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Posts Tagged ‘future’
Okay, so I realize that many may not appreciate a Walt Whitman poem being used in a corporate advertisement, but that aside, I am really digging this composition. The man reciting the poem just does a great job, and the video that it plays over really gets across the “next generation” message they’re going for. If you know me, you know that one of my pet peeves is horrible commercials (e.g., the Safe Auto “it’s not rocket science” campaign, Head On commercials, etc.), so I appreciate when something of quality is produced for an ad rather than stupid slogans or annoying jingles. I also like Jack in the Box commercials. Like all YouTube videos, the comments are full of garbage, here discussing whether or not a girl does a Hitler salute and whether or not the ad is making a statement about homosexuality, but I’m not digging that deeply into it. I like poetry, I like good video editing, so I appreciate an attempt at making something “artsy” for an advertisement rather than an annoying jingle telling you to buy Levis jeans because Paris Hilton does. Anyway, here is the ad:
Do you like it? I do.
Hey! Bearman, of beartoons.com, is featuring a series of portraits by webcomic artists. The theme: What our characters will look like at 100 years of age.
Go there to see my contribution, would ya? And check out the other artist contributions while you’re there, and peruse Bearman’s single-panel politically themed strips- there are strips a-plenty.
See why I need to document the first sketches of characters I use? Below is how they turn out, torn and under a stack of things. Here is the first sketch as I brainstormed the introduction to Fearville, in this strip. As a reader commented, he may have a slight resemblance to Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes, but I think that was accidental. Calvin & Hobbes is pretty much the reason I’m a comic strip artist, so I wouldn’t be surprised (nor ashamed) if little tidbits from it slip into my comic for many years to come.








