Wild people. Drawing by me, inks by Rick. Don’t get me wrong. I love my blog. I can express stuff here and gas on about things, and look at my funny sketches. Who cares that only about 30 people a day visit the thing. But busy computer-related work (websites and writing) takes its toll of [...]
Archive for the ‘Gagnon Fridays’ Category
August 16, 2009
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Behind on Blogging
By Jack in Animals, black and white, cats, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Nora the cat, Richard Gagnon, sketches
August 8, 2009
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Back to Gagnon Fridays
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketchesIt’s been too long, but last night I was drinking with my friend Richard Gagnon, and doing silly drawings. He usually inks things that I’ve drawn. Gives me new ideas about where to place black and whites, etc. I’m feeling a little burnt at the moment, so am just going to post these, to get [...]
June 15, 2009
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Back to Gagnon Fridays
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Montreal, Richard Gagnon, sketchesEven though it’s a Monday (lots happening on the weekend, so this post got pushed back), I’m very happy that R. Gagnon and I had a chance last Friday afternoon to meet at a bar again, for drinks and drawing. He did very serious, illustrator-y treatments of my drawings, as with the above. The drawing [...]
May 23, 2009
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Back to Gagnon Fridays
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, planes, Richard Gagnon, sketchesAfter hiatus of a couple of weeks, met with my friend Rick Gagnon, but at a different bar this time. Different vibe, too. Above are his inks over an old man I drew. Below is a whiffle jet of mine, which I drew in pencil on the back of a printed sheet of paper (because [...]
May 9, 2009
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Touchez pas au grisbi
By Jack in black and white, Film & TV, Gagnon Fridays, sketchesSadly, my weekly meet with R. Gagnon was not to be. So I was flying solo. Still, Rick had his effect, because he’s been lending me these great Criterion DVDs of films such as this one, the 1954 French gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (“Hands off the loot”), from which I drew this very [...]
May 2, 2009
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Nod, and Look Sympathetic
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Jeff Leblanc, Marr, Montreal Comic Jam, photos, Richard Gagnon, sketchesFear of a pandemic grips the planet. Economic collapse has put millions out of work. Outside the window of the Cock and Bull Bar, an angry throng marches down the street for May Day, carrying red and black flags, shouting for justice and revolution. I feel suddenly like I’m in Paris, 1968. I tried to [...]
April 26, 2009
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Back to Gagnon Fridays
By Jack in Animals, black and white, cats, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketchesIt’s good to see Rick Gagnon again, at our traditional Friday afternoon meet at the Cock N’ Bull for drawing and chat. We missed last week, and then I put this post off until today, because of all the class action excitement. But here we are again, with another batch of fun drawings. Below, can [...]
April 19, 2009
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Bar-room Beauty
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, ERDC, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketchesI’ve been busy with “stuff” and have neglected the blog a little bit. By that, I mean I didn’t post something yesterday. Scandal! Well, as I said, my friend and collaborator Rick Gagnon was away in New York, hobnobbing with the Hoi Polloi. Meanwhile I was toiling here in my dungeon in South Central Montreal. [...]
April 11, 2009
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Another Big Whack of Drawings
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketchesMore faces, this time drawn with fellow artist and bon vivant Rick Gagnon, during our weekly soirée at the Cock N’ Bull bar. Above it’s my worst enemy, the phony film director guy who wants me to work for him for no money. He’s not at all like the real directors I know, who actually [...]
April 4, 2009
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They Live!
By Jack in collaboration, Film & TV, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketchesMore pics drawn collaboratively at the Cock N’ Bull bar on Friday night. Sadly, my friend Marr wasn’t there, but Rick and I drew some choice items. The one above, by both of us, based on the John Carpenter movie, makes me smile every time I look at it. Then there’s Erich Von Stroheim, drawn [...]
March 29, 2009
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Big Head
By Jack in black and white, Gagnon Fridays, Richard Gagnon, sketchesAnother drawing by Gagnon from last Friday evening, which I inked today. He has a large comic and original comic art collection, and knowledge of styles and inking patterns I can only guess at. Those trees, rocks, and puffs of smoke, and that Jack Kirby-ish machinery, for instance. He also likes big heads in containers.
March 28, 2009
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Heads
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketchesBack to the bar, with Rick and Marr. Again, Marr did some drawings in his own little sketchbook, but I didn’t get snaps. Rick and I drew heads. Above is werewolf Orson Welles, by me, inked by Rick. Below, Leonard Cohen-like bar guy, drawn by Rick and inked my me. But I did that later, [...]
March 21, 2009
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Saint Patrick’s Rapscallionry
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketchesSaint Patrick’s day has come and gone, but the parade is today. So, last night, they were getting ready the green food colouring for the beer at the Cock N’ Bull pub. And I was drawing mildly salacious scenes happening around me and my friends Rick and Marr. Rick inked these, or in the case [...]
March 14, 2009
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Beers and Drawings
By Jack in black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketchesMore drawing from the other night, meeting with friends at the Cock N’ Bull bar. Rick Gagnon was there. Marr was there, too, but he didn’t stay long enough to draw anything. Still, Rick was able to ink things like this drawing above of mine of one of the servers. Below is my drawing, embellished [...]
