Brandon Graham's Blog, page 273

Me and Simon Roy working on Prophet plans tonight.

Me and Simon Roy working on Prophet plans tonight.

simon-roy:Next week, I will be in America for a couple of book...

simon-roy:

Next week, I will be in America for a couple of book launches for TIGER LUNG:

First, at Floating World Comics in Portland on the 17th

And Secondly, with Farel Dalrymple (my lord and saviour) at Arcane Comics in Seattle on the 19th

Come on out, people of the west! 

I highly recommend that people go out and meet Simon and Farel. They are some of my favorite humans.  

Hey man. I really like your Tumblr, but I've seen you mention Vancouver a couple of times without mentioning that the town was built and exists illegally on Squamish and Musqueam land. I guess it's possible you don't know, but I think people should know.

I think it’s a pretty safe bet if you’re in Norte America that you’re on some blood soaked, taken from indigenous people land. A fucked up legacy of white supremacy tied to the colonial history that shaped this part of the world. 

I thought it was interesting, moving up here, how in Vancouver they seem to have an idea of Squamish and Musqueam, etc. Where I’m from, Seattle, a city named after Chief Si’ahl or Sealth —-nooo one talks about the natives. They don’t really teach about them in school (at least in my cut-short school experience), and maybe that’s because they did a more through job of wiping them out. Out of sight out of mind and all.

I think it’s important to think about this stuff, and not for some white guilt thing but to have real conversations about where we’re at as a society.

So yeah, thanks for the message. 

Yo Brandoon! Could you talk about your opinions about the Vancouver comics scene and the city as a whole? I may be moving there for a job so I was curious. It seems like there are a lot of dope artists there.

It’s certainly my favorite place I’ve ever lived. I have a really mellow nice life here. It’s a pretty city— dwarfed by huge mountains. There’s a lot of comics people here who I like, some animation studios too. They make My little Pony here and some other stuff—we’ve got some great comic shops (RX & Lucky’s are my favorites) There’s some good book stores too. a used book shop next to RX and a sci fi fantasy shop(White Dwarf)  next to a cinnamon bun themed cafe There’s that local (#1 in our hearts) comic radio Inkstuds show is here. . There’s some small but fun cons— The Leonard Wong run ones and the Vancaf. are both good. 

It’s a weird city in that the downtown feels a lot less interesting to me than other neighborhoods.-but I like the green glass look of it- I tend to only go down there for the giant library —it has a good french comics section on the 1st floor. I mostly spend my time in Mt Pleasant. Main st is a ton of good drawing cafes — There’s a place next to RX called Wallflower that Ed Brisson runs a drink and draw out of. (I think it’s still going on) 

. I hear it has a huge amount of people who work from home here, It has the second largest Chinatown in North America— I should go there more.

Here’s a photo of the block RX is on. The top floor is all artists studios and there’s an art supply store on the same block. 

A cover I did for Ed Brisson’s Cluster.

A cover I did for Ed Brisson’s Cluster. 

animeartbookscans:Kenichi Sonoda

animeartbookscans:

Kenichi Sonoda

Do you prefer Ranma 1/2 or Inuyasha?

Yeah, I’ll get into it. I like this game— I’m...

Yeah, I’ll get into it. I like this game— I’m a big advocate of not everything being for everyone. I’m in an amazing position where for the most part the only people who read what I do are the people who see value in it. (also people who are smart enough to get that drawing naked ladies and wanting to treat women like people are not opposing ideas) & the people who don’t like what I do are welcome to not read it. I am cool either way. 

 I say this with all sincerity:. If you’re so fucking satisfied reading the clean shits that corporate comics push out like clockwork—If the height of the artform is reached for you by endlessly recycled kid’s cereal box heroes from before you were born— built on the poorly compensated and ill treated backs of their creators.  Then why would you care what I do or what schedule me or my friends keep. How about you just don’t read anything with my name on it. Keep those 3 syllables out of your shit filled skull. Break the B key off your computer. Forget punky brewster ever had a dog.— never again taste that sweet sweet cracker, don’t even use the fucking metric system while you’re at it.  Maybe It’s not for you.

And regarding Stokoe. Dude is still in his 20’s with a unique voice and 2 Wonton Soup books, Godzilla Half century war, an Orc Stain Trade and a recent Avengers comic. (look a Marvel book I liked!) but past that neither him or Nate Simpson owe you anything. How they pay their rent and spend their days has nothing to do with you— you entitled clown. 

What makes an artist or a cartoonist in my opinion has very little to do with how many pages you run through a printer in your life. There are cartoonists who have never missed a month on the shelves whose work I wouldn’t take for free & there are unpublished cartoonists whose pages scanned onto the internet or seen in their sketchbook have changed my entire perception of what is possible in the medium. —or maybe they just did it for themselves and it;s not about you. 

What do you think of Rob Guillory?

He seems like a cool guy. I haven’t really read any Chew. 

What do you think of Fred Perry and Antarctic Press as of right now?

I’ve been catching up on newer issues of Gold Digger. It’s always a really fun well done book— Dude puts the issues out so fast that I barely have time to read one before there’s a new one. (I think I’m 2 issues behind now— I just got #216 and the GD Annual) 

I’m always slightly frustrated at how corny modern Antarctic is. I would put creators like Perry and Joe WIght easily up there with the best Image comics publishes — but then they do books like Steam Wars, Steampunk red riding hood. Victorian secret. I think they had an Obama Evil dead comic awhile back(president evil) They have a book that just looks like a  gender swapped GI Joe called =GI Jane-It’s like the modern version of the old "Wolverbroad vs Hobo".  . —I guess that keeps the lights on but It just takes the amazing craft these guys are capable of and throws it right in the lowest Bluewater rung of comics. 

Although I am kind of into seeing this Richard Corben DEN style-Corben GD thing they just announced.WARNERD OF MARS. hmmm 

I dunno, I’m glad GD exists I want more Twilight X(or that type of book from AP) I would love to see Wight do a mini series about something serious. no parody of anything not trying to catch on some zombie craze just showing how good at making comics he is.