BACHOBACHOBOZU

It’s almost xmas, give someone you love a good and nice gift of a t-shirt/sweater/mug/cushion/blanket/whatever. 

RIGHT TENTACLES 

Digital art by MEZAMERO

Viktoria Mezamero Voronko is an illustrator and artist living in Voronezh, Russia. In her digital paintings, she plays with the blackness like no other ( @me-za-me-ro on Tumblr). She is an example of what could be the new contemporary art as she lives directly as an artist from her art based on commissioned work through the Web. A return to the Art when it wasn’t  restricted to a rich elite group. Tell us, the ones who know Damian Hirst: which artist do you prefer? Him or Her?

Great interview from 2014 with Adam Hines - author of Duncan the Wonder Dog

It’s in English on the site. An excerpt:

Marco Apostoli - Can you tell us how and when did the idea for Duncan the Wonder Dog arise for the first time? Adam Hines - In 1990, when I was about six, my family adopted a small, mixed-breed dog we summarily named Duncan due to his close resemblance to a small piece of chocolate cake. Even as a puppy, he was very intelligent, kind of detached, but still very loving. I was immediately enamored with him. Not one month later, my father and I were walking through what I believe had to have been a section of the Chicago Pedway past a tiny comics stand, and – infatuated with Tim Burtons recent Batman movie – whined enough that he bought me my first ever comic books: Batman #452-454, the Dark Knight, Dark City story written by Peter Milligan. I remember being entranced by the Mike Mignola covers and then becoming only slightly disappointed that the art inside was quite different. Conflating my newest brother, Duncan, with the eponymous character I was then obsessed with, I began drawing Duncan the Wonder Dog comics which, at the time, was basically vigilante stories populated entirely with talking animals. The stories changed as I did, and I just never stopped making them.

MA - Duncan the Wonder Dog is a very ambitious editorial project: nine volumes, 2600 pages to be completed in the next 25 years. In comics the only similar editorial projects that come to my mind are Cerebus by Dave Sim and Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower: have you already planned the overall plot of all the other 8 volumes of Duncan the Wonder Dog? In the meantime are you going to draw something else in the years to come? Adam Hines - The overall plot is very loosely defined but yes, it’s there. Between books I plan to take breaks and do other work, though mostly writing, so I don’t get burned out.

MA - You’ve been lucky because you’ve found a publisher (AdHouse Books) who believes in such complex and long-lasting editorial project: what’s your opinion about the alternative choice, self-publishing? Adam Hines - I was fortunate enough that AdHouse agreed to publish the first book on faith that there would be more coming eventually; Chris Pitzer, the owner, has been a great support, and without him it would have been very difficult to get the book into stores or drum up any interest in it at all.

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Some pages from my new Comic Your Black Friend. I don’t think I’ve written about black alienation so directly. Came out alright.

figuring out where to go next is DIFFICULT when you’re split three ways.

Flowery girls