Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Festus the Cat


Lately, ever since our trip down the Shore, I have been spinning yarns for my daughter about Festus the Cat, an obese feline with blue polka dots who walks the Seaside boardwalk and gets into trouble. Yesterday I sketched him for her while we were drawing on her easel. Behold the terrifying results (she added the purple specks of what look like blood or something, and colored the nose).

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Clone Wars

Me wife and I watched the awesome flick "Moon" last night. I feel like the "old-school" special effects were more real (to the eye) than the computer stuff they do in most movies, since it lets actual light play off surfaces in genuine 3-D (the eye knows when it's being duped, more often than not). The story was really emotional and awesomely acted--I won't spoil the whole deal for those who haven't seen it, but it brought to mind the storyline I was starting to develop in the late run of Bobu Leene.




Above, one Bobu Leene trades punches with another.


The gist of the Bobu Leene arc was this: in the superhero world, the superhero--or anti-hero, even--has to conceive of himself as a hero on a quest. But given that there are a million and one heroes out there (The Hero with a Thousand Faces, eh), what if this impetus, to think of oneself as a hero, is just narcissism, or, in Bobu Leene's case, replicated memories? If I ever get to doing Bobu Leene #13, I think I will take up these reins again.

The wife and I previously watched Jim Jarmusch's "The Limits of Control," which was also awesome. I love Jarmusch's sense of texture, his use of color, his choice of music, and his pacing and cinematography. His can make even the most seemingly mundane acts portentous.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Belleville Nocturne

A tribute to some of the "wiseguys" in our neighborhood. Another Saturday night well spent, fellas. The squirrel is, of course, the ringleader.