mr_boobytrap

New Idea

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:35:46 GMT

Write character diaries, don`t write a script.

2heart2

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:24:48 GMT

I wanted my friend Theo Reeves-Evison to draw a comic.
He said if he drew a comic I should make a sculture.
So I said that if I drew a comic with one of his sculptures, he could make a sculpture of one of my comics.
His magnificent wooden scale model of Shibuya crossing became the study for the real place to appear in the comic 2by2. This is his sculpture based on my comic Ulysses.

Bonehouse VI

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:05:01 GMT

Bonehouse Books

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:21 GMT

"Hey Dad, what's best, eye for an eye, or turn the other cheek?"

"It depends how big he is."

Sayonara Home Run

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:00:32 GMT

Back in UK for now.

New Resolution

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:30:53 GMT

only tell stories once unless asked even if nobody listens.

Quiet Earth Idea

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:12:14 GMT

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.

End of Show

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:41:10 GMT

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.

Sukiwa`s show reports

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:15:48 GMT

http://www.sukiwa.net/sukiwazakkan/image/2009/080601/index.html
http://www.sukiwa.net/sukiwazakkan/image/2009/081202/index.html http://www.sukiwa.net/sukiwazakkan/image/2009/081601/index.html

Floating Fantasy

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:48:57 GMT

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

New Book Described

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:00:00 GMT

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.

New Activity

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:16:40 GMT

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.

Antenna has started transmitting again

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:46:34 GMT

http://theantenna.org/

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:58:24 GMT

Where were you when the internet stopped working?

Floating Fantasy 08

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:09:01 GMT

Read this while listening to the theme 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.

Two by Two

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:12:28 GMT

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

and with the beach walks of a long lone summer in Suffolk.

Tell me your two things please.

Friday the 13th

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:16:59 GMT

A black cat walked across my path but it only had three legs.

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:33:20 GMT

I don`t know what to do about the internet.

Books of the year

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:50:46 GMT

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.

Resolutions

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:19:00 GMT

1.stop using exclamation marks.
2.stop sending the kind of emails where I get anxious waiting for the reply.
3.only masturbate when your body tells you to.

New Idea

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:06:12 GMT

Remake sci-fi made in the past that was set in the modern day.

This year: Isaac Asimov`s １９５５ short story Franchise takes place in 2008, the premise being that the U.S. president will be selected by a computer program looking for the "most representative citizen".
Also, Silent Running （１９７１）。.

Next year: Freejack　（１９９２）。

How to listen to comics

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:52:09 GMT

Battle for the Planets: Wonderful Rainbow - (Lightning Bolt)
Ulysses: Hidden City of Taurmond - (Wizardzz)
Cities of Gold: Sorcerer - (Tangerine Dream)

How to watch books

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:15:58 GMT

Sartorius - Christopher Lee
Gibarian - Peter Cushing
Kelvin - Ralph Bates (Dear John)
Reya - Britt Ekland
Snow -- Wilfrid Brambell (Steptoe Senior)
Moddard - Michael Ripper

Famicon New-Age

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:20:37 GMT

Stormbringer

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:41:12 GMT

Grail I`ve been looking long and hard for and almost given up on.
I found a better version of the hard to find soundtrack for The Keep.