First video done for my new job!
Sara here wrote it, and I directed, shot, and edited it.
I think the best part is when she talks about how great Fables is, which is ironic because I kind of hate Fables (or, as I like to call it, Republican Sandman).
Anyway, so far the job's been pretty fun. Lots of neat people and cool stuff to be working on. And the thing about editing is that the time flies on by...
Hey folks!
The newest rootin' tootin' "Relics" update is galloping onto your internet!
http://kanelynch.com/therelics
I'm pretty happy with this one.
Also new to the website:
Harmony's Documentary:
A short audio project Harmony made for a class about two months before the comic started.
I will add some annotations (she made a couple mistakes) as well as credits soon.
(Longtime followers of this ole el-jay might recognize that this is actually kind of old, but since the thing it's a spin-off of now actually exists, I think it's become more interesting.)
Also:
"Da Vinci Dreams": A short comic originally published in Sophie Yanow's zine "5 More Minutes."
I always want feedback, but I'm especially interested in the newcomers to the comic I've never talked to before.
If you're new, send me an email (kane@mythandmadness.com) or comment on this post! Let me know your thoughts!
2. Back to the Future part V
3. Professor DRACULA
4. The Dead and the Dog
5. The Human Rat
6. Dead and Dog II: Dog in the suit
7. Wolfman
8. Frankenstein and Wolfman meet the PSYCO
9. Psyco V
10. Body of Frank
11. Frankenstein II: Bring the Doctor BACK!
12. Clayman II :Judgement Clay
The latest brain-bending episode of The Relics is now sliding through cyberspace! I think I need some new alliterations.
Taken on its own, the pacing of this update is a bit strange, but I think it has some interesting stuff in it, and the set up for some craziness to come.
Let me know what you think!
And don't forget about the Relics comic book, if you're the sort of person who would like to not forget that.
If you haven't read the comic yet, this is a good time to start. These first three updates are kind of like a TV pilot, where by the end everybody's in their place for the story to really kick off.
As always, feedback is very welcome.
The comic took way longer than it should've to finish (among other things, going with my dad and Kelly to Virginia slowed things down), and I had a really stressful week (our landlord is trying to make us leave by claiming that we wrote him a letter saying we were leaving. I asked him to show me the letter and he sort of backed down, but it's weird), so once I got the comic up I decided to head to Santa Cruz to go to Chris's birthday party.
As I drove through San Jose at rush hour, I started to doubt the wisdom of this plan, but it ended up being a really good time. The party was ridiculously huge, a massive crowd of friendly hipsters covering Chris's backyard, as band after band played (and they were all really good!).
When I came in, it took me a minute to find any of the people I was expecting. However, I immediately ran into Deena, Erika and Laura's friend, who's an awesome artist and has a show right now at SubRosa. And then...Bowen, returned from Latin America!
It's been so long since I'm seen Bowen that he's become more of a mythic figure in my head than an actual human being. He told me to stop using shampoo. Had a fun conversation with him and Sophie about communism vs. anarchy.
Then Brittain Ashford played and I was really blown away. She has a really strong voice, pretty compelling lyrics (which is hard to get across in a live show), and played alternately autoharp and uke while the bass player moved through the crowd accompanying on harmonium (or something similar). Written like that, it sounds overly cutesy, but it really worked.
Sophie introduced me to Ari, Greta's girlfriend who will also be tabling with us at APE in October. I have yet to see her comics and can't find her online, but it was cool to meet another comic person.
Here's a couple pictures--
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As the party winded down, a guy in line for the bathroom really liked my shirt. I told him my name, and he started talking about Michael Caine and I started saying something nonsensical about how Michael Caine silkscreened my shirt on the set of The Prestige.
His name is Vince and he's Brittain's drummer, and I ended up going to Saturn with the two of them. I was worried it'd be weird since they don't really know me, but it went off really well. I gave them a Laika-23 book and he bought me a drink at The Rush.
I headed home around 1 in the morning, and the 880 was blocked off completely and without warning, forcing all the traffic to some awful place in Hayward. As infuriating as it is to be trapped in Hayward at 2 in the morning, it was totally worth it.
Coming soon...
A new photocomic!
And...a movie on the horizon? Time will tell, and I will be sure to relay the message.
The new chapter of "The Relics" is up!
In this month's installment, we start to see how the world in which the story takes place isn't quite like our own. One of the things I love about comics--a mysterious ancient artifact and a drugstore are about equally hard to draw.
This chapter definitely has more questions than answers. Intriguing? Or just obtuse?
Only the future...will show.
As always, your thoughts are welcome.
Last night, David, Naomi, and I went to Safeway at like midnight and bought three boxes of Rice Krispies so we could all get the Star Trek badges inside to wear to the premiere. They light up!
While I've tried to maintain a skeptical attitude toward the new movie, especially the douchey Chris Pine as Kirk (I wish they'd cast the guy from Fringe), I have to admit I'm really excited. And Naomi's really excited too, so we've been kind of feeding off each other's energy and David's consequently gotten caught up too.
We're seeing it at a cute theater in downtown Berkeley, rather than the snazzy faux-IMAX in Emeryville. I hate multiplexes in general, the movie doesn't need any help being bombastic, and I've seen every other Star Trek movie since 1994 in the Fremont in SLO, which is very similar.
Now--
Comic books.
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Let's end the dork post with this great clip from The Onion TV--
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'
Today I helped Lyssette hang artwork for our comic book art show. I hope people come, because I think it's going to be really neat. Before today, I'd never seen any of the participants stuff (other than Sophie's), and some of it is fucking amazing.
Show: May 1-30th
Reception: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 5 pm
Location:
Frank Bette Center for the Arts
1601 Paru St, Alameda, CA
The reception is kind of early, but I expect it will last a few hours. If you can't make it, the exhibit is up for the rest of the month.
Books, prints, etc will also be available.
http://www.frankbettecenter.org/signatu
1) While it's been very useful to me, I want to support facebook's inevitable decline from supremacy over social networking cause it kind of creeps me out.
2) I need to be open to alternative avenues to whoring for my comics and such.
So...
http://twitter.com/KaneIcarusLynch
The early part of last week was spent getting Laika comics copied at Staples and burning DVDs of the movie at home. Then I assembled them into an adorable little package--
Thursday afternoon, an emergency shipment of photocomics arrived, and that night Sophie and Greta picked me up and we drove to Sophie's parents house in Marin for the night. Greta and I slept catty-corner on a couch, trying not to kick each other too much.
The next morning, we began the arduous drive to Oregon. I pumped myself full of sudafed to stave off the onset of a cold. Just across the border, Sophie convinced us to pick up a hitchhiker. He was a young guy hitching from Texas to Seattle to get a job on a fishing boat. He pretty much didn't say anything for the two hours it took us to get to Portland.
Once there, we went to the house of Ruji, Sophie's friend from Porter who I sort of new via Bowen back in the day. Ruji showed us her extensive collection of anti-drug and other public health posters.
Bizarrely, Greta and I were given another L-couch, and we continued our proud tradition.
The next day, it was off to the convention. The location was somewhat unimpressive compared with APE in San Francsico--a low-ceilinged room adjacent to a hotel--but it was a really nice size, with a pretty cool crowd of exhibitors. You can see lots of photos of the deal in general here.
We scrambled to set up our booth, me with my photocomics and Laika combo thing, Sophie with the accordion book of her 24 hour comic and UCSC print, and Greta with prints and spoke cards.
To our left was Derek Kirk Kim, whose comics I've been reading since like 10th grade, and whose poster from a previous Stumptown show has adorned my wall since 2006.
He took this picture of us at the booth--
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I might make a livejournal or group for it, though I'm not sure if enough people rely on lj these days for it to be worth it.
Anyway, this project means a lot to me and I really want feedback, from initial impressions to specific criticism. It's a lot "riskier" for me than most of my recent stuff, since it doesn't have the jazzy absurdity of Laika or the pulp badassery of the photocomic.
So, please, give it a read, lemme know what you think.
The art gallery I'm showing at is in Alameda, not Livermore, which I would've known if I'd, you know, READ THE WEBSITE. oops. Anyway, the reception is Saturday, May 2nd, at 5 pm at
Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA.
Hope to see some of you there!
THIS WEEKEND, I will have a booth at the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR, with Sophie Yanow and her friend Greta.
http://stumptowncomics.com for more info--We're table 118.
If you're in or near Portland, you should definitely come because it looks awesome and only costs $6.
I haven't tabled at a comic convention since I was 16, and I haven't been to Oregon since I was 12. I've never been to Portland. 10 hour drive. Should be interesting.
Today I had an oddly good time making Laika comic copies at Staples, joking with the girl working there and showing my comics to a middle aged Chinese lady making business cards for her law firm (she was really interested in the comic, though she made me defend the ending). Right now I'm burning DVDs of the movie, which will be included in the back of the comic.
Tomorrow or the next day, a new stack of photocomics should be arriving from the printer.
A bit back I went to the MOMA with David and met up with Whitney there. We saw a screening of Fantastic Planet as part of their "Utopia/Dystopia" exhibition (spellcheck thinks "dystopia" isn't a word--if only!).
They also had an amazing exhibit of William Kentridge. He's a South African animator/filmmaker who's inspired by very early cinema and does eerie hand drawn animations, some of which are integrated with live action footage of the artist. You can actually see the eraser marks as the image changes.
Some of his works were projected on surfaces (like a diorama stage or a mirrored table), making them impossible to recreate in another environment.
I'd never heard of him, though when I mentioned this to others, a few people had--even if you have, this exhibit is probably cooler than anything else you've seen of his and if you can get to San Francisco you should really see it.
(Here's one video)
(Here's another)
I just read the first issue of Warren Ellis's new comic Ignition City, which is quite good.
I could explain the plot, which is cool, or talk about how the main character is pretty compelling, but instead I think I'm just going to link to a big picture of the cover and assume that, well, covers it.
If you don't think that's awesome, there's something wrong with you.
Warren Ellis posted this musing on his blog a few minutes ago--
I would read any comic that was full of stories about humans interacting with each other, facing a constantly shifting future and trying to define the 21st century condition while framed by the presence and use of giant fictional machines.
Which is kind of crazy, because, while I wouldn't make such a lofty claim, I think that describes my next graphic novel pretty damn well.
The first "chapter" will hopefully be online before I leave for Portland, so I can pimp it there. Look for it later this week!
The reception is on Illuminati Day, May 1--if you're in NorCal you should come. The website doesn't have too much info yet, but you can check it out here.
I rented a movie called Cabiria, which I didn't realize was from 1914 (I thought it was from the 20s). Having been made before people had really discovered editing in any meaningful sense, it was too slow for me to actually watch all the way through for fun, but here's some neat stills of the Temple of Moloch--
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The director went on to INVENT FASCISM.
At one point, Nikki turned to me and said, "You know, Kane, your eyes are beautiful, like two pools of glorious light." I said, "Why Nikki, that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me!" She said, "APRIL FOOLS."
A few unfortunate souls may recall this exchange (with the parts in reverse) from the BSN April Fools show--
Nikki said, "Can you believe that was 5 years ago?"
And for awhile we were kind of freaked out, trying to fathom how much time was passed and how we've changed but we're still making doofy movies together, etc etc.
Hours later, I realized that it's only been four years, which somehow just isn't anywhere near as staggering. As Nikki put it, "Somehow I feel better about that."
ACCIDENTAL APRIL FOOLS
From my subjective perspective, "Daybreak" was close to perfect, and I'm going to explain why in a slightly circuitous way.
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2) "Oh, a friendly prompt email sending it to me the very next day! AHHH WHY DIDN'T THEY DO ANYTHING TO VERIFY MY IDENTITY FIRST? WHY DO THEY MAKE IT SO EASY?"
3) "Oh wait, I didn't make enough money last year to have to file a tax return."
WAH WAAAH!
Stephanie and I went and drank free wine at the film festival office, then it was to my mom's for dinner and then off to the screening.
Two really awkward exchanges beforehand--
Film Festival Volunteer Lady: So is this comic based on the cartoon?
Me: You mean my movie?
Her: No. You know...what's it called?
Me: I dunno.
Her: With Iran...
Me: Persepolis?
Her: Yeah.
Me: ...No?
Her: It just looks really similar.
I said something about how it is kind of eurocomic influenced, and Persepolis is French.
But aside from just seeming kind of rude, it's just not true. They're both, as Stephanie pointed out, black and white and about girls, but I think that's about it.*
If she'd accused me of ripping of, say, Tin Tin, I wouldn't argue.
Tin Tin, Me, Persepolis
Another guy, when handed the comic--
Guy: You know where that name [Laika] comes from, right?
Me: The space dog?
Guy: ...really?
Me: The first animal in space was a dog named Laika.
Guy: Oh. Um. There's a band called Laika & The Cosmonauts.
Me: ...Ok.
I thought giving out a comic book would be a fun interest-building thing, whether they ended up liking the comic or not, but some people seemed to think it was kind of stupid.
But the good news is, they really liked the movie.
People laughed at the right places and seemed engaged. Not as big a reaction as at the 196, but then, it was not as big a group. Mr. Laika-and-the-Cosmonauts even came and told me he really liked it afterward.
I think I need to do a better job of presenting myself in the future.
In addition to the lukewarm reaction before it started, the festival director asked me to come up afterward and talk about it, and I didn't do a great job. People asked really good questions though, which I wasn't really expecting. People asked about the sets, and the colors, and Gene asked about the bagels, reminding me to tell that story.
I went to one of the "pro" screenings a few days later, and while the audience was bigger, they just didn't have a lot to say to the guy.
Here's the audience, about 30 people--
Here's me answering Q&A--
Thursday night, Angelo and I went to Frank's Last Shot and How to be a Serial Killer, which were both quite neat. The MC was a local actor named Rosh, who I sat with at the Malcolm McDowell event. Might try to use her in something if I end up shooting here this summer (who knows where my life is going).
Last night, my dad and I went to a movie called "A Deal is a Deal," which was just great.
Here's the UK preview, where it oddly has a different title--
The trailer makes it look a lot more sitcom-y than it actually is...
I was attracted by the presence of Deep Space Nine's Colm Meaney (who probably doesn't want to be referred to as "Deep Space Nine's Colm Meaney," but whatcha gonna do), and I was not disappointed.
It has a really dark sense of humor, but understands how that sensibility can come from a place of real sadness, not cheap nihilism. No idea where you could see it, but if you ever get the chance, you really should.
Tonight is the awards ceremony, which also involves a screening of shorts and a talk by John Waters.
Should be interesting...
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*Maybe she saw the word "Novopolis" on the first page and fixated on the "opolis"?
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