Ready to go...

Last day in San Fransisco,

Will miss it after almost 3 weeks.

Today was Thanksgiving, so almost everything was closed, except Chinatown. Did some last minute shopping for the family.

At noon I went together with Barron to Twin Peaks (no not the location of the movie) to have a magnificent view on San Fransisco and the environment. I'll post pictures later.

Afterwards had a superb Chinese dinner with Barron and Petra. Thx to both of you for the fantastic hosts you were during my stay.

In th evening, I went to see "the Fountain". http://thefountainmovie.warnerbros.com/

Just wonderfull movie, a real must see picture. A lot of the Graphic Novel by Kent Williams is intergrated in the film, a lot of Barron's influence can be seen "Finish it" being the most obvious one.

Tomorrow off to New York Again.

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Meeting Jeffrey (Catherine) Jones http://www.ulster.net/~jonesart/ on Saturday and afterwards of to Renee to talk the preparation of the show.

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Current idea would be to have a show Amsterdam / Brussels / Paris, or three artists three European Capitals. Brussels and Paris should be OK, only waiting for a reply from Amsterdam.

I'll go to sleep now, need to wake up at 3.00am to catch the plane.

Just a quick picture of my last Comic Art find

A very nice Heinrich Kley

Till later

Carl

Back from San Jose

No did not see Neil Gaiman, but had a great time with Brian from Anno Domino. Discussed potential distribution possibilities for Barron's book. And it's looking good.

Had dinner with Barron, and great phylosofical discussions on the way back to San Fransisco. Kept us both awake. Very tired today, so the blog will be short...

The First Post...

So this is it, the first one, the first time, the time to remember when you did it for the first time...

Got my Blog up and (hopefully) running !!!

With a bit of luck this will be my ideal tool to keep you updated on the projects I'm working on, and which may be of interest to you.

If not, welcome anyway.

Currently at the other side of the world, San-Fransisco for a three weeks job with Levi's.

Great place to be, great people and the weather is superb !!!

Last weekend rented a PT Cruiser convertible to drive from San Fransisco to Los Angeles anlong Highway Nr 1. Great drive.

Visited Allen Spiegel on the way up. He's the publisher all Dave McKean artbooks, and represents a couple a super talented artists such as Kent Williams, JJ Muth, Phil Hale, ... to name a few. You can visit his site on http://www.asfa.biz/

Btw, could not help purchasing a couple of Dave McKeans B&W pen and ink pages. To be uploaded on my CAF site once back in Belgium

On Sunday morning visited Kent Williams to talk about his art, the show we did last summer and advice on the publication of Barron Storey's journal #45 "Life After Black". Was great to meet Kent, he looked super energised after the work he has done for the Fountain together with Darren Arnofsky.

And yes, how can you resist when Kent opens his cupboard with nice art !!!

Kent also promised to help Barron and me out on the publication of the journal. Feel very happy to have a "pro" watching over my shoulder.

In the afternoon, I went for a suprise visit to Ashley Wood. After the initial shock, I had a warm welcome by the Australian Pop-Bot artist.

We talked a lot about his art and the effort he put's into it. We also finally resolved a 2 your trade (a Kent Williams piece for one of his painting) and look forward to have the finished cover of Zombies vs Robots II over in Belgium.

It was worth the detour and the 9 hr drive back to San Fransisco

Yesterday 14th of november, went in the evening to a signing session with Joann Sfar. Yes quite incredible to meet a French comic artists here in the States. Instead of the long cues in France, there were maybe only 5 people, So plenty of time to talk. Nice chap, very funny and a great storyteller (like his books). Unfortunately he does not sell any original art :(

But managed to sneak out one of his drawings he made on the spot. Never for sale however, as this would be against Joann's principles, and I prefer to stay friends with my artists.

Tomorrow looking forward to join Barron in meeting Brian & Cherry from Anno Domini Gallery http://www.galleryad.com/ , the official art representatives of Barron. We'll be talking about the distribution of Barron's book.

In the evening we'll try to meet up with Neil Gaiman who's giving a lecture overhere http://www.litart.org/gaiman.htm with a bit of luck (and with Barron's help) we might be able to ask his support for "Life after Black".

Just to close this first post, a picture of Barron's contribution the "the Art of The Fountain"