Posted in Latest Site Updates on February 13, 2010 by Vec
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In addition to the Golden Age Comics workshop, I did another project for the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum’s 2009 holiday programming called Earn Your Deck Landing Stickers. When children visited the museum, they received sticker sheets with 12 naval aircraft in the museum’s collection and a dossier with the aircrafts’ corresponding carriers. As the children went on tour, they were instructed to place a sticker to its corresponding naval carrier once they saw the actual aircraft.
The stickers are a mix of 12 WWII and post-WWII aircraft. The graphics are simple with flat colours, thick contour lines and some detail in the interior of the contour lines. The line art was drawn by hand using technical pens, rulers and S-curves. Given that aircraft are machines, they need to be drawn with tools that leave precise and geometric marks.
The dossier has the same Hampton Gray illustration as the workshop poster. The Corsair, the aircraft that he flew, is supposed to be stuck by his head. The interior contains illustrations of the aircraft carriers on which the actual navy aircraft once travelled. The interior illustrations were drawn by Karl Gagnon and were modified by me to match the style of the stickers.
Canada Aviation and Space Museum: www.aviation.technomuses.ca
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Posted in Latest Site Updates on February 06, 2010 by Vec
Image courtesy of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, copyright 2009.
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The focus of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum’s 2009 holiday programming was naval aircraft as 2010 was the Canadian Navy’s centennial year. Of particular focus for some of the activities was WWII naval pilot Hampton Gray. He received the Victoria Cross for air attacks on Japan just before the end of WWII. Unfortunately, Gray was one of the last Canadians to die in the war when he was shot down after sinking a Japanese escort vessel.
In response to the focus on Gray, I developed a workshop that used Golden Age Comics to make WWII naval pilots interesting to children. Patriotic superhero and war-themed stories were hugely popular during WWII, the time in which Golden Age Comics were mainly created. I discussed the characters and stories in these comics to give participants a sense of what Hampton Gray lived through and fought to defend. I put a Canadian spin on the content by discussing Canadian superheroes such as Nelvana of the Northern Lights and Johnny Canuck.
This is an illustration of Hampton Gray in his pilot gear. It was drawn for the workshop’s 22 x 33 inch poster (as seen above) and rendered with ink, watercolour and pencil crayon.
Canada Aviation and Space Museum: www.aviation.technomuses.ca
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Posted in Latest Site Updates on December 26, 2009 by Vec
Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes (SPL) is a Québecois comic art/publishing collective in Gatineau, Québec. SPL’s main goals are to expand comic book readership among the general public, explore content and artistic forms atypical to comics and publicize French Canadian bandes dessinées. It publishes a number of emerging and established comic artists under a number of collections and is a unique operation in that few art collectives formed by comic artists exist in Canada.
Between September 2009 and September 2010, I was an administrator for SPL’s executive board. I also lay out books for the collective on occasion.
Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes: www.premiereslignes.ca |
