When we discarded Cartoonlife, of course we did a backup. That backup somehow remains linked to here, the renamed Samupress. Some of it is interesting enough to keep and sort to other pages or blogs, or linked to their books. Soon.
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wmtc: national day for truth and reconciliation: bearing witness, finding meaning
On September 30, many Canadians will have the day off in honour of a new holiday: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The holiday was created in response to the continuing revelations of mass graves located beneath the sites of the former concentration camps known as Indian Residential Schools. The
Continue readingwmtc: chuck close, rest in peace
The artist Chuck Close died last week at the age of 81. He was an incredibly talented artist, a progressive thinker, and a diehard New Yorker who was often seen around town, especially in museums and galleries. I had the good fortune to interview Close at his studio in 1998.
Continue readingwmtc: portland street art
Our pics of murals, other street art, and food carts in Portland’s Alberta Arts District are now online. The photos themselves are nothing special, but the murals are very cool: here on Flickr. I also added a link in the post about our day in Portland.
Continue readingsamupress: An air of anxiety
New posts here have been scarce for quite some time. I have been drawing though. LondOntLife has kept me busy. I have worked up books of cartoons from previous years on hold by a global pandemic, torn down and rebuilt the blogs through deviously stupid interfaces, and occasionally picking up
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Continue readingwmtc: friends and family road trip reunion: day thirteen: portland: books, street art, food
Portland is as advertised: an interesting city with a lot going on. We both look forward to returning, perhaps before or after a family visit. We got only a taste of the town, but it left us wanting more. In the morning, we dropped off the dogs, along with their
Continue readingwmtc: friends and family reunion road trip: day eight: long-distance friends meet up in san francisco
Yesterday, after we dropped the pups at daycare, Allan and I took the BART into the city, but got off at separate stops. Allan was meeting a blog-friend (someone we have met before, and went to a game with the last time we were here, in 2010), and then had
Continue readingdoug at samupress: After only two days in Nomad Sculpt…
Who nose? … it’s clear I’m a genius
Continue readingThings Are Good: How Dar Jacir Supports Artists in Exposing Colonialism
In Bethlehem a group of artists founded an organization, Dar Jacir, which set out to support artists in Palestine and beyond. Dar Jacir is a an art and research centre that’s currently grabbling with the fallout of the latest bombings by Israel in the last few months. Despite the damage
Continue readingdoug at samupress: drum
twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1408841351073087494 A #Procreate #Artmash prompt prompted putting this together.
Continue readingdoug at samupress: Standard Apology form
This has always helped before. Let’s try it again.
Continue readingdoug at samupress: Drawing London’s overlooked birds
I don’t bother much with the video export out of Procreate, but this cartoon is a bit of fun to watch being drawn. Sometimes I do dive in and draw directly on the iPad. This isn’t so challenging as drawing directly on paper with non-scrubbable tools. I suppose that is
Continue readingdoug at samupress: Pete Beard’s Unsung Heroes of lllustration
This just popped up in my feed. Wonderful. Kurt Weise alone as covered in just this recent video was a standard in my search through books at Landon Library on Quebec Street – when you went up the stairs, left, right and straight back to the corner shelf of children’s
Continue readingdoug at samupress: The buildings
. Been fussing with this for a while. Left it alone for a while. it might be finished.
Continue readingdoug at samupress: My own comic jam
Realizing I really do miss the comicjams, I dove in. Drawing this prompted by missing the sometimes odd results when an image is handed off led to my completing a four page comic.
Continue readingdoug at samupress: Pandemic projects
I should be working on this; But I’m working on this: I think I never established the proper discipline. And I miss the Comicjams terribly. Hey! It’s a pandemic lockdown! Get creative! You have nothing but time. I have been advancing that longer story, yes. I can think of a
Continue readingdoug at samupress: Why today would be perfect for a electric assist cargo bike
Spent $3 grand over the last two years on repairs to various electrical components on the Mazda. Finally donated the otherwise working vehicle I used infrequently because of the battery vampire. Someone drove their car into the garage door where tools are stored at the property, crushing everything into a
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