Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Trampoline Hall

Monday night I was one of the cartoonists participating in Trampoline Hall, studiously documenting the speakers and the surroundings. Because of construction happening around Fort York as well as a film shoot, most of the streets were blocked off and I had a heck of a time trying to find the place.

I left myself time to get lost (since this is a regular occurrence for me), but was still in a panic after driving around aimlessly for 20 minutes and getting near empty in the gas tank. Finally I ended up picking up 2 other lost souls whose cab dropped them off on foot, because he gave up finding it, and together we got followed another car who was driving around looking for the event.

Teamwork saved the day and it made it just on time! It took me awhile to settle down, but once I did I really enjoyed myself. Here's the sketches I did during the evening. Click on the images for larger versions.













Fellow cartoonist Brian McLachlan and Zach Worton.


















Host Misha Glouberman



















Fellow cartoonist, (Reverend Aitor I think)? I was frankly more fascinated with the audience and the other cartoonists than the speakers. This gentlemen in particular had such a neat look that I ended up drawing him multiple times. Steve Manale suggested I do a montage of him.





























































The final speaker was a bit trying, he was getting so outrageous that people were starting to laugh out loud at some of his comments like the one here.

What I've done is more realistic in style, but lots of other people like Steve Manale and Johnny Martz were doing full-blown comics of the event. The Immonens were doing one-panel gags that looked so awesome that I was green with envy.

Becky Jonson who curated the evening is gathering all work done that evening into a zine which will be available this Sunday at Canzine as well as The Beguiling.

Below is a photo of me at the event (stolen from Kathryn Immonen's Flicker stream). Note my Spider-Man pencil case on the floor under my chair.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Diana,

You were impressively mobile in your documentation of the audience. You reminded me of a National Geographic photographer.

And yup, that's the Reverend Aitor. He's a budding superstar that we recruited because his genius reaches far beyond his aesthetics into the realms of preaching, painting, crafts, and comics.

Diana said...

Thanks Sean,

I tried to take my job seriously of documenting the evening and that's tough to do from one position in the corner so needed to roam around a bit! I took a peek over Reverend Aitor's shoulder and his stuff is really nice! I'll have to check more of it out...