Bellybuttoned Cockroach

Apparently I forgot to post this one. I didn't make it the full 28 days of February. I only made it 11 days, but that is much better than last year.

Fun-A-Day 2013: Octopus

Fun-A-Day 2013: Wash Tub Mouse

Fun-A-Day 2013: Majka Sings

Fun-A-Day 2013: Birds and Accordions

Fun-A-Day 2013: Bee

Fun-A-Day 2013: Fish

Fun-A-Day 2013: Squirrel

Fun-A-Day 2013: The Cheese Stands Alone

Fun-A-Day 2013: Elephant

Fun-A-Day 2013: Bear

I'll  be posting these sporadically as the month goes on.  This year's project is a Russian Bestiary.

An Oldie: Russian Lessons #2

Some more old comics. These are probably from around 2006. I recently discovered that my old comics had gotten infected with mold during the great mold outbreak in our house back in December, so I am digitizing them all so I can (sadly) dispose of the originals.

Gogol Bordello

Kirill and I have an unexpected secret obsession with Gogol Bordello. Well, I do, and Kirill plays along, but we have on occasion found ourselves on long walks playing Gogol Bordello 20 questions. 

Ivan Ivanovitch

More comics will be coming soon. I've been lazy about scanning lately. But now with Fun-A-Day underway I have an ever growing stock pile of comics waiting to be digitized. So, until then here's one panel from a comic I wrote about 5 years ago entitled "Kirill and Ivan Ivanovitch in the Land of the Former Bolsheviks".
The story is based on the time Kirill and I went to MediaPlay to get him a new discman (oh how things have changed....) there was a wall of discmen and Kirill complained that there were a million choices but they would all break in a week. He then went on to declare "say what you will about the Soviet Union, but at least back then when we'd go to buy something at the store there was only one and it would work".
So in the comic Kirill and Ivan Ivanovitch (who was the cartoon persona of our big orange cat, Bandit but with glasses) go back to Russia to buy a proper discman only to discover that his favorite marketplace from childhood had been replaced with a Walmart - where he ends up buying the discman anyway.

Probably not one of my best comics ever, though there are some pretty good panels. This one, of Ivan Ivanovitch in front of St. Basil's Cathedral, is my particular favorite.

Russian Lessons

Lately I've been practicing Russian, drawing cats and inking with brushes - this is where they all come together. I've had this plan for a while to put together a Russian Tutorial mini-comic. It will be something along the lines of a Children's Picture Dictionary, though more specific to things relevant to my life - like the parts of a cat, for example.

This is a photo of the real Koshka Lyra - much stripier than her snowy white comic counterpart. But her eyes are just as giant.

February 20, 2010

Who are these Russian hotties?:

Victor Tsoi (Learn more about him here)

Vladimir Mayakovsky (Learn more about him here)

Yegor Letov