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Yes, the wait is over, there is a new Oscillating Brow comic. It is a bit small, but never mind.

Several plucky comic-makers from the Paper Jam Comics Collective did a 24 hour comic. The challenge they faced was: to start from nothing (no preparation allowed) and draw a complete 24-page comic within 24 hours (following the original Scott McCloud rules). They succeeded and are all tremendous admirable people and I salute them.

For people less keen to stay up all night there was a social 'Drink and Draw' event in the evening which I was at. After having said hello to those brave souls slaving away over their 24-hour epics, I decided that in an act of solidarity and/or smartarsery, I would do a 24 hour comic just at the Drink and Draw. It is very small (A8 landscape I think) and is about a cat and other things which rhyme with cat and it's called, somewhat unimaginatively, 'CAT'.

If you like such things, you may be able to purchase CAT soon (see next post).


In other news, later that weekend, the legendary Alan Moore rolled into town and did a wacky AV event with several collaborators entitled An English Journey Revisited. It was a bit noisy but impressively odd. Mr Moore was as hairy as he is in your dreams.

Comic-to-film adaptation article

After being incensed last year that someone should choose to make a film of Watchmen, I resolved to write a fairly chunky piece looking at the process of comic-to-film adaptations. It took a while for me to work out what I was trying to say, but it's done now and I think you should read it here on the Readers of the Lost Art site.



I know comments aren't active, but if you know me, do feel free to discuss this in person, I think it's a pretty interesting topic. If you don't know me, maybe you could discuss it with people you do know who read comics and/or watch films. Or not, I mean who am I tell you what to do, I don't even know you, honestly the presumption of some people, I do apologise...

2009, bah

For reports on the goings-on in the world of comics in the North East of England in 2009, I'd suggest that interested persons investigate the blogs of the members of the Paper Jam Comics Collective (links on the right of the Paper Jam Comics Collective's blog). Many of these bright and wondrous people report on the myriad exciting and excellent things they have been up to in 2009 and look forward to the many exciting and excellent things they will be getting up to in 2010.

Things roll a bit different here at Oscillating Brow Stuff.

Highlights of 2009!
2009 was yet another year of pathetically poor output, where, with tedious predictability, ennui and inefficiency allowed the innumerable banalities of life to crush any spluttering remnants of creative potential, leaving only melancholy, misanthropy and self-loathing. The few shoddy things that did get done in the year served only to highlight what a pointless, useless, worthless excuse-for-a-human-being created them, proficient only in wasting a miserable nonexistence doing nothing.

Predictions for 2010!
Worse.

Happy New Decade Y'all!