PACE: July 27th-29th Schedule

SCHEDULE JULY 27th-29th
Wednesday: 9:30am - 11am, 1:00pm - 5:00pm (or later)
Thursday: 8:30am - 11am, 1:00pm - 5:00pm (or later)
Friday: 8:30 - 11am, 1pm - 4:00pm

* From 11:00am - 1:00pm Wed-Fri I'll be available downtown Water St. as part of the Arts in Motion Festival.

**All time are tentative / flexible in that I sometimes need to run errands or whatever, but I'll do my utmost best to be there for the listed hours. I'll update any changes should they arise.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: 471 NOTRE DAME ST. next to the CREDIT UNION PLACE.
Come on down, check out the art, chat & have a coffee!

PACE: July 20th-23rd Schedule

SCHEDULE JULY 20th-23th
Wednesday: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (or later)
Thursday: 8:30am 11am, 1:00pm - 4:30pm (Then off to see Harry Potter!)
Friday: 9:30 - 11am, 1pm - 5pm (or later)
Saturday: 9:00am - 4:00pm


* From 11:00am - 1:00pm Wed-Fri I'll be available downtown Water St. as part of the Arts in Motion Festival.


**All time are tentative / flexible in that I sometimes need to run errands or whatever, but I'll do my utmost best to be there for the listed hours. I'll update any changes should they arise.


OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: 471 NOTRE DAME ST. next to the CREDIT UNION PLACE.
Come on down, check out the art, chat & have a coffee!

PACE: July 11th-16th Schedule

SCHEDULE JULY 11th-16th
Monday: 9:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday: 9:30am - 5:00pm
Wednesday: 9:00am - 5:00pm (or later)
Thursday: Closed due to Metallica
Friday: 12:00pm(?) - 5pm (or later)
Saturday: 9:00am - 4:00pm

*All time are tentative / flexible in that I sometimes need to run errands or whatever, but I'll do my utmost best to be there for the listed hours. I'll update any changes should they arise.

PACE: Dispatches from the WEC - Part 1

SCHEDULE JULY 7th-9th
THURSDAY: 10:30am - 5:00pm (or later)
FRIDAY: CLOSED
SATURDAY: 8:30am - 12:00pm

My first week at the WEC (West End Cottage) is nearing it's end but thankfully there's still plenty of time to go. My Residency runs until the end of August and I'll be spending most of that time in the quaint little home you see below:

471 Notre Dame St. Summerside, PE

So far I've been mostly occupied with moving in and setting up shop, figuring out what I need and what I forgot to bring. I'm pretty much up and running now and look forward to getting down to business just as soon as I finish this post. 

View from the front porch

I've covered the walls with original artwork from the first Angora Napkin graphic novel along with tumbnails and roughs for those pages. There's almost half a dozen sketchbooks full of Mygrain comics and other junk to flip through. I've even brought along some canvases in case I get the urge to do some painting. 

I started this painting years ago... Will I finish it??

I'll post my tentative schedule here the first of every week. This is open to the public so come on in, I'll make you a coffee while you read a comic, check out the art or watch the Angora Napkin cartoon! Who are you to resist?

Happy Canada Day!

It's Canada Day here in Canada! My you find a hobo in your bathtub on this special day!

Wow, the next two months are going to be a blast! I'll be starting my PACE residency "officially" on July 4th, but I expect it'll take until the following week before I actually get set up and a schedule worked out. I'll be doing a lot of blogging during my time in Summerside and have a lot of fun events in the works so keep checking back for updates!

Speaking up updates, I'm pleased to announce that I'm (as of yesterday) half way done the colouring stage of the next Angora Napkin book! I managed to finish 24 pages in June, much better then the previous month. Well, it's all down hill from here, right? Right?

PACE Artist in Residence July-August 2011

I've received word that my proposal to the PACE Artist in Residency program has been selected for the July - August slot! More details once I get them but in a nutshell I'll be spending most of the summer (should it ever arrive here on PEI) in Summerside making art and comics in a public venue! I am super stoked about this project and can't wait to get more details to share.

My residency begins July 4th, so forget about the Royal Visit that day and come to Summerside and take in some comics instead!

"We Love Comics"

Hockey and The Evil That Men Do.

This will be, without a doubt, the only time I'm ever going to blog about Hockey.

This may startle you, but I'm a Canadian and not a hockey fan. I could care less about the Stanley Cup. In fact I spent last night's final game of the playoffs watching LOST re-runs. But this morning I get to witness Vancouver, the sore losers of last nights game:

This really got me thinking about our WIN / LOSE culture and I believe this is why I have such an aversion to institutionalized sports. The concept of Good Sportsmanship, humility and grace are ideas long since abandoned in our society. 

Hockey is a game, not a religion. Games were at one time meant to be fun and challenging. Somewhere along the lines the notion of "Winning is all the matters" took over and is now seems to be the primary psychological motivation behind coaches and fans alike and not the basic love of the game.

The problem with institutionalized sports, as opposed to say chess or Scrabble, is that while an individual player my take their loss with grace and humility the external forces of fandom are beyond that persons ability to influence and as such you see the results in the above picture. A few bad apples ruining it for the rest of us.

Now, I'm not particularly good at sports in any way but I enjoy playing them provided it's fun. If you only Play To Win against me the fun has left the game.

So here's a radical idea: what if players and fans alike could win or lose with grace, respect and humility towards their other team? What if the defeated side can feel disappointment yet cheer for the success of the opposition? Why have things degraded to such a neanderthal clubbing match with victory the only point of the endeavor? 

People have a very messed up perception of what success means in this world.

Until things change, and I don't ever expect that it will, I'm going to keep my nose out of Hockey lest it gets broken but some idiot and be thankful I don't live in a town where my car gets set on fire when the local sports team loses. 

Make love, not Hockey