| New Resolutions |
[17 Sep 2009|02:17pm] |
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1.reduce email to being for arranging activities, more than for talking.
2.only tell stories once unless asked even if nobody listens. This applies to email and real meetings both.
3.stop giving away highly personal information without solicitation.
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| Quiet Earth Idea |
[01 Sep 2009|06:10pm] |
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In a world empty of people and you can loot any shop you fancy. Imagine the clothes you would wear, and then start wearing them now.
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| The Rest Again |
[22 Aug 2009|10:35pm] |
Forgot to tag all the art as public on flickr.
I think it still wasn`t fixed even after I did this post the first time.
Now it is:
ART FROM SHOW
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| End of Show |
[20 Aug 2009|03:25pm] |
There will be a book of the show with writings and the art. It`s being put together by Cameron Mckean.
More news on that when it`s ready.
You can see all the work HERE.
And a photo report HERE.
This photo by Teppei Togashi.
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| Floating Fantasy |
[29 Jul 2009|06:47pm] |
Jonathan Chandler exhibition 「Floating Fantasy」 
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会期 ： 2009 / 8 / 14 （fri）～ 8 / 19 （wed）
時間 ： 11：00 ～ 19：00 無休
会場 ： 数寄和 東京都杉並区西荻北3-42-17
電話 ： 03-3390-1155
UK出身のコミックブックアーティストによるキャラクター作品の展示。
今まで描いてきた数多くのキャラクターを新たに書き下ろし、壁一面に展示いたします。
Jonathan Chandler（ジョナサン チャンドラー）
ロンドンで活躍しているコミックブックアーティスト。
Bonehouse Booksを創立し東京でもコミックブックやアーティストブックを出版しています。
Jonathan Chandlerホームページ
http://bonehousebooks.co.uk/
Period ： 2009 / 8 / 14 （fri）～ 8 / 19 （wed）
Opening hour ： 11：00 ～ 19：00
Address ： SUKIWA Co., ltd.
1F Twin Heitz, 3-42-17,
Nishiogikita, Suginami-ku, Tokyo
167-0042, JAPAN
TEL ： +81-3-3390-1155
FAX ： +81-3-5311-7260
E-mail ： contact@sukiwa.net |
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| New Book Described |
[18 Jul 2009|11:57am] |
The new book is done. Famicon Express published it and did a cracking good job.
It should be ready to buy from them soon.
Until then
the antenna`s writeup:
More post-comix/new-wave drawing from the Bonehouse; snatches of ambiguous sexual relationships between what purports to be a group of planet-stranded space travellers and androids – an untraceable blend of innocence and experience.
and from Working Towards blog:
Jon Chandler is one of the only foreign comicbook makers in Tokyo. He runs Bonehouse Books. His three booklet set ‘2×2′ is a psychosexual odyssey of a man, a replica man, a woman, and a rival man, on a real post apocalyptic world. If Tarkovsky was a perverted comicbook artist this is what he might would have made. Launched the book at Zinesmate. See the flickr report.
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| New Activity |
[29 Jun 2009|09:15am] |
Watch a TV show you watched when you are half as old as you are now.
I`m watching Heimat 2 from 1993. I was 16.
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[06 Jun 2009|02:57pm] |
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Where were you when the internet stopped working?
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| Floating Fantasy 08 |
[13 Mar 2009|12:05am] |
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Read this while listening to music from Terminator.
1. No characters should be pre-rendered in design before the actual comic is drawn.
2. No panel borders, though objects may be used to delineate areas of the page.
3. No sound effects.
4. No thought balloons, though floating words may be associated with the on-screen character talking at another time or in his/her mind.
5. No motion lines, though the effects of movement or action may be depicted physically, ie the splashing of water or the fragmentation of rock etc.
6. No title pages or author creditation in the main body of the work and no narrative information regarding place, time, or any other voice that comes from an invisible narrator. Therefore, transitions of time and space in the narrative may not be made apparent to the reader through words on the page.
7. No penciling, or no inking if pencils are used. Any medium of linemaking is acceptable however: paint; marker pens, etc. and any page size may be used. Colouring may be added.
8. No pointless cartoon violence, though violence may be used if necessary to propel the plot.
9. No overt autobiograhy.
10. Humanity or human issues should be at the core of the story.
This post is in reference to the Danish Dogme 95 film movement. It`s about the way I make comics these days.
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| Two by Two |
[03 Mar 2009|03:42pm] |
Sometimes two things you get at the same time form a kind of binary star system of experience even if they are quite different.
Leon Sadler`s Life in Magik and Surrender by Force (above left and second from left) are very different but I like to read them at the same time because they arrived in my life simultaneoulsy. It was very powerful and they mean a lot to me in terms of encouragement and feeling less lonely and the awe with which they fill me.
I also relate Moroder`s Cat People soundtrack
with Eno`s album Another Green World
with a time spent in convalescence in my beloved coastal Suffolk. I didn`t have much money so I didn`t buy many new things and I wasn`t downloading either. So each reminds of summer walks on the beach, completely unsure of the future but always happy next to the sea, and are often played together.
Tell me your two things please.
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| Friday the 13th |
[13 Feb 2009|12:15pm] |
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A black cat walked across my path but it only had three legs.
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[05 Feb 2009|10:29am] |
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I don`t know what to do about the internet.
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| Books of the year |
[03 Feb 2009|11:23pm] |
I lost interest in this post, if you come round my house I`ll show you in person.
I might make another journal soon which just has info on books and videos of things I Iike.
Might.
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| You`re Dead |
[28 Jan 2009|10:37am] |
I did just remove a lot of people from my Facebook friends. I wasn`t sure it was a good idea.
Social networking sites bring a new type of global existence into play, where people no longer fade away from your life but remain exposed but rarely communicated with, and showing home, family, and friends, beyond the point at which your circumstantial and sometimes temporary friendships have naturally ended. It is also for romantic reasons of memory that I have removed some folks, to keep their existence tied to that one time or place where we crossed paths, and to stop photos and information from decades ahead clouding that memory.
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| Resolutions |
[02 Jan 2009|05:10pm] |
I`ll try to avoid the usual vague `be a better person` somehow kind of promise which I usually lose sight of pretty quick and keep it more practical. An ex gave me this advice and it was good advice.
apart from `make more art` which never changes from one year to the next:
1.stop using exclamation marks.
2.stop sending the kind of emails where I get anxious waiting for the reply.
Adendum
3.get into bed by midnight except if making art.
4.only masturbate every three days.
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[15 Dec 2008|09:55am] |
I assume the future is at least different from the present, right?
Tom Spurgeon from The Comics Reporter
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| Have At Him |
[15 Nov 2008|09:49pm] |
I changed my flickr icon from a portrait an ex-lover drew of me back to what it was originally. I had changed the name to `Jon in Nakano`
which I thought was more modest than the original `Mr Boobytrap`
which I used because I was previously part of a group who all used funny names. One of the others had mentioned me as Mr Boobytrap in a comment on a post somewhere on the internet that`s now gone away. Boobytrap is a comic I did a lot of years ago and which is what I was best known for for a while and sometimes it still gets mentioned. So I used the name Mr Boobytrap when I had to come up with usernames for a while. The picture is now of me in a hat with the face blacked out and red Ring-Wraith style eyes drawn in on Photoshop. It`s kind of immodest. I don`t know why I felt to go back to it again today. It annoys me when people change their avatar or username. Maybe that`s something to do with it? I might change it again tonight.
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