Launch

I tagged this one with nothing, yet.

We're Back! Dates for 2010 and Facebook

Welcome back to Hayase for 2010! We now have dates for the rest of the year ready to go:

• Sun 28th March
• Sun 18th April
• Sun 17th May
• Sun 13th June
• Sun 18th July
• Sun 22nd August
• Sun 19th September
• Sun 17th October
• Sun 21st November

And the details on the meetups remain as always:

Location: Upstairs at the Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church Street, Parramatta
Time: 2pm till dinner
Theory: Meet with other artists, share inspiration, break mental blocks, and gossip like grandmothers.

Also we have gone with the trends and now have a Facebook fan page. Become a fan and you&os;ll get invites to the events and the occasional reminder about Australian comics events.

Speaking of events, Blacktown Zine fair is this Saturday for those out west. K and I will be visiting to see what it&os;s like and to scope out the new arts centre they have out there.

#24: Jerry Collins

Rugby nemesis, 1987 - 1999

Every year of my whole rugby-playing career I was in the same grade as Jerry Collins. You could say he kind of haunted my childhood.

As kids his Norths teams would regularly pummel my Tawa teams, and Jerry was always North's number one hit man. Even as a kid, he played rugby like Mike Tyson boxed: speed, strength, accuracy. He ruthlessly and efficiently destroyed us every time, and had fun doing it. He showed no mercy. He ate skinny white boys like me for breakfast. By high school our teams (Me at Wellington College, him at St Pats Town) were more competitive, but still any one on one encounter with Jerry took serious balls. When you take a run off the back of a ruck and see Jerry lurking in the fringes ready to take your head off, you know you are in trouble.

Of course Jerry went on to become a 48 test All Black (including 3 as captain), an international star and one of world rugby's most feared hitmen. I've followed his career with interest and even a little bit of second-hand pride - these days I watch his knock-out tackles from the comfort of my bar stool and say to whoever is listening "that hurts, trust me".

Sydney : March 24 - April 1  2010

Sydney : March 24 - April 1  2010

in the studio

in the studio

#23: Trendy Nguyen

Deep Dish manager, 2004

When I first moved to Melbourne I washed dishes and made spring rolls at a cafe called Deep Dish. The owner and boss was an incredibly tiny elderly Vietnamese woman called Trendy. For real.

Her daughter May ran the day to day, practical things, and Trendy mainly just wandered around hugging everyone, making sure they were happy. To keep my spirits up she liked to perform a bizarre, completely wrong version of a haka for me while I was standing there working. I tried to tell her that it was pretty inappropriate but she would laugh and tell me it was ok because she'd been to New Zealand.

Radio Fun: Hungry for Sport

Here's a little bit of chopped-up zany times.

Radio Fun: Hungry for Sport

Thanks

A monster face for a magazine cover task.

I did my presentation on livejournal the other day.
Thanks for the input, although I ended up using very little of it as I had to keep it short.

Weekend in Melbourne

Walk cycle

Click them!

I realised I only showed this to a few people and never added to it.
It&os;s my first ever walk cycle for class last year.

Submission for Nobrow

My submission for Nobrow contest 'People I've Never Met and conversation I Never Had'. All done with markers. I could use second pic as a portrait

 

Tangle-Free World

It is a matter of some regret to me that I never got to do an LP cover; even though I began my illustration career in the late 70s, I was not established enough, or didn't have the right connections, to get a record gig before the LP format died in the mid-90s, so I never had a chance to strut my stuff on that 12-inch canvas.  Fortunately, I have at least gotten a chance to fill the 12-centimeter cover of the CD a couple of times, thanks to my sister Anny Celsi, who is an independent musician based in L.A. Her latest CD, Tangle-Free World, came out last fall.

(By the way, that business about our spelling our names differently is a long story that I don't have time to get into right now.)

Each job for Anny has taken me somewhat out of my stylistic comfort zone. For Little Black Dress, which came out in 2004, she wanted the look of a pulp paperback cover of the 1950s. For this recording she at first told me she wanted it to look like a Nancy Drew cover, but eventually she asked for something reminiscent of L.A. portrait painter David Anderle, but crossed with the look I used for the trading card series Blockbusters of Rhythm and Blues. This entailed a lot of back and forth, as this series of color sketches shows:

Anyway, eventually we settled on an image we were both comfortable with, and I'm proud to be associated with the recording, which I think is Anny's best yet. I can but feebly describe her sound, but it inhabits a sonic house down the street from Nancy Sinatra's pad and around the corner from the place where Dusty stays when she's in Memphis.  You can listen to samples here

I had meant to blog about the CD in time for readers of this blog to buy it for Christmas, but hey, it makes the perfect soundtrack to stick in your car as you're driving down to Tijuana or Florida for spring break.

I'm not sure if there'll be any work for illustrators once the CD itself bites the dust, but I'll be happy to design the icon for whatever format replaces the mp3.

Tangle-free World by Anny Celsi at Amazon

[Re] Générations @ CCF 18th, Phnom Penh:

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Nobrow Nohow

From Poland: My submission for Nobrow contest ’People I’ve Never Met and conversation I Never Had’. All done with markers. I could use second pic as a portrait

http://laguniak.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/submission-for-nobrow/

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