Plastic Millennium, pre III

 

Another UAS cartoon from the Mulroney years. At that time, the Conservatives (still calling themselves the Progressive Conservatives) were trying to push through legislation for the GST -- a tax they claimed would eliminate the deficit, and, if memory serves, allow generous social programs. Some members of the Senate resisted the legislation -- a rarity in Canadian politics.

Dae-woo on the phone

A sketch from my screenplay module novel, PAPER KEYS TO BURNING KINGDOMS (intro video below).

[A PLASTIC MILLENNIUM project.]

Paper Keys to Burning Kingdoms - Intro

This is another version of the opening to my novel Paper Keys to Burning Kingdoms. As I mention in the YouTube comments doohickey, this is a stand-alone project. But it also links to my mega-novel, Plastic Millennium.

All contents shot in Seoul, and, more importantly, Vogme 13 certified.

May Days II

May 5 is the 200th anniversary of Kierkegaard's birth. Here is a good post on that by Levi Asher.

May days

May 6 was the four month anniversary of Richard's death. Here are the two of us with our paternal grandfather (Farfar) in Fredericton. This was around the time of the Apollo moon shots. I remember the two of us very excited about it, then falling asleep just before Neil Armstrong clambered down the ladder for the first time.

Plastic Millennium, pre II

copyright finn harvor 1991

This is from the Mulroney years. We used to call Unemployment Insurance U.I. Now Canadians call it E.I. You're insured if you're employed, but not if you're not ... or something.

Sarah and the language lads - Truth Marathon

A few more drawings from my screenplay module novel TRUTH MARATHON.

Harming the environment/getting killed in traffic ... which is worse?

Another couple from my screenplay module novel TRUTH MARATHON.

Truth Marathon - One - PDF

A PDF file of the first fifty pages of my screenplay module novel TRUTH MARATHON is now up at my new site.

Drawing V

The two uppermost were sketches done when I was still an undergrad. I originally did a BA at Trent, but then came to York for its fine arts program. But I was a downtown guy, so I spent a lot of time hanging around Robart's Library at U of T. The top drawing is from there. The middle drawing was drawn on the back of a syllabus handout for an art history class I took at York (to give you an idea of when it was circa, it was printed in blue mimeograph ink).

I liked sketching and did it almost compulsively (I drew the middle sketch when I should have been taking notes). And, of course, since I had artistic ambitions, I was interested in honing my skill. "Craft" was a word that came up sometimes from my teachers, I think. "Process" was a very trendy word at that time. But I didn't like terms like that and was simply interested in drawing better. I was probably dissatisfied with the top drawing; I tended to think outright sketching was too messy. I like the drawing now. One instructor I had -- a really great guy named Eric Loder -- said "never throw out a drawing. You never know how you'll feel about it later." It's a hard rule to follow; Suki chastises me for all the paper I have. But it's a good principle to adhere to as much as possible.

And then, at the bottom, the table where it all started. The Danish coffee table where Richard and I did all our early drawings and comics.

Plastic Millennium, pre

 

This was from when smart bombs were something of a novelty. We all worried about the apocalypse then. We're over that now.

Graphic fiction, cartoon division

This is a piece I did while still living in Canada. I was doing regular work for an outfit called Union Art Services, run by Mike Constable. This was just on the eve of the Gulf War -- or Gulf War One as it was later called. Perhaps Continuum War might be a better moniker....

(Incidentally, and FWIW, this material is going to work its way into PLASTIC MILLENNIUM.)