The October 2024 Cab Post
Dusty CDs, pumpkins and good fall music
Recap
Hello peeps, I hope you're doing well! October is ending in an explosion of color that never seems to end. I took roughly two thousand photos of various orange trees, muttering “did you see that light? THAT LIGHT?!” to concerned passers-by.
Halloween means the return of my favorite tradition: painting pumpkins with Sam and her daughters! Our production this year was quite impressive. Mine is the one with the tentacles but Sam's is the prettiest of the lot. There is something very meditative about covering a large pumpkin with paint. It's a nice change from drawing on a screen.
Here is the third and final illustration from my “Shoeghosts” series that I started last year. I really like used books and records stores and I am convinced that they are all a little haunted. Are those the ghosts from the first illustration? Is the afterlife a record store that smells like dust, dry paper and old plastic? In any case, I can't wait to get a batch printed and put the three of them together. There’s a neat process post on Patreon with the sketches, inks and color studies.
Also: good photos of skate parks and the Mont-Royal/Westmount.
Announcements
Now that the series is finished, I have updated the Shoeghosts bundle, which now includes the three prints as well as two stickers, which are available nowhere else.
The Salon du Livre de Montréal is at the very end of November. I’ll be signing books at the Front Froid/Nouvelle Adresse booth:
Saturday the 29th: 3:30 PM to 5 PM
Sunday the 30th: 11:00 am to 12:30 PM
That's all for October. Time to get the leaf rake out. I’ll see you in December. Take care of yourselves!
This newsletter is and will ALWAYS be free. If you like what I do, I suggest visiting my online shop or hunt down my books at your favorite bookstore or library. You can also support me on Patreon or buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. Thanks a lot!
Cool stuff
A good post in favor of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), the least sexy but most effective technology on the internet. I use the RSS reader Feedly, from which I get updates for animation and art news sites, tech sites, beautiful pencil stores, etc. for like… 15 years. A large part of the recommendations found in this newsletter come from my Feedly feed.
“RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.”
-Cory Doctorow, October 16, 2024
A collection of photos of small retro household appliances. If I ever make a robot comic, I want them to look like that.
It was the Loser Jamboree at Les Foufs on October 20. I bought a fluodelic print by Sophie Viau, who works at the No Gloss risograph printing company. I would very much like to make a riso print run one day!
Wearing Out the Refrain by BAD MOVES. It’s full of energy, it’s catchy and it reminds me of old New Pornographers albums.
Fully Beat, from Aluminum, if you miss Lush.
Free Energy by Dummy, or a kind of psychedelic trip inside a transparent iMac.
Cool artist: Daniel Heikalo. His Flicker account contains over 6000 photos, many of which are from 60s-90’s era Montreal. It's an incredible resource for anyone who would like to tackle a comic book set during those years. I particularly like the album featuring vanished parts of Montreal.
A good post:
