T&F will take a little break to watch Christmas Specials, eat Rotkohl and just lay there and enjoy the time off. We strongly suggest you should do the same!
Take care, don’t drink and drive, be nice to each other and check back next year when we are back as well!
As promised, here is the trailer-page of our current comic-project called “Purgatory”.
It is quite different to what we have done before but we still hope you like it… from what you can see on this small preview page. All cool people say preview page. “Trailer page” is so yesterday. Get over it, people!
Now, more than ever, feedback is very much appreciated. So if you ever wanted to leave a comment, do it like the Google-Secret-Searcher and just go for it. In the meantime, we will be off into the Internet and plaster the Internet-walls with the Trailer-Page Preview-Page.
… because nobody else could report it, even if they would want to, because, well, we are the only ones who know about it. “Oh god, they are trying to cash-in those people searching for the word secrets on Google again.” No! We’re not! Remember, we are all about rock-hard facts, we are a blog of truth. Yes, we are.
So, what exactly is it you want to tell us? Well, we are creating a new word and that word is “Trailer-Page”. Yes, indeed, it’s “Trailer-Page” and you heard it here first. Soon everyone will ask “Have you seen the new Trailer-Page of bla bla?” “Doesn’t the Trailer-Page of bla di bla look astonishing?” and yes, you are right, nobody will give us credit for it. And we should consider sueing, really. Because, you know, we kind of coined the term and now everyone is using it. We cannot really blame them, because it is such a great term, but you know, we want some money for it. Our fair share of the pie. I mean, you heard it here first, right?
Okay, so, why talk about all this nonsense? Why bore you? Because we did not finish the Trailer-Page today. We wanted to, but we didn’t have enough time! Sorry for that. It’s turning out to be quite alright and we wish you could see it now, but you don’t. It makes you sad and angry, we know. We know that feeling: People will have stolen a term we coined! Imagine that…
Trailer-Page coming tomorrow! Or the day after! Promised!
There are a lot of things to like and love about Trains are…Mint and it’s no surprise it shows up on Best Comic of the Year lists. I was lucky enough to secure T&F a 12-page preview of the newest Trains are…Mint 5 from Oliver East’s blog over here.
I could start now by telling you that the watercolours are brilliant (faint but still vibrant) or that the style is genious (a mixture of 1st person and ambient shots, combined with the occasional meta-frame) and when I say I could, I actually do, which brings this overly long sentence, mostly consisting of semi-empty phrases and idioms, to its end. I could and do say all of this because it’s true. Sometimes it is hard to comprehend what some of the pictures are showing you, but when seen in the narrative and artistic context they make even more sense – so much sense that I simply cannot think of a way to capture the scenes better. Although it is just a preview, Trains are Mint…5 is a very round piece of work and I cannot wait to see the whole thing.
But let’s get to what I like about it the most, because, let’s be honest, we all know how well Oliver East does the art and I know how bad I am at describing it. The best thing in the Trains are…Mint 5 preview is the humour. It’s just great, I love it, it is what makes it special to me.
Although the protagonist is a somewhat detached observer of things surrounding him, he does explore, thereby getting involved in it and the outcomes of those confrontations are intriguingly funny. Do not get me wrong here, because this is where it does the essential bits right: The protagonist is never completely detached from his surroundings, he would never just brush the life around him off with an ironic comment or even an arrogant observation. He is a part of it and he knows it. And when the individual parts come together, this is when you have to adore Trains are…Mint 5. Even when the preview becomes self-reflective it feels like two parts of the same world just collided. It’s great!
To sum it up: It is a fantastic piece of work, I love it and I know you will love it, too, unless, of course, you do not love good things, you only love things that are bad. Like watching the Lord of the Ring movies – backwards and in slow motion, with Gollum being played by Louis de Funes, the director is Ingmar Bergman and he had to stick to the Dogma rules outlined by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Although, on second thought, it sounds quite alright! A lot better than the original movies! Let’s be honest, they are quite overrated… unlike Trains are…Mint 5, which is brilliant.
Oh, if all this talking about the comic got you all hyped up, all jacked up, all swing-swing snap-snap, let’s have a knife-fight in a dark alleyway somewhere in Brooklyn, all Hell’s Kitchen belongs to the Baker-Boys from the 45th Street, unless, of course, your name is Two-Finger Eddy the Barber, then jump over to the Rolling Stock Press. You can buy the previous issues of Trains are…Mint and even find a scanned version of number 4 there.
Gosh! It’s Friday already. How did that happen? One moment you make full mouthed promises about schedules and then in the next second people call you a dirty liar. A filthy, reckless liar. And then they throw rotten eggs at you and chase you out of your hometown, so you hold on tight to your laptop and your flight-tickets to England. And while you dodge the knives and pitchforks you promise yourself that this shall never happen again in your new country of choice… but then you get yourself a blog, make full mouthed promises again… No! This cannot happen again!
Lay down your knives and pitchforks, here is:
The Philosophical Truth #2: Karl Marx
One more promise to fulfill and a whole weekend in front of us! Yippie! Hm. Strangely our spellcheck does not like “yippie”. Instead it wants us to say yippee. But guess what Spellcheck? Exactly.
And with that we say goodbye for now, see you next time for the review of the Trains are…Mint preview. Yippie!
I haven’t. Well, at least not since I left school. Somehow I managed to avoid fights, although that one time when a guy rode past me with his bike and made a gun-shot noise, I would have gotten into a fight, if only he wasn’t on a bike. Or taller than me. Or had that grim look on his face. Or those well-toned thighs from riding the bike all day making gun-shot noises… I bet I would have won. Or at least made it out alive. Or without losing a limb.
Anyway! Here’s the new T&F.
To Tumble and Fall getting into a fight.
Anyone out there who wants to share his fighting experience? There is enough space in the comments.
Oh, by the way, we did some artwork for the band House of Orange! Make sure to check out their Myspace!
Today we are not talking secrets. Today we are talking straight-forward facts. We will get right to the core of it, grab it with our rough, from comic-drawing punished, slightly distorted but still very attractive hands and throw it into this blog. Right here, right now. Facts! Raw truths!
What better way to convey the truth than a list? Correct, there is no better way! So, here it is:
Things to come over the week (in an unordered list-form)*:
You are rightfully (is this a word?) impressed. Gaze at the list of truth! Nevermore will you look for blogs with the tag “secrets“. From now on it’s the “truth”-tag all the way.
* We cannot promise that any of the points listed will actually be published over the course of the next week.
