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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.htmlIn 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!
Corvin time again and finally some action is starting to take place in the presumably action-packed story. No use in making promises but I intend to concentrate on this project in the near future.Panel 1Borka: Now-now, may it be that something happened on the way that you sirs prefer to keep secret?Pip: Lovely young lady, I swear to Saint Patrick that we are not hiding anything from you!Panel 2Borka: Saint Patrick? I've never heard of him. Is he a saint of Milan?Colin: No, he's the patron saint of our real home country. Our parents came to Milan from Ireland, a place far away West. You see, we are cous...Panel 3Kaspar (dashes in): No one makes a move! Give us all the money, valuables and women!Panel 4Kaspar: Come on guys! ... What the heck are you doing?!Thug: We got stuck, boss!Panel 5Kaspar: Come in one by one, you morons!Panel 6Kaspar: Have you got a death wish, dandy?Colin: Defend yourself brigand!
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Decided to rewrite this post as most of its content disappeared due to the massive inconveniences www.blogger.com experienced last week. Seems like I have waited in vain for its restoration...)So here's the second love child of my recent civil rights activism and ongoing comics activity. For the first one, check out the Gyöngyöspata post below. This is a naive little one, suggesting trust instead of suspicion through a roma boy - non-roma girl love story.Normally I don't draw comics for Elvis's songs but this time I was inspired by a workshop linked to our Comics Festival, where the special guests from the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia paid tribute to the King. Why here and now? Well, Elvis recently became a honorary citizen of Budapest, which fact I'm sure he deeply appreciates wherever he resides now. The final product was printed superquickly and was on sale at festival, but you can also purchase it here: http://www.nyitottkonyv.hu/konyveink/konyv/161/Elvis_BudapestThe festival itself was good craic again - fun fact: it was held on my former university campus which turned into a bar and concert venue since I graduated - here are a couple of photos just for a feel of the atmosphere: The Comics Battle is raging - they took no prisoners :)
The best comics artists of 2010: Róbert Vass, Zoltán Fritz and Gergely Oravecz
I had the pleasure of running the Comics Association's stall for most of the day
(This is clearly not as cool as the original post. Well, that's life, ain't it? Things get lost, broken etc...)
Hullo again Folks. Here's my entry for the special issue of Pesti Est - our local free weekly programme magazine - for the upcoming 7th Hungarian Comics Festival.
In March the Hungarian Comics Association issued a call for its members to participate in some "comic jamming", ie. to draw and write a story on a page with predesigned empty panels and speech bubbles ASAP. The only instruction was that it has to take place in a career advice office and has to feature a balding secretary who wears glasses.
My entry didn't make it to Pesti Est but I had fun drawing it and like it nonetheless.
Panel 1Director: Good morning Aranka! You look upset. What's the matter?Panel 2
Secretary: Boss, it's a disaster! I made the same appointment with Gábor Vona (the leader of the right-extremist Jobbik party) and the Dalai Lama by mistake! They are already in the waiting room!Panel 3Director: No worries, we have dealt with tougher situations too! We'll come up with an idea in a minute. Till then could you have a look to see how are they getting on?Panel 7
Secretary: Gentlemen, please come in! I hope you don't mind if we are having a competitive interview. Act as natural as possible! Panel 8
Vona: We must be worthy of the glory of our ancestors once again! If we cannot plunder Western Europe anymore while shooting arrows backwards, at least let our ultra-hungarian blood reign in our own counties!Dalai Lama: My dear young friend, all this fuming may make your heart chakra congested pretty soon! I suggest that you often drink ginseng tea and take up volunteering in a disadvantaged rural area!(A little footnote on Vona: he and his parliamentary party are highly responsible for the topic of the previous post - "Gyöngyöspata: a visit for a reason" - as some of the paramilitary groups are closely linked with them. Merrily making fun of him is not enough in the light of what has happened recently in different parts of Hungary.)
To end on a higher note, the Comics Festival is coming up indeed, as it's gonna take place next Saturday in Dürer Kert.
The programme looks really promising with special guests from the Netherlands, Finnland and Estonia, as well as exhibitions in several venues to complement the festival. Drop in if you're free!More info for Hungarian speakers at http://kepregenyfesztival.blog.hu/
Ismét Szüfrazset City jelentkezik. Alább látható március 15-e estéjének szubjektív krónikája.
The translation for English speakers follows below, but first a bit of explanation on the recent events that took place in Gyöngyöspata (hopefully it is proper to use the past tense) http://errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=3816.
Also, some background to the opening panel: http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17132&Itemid=220Panel 1
On 15th March I went to the demonstration for free press.
"This is so dam good! It's not only about the media law though anymore. Such a big protest could even generate some sensible thinking among the government, couldn't it?"
Panel 2
After the demo I met Kati and Tamer by chance on the spot.
Kati: The locals asked us to go back in the evening. Are you joining us?
Panel 3
I joined them. About twenty of us left for the village riding in five cars.
Panel 4
For those who have missed out on the news, in early March some "civic guard" organizations - curiously resembling the legally banned Hungarian Guard militia - took the maintenance of "public security" to their own hands in Gyöngyöspata. In reality it meant that they kept harassing the Roma residents of the village night and day. The police merely stood by and nobody intervened to protect the Roma - i.e. Hungarian citizens - on behalf of the government.
The civic demonstration held in the village on 15th March was the first time when active solidarity was shown towards these people.
Panel 5
The locals greeted our arrival also because otherwise the Guard would not have left them in peace during the night either.
Woman: They shout at night and bang on the doors. Our children are afraid.
Man: How can this be tolerated? Where is the prime minister when we need him?
Panel 6
The guards and the "outlaws" seemed to appreciate our presence too in their own way.
Guards: Queerjewfaggot green liberal scums!!! Now what?!
Me (thinking): A better today for you, fuckers!
Szürke egy februárunk volt. Nem csoda, hogy kedvet kaptam egy személyes jellegű webcomichoz...
There are some really cool webcomics around which document the author's personal deeds, e.g a local one is http://csordasdaniel.blog.hu/, and I finally felt like trying my hand in something along these lines. This spring seems pretty eventful so far.I realized that the translation can be tricky but let's give it a go anyway: Suffragette City, no. 1 - The IdeaPanel 1So it started like...I should do a webcomic...On something topical of course.Panel 2Here's this city... A complete chaos... But also a lot of cool places and cool people.Panel 3
And here's me too... Coming and going, seeing and hearing all sorts of things.
Panel 4
Aloud: Hey, it should be about me then! (thinking): About what I do, what I think, what happens to me!
Panel 5
Getting started right now!
It wasn't that tricky after all. Now, let's admire the song that provided the title of this fine piece of art:
A következő rész Gyöngyöspatáról szól majd/ The next episode will be about a place called Gyöngyöspata. I suggest googling it, especially the current news items.
Stay tuned, Corvin is not forgotten either.
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.
