Author: Gerhard

I got an email from Joe who said, “I love Hans Memling’s “Scenes from the Passion of Christ” and “Scenes from the Life of Mary”, and Pieter Breugel’s “Hunters in the Snow” and “Netherlandish Proverbs” — in which there are many separate stories/events all occurring at once within a single unified landscape or cityscape.

Like this:

…or this:

… or these:

Joe goes on to say, “I’d like you to do a similar scene, but incorporating all or most of the parables of Christ.”

So…

Many hours later and after amassing 691 files for reference sorted into 42 folders,

I present to you the pencils for, ‘Thirty Three Parables of Christ’:

I’ll get back to you when the inking is done.

Don’t wait up.

… I was experimenting with having prints made.

One of then was the 360 degree panorama of the Last Day Room:

I trimmed it down, joined the two ends together, and voila!

The Last Day Lampshade!

Not available in stores.

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But the Waverly Press deluxe edition should be coming out soon:

(Lampshade not included.)

… it took a 12 hour drive there and 10 hours back (including breaks, border crossings and construction)…

but we made it!

It was a great show. Thanks to Rick Mandriota and everyone else who helped out.

Thanks especially to everyone that stopped by our table!!!

And we brought home a new member of our family:

Now, back to the old drawing board… hopefully.

Tomorrow we pack up the car and hit the road for the eight (or more) hour drive to Indianapolis for the

INDIANA COMIC CONVENTION

running this weekend, May 5th to the 7th!

The weather’s supposed to be pretty nice, so come on out!

As we prepare for our trip to Indianapolis for the

INDIANA COMIC CONVENTION MAY 5TH – 7TH

it has also been officially announced that I will be a guest at

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2023

Bowness-on-Windermere – Friday 29 September to Sunday 1 October

Where the heck is Bowness-on-Windermere, you may ask?

Well… it’s right about here:

…and it looks something like this:

As I said: very exciting!

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It’s been 30 years since the Cerebus UK Tour in ’93…

we’ve got some catching up to do!

… (or will be) at table G2, smack-dab in the middle of exhibit hall D:

(click to enlarge)

indianacomicconvention.com

…venturing out for our first Post-Covid-Con…

Indiana Comic Convention website

It’s been a long time.

If you’re in the area, come on out… we’d love to see you!

…taxes are done… my back is much better… trying to work…

…need something for the blog…

…how ’bout a photo from San Diego 1986?

Sure, why not?

Brian C. recently framed and hung a bunch of the commissions I had done for him over the years.

This is the “Vaille Que”, (or as Shel calls it, “Chick in a Tree”)

in a frame that makes it look as if it could have just come out of the Louvre:

…and here’s “Set-a-Spell” above the “Great Wall of China” series:

…featuring the ever-popular, always hilarious, “Brian In Full Mongolian Garb Riding a Camel”: