Tatiana Gill's Blog of Wax http://tatianagill.com/blog waxing comix Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Tatiana Gill on Facebook http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=183 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=183#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:58:14 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=183 Hey if you’re on Facebook and you want to be my fan, “like” me, or just see more comix, my artist page is here. I’ve posted a bunch of my old comics and illo work on there too.

 

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=183 Intergrating Typography http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=182 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=182#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:03:00 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=182

marc ruygrok: typographic sculptures

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=182 Rad Cartoon Find: Three Word Phrase http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=181 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=181#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:55:14 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=181 I’m pretty sure this guy lives near Kate Beaton and hangs out with her a lot. I love him and his rad cartoons haha. What joy!

Lots of strips: http://threewordphrase.com/

Ryan’s Website! http://www.ryanpequin.com/

Ryan’s Twitter! http://twitter.com/ryanpequin

Ryan’s Lj! http://ryanpeq.livejournal.com/

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=181 Amazing Comic by Steven Weissman http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=180 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=180#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:17:37 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=180 http://whatthingsdo.com/comic/this-already-happened-10/

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=180 Yes Another iPad Post! http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=179 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=179#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:30:22 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=179 Oh no not another iPad Post, you say, to which I reply, yes, this news is too great to respect my self imposed ban on iPad.

 I saw one this morning and it’s one of the greatest comic platforms I’ve ever seen. Super sharpest full resolution blast in your face color are you kidding me? BOOM! I am so excited to make iPad comics, and I hope you will too. Lets show these mainstreamers how it’s DONE, indy comickers! Raise your pens and lets go Scott McCloud on their assets!

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=179 CCS Visiting Artist Blog http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=178 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=178#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:24:07 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=178 Hello, friends of comics, Each year The Center for Cartoon Studies invites world-renowned cartoonists into our classroom.  Since September of 2009, I’ve been writing a weekly blog about these visiting artists (including  Seth, Alison Bechdel, John Porcellino, R. Sikoryak and Charles Burns, just to name a few).

I welcome you to visit the CCS Visiting Artist Blog at:
http://ccsvisitingfaculty.wordpress.com/

It is my goal to chronicle this vital aspect of the CCS experience.  I also want to provide valuable and informative content for comic enthusiasts everywhere.

I hope you enjoy the blog!  I recommend you start by reading about our recent visitor, Charles Burns, and his thoughts on Tintin, book deign and inking.
http://ccsvisitingfaculty.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/charles-burns-on-herge-book-design-and-inking/

Sincerely,
 
Robyn Chapman
CCS Program Coordinator
 
Exploring the medium’s past, present, and potential

The Center for Cartoon Studies
P.O. Box 125
White River Junction, VT  05001
 
WEB: www.cartoonstudies.org

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=178 On Knitting and Delayed Gratification http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=177 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=177#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:22:18 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=177 Yesterday on the bus to work, I overheard a conversation between a young lady (maybe 20ish, with punk style) and two much older women. The young one asked the difference between knitting and crocheting, which one had two needles, which one had one. An older woman replied that knitting uses two needles while crocheting uses a hook. The young woman then objected to the very concept, who can just sit there for hours? Who has that kind of patience? The old ladies smiled. Then the girl contemplated how she plays guitar, which takes hours of patience, but at least she gets instant gratification of hearing her song right away. Then it was her stop and she left.

That started me thinking about the instant gratification of knitting. The soothing repetition and patterns. The feeling of nice wool running past my fingers. The feeling I’m a part of something greater than myself, a herstorical loom of skill that’s been woven for hundreds or thousands of years.

And then beyond, is appreciating the gratification that I did not learn to enjoy as a young person, but only in my 30s have I even begun to appreciate. The amazing feeling of creating something that DOES take time, that does take skill and discipline and patience, is so much more infinitely gratifiying than something you can make on the spot with little effort.

Yes, I like getting older. I’m looking forward to my 40s and we’ll talk then about my 50s ;)

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=177 The Inside and Outside Pin-Ups of Molly Kiely http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=176 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=176#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:21:40 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=176 Molly Kiely was the first all-empowering, all sex-positive, cartoonist I read, and considering I worked for an erotic comics retailer, I’ve read THEM. ALL. Molly Kiely stands alone as her own awesome stake in the world of Comics, Feminism, Porn, Erotica, Black and White Art, and Sex Positive Empowerment.

 She blew my mind with “Diary of a Dominatrix” and “That Kind of Girl” in the 90s and early 00s. Now I’ve found her on flickr, doing gorgeous pin ups and photography of the gorgeous Molly Kiely in the flesh!

SWOON.

pitstop by mollykiely.

http://www.mollykiely.com/

365 Days of Being 40 on Flickr (Pix and Modelling by Molly)

Cover to the book that changed my sexual insides, “That Kind of Girl”

front cover, TKoG by mollykiely.

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=176 The Wonderous Glory of Kate Beaton http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=175 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=175#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:53:13 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=175 Hark! Kate Beaton is the funniest cartoonist alive today!

 http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

]]> http://tatianagill.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=175 Amazing Old Ad http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=174 http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=174#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:39:06 +0000 Tatiana http://tatianagill.com/blog/?p=174 I don’t think cartoons are allowed to do Sex Ed these days. Correct me if I’m wrong!

Swiped from http://themightyadam.com/

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