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CITY LIGHTS: Early Spring

jack — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:31:54 +0000

Joanna Newsom plays the Ukranian Federation in Montreal, March 14th & 15th. Poster Jack Dylan

EXTRA EXTRA: Full Plate

jack — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:52:08 +0000

EXTRA EXTRA: I am the Walrus

jack — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:51:04 +0000

EXTRA EXTRA: Tradicomedy

jack — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:13:21 +0000

CITY LIGHTS: Diamond Rings

jack — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:30:38 +0000

AT THE MOVIES: Nine

jack — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:53:41 +0000

PORTRAIT RADIO: The Valentine’s Day Pod Cast

jack — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:01:44 +0000

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EXTRA EXTRA: Prepare to face thy Doom

jack — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:46:13 +0000

On Thursday, January 21 in Toronto a new cover I designed for Eye Weekly will hit the stands. On it is a portrait of rapper MF Doom, an off-beat artist who wears a menacing mask while he performs, and who (for those of you not geeky enough to know), borrows his name from a famous comic book villain, one Dr. Doom of the “Fantastic Four” titles (MF DOOM is still apparently earning his PHD).

Super Heroes, particularly those who are sucked into the mundane realities of our own universe, are something of a recurring trope of mine (in the past I’ve been known to handle such heady subjects as Cat Woman clutching grocery bags and petting an alley cat and Superman flipping through an iPod) so I knew that whatever image we decided upon, I wanted the hero, a villain in this case, to be placed firmly within the reality of our own world and not the world of comics.

Somewhat revealed to us is that the legendary rapper is in fact something of a stocky, middle-aged bald man, yet not all is given away: Doom’s hands still protect his identity, though this gesture might in itself reveal a story of playfulness, self-loathing, and a nagging hangover. — Read the Article.

DEPT OF ROMANCE: From meeting to marriage in just four dates!

jack — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:12:54 +0000

Here’s an interesting piece on dating that I worked on while going through a recent break up of my own. Good thing I had my old friend irony to keep me company, otherwise that could have been extremely depressing. Thanks Toronto Life! I plan to use the money from this job to buy love. Precious, irreplaceable love. — JD

CITY LIGHTS: Chalk of the Town

jack — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:28:14 +0000

Not wanting Christmas to be over and with no real New Years plan as usual, I decided that I would finish up the rest of my holidays in our nation’s flagship city: Toronto. I’ve been mingling with the colour of the city and searching for the perfect Boxing Day sale for the perfect camel skin coat, which is really beyond my budget, and probably more than I deserve anyways, but what the hell, I do need a jacket. (A question to our readers: How warm is camel hair? The desert gets cold at night, does it not? So the camels must need protection. But of course it’s hot during the day. Does that mean that camel hair will self-regulate? Is the coat worth the dough? Or am I just liable to spill coffee on it? Any advice is appreciated.)

The base of my operation is a swell apartment on Queen Street West, right in the heart of the matter, and the most central location I’ve ever enjoyed in this city. A very inspiring mess. Its caretakers (tenants–I’m their guest, they’re my friends) are Pete Ryan and Jill Wood, two terrific artists in their own right. For my first three nights in the place I was by myself, the happy couple was out of town, so I used their apartment as a place to go to in between coffee, sushi, and the movie theater. When they finally came in from their excursion, they brought with them a blackboard that they had snagged as a Christmas present. Meanwhile I was busy looking for ways to avoid work, so I figured I’d start by drawing this blackboard picture to commemorate the occasion. Kind of a neat style for an illusion, perhaps I’ll market it into an entire portfolio some day, schedule permitting.

Happy New Year, by the way.