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We are full service and versatile team here at PostScript.  Not only do we write, draw and colour this comic, but we also manage everything back-of-house.  That includes the mailroom and promotion. You can find us on Facebook and you can follow us on Twitter (@MoogkSoulis for Graham and @NealMoogkSoulis for me).   We’re exploring other […]

  Google marked Dian Fossey’s 82nd birthday today.  Dian was one of the earliest zoologists to document the lives of Mountain Gorillas in central Africa.  In 1970 she published an article in National Geographic called “Making Friends With Mountain Gorillas”.  The article is one of the first to tell the story of everyday gorilla life. […]

REVIEW: Disney’s “Frozen”

  I grew up on Disney animated movies. For me, the high point was “Beauty and the Beast” before the movies stumbled around for the past fifteen years. Sure, in some cases the art was fantastic, the songs were catchy, or the story heartwarming, but the whole package seemed to be missing something special that […]

Making mistakes

If you haven’t read Neil Gaiman, then you’re missing something.  As 2013 gives way to 2014, this quote struck a chord for me. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, […]

A bright new book

I always love getting books at Christmas; the more varied, the better.  When I was in Columbus for the Festival of Cartoon Art I saw the great new collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales from Taschen.  Taschen books are always a great feast for the eyes and this collection did not disappoint.  This brightly coloured volume includes […]

Christmas in the days of old

As Christianity spread in Medieval Europe, new traditions were established.  For instance, near the end of the ninth century, King Alfred the Great of England (849-899) mandated that his subjects observe the Twelve Days of Christmas.  He outlawed all legal proceedings, work, and fighting during that time. The well-to-do were busy at Christmas: they made […]

PostScript’s Two-Day Christmas Sale!

We live to give.  So we’re pleased to announce a two-day sale where we give you a deal.  If you purchase books, cards or prints from our shop today or Tuesday, we’ll take 10% of the purchase price.  The discount code is below. Oh, and remember that if you you want to send Christmas cards, but don’t […]

Beowulf vs. Dante

Once upon a time, Neil Gaiman gave an interview talking about imagination.  Okay, he gave several, but we’re only talking about the one here, so focus.  In this interview, Gaiman paraphrased something that Neal Stephenson¹ said about Beowulf writers versus Dante writers. I, Neal, will quote Neil, paraphrasing Neal: The Dantes are people who need patrons. A lot of time these […]

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum of Art Grand Opening

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art for the Billy Ireland¹ Cartoon Library and Museum of Art at Ohio State University.  This intimate, triennenial Festival² is a two-part affair.  The first half is an academic conference that debates weighty issues about comics and cartoon creation and interpretation.  The […]

Arts and culture as a basic human right.

My daily routine includes a circuit of various comic strips, first in the newspaper, then online.  It’s good to see what other people are doing.  One of the strips that I checked out today was Gavin Aung Than’s Zen Pencils.  Today’s strip quoted from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  Funny stuff, right? It’s […]

Two interpretations on being an artist

Last week Gavin Aung Than paraphrased some advice from Bill Watterson.  The beginning of the strip appears below.  The strip has made the rounds of Facebook and other social media networks.  In case you missed it, I’ve copied a few panels below. To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy but it’s still allowed and […]

Baby Cambridge

So some of you may have heard that among the 300,000 babies born yesterday, there was a certain baby born to a certain mother who happens to be married to the second in line for the British throne. One of the biggest questions that any new parents have to answer is: what will we name […]

Alex Coville, 1920-2013

To Prince Edward Island 1965 Acrylic polymer emulsion on hardboard 60.9 x 91.4 cm Collection National Gallery of Canada I was sad to hear that Canadian painter Alex Coville died yesterday.  Coville was an iconic Canadian painter, engraver, sketch artist and muralist with a career that spanned more than 70 years.   His work included tranquil […]

Jungle Gym James

While our digital set-up is out of commission, our hands are not.  Here is a commission we did for a man we now call Jungle Gym James. Do you want your own piece of original PostScript art?  Then mosy on over to our Shop and buy yourself a PostScript Collector’s Set and we’ll toss one in […]

Stan Rogers

From our earliest family road trips we were exposed to the music of Stan Rogers, a Canadian folksinger who was wise beyond his years and who left us much too early.  He died 30 years ago today in plane accident.  One of his songs, “Barrett’s Privateers“, inspired the name for our Barrett.  As you listen […]

Working Together

Graham and I do lots of things together and in may ways we’re two halves of the same brain.  While we work on different artistic parts of the strip separately, we do the writing simultaneously in the same document.  Scott Kurtz recently had this to say about the collaborative writing process as he marked the fifteenth year […]

Waterloo Chronicle story

We were pleased to be profiled in the Waterloo Chronicle today. From the article: “Growing up my mom had one of those memory books that you filled out at the end of each school year and it was in either in Kindergarten or Grade 1 that she asked me what I want to be when […]

CalgaryExpo Wrap-up

We had a great time at CalgaryExpo and we enjoyed meeting existing fans, finding new fans, and reconnecting with friends. We were also accosted by Vikings at our table.  They bought a greeting card so we were cool. Graham had a busy weekend sketching and inking at the table while I took people’s money and […]