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!

First glimpse of Lord Corvin, drawing for money and other awesome goings-on

A few weeks passed since the latest Corvin page and I'm still concentrating... Luckily there is some relevant material to post while I'm figuring out how to proceed with the bar fight. It takes some elaborate planning you see ;o)

Soo, meet Lord Corvin, the most badass and capable military leader in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1456 AD. His name has already come up a few times in Chapter 1 and he is going to be introduced in person in Chapter 3. The Game of Thronesy pose is fully intended.

Then, one of his trusted companions who also happens to be on the good side though at times just barely. I guess you want badasses by your side when the sultan's whole army is descending upon you. Better get on with that bar fight so that these guys can make their appearances.

In other news, I recenty got my first commission to do artwork. And I even got paid for it! To stay on the confidential side, someone I know needed a replica of about 30 drawings of different emotional states. I was asked to come up with three original creations too.
Thanks a lot to Judit for the opportunity :o)

One of the replicas - excitement

My interpretation of disgust (or repulsion, distaste, abomination - there are surprisingly many synonyms)

Corvin - and... Action!!

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 1
Borka: 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 2
Borka: 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 3
Kaspar (dashes in): No one makes a move! Give us all the money, valuables and women!
Panel 4
Kaspar: Come on guys! ... What the heck are you doing?!
Thug: We got stuck, boss!
Panel 5
Kaspar: Come in one by one, you morons!
Panel 6
Kaspar: Have you got a death wish, dandy?
Colin: Defend yourself brigand!

Suspicious Minds & memories of a comics festival

(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_Budapest
The 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...)