Carved Crayons from Pete Goldlust

Written by Myra on April 28, 2009 – 3:18 pm -


These carved crayon pieces were created by the sculpture artist, Pete Goldlust. He’s done other carved crayon pieces along with his sculpture and installation artwork. Check out his site for more pieces.


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Paper Toys!

Written by Myra on April 27, 2009 – 1:02 am -

I came across these super cute paper toy characters that were created by Marshal Alexander. His pieces are inspired by vintage technology such as old video game systems and robots.

You should check out the website, you can download PDFs of these toys and create them yourselves!


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A Softer World Parody

Written by Myra on April 25, 2009 – 2:22 pm -

So I randomly stumbled across this Softer World parody from XKCD ;)


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Joana Linda - Photographer

Written by Myra on April 21, 2009 – 10:17 pm -

I was browsing through some photography online and discovered this piece by Joana Linda. It stuck out to me.. maybe it’s my obsession but the colors give me a reminiscence of aged Polaroid photos.


Photographer: Joana Linda


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Christina Ung - Illustrator

Written by Myra on April 21, 2009 – 10:09 pm -

Christina Ung was born in Thailand and grew up in Canada since the age of 3. Before the start of her career, she graduated at Sheridan College (in Toronto) in 2007 and has been pursuing successful illustrated for different editorials and clients around North America.

View more stuff on her site :)



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1984 Labbit

Written by denise on April 16, 2009 – 7:47 pm -

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Frank Kozik is back with a 10″ 1984 Labbit, inspired by the 1984 circa.


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TCAF 2009!

Written by denise on April 16, 2009 – 7:25 pm -

For all comic fans out there, the TCAF is back!

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This year’s event  will take place at the Toronto Reference Library on Saturday May 9 & Sunday May 10. Highlighted guest at this year’s event include Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim),  Jillian and Mariko Tamaki (Skim) and Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve, Shortcomings)

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) celebrates the best in independent comics and sequential art. TCAF showcases a diverse range of comic artists to cater to a large audience of readers and potential readers of different taste.

For more information, visit the site.


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