Angriest Hand

Q: What do you do when you learn your evil ex-girlfriend has moved to within a few blocks of your studio?

A: Draw the angriest hand in the world.

Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita, 1932-2005

Stone sent me an e-mail request for a Pat Morita tribute sketch this morning. I obliged.

Rest in peace, Pat.

Mystery Character Design...

...I'll give you a hint, it ain't for Warlands.

Track of the day: The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian

Angrier Hand

Matt thinks he's all that with his angry hand.
Wait'll he gets a load of this...

Expozine

I'll be at Expozine this Saturday (Nov. 26). The event has something like a 150 comic book, zine, and small press creators exhibiting their wares.

I'll be selling the last remaining Ojingogo preview comics and posters and doing sketches.

Karl will be making a cameo appearance too, so if you're in Montreal this week-end be sure to pop by our table and say hello!

Where & When: Saturday, November 26th, from 11 am to 6 pm 5035 St-Dominique, between Laurier and St-Joseph (church basement)

Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema

Frames Per Second magazine is sending me to cover the fifth annual Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema this weekend. I'll be posting updates regularly to FPS and Drawn! throughout the week-end.

Highlights of the festival include a Kihachiro Kawamoto retrospective, which includes a series of shorts as well as a screening of his 2003 feature, Winter Days.

I'll also be interviewing veteran animator, Mike Nguyen, who will be speaking at the event. Nguyen was supervising animator on The Iron Giant. Other credits include: The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Quest for Camelot, Osmosis Jones, and The Road to El Dorado.

The schedule for this year's festival includes:

Thursday, November 17th, 2005
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Japan)
Terkel In Trouble (Denmark)

Friday, November 18th, 2005
Frank and Wendy (Estonia)
The District! (Hungary)

Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Alosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent (Russia)
Fragile Machine, free admission (USA)
Mind Game (Japan)

Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Strings (Norway)

Come celebrate RKP Week!

It appears to be Ramon Perez week here at the horhaus. Not only does he feature prominently in our latest horcast...

What's that? You didn't know it was back? That must be because Frankenfurter's too busy soaking his feet to bother posting to the mainpage. But it's back indeed, go ahead, listen. I'll be right here.

All done? Good. So I thought I'd add to the impromptu celebration of all things Hispano-Slav by posting this here pin-up which will feature in Ramon's upcoming comicbook Butternut Squash from Toronto's own Speakeasy Comics, collecting his webstrips of the same name.