had a way with the hyperbolic comparison, analogies so overblown and hysterical.
***
His career had some up and down, and we had a saying about "The Curse of Clement". Temporary difficulties with graphic designers, editors, legal department and such. But when I think about him now, I feel that there was no curse. He had his difficulties like every one, but he just made it interesting while he was telling the story. In fact, he was a winner. Someone who worked real had and earned what he got. In the end, he got a good career, a good reputation, and he also met Dominique ! How could that be "The Curse of Clement" ??
Except the ending, of course.
I'll miss you Clément.
***
Summer 2000.
The first memory I have of Clement Sauvé is when I came in to share the studio space where he worked with Yanick Paquette. I think Yanick was interested in saving some money on the rent and wanted to add one more artist. I was looking for some working dynamic that was not the Drawing-table-next-to-the-bed thing. That might not have been the first time I met Clement, but that's the first I remember. A while before that, he was a student in Grégoire Bouchard's comic class at Cegep Du Vieux Montreal (Old Montreal College), and I may have seen him when I was a guest speaker there.
The loft was a thin long industrial space with greasy floors from the heavy machinery that was there when the Grover building was a factory, decades ago. Now it's a coop that rent loft space to artists, mostly.
We had three tables placed next to each other on the same wall. Yanick and Clément were working together on Gambit, then Codename: Knockout and Gen 13. Yanick was the main penciller and Clément was his background artist, also doing technical stuff like guns and spaceships. I was working on my indy comic book: Veena. Behind us on the wall, there was a sort of clothesline, where comics pages were hung. Yanick and Clément basically worked on many pages at the same time, and traded them back and forth. Clément was already a very meticulous and precise designer. His work was beyond what is usually expected of backgrounds in American comics and closer to what is the norm in European bd. In between some of the comic book work, he sometimes did animation design for a client. It's there that I could see the style that he would develop in the years to come. Less realistic, closer to Japanese stylization. But, it was hidden to fit his "master's" style. Yes, because Yanick called Clément, his personal slave ! Anyone else would have been really insulted, but Clément had a very strong and sarcastic sense of humor...he accepted this and even pushed the joke himself, loudly repeating this in conventions, very secure in the power of real work and confident that real compliments are earned.
Behind us, there was a small tv broadcasting bad sitcoms and some of the worst infomercials...an unlimited source of humour for Clem !
***
I'm trying to remember if we ever worked on something together...
Two things come to mind: In 2001, I published a book called Flirt. It was a black and white pin-up book with about 60 artists mainly from Montreal, but also from France, the US and a few other places. While I was at our shared studio, I asked Clément to contribute a piece. He kindly accepted and brought back a sort of android girl standing sideway, looking away with robotic arms. At the time, he was not inking himself. He asked his friend Serge Lapointe, still in Québec City at the time, to do that part. His themes were already apparent in this piece, the military attitude, the huge bolts and underneath all the flesh, a robot. This may be his first published artwork that was signed . At the time, his work with Yanick was uncredited.
The second one is an issue of Terra Obscura. Late in 2003, this is the last issue of the ABC/Wildstorm mini-serie and it's almost late. Deadline crunch come in and every penciller around Yanick Paquette pitches in to save time here and there. I did a full page, a flashback to the forties with the characters in their Nedor era costumes, my wife modeled as the first female black US president, Michel Lacombe did a 2 page spread drawn in the style of Egyptian hieroglyph and Clément was back in his role of background artist doing the toughest thing: one page full of old cars piled on top of each others...The day was saved, the book was on time !
***
Beyond those times where we worked closely together, during the rest of his career where he worked at home and he developed as a natural stylist, I basically saw him in the parties my wife and I did at our apartment, some book launches and his weekly visits at Studio 3265. He biked every week to the comic shop and he came to visit us before or after. Work usually stopped right there.
Clément was the soul of every friend's gathering, people came around to hear him tell anecdotes about the bizz and funny jokes. He had a way with the hyperbolic comparison, analogies so overblown and hysterical.
***
His career had some up and down, and we had a saying about "The Curse of Clement". Temporary difficulties with graphic designers, editors, legal department and such. But when I think about him now, I feel that there was no curse. He had his difficulties like every one, but he just made it interesting while he was telling the story. In fact, he was a winner. Someone who worked real had and earned what he got. In the end, he got a good career, a good reputation, and he also met Dominique ! How could that be "The Curse of Clement" ??
Except the ending, of course.
I'll miss you Clément.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Black and Blind Dick Chick : page 3 is online.
Here's page 3, inked and colored. I'll let the lettering out at this point. That way, you'll have to guess what's it's all about.
Normand Labelle is the writer and he's hired me to pencil, ink, color his project called Black and Blind Dick Chick. Usually, the way these things are done, a proposal is done to show the eventual publisher what is it all about and what it will look like. But were already past that point: happy with the result, he asked me to finish issue one. So, that mean a full 24 pages !
More pages to show you soon !
Normand Labelle is the writer and he's hired me to pencil, ink, color his project called Black and Blind Dick Chick. Usually, the way these things are done, a proposal is done to show the eventual publisher what is it all about and what it will look like. But were already past that point: happy with the result, he asked me to finish issue one. So, that mean a full 24 pages !
More pages to show you soon !
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Black and Blind Dick Chick : page 2 is online.
Here's page 2 ! A project written by Normand Labelle. Not the most unusual thing i've done, but pretty high in that regard. Of course, some of the comic jams were off-beat, but this is a bit different.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Black and Blind Dick Chick : page 1 is online.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Don't worry...yet.
I'm presently working on updating the blog design with new functions.
It might look weird for a few days. And some links won't be available...
The usual site is available with this link.
Update:
It's pretty much done now for the design. I'll tweak the links, but that's about it.
It might look weird for a few days. And some links won't be available...
The usual site is available with this link.
Update:
It's pretty much done now for the design. I'll tweak the links, but that's about it.
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