Matthew Forsythe http://comingupforair.net Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Book Tour http://comingupforair.net/2012/04/book-tour/ http://comingupforair.net/2012/04/book-tour/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:24:45 +0000 matt http://comingupforair.net/?p=2655

This weekend I’ll be in New York for MoCCA with the incredible Tom Gauld and Drawn & Quarterly.

We’re starting with this event in Brooklyn which looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun.

And then we head to:

Ada Books – Providence, Rhode Island on Monday, April 30

… and wrap up next week at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival which is always a great time.

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For the NY Times letters page running today. Thanks, Alexandra!

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Client: Kelly OCG

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I’ve been squeezing into the watercolour tubes again this week. I do a lot of my commercial work digitally but it has always felt a little like training ground for getting back to real paints.

My Name is Elizabeth was named one of the White Raven selections at the Bologna Book Fair.

Also, I made a “Booknotes” music playlist for Largehearted Boy.

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Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and the future of the American economy for Kelly OCG.

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There’s a Feininger retrospective on right now at the Museé de Beaux Arts here in Montreal. I checked it out yesterday and it is so amazing. Go see it if you’re in town.

Reading about these Bauhaus guys has led me to Kandinsky’s treatise, Concerning the Spiritual in Art and the associated colour theories of Klee and Itten and Delaunay, which I think is starting to give me a stronger understanding of colour. Above is a little watercolour sketch I did inspired by these guys. You can read the Kandinsky book for free here. Warning: It will make you yearn for a time when people believed in things.

Kind of related: CS Neal has a great list of recommended books for illustrators and designers. I pretty much went straight to the library and put them on reserve.

I also just discovered this great illustration podcast, I think I’ve seen it on Drawn before but I quickly forgot about it. I’ve only listened to two episodes but they were fantastic and full of great practical advice.

Check out the interview with Christoph Neimann and the interview with John Cuneo.

If you have any other episodes to recommend to me (there are over 80) please let me know.

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New comic! This happened the other day at Casa.

Also, more great press for Jinchalo…

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For those who Tumbl, I am posting more and more sketches and random comics over on my Tumblr these days. Though I have many reservations about the platform, and will never move there completely because frankly I think its days are numbered, I like the way people use Tumblr as a sort of process page or a sketchbook for ideas.

You can read the rest of the above comic here.

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