Season's greetings and my current read

Hey there, Dear Readers and Happy Belated New Year!

I was too busy to complete this before new Year but the Corvin crew is definitely alive. More adventures will follow.

And now for something completely different. I'm reading this brilliant graphic novel:

I already praised here his first bigger work, Good-bye, Chunky Rice quite some time ago, but this is something so much bigger and better. More than 600 pages of constant amazement, richly endowed with Arabic calligraphy and Islamic art, both a breathtaking piece of work and a gorgeous artefact. To be honest I'm still hesitating to dive into the story as the protagonists go through plenty of suffering, but I'm bound to do it soon. You can see preview pages and more here: http://www.habibibook.com/

Merry Christmas for Y'all!

More drawings

Instead of comics. There's something in the works though related to Corvin, but I 've just barely started with the storyboard. So till then:

Father Capistrano: another character to be introduced in Corvin later. He's got the patience of a saint, but otherwise he's a nice guy.

This is my rendition of a little scene from Will Eisner's instructional book, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative. Will Eisner was one of the greatest comics artists, his achievements include the invention of the graphic novel.

From the drawing board

I'm posting these recent sketches mainly so that there would be an entry for October too. Keeping in line with the trend of this year - at least one post each month.


Firstly, another character from Corvin to be introduced "later". Later meaning later. This is Lord Corvin's brother-in-law, by the way.

Secondly, another appearance from someone you've seen here before. Looks are everything, even on the battlefield.

There will also be a dragon in the story at some point. Not this one though, this is merely a not very precise replica of a benevolent dragon from Bone by Jeff Smith. Bone is THE comic book as I have probably mentioned earlier.
I'm hoping to post one or two pieces of comics here before 2011 is done. One may be political.

Now, happy Halloween for y' all!

Sexy times at Bánkitó

Panel 1

Wednesday morning

Judit: Jeez, can you believe they left behind the carriage we got on?

Me: Yea, now we’ll surely not get there by noon as the organizers had asked.

Panel 2

Thursday: we’re building the festival

Me: Two hundred straw bales for sound absorbing material! … Hoah!

Marci: Once we finish packing these up they can forget about us for today!

Attila: And even for tomorrow!

Panel 3

Friday: theatre performance at the village hall

Secretary of state: Dear committee, please make your suggestions for the mascot of the European Union’s official Hungarian holiday!

Expert of real Hungarian stuff: An ancient Hungarian hippopotamus!

Single minded sporty girl: A horse!

Leader of the League of Large Families: Please, I need you to understand that the mascot can only be a saker falcon!

Professor of Humanities: Hmm… and how about a saker falcon in a glass of Hungarian brandy?

Panel 4

A little later

Judit: Let’s run a race!

Me: Okay, come on!

Me: Searching for parts of the mobile in the dark – it’s such fun!

Judit: Stop nagging, it’s only the back piece missing now!

Panel 5

There were certainly concerts too at the festival. Korai Öröm played a very smashing gig for example.

Panel 6

All in all, this one was a very sexy festival.

Slogan on banner: Cycle to the lake again next year!

Bar fight in progress

Here it is, as promised - keeping to the "very latest" bit. The bar fight is going rather well, don't you think?

Panel 1
George: Take that and get out of here!
Chubby thug: Yikes!
Panel 2
Kaspar: Get out of my way or you'll be very sorry!
Colin: Instead of threatening me, you should be grateful for this free fencing lesson !
Panel 3
Borka: Your friend is brave but is he really good with the sword? This is a dangerous thug!
Pip: Don't worry, he will manage. I suggest we concentrate on these two now!
Panel 5
Thug with moustache: Young lady, there's no need for violence! Put down that vegetable slicer knife and come with us pl..

Panel 6
....ease... Ouuch!

These Corvin updates are admittedly way too periodical but if anyone's following - I know for a fact there's a fairly regular visitor in Mountain View, California - , I would be glad to read some feedback. What do you think about the story, any direction you reckon it is heading, that sort of thing. If you have something to say about the artwork, you are welcome to do so. Make comments, good people!

Merkin in shiny bright colours

Hey everyone! You'll be surely delighted to hear that the next Corvin page is about 60% done and it will be posted this week - or early next week the very latest - by all likeliness.

Till then here's something quite different to look at. As you might remember, before last Christmas I felt it appropriate to come out with a little piece about merkin aka artificial pubic hair. If you don't here's a reminder with footnotes and English text: http://agentoozecomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/merkin-project.html
In that post I declared my intention to colour the somewhat unfinished-looking pages, so here it is:

In all fairness, I did want to colour it using Photoshop but kept procrastinating learning how to use that. Recently a perfectly good opportunity presented itself to do the colouring as this call for applications was made for the Belgrade Comics Festival: http://www.skc.org.rs/comics-festival-2011.html The deadline is not through yet so any artists reading this may as well have a shot at it. However, for certain reasons I had to complete this one by Monday so out came the felt pens and sadly, learning the fine art of Photoshop was postponed once again. It has to be done though as the colours would surely look way better.
Anyway, enjoy and stay tuned for the forthcoming Corvin post!