scraps of crap

Making things at Stumptown

David Malki ! — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:05:14 +0000

Here’s the Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nick Gurewitch answering questions at the Stumptown Comics Fest:

and here’s some delightful backstory:

in comic form or
in photo-comic form

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chocobo thing

David Malki ! — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:01:32 +0000

Drawn at the Stumptown Comics Fest this last weekend.

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Ink sketch of a Belgian

David Malki ! — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:54:06 +0000

Crowquill and ink study for a watercolor painting. (Click for bigger)

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Khrushchev on a napkin

David Malki ! — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:23:41 +0000

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STAPLE! Live Art Show

David Malki ! — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:19:55 +0000

I love this series of pictures.

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STAPLE! sketch

David Malki ! — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:21:21 +0000

At the STAPLE! show last weekend, a fine conventioneer named Freddie offered me his sketchbook, which I promptly besoiled with the following:

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Ink-wash study

David Malki ! — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:47:51 +0000

Broke out the dip-pens and watercolors today. It’s been far too long.

I realized as I was sharpening pencils that I haven’t actually sharpened a pencil in several years. I’ve bought pencils (intending to put them to use) far more often than I have actually used them. So I dug through my drawers and found all the pencils I could that needed sharpening, then sharpened them all for good measure.

This piece has an outline inked with crowquill and brush, after which I diluted the ink and went back in with a wash brush. The thin piece of scratch paper that I used wrinkled from the watery ink — I really love how in the scan the wrinkles give the dude a radiant Byzantine-halo effect. ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND MASTER

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Presenting: Expendable.

David Malki ! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:36:38 +0000

I know it’s not scrappy, or crappy. But it was a lot of work, and the main reason why posts here have been irregular and/or video-centric lately.

Anyway. Enjoy:

(Direct Youtube link)

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Is polygamy a success?

David Malki ! — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:45:57 +0000

While at the library yesterday hunting through old books for Wondermark source material, I came across this article in the 1891 volume of a magazine called The Illustrated American. Entitled “Is Polygamy a Success?”, it’s letters from readers responding to a previous article written by a self-described “ex-Mormon,” in which the writer denounces Mormonism with claims that its members practice polygamy.

These letters were just the beginning of a huge outcry by Mormons and others against the magazine. In later issues, the editors of The Illustrated American comment on a libel suit brought against them by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; later still, they print a letter from Wilford Woodruff, the president of the church at that time, who defends the Church against what he perceives as mischaracterizations in the article by the “ex-Mormon.” The whole exchange is fascinating, because it really shows how fiercely polygamy was a hot-button issue for religious leaders at the time.

Due to time constraints, I didn’t scan pages from the later issues; anyone interested in this particular wrinkle in the history of the Mormon church can look up 1891 issues of The Illustrated American. But this letters column, in which many parties defend polygamy, was particularly interesting to me because of the window it affords into the state of family relationships in the late 19th Century — how the institution of marriage used to be considered, what’s changed, and interestingly, what hasn’t (how many wives today still feel like “school-masters” treating their husbands like “truant pupils”?).

For many months I’ve wanted to do a regular “True Stuff from Old Books” series, but it takes a lot of time to scan and upload stuff…hopefully I’ll be able to post more interesting tidbits in the future.

scraps of crap

Making things at Stumptown

chocobo thing

Ink sketch of a Belgian

Khrushchev on a napkin

STAPLE! Live Art Show

STAPLE! sketch

Ink-wash study

Presenting: Expendable.

Is polygamy a success?

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