Memories of a Happy Festival

Some belated pics of the 11th Budapest International Comics Festival, held exactly four weeks ago at Dürer Kert - same place as last year, and pretty much the ideal venue.

A little warm-up the day before the festival at Roham Bár, our regular drawing spot - sadly closed down in the meantime :(

In the morning of the festival, dedicated comics people making preparations.

Opening ceremony with the international guests. Left to right: Lucie Lomová (Czech Republic), Typex (The Netherlands), Pierre Wazem (Switzerland), Ptiluc (France) and Fabio Celoni (Italy). Presentation of guests done by Antal Bayer on behalf of the Hungarian Comics Association.

The comics fair. There was a real good turnout for the festival, facilitated by the not-so-chilly weather as last year.

The artists' corner. No specific assignment for this year but fun was had by all. Yours truly was even asked for advice by a potential comics maker. Wow!

YT was also involved as interpreter (hence sat in the middle) in a discussion with Lucie Lomová and Typex about their respective theatre crime comics and graphic novel on the life of Rembrandt.

Some cosplayers were also present and sort of stole the show when Euronews interviewed presenter Róbert Vass.

Almost finally, the items purchased. All well worth their prices.

Last but not at all least, Lucie Lomová's special dedication.

We had a good old time again, hope to see you next year!

Corvin - Raging Brawl

Wow, I almost forgot... These days we post things on Facebook and think they're done, don't we?
Anyway, behooold page 11:

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: I’ll give you afree fencing lesson, signor brigand!
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 4
YIKES! – from behind
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!

February and March Drink & Drawings

We're keeping it up, luckily.

The main topics of the February session were James Bond villains and cats, so I kicked it off with a combined drawing of

Mr. Blowfeld, the classic Bond-villain and his cat.

Next up, a less well-known villain from Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan's last appearance as the 007. Gustav Graves, played by Toby Stephens, who more recently kicks ass as Captain Flint in the Black Sails series.

Last but not least, two cat villains. Improvised fan art attempt for the 1980s classic Hungarian animation movie Catcatcher. The leaders of the cat mob, Mr. Gatto and Mr. Teufel.

Not strictly D&D product, but started at the same venue: a native American girl.

And finally, my sole output at the rather carefree March session,: a big badass all-American machinegunner. This one served to process my experience at the dentist the day before, I believe.

Corvin: Action This Year!

Wow, it's still January but the brawl is on and swords are drawn! It does give me the brightest hopes for 2015.

Panel 1

Borka: Now-now, perhaps 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. You see, our parents came to Milan from Ireland, a place far away West…
Panel 3
Kaspar (dashes in): It’s a robbery! Give us all the money, valuables and women and be quick about it!
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: You got a death wish, dandy?
Colin: Defend yourself brigand!

Some New Drink & Drawings

We kicked off the new year two weeks ago with the excellent Drink & Draw Budapest crew.
Here's my two creations:

Count Dracula's got the moves

       While a shimmering pony can breathe fire

... also two pics of the company and yours truly:

Stay tuned, a new Corvin page is very nigh

Happy New Year Post

Hey Everyone!
Unfortunately no new page to show ya yet to finish 2014 in style... Did some promotion though for Corvin at the pre-Christmas comics fair by way of producing a flyer - which meant I needed to design a logo first. Here it is:

And the flyer itself, made by the use of some very basic digital means - can you guess which ones?

And here's how the flyers looked on the spot at Hungarocomix:

 
Wait a minute, it actually promises a Corvin comic book for 2015... Well, fingers crossed.
For now, I can show you a teaser for the next page:

 So... Happy New Year and do stick around! ;)

Autumn sketches revisited

To keep the tradition I started last year alive, just before autumn is over.

Firstly, a Lord Corvin sketch inspired by the Inktober initiative on Facebook - check it out here if you haven't! I believe he's shouting here for more pace in drawing, so that he can finally appear in Chapter 3.

Secondly, two pieces from our monthly Drink & Draw sessions, where the pros hammer out five or more drawings with ease, while I'm happy to produce two decent ones, such as

Ser Rodrik Cassell from A Game of Thrones

and a so-called vendigork

Finally, a piece called "The role of the artist through the ages", with a little current political twist in the last panel.