Some comics.

I drew a small batch of comics in November 2009 I think it was. I'm a big fan of them, especially these two:

Bertha, The Child-Flower (also: Jakob Von Gunten)

I entered the illustration contest at Journey Round My Skull. This was my entry:





The Journey Round My Skull site is really quite excellent. Will scans in illustrations and book covers from back when things were well designed. I read Robert Walser's Jakob Von Gunten after reading about Robert Walser on the site. It's a pretty gosh damn brilliant book. Sticking to tradition, I'm posting the cover of my university's copy:

Beatboxing.

I spent a month in Berlin in 2009, which is when the two comics that I've posted were drawn. Some people that I met there ran a weekly open mic night at a club called Madame Claude in Kreuzberg. On my last night night in Berlin I revealed to them my secret ability to beatbox. It was an "Open Mike Tyson" on that particular Sunday, which meant that there were three judges who critiqued your stuff. It was all quite friendly except for one musician from New Zealand to whom Tory, one of the organizers, seemed to have a lot to say.

On my trip I had with me a Talkgirl (the female version of the talkboy from Home Alone) that a friend of mine, Michaela, lent to me so that I would capture what exactly it is that is going on over there. I used it to record my 'set'. The recording clips at times when my sounds become too intense. Also, I think I sound helluva smug when I talked, but it's just that I was quite nervous.

Beatboxing.mp3

Circles Are Lines: a series of bland comics

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