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Bret Braddock book 1 and 2 available to buy online
Both Bret Braddock books are now available online from my good self. Thankee!
David Blumenstein
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Bret Braddock's Final Meeting
Ladies and gentlemen: After 3 years and 100+ pages, my comic strip “Showman? The Bret Braddock Adventures†is coming to a (horrible) end. You are invited to witness this end. Attendees at BRET BRADDOCK’S FINAL MEETING (July 14, from 6:15pm) will become part of a half-arsed
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Caravan of Comics recap, part 1
MEET THE CARAVAN Do you know what the Caravan of Comics is? It is (or was) a three week cartoonist tour of the north-eastern bit of the USA, with a swing through Toronto. It said, “Hello, Americas! We do comics, and we kick bottom.†And it was
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Caravan of Comics
Sarah and I are going on an amazing trip with a crew of cartoonists! We're touring round north-eastern USA and popping into Toronto, too. Store events, festivals, some comics jamming. It's gonna be GREAT. Hopefully we'll make some new friends, meet up with
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That's what dreams are made of
Lisa Dempster wrote a cool article about achieving your dreams. I just want to provide a short rebuttal. 1. Know what you want I know what she means. I want lots of things. Often it's tempting to grab low-hanging fruit because it's close by (the
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Parasitic Rebranding
No doubt you've seen the great new marketing tactic known as PARASITIC REBRANDING in action recently! This is where a consumer product is temporarily rebadged using the name of a much more popular object or concept, hoping that you will associate its wonderful qualities with the product. For
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It's a popularity contest
Seeking a valid quantifier by which to judge your personal and artistic progress and likelihood of finding a method by which to support yourself in the arts? Stupid internet contests may not be it! I'm conditioned for minimisation and self-deprecation. I don't like talking big
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The Stanleys 2011
or, What it is to be a cartoonist Cartoonists don’t travel through physical space, only through time. Even when the cartoonist looks, to an observer, to be travelling; on a plane, say, or a train – they are bent over their Spirax #534 pad, scratching away at a sketch
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A helpful animation tip!
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Teasers for two new shows.
Holy what-do-you-know! Some tops people helped me make TWO entries for Movie Extra's Webfest contest. Prize is $100,000 to make your show, so I figured, "yep". Arran is a cartoonist, actor and all-round happy chappy, so I cast him as a
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Bret Braddock beer mats
I like drawing on beer mats, a.k.a. those disposable cardboard coasters you get in pubs. Always a bonus when you go to a pub and they have some beer mats there with BLANK BACKS! Some beer manufacturers get coasters made with their bullshit advertising on both sides. They
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Can you guess who these people are?
It's another impromptu idiot project of mine!