Went to a chat today by Peggy Burns, who is the marketing person for Drawn and Quarterly Books in Montreal, speaking at the Atwater Library. She talked about the history of Drawn and Quarterly, some of their artists such as Chester Brown, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, and Lynda Barry. Also got into a little of [...]
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December 8, 2011
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Peggy Burns from Drawn and Quarterly
By Jack in ballpoint pen, comics, current events, Montreal, sketches
November 2, 2011
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Exploding Toothbrush Sequel
By Jack in Activism, photos, ruttan's placeIt seems that my exploding toothbrush experience wasn’t as unusual as the manufacturers claimed. Now Health Canada has announced a recall. They don’t make that model toothbrush any more. I got interviewed over the phone by Canadian Press. Nice to have a little effect on things. UPDATE (Nov 3, 2011): Now I’ve got some fairly [...]
October 24, 2011
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Eric Drooker at Drawn & Quarterly
By Jack in Activism, current events, Montreal, Pen & Ink, photos, sketchesThe other night I went up to the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore on Bernard Street, in the vaguely trendy area of Mile End in Montreal. Amazingly got a seat right by the lectern, with a view of the screen, as below. Drooker’s event was billed as a Workshop on Art and Activism, but it was [...]
October 20, 2011
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Daniel Clowes and Seth
By Jack in cartoons, current events, Montreal, photosSaw them the other night, at an event sponsored by Drawn & Quaterly publications. Two big cartoonists at the tops of their games. Didn’t have much to say to us struggling types. Neither of them really uses a computer, or worries about people reading their comics. Clowes talked about what it was like being nominated [...]
October 11, 2011
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Griffin Art – Séguin Poirier Gallery/Studio
By Jack in Art Chat, MontrealA visit to the Seguin Poirier Gallery-Studio in Griffintown, Montreal. http://seguinpoirier.com This is another of my little point-and-shoot camera video interviews focused around aspects of the art scene I happen to encounter during my wanderings in Montreal. I’m formalizing it now as “Art Chat” and have bought that name as an address for a web [...]
August 17, 2011
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Ruttan family ephemera -E.H. Ruttan and Son General Store, Hardisty, Packing Tape.
By Jack in Family, photos, ruttan's placeI wanted to share a family heirloom, a roll of gummed paper packing tape from my Great Grandfather’s General Store in Hardisty, Alberta. It dates from about the depression (not the current one, I mean about 1932-33), and is slightly stuck together from the gum, but I’ve unrolled a little as you see. Nice phone [...]
July 22, 2011
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Sonja and I
By Jack in books, literature, Montreal, photos, poesyShot of a drunken me (Jack Ruttan) and the estimable (and late) Sonja Skarstedt at the now-defunct Double Hook Bookstore, sometime in the early 1990s. Photo by Geof Isherwood.
July 6, 2011
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Street People
By Jack in men, Montreal, sketches, watercolour, womenOn Saint Viateur, during the recent Feast of Saint. Marziale. And rue Masson:
Tags: Montreal, watercolor, watercolour
June 30, 2011
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Pinocchio
By Jack in current events, Montreal, photos, ruttan's placeTaking a break from all the sketchbooky angst to post these shots of a performance of “Pinocchio” in the local park, still going on, even as I type this!
June 14, 2011
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L’Écho d’un Fleuve
By Jack in current events, Montreal, ruttan's place, visual artSpent a while shooting and editing videos of the annual L’Écho d’un Fleuve event, which happens in this neighbourhood every June. It’s a thrill to do, and wonderful to think one lives in a neighbourhood where such things take place. Hooray for artists and dancers and all. Not an easy life. But it’s great to [...]
June 11, 2011
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F1 Confusion
By Jack in Animals, colour, current events, horses, Montreal, paintings, photos, sketches, watercolourYesterday, I went to check out the Formula 1 Festivities downtown in Montreal. Snapped a few photos, as above. Kind of tiring, the whole thing, so I took a pit stop in Dorchester Square, ate French Fries, and sketched the equestrian monument to the wildly popular Boer War.
April 28, 2011
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Back to the Balcony
By Jack in Montreal, sketches, watercolour, womenSitting on the balcony drawing again. People go by, things go by.
March 9, 2011
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Alsatian
By Jack in Animals, Brush Pen, colour, dogs, men, Montreal, Pen & Ink, watercolour, womenThe drawings look more realistic when copied from photographs. My problem is, it’s boring to draw from photographs. I’m painting shapes rather than trying to think around an object. Oh, I just remembered. Drew some sketches on the metro the other day. These to me are the best faces. I don’t know they have a [...]
February 16, 2011
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Tonight’s Efforts
By Jack in colour, men, Montreal, paintings, watercolourPainting more stuff tonight, after working hard. Tough days, actually, in various ways, though things aren’t bad. Getting stuff going, making decisions, dealing with things. Hope it all works out! It is February, though. One thing is from a photo, the other an elaboration of a quick sketch I made.
