Doing a slight design update for the Ojingogo Swedish edition. Here’s a sketch for an idea for integrating the UPC code into the back design of the book…

Swedish edition is released September, 2009 at the Gothenburg Book Fair with Ordbilder Media.

Hey I’m doing a Kids’ Drawing Workshop at Puces Pop in Montreal this Saturday at 2pm. More info at the Pop Montreal site.

UPDATE: Here’s a photo Brenden took of the controlled chaos…

As usual, Chris and Peter and an army of volunteers put on a spectacularly organized show. It was really great meeting so many Ojingogo-readers and drawing in people’s books. Also, great catching up wtih Aaron Costain, John Martz, Zack Worton, Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, Jay Stephens and so many other amazing artists.

Ojingogo Won an Award

This is the Pigskin Peters Award – which I won at the Doug Wright Awards ceremony on Saturday. The award is beautiful – designed Seth himself – Brad Mackay has a longer description of the award on his blog. The hat hangs on a little peg on the plaque.

Photo by Peggy Burns from D&Q. More on her Flickr feed…

Chester Brown presented the award and said some ridiculously nice things. At one point I think I heard him say I was a “rock, solid cartoonist” and then everything went blurry…

First printing of Ojingogo is sold out… Second on the way.

I signed the last copy of the first print run of Ojingogo at the festival.

I’m going to make a few corrections to the pages from the first edition and send them out this week to the publisher. The second printing should be along in June.

Swedish Edition

I am also working to get updated cover design out for the Swedish edition of the book which will be published by Ordbilder Media and launched September 24 at the Goteborg Book Fair in Sweden.

A little drawing / logo for my friend’s theatre group called, Awkward Centaur.

Also, this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. I have a little Ojingogo strip in this comic which you should be able to find in better comic shops everywhere…

Great little passionate TED talk from William McDonough: What’s your intention?

“Imagine this design assignment. Design something that:

Why don’t we knock that down and write on it?”

Here are some birds I drew last week-end.

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What else? I just finished teaching my journalism class this year – so I haven’t had time to draw much of anything in the last couple months. I’m wrapping up marking – and it looks like the class is done for good – so I’m excited to hit the drafting table again this week…

Toronto comic arts festival. One of the best comics festivals in the world. I’ll be there.

You should come… and bring your friends too.

Montreal designer Elaine Ho – aka Roadkill Roadkill – made a set of ojingogo jewellery and it’s all for sale on her Etsy shop. Here’s the post on her site.

There are three pieces including Ojingogo (the little squid), AK (the Domokun-looking dude), and Tubu (walking tofu). (Links to her Etsy shop).

Man, she even put little bowls of bap on Tubu’s head…

Also: Follow Roadkilkill on Twitter. She’s always full of great design links and …. photos of food.

A couple sketches from around Montreal.

A short dogwalk comic.