Paper Trail Comic Overview – VIDEO « The Electric Playground

Check out Zen Rankin talk about SketchKrieg's new book Paper Trail. It's the collection of our art show that we had at XPACE Gallery in the beginning of 2011. Here's the link to the interview:

http://www.elecplay.com/all/spotlight/paper-trail-comic-overview-video/

Enjoy!

-Tyrone

Paper Trail at XPACE: February 3!

This is happening in February: the XPACE Cultural Centre exhibits 'Paper Trail,' an art project that takes the Surrealists’ ‘exquisite corpse’ technique and runs it through a pop art meat grinder of comic illustration. Showcasing the work of SketchKrieg!, 'Paper Trail' is a collaborative comic book narrative intended for gallery viewing.

It started like this: one SketchKrieger would create one comic panel -- any size, any format. That panel would be passed along to a second illustrator, who was then instructed to illustrate a new panel within the next four days. That illustrator would pass that new panel (and the original) to a third illustrator, and the cycle would continue. The sequence was illustrated one panel at a time, each illustrator unaware how the previous illustrator intended the story to progress. No plot or outline was devised before committing ink to paper. Everything was intended to be surprising and improvised. And no dialogue was allowed.

The resultant story (currently still in progress) is full of bizarre twists and turns as the paper chain progresses. In-between gutters, genres flip from post-apocalyptic saga to romantic comedy to political thriller. Characters die and are reborn, their motives change as often as the illustration style.

We hope you can join us for the opening night party! Details below:

Paper Trail Opening Night
Friday, February 4th, 2011
7:00 p.m. start
XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Ave.
Toronto, ON
Free!
(Show continues through February 5)

The Gladstone's 5th Anniversary Community Partners Party

Hey everyone! Happy New Year!! Just wanted to let you know that I will have a couple pieces up at the Gladstone Hotel this Friday, January 21, 2011! Come check it out ... it's going to be a good time ...!

-Tyrone

TCAF this weekend!

This weekend is the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I'm so excited to be in it again, along side my partner in crime, Tyrone McCarthy and the members of SketchKRIEG! Best of all it's FREE ADMISSION! Put on by The Beguiling it features a not to be missed lineup of some crazy huge names in comic arts. It's being held on Saturday and Sunday Aug 18 & 19 in the Old Victoria Building, U of T (Northeast corner of Queen's Park.)

I'm working away on having some mini original paintings to sell like the little 4x4" guy up there. One thing I learned from the Fruitopia job is that I can get a lot of painting done in a day if I just focus.

Drop by and visit. All the info is on the link above. It truly is an amazing festival with a little bit of something for everyone.

See you there!

preview of what's to come...

Here's my first piece to a new set for an upcoming circus-themed art show.
I call it Squidward, because the SQUID-guy is upside-downWARD.