One way or another, Brilliant Boy is going to make the news!
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NOTE: Beginning Monday March 15, Brilliant Boy will run semi-weekly, on every Mondays and Thursdays. It’s been a pleasure bringing you this strip, but my increasingly hectic schedule is forcing me to cut production of this comic to twice a week. I appreciate your readership, and I hope you will continue to read Brilliant Boy.
Tim and I were asked by the Literacy Coordinator at Calico Public School (in Toronto) if we would like to participate in their Literacy Night, an evening of fun and festivities to promote reading among their students. Of course, we said “Yes”! So I created a Brilliant Boy-themed handout that included cartooning tips, Brilliant Boy comic strips, and a comic template for the aspiring cartoonists.
As many as 90 students dropped by our table as we gave demonstrations on how to illustrate and cartoon. Kids just love to draw and colour, and it was fun just watching them doodle. We had a great time, and we think the kids did too. Thanks for the invite, Calico P.S.!
There was a nature event at Tommy Thomson Park (Toronto) on Sunday, so I grabbed my camera, hopped on my bike, and headed down. They had several birds of prey on display, so I snapped some photos of those…
It’s been such a nice weekend weather-wise that I just had to put down my pencil and hit the local park in search of interesting things to photograph. It didn’t take long as the bugs are still out in full force. Here are some of my pix…
It’s funny how cartoon characters evolve over time. I guess we grow with our creations, and as we mature, so do our artistic styles.
Here is a drawing of Gill and Poetica that appeared in the Brilliant Boy #2 comic book. My, how they’ve changed!
People sometimes ask us how we came up with the unique and unusual names for our characters. Well, I came up with the idea of Brilliant Boy during my last year of university, where I was studying Visual Communication Graphic Design. I’ve always enjoyed my Typography classes, and had developed a tremendous respect and admiration for the Typographic trade. When I realized that I wanted a motif for my comic book creation, I decided to name my characters after Typographers and Type Faces that I liked, as a way to pay homage to the people who’s work influenced how we perceive the printed medium. So as an underlying theme, I’ve made it a point to name all the inhabitants of Baskerville after Type Faces.
The list below shows the Type Faces that I named my characters by:
