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Thursday, November 13, 2008

This is another article in my series of 'where have the artists gone to...? Click here to see some drawings by Chris Taylor, a highly defined muscular, intelligent, witty and seriously hot looking Bear (pic #1 ~ pic #2).

The last I heard from him, Chris was doing was working on some comic books. This was back in '03, and I've sent him a couple of emails since but those emails have turned into cyberdust. A highly talented guy, gorgeous and menacing at the same time, because I met Chris Taylor way back in '00 (or '01) at this Bear Icons show. At the time, I was trying to get a 'Bear Mall' open with 2 other guys yet it fell thru, however Chris did some drawings (Bear Foot guy- and his boots). He also made me a BearPress guy (since the site I was running back then was called BearPress - pic #1 - pic #2). I hope all is well and I hope he's still drawing husky men because Chris sure had a knack for it.

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Monday, November 10, 2008
Neil Bruce (profile - articles) has been working really hard lately and has told us that he has many new pieces of art to share. Head on over to his webpage BearoticArt (not to be confused with Bearotic). He is also having a viewing at LeatherFest on November 15th at the Community Services Center in NYC (poster). Get to meet the artist, check out his original drawings on view and pick up a couple of pieces on sale. Nothing wrong in that.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

From Bruin (profile), cartoonist of Bear With Me (articles): "Apparently, Paul's recent coming out has not gone over at all well with Mr. Lynde, who is on the phone with Karl suggesting he bring some friends over that evening. The air is becoming thick with foreboding, yet Paul seems oblivious to it.  Perhaps he's hoping for some kind of reconciliation with his family.  I'm hoping Andy doesn't take too long getting there". Also, 'Bear With Me' is featured on Bearotic. Very hot.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Here is the 3rd and final installment to Christophe Jannin's triptych of ArchAngels (blog - articles - profile - website). It is St. Raphael who has the ribbon 'contraria contrario curantur' which signifies 'the opposites are healing the opposites". This drawing is symbolizing healing and self improvement.

What I need to do is post the emails that Christophe has sent me. They go into a lot more details about the semiotics concerning these 3 archangels (St. Raphael - St. Michael and St. Gabriel). I'll do that in the next update. Also, Christophe said he's not done drawing angels. He's working on others however these 3 make up the triptych. I'll keep you informed about his 'holy' drawings as he sends them in.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Bruin (profile) is getting some interesting email concerning his Bear With Me cartoon (website - articles). Here's an email from Bob who comments on the most recent strip: "Oh please let Paul wipe the floor (literally) with his shrimpkin 'father' and that genetic cesspool of a brother! You know, just grab them put them face down in a bucket of Pinesol, then start mopping!

...I also can't wait to see how Andy's mom manages to get her 'Lee Press-On Stigmata' on, to create a scene worthy of her".

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

This is the 2nd installment to Christophe Jannin's triptych with ArchAngels as his theme (drawing). In the 1st installment, we saw his St. Michael, sword in hand fighting the powerful for the sake of the weak. In this update, we get to see his St. Gabriel with a ribbon reading 'corruptio optimi pessima' which translates as 'the corruption of the best is the worst of all'; He's here to protect the innocent from the corrupt (I would love to have a guardian angel that looked like him).

Now for all the links concerning Christophe - blog (French), articles, profile, website (in construction) and some pics (photo #1, photo #2, photo #3).

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Christophe Jannin's (profile) work has been getting more and more intricate with time and his drawings more detailed and rich with life and colour, all the while holding true to his Bearish roots.

His latest project is quite angelic, literally. Chris has been drawing an Archangel triptych with Gabriel, Michael and Raphael, and the 1st one for us to see is that of Michael (view here). On it reads "Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos" which means "Spare the weak, crush the powerful", a direct reference to what St. Michael's nature signifies.

We will post the other 2 from this set very soon, however make sure to visit his site and read his blog (in French) which goes into much more detail about these wonderful vivid drawings of his. And if you're French is a bit rusty, then join his mailing list and he'll send you these new drawings to you in your email and in English as well. Also take a look at past articles written of him. Chris is seriously one of the cutest artists alive, yes?

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Monday, October 13, 2008

As we catch up in Bear With Me world  ~ one on end, Andy has cut all ties with his mother and has pulled out his stocks from the business which looks like it just might ruin the rich Constance. He has done this because he found out that it was his mother that ran his boyfriend Paul out of town. So now Andy has to go off and find Paul and win his heart back. Meanwhile, Paul has decided that he no longer can deal with his crazy family and prepares to set off on his own.

The story continues to intrigue and this cartoon is one of the very sites I check out every Monday, a toon done by Bruin (articles - profile).

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Monday, October 6, 2008

Have you been following the Bear Degeneration chronicles...? I hope so because we are now up to #10 in the English series. See it here - page #1 - page #2 - page #3 - page #4. In this episode, Doctor Puzak meets up with DarkDom, the evil police captain of Fatterland. If he doesn't like you, you're forked.

Bear Degeneration is the creation of the ever so cute and huggable Italian artist Perdido (website - profile). He has been creating these cartoons in Italian and he's up to episode #17 (and his drawing technique have been changing and improving all the while). So if you're good in Italian, then check out this page from his Blog. When I saw the cartoons, I was seriously curious what the story was about, so I have been helping Perdido with translating the toon over into English, and so far we've done 10.

If you haven't read a single one of these, it's best you start at the beginning - episode #1 - episode #2 - episode #3 - episode #4 - episode #5 - episode #6 - episode #7 - episode #8 - episode #9... and for today's update - episode #10.

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Here's a new drawing from the Spanish Bear Yotto Bano (article). You can see more of his 'Graffiti & Urban Bear Art' over at one of the coolest Bear blog names yet - it's called UrsaLaLaLa. Yotto even sent in a 'TubeBear drawing' awhile back, and so can you. Check out this article which will explain on how you can have your artwork displayed on TubeBear as well. You don't even need a profile nor a website... just the art.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

You may have notice... on TubeBear - the main page - there's a drawing in the bottom left hand corner. If you refresh the page, the drawing changes. Over the past while, TubeBear has been asking artists to make a TubeBear art piece. Take a look at all the great entries right here.

Calling all artists: if you are a Bear artist - or if you're an artist who makes Bearish art - may it be paintings, drawings, cartoons or photography - send it in (either by email or by the contact form). Here is the TubeBear ball for you to download (it's a zip file with the PSD and the PNG as well the font). What we do over at TubeBear is that we will display it in rotation. Also, if you create a profile and add a link back to your website (either for yourself or for your work), we can also add a banner (720x90 pixels) which will also show up in rotation on the main page.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

First off, that is not a picture of Brent D. Marr. It's a picture and a drawing of Shane, aka WelshCub... but 1st about Brent. Brent is an artist from Portland, OR (website - profile - articles). His drawings are seriously excellent, and he also has a great website, a revamped one to boot. He is going to be putting up a couple of new pieces for sell, one called WelshCub and the other A Hard Place.

What's great is that Shane had sent me photos way back when I was running BearPress in '99. You can see his profile here, and click here to see those images he sent me almost a decade ago.

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Once again, put on your space boots and take a flight with the hot cartooned gang that make up Bear Degeneration. This time artist Perdido (website - profile) and I (Forrest - profile) have translated episode #9. In the last episode, we left corporal Slutton to deal with Reverend Beef and his fanatics, and now we follow Doctor Puzuk as he transports onto a strange planet that forks its inhabitants...

Check Episode #9 here: page #1 - page #2 - page #3 - page #4. This cartoon is more than great, and Perdido has already done 17 issues which you can see on his Blog however they are all in Italian, and we are working hard on translating them to English. The only setback is that we have not put all of the English episodes onto one page, so you're gonna have to do a bit of digging to get caught up, but I did my best to make it easy as possible to follow this most excellent adventure. If you've never heard about it before, then start from the beginning - episode #1 - episode #2 - episode #3 - episode #4 - episode #5 - episode #6 - episode #7 - episode #8 - and for today's update - episode #9.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Monday signifies Bear With Me updates, and in this episode, with Mo's help, Andy has pinpointed where Paul is, however Andy needs to understand why Paul has left, so he chats with Mo a little, asking her if his social status could be the reason why Paul left ('am I a snob', he asks her). Mo says definitely not... and with a little deduction, Andy realizes why Paul has left.

From Bruin (profile - articles), the cartoonist: "As Andy and Mo mull over the reasons Paul left, the penny finally drops, and Andy comes up with a name. It seems he's on the right track, but what will come of it? I have the feeling things are going to get very interesting".

In other news, Bruin will be participating in the GALA choral festival in Miami from July 12th thru the 17th.

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Artist Christophe Jannin (articles - blog - profile - website) sends in some updates as he plans for his upcoming exhibition in Lyon (France) which will be taking place at 'Le Station B' from July 25th thru August 15th (flyer).

From Christophe: "Winter is here in New Zealand, bloody freezing, stormy, rainy, haily. I am now counting the days before I leave to go to France for the holidays. Taking off on Tuesday night and landing in Paris on Wednesday 8 in the evening. About 22 hours flying, roughly a 30 hours trip with the stop in Singapore.

I have just finished my latest drawing entitled 'The Rite of Spring' (full image). A drawing full of optimism and very pastoral, the format is in the 'Italian way', meaning horizontal which is very unusual for me since I prefer a vertical format. In fact, physically it's two drawings, composed as a diptych but reunited with the colour version".

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

It's high time you familiarize yourself with the excellent art work drawn by the French Bear artist Christophe Jannin (website - blog - TubeBear profile - PlanetBears articles). Now I know I mention the fact that Chris is as cute as his artwork, the simple fact is that it's true.

Christophe sends in his newest artwork. From Chris: "I have just finished 'Gilles de Rais arriving in Orleans' (click here to see the full version). Gille de Rais is flamboyant here. He was a real historic character, marshal of France and a Joan of Arc companion with whom he liberated the city of Orleans during the 100 years war against the English in he first half of the 15th century. You might know him under his nickname 'Blue Beard'. He was condamned and hanged for the crimes of felony, murder and sodomy. Yes he was gay!

As for my upcoming schedule, I have 2 upcoming exhibitions in France, one in Lyon from July 25th thru August 15th at the StationB, and the one one in Orleans at the cinema "Les Carmes" from September 23rd until October 12th for the Gay and Lesbian Films Festival. The title of this is called ' From Auckland, Bears, at the end of the world...".

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Once again it's time to visit the husky brothers of the Deep Dark Hole as their misadventures continue in Bear Degeneration, a cartoon drawn by the Italian hunk Perdido (website - Blog (Italian) - TubeBear profile which he recently updated his photo gallery).

We are now at episode #8 in the 'English' version of Bear Degeneration. Check it out here: page #1 - page #2 - page #3 - page #4 ~ however if you're fluent in Italian, you can click here and you'll be able to read up to #16. Perdido and I (Forrest - TubeBear profile) have been translating his work over to English... we'll catch up soon.

Instead of spoiling the story, why not read the series yourself. Follow these links and you'll be caught up too: episode #1 - episode #2 - episode #3 - episode #4 - episode #5 - episode #6 - episode #7 - and here's today's episode once again - episode #8.

Read more here.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Has it ever happened to you that - something bad is happening to one someone very close to you and you're able to feel it, even though you can be miles and miles away? Well this is what is happening to Andy of Bear With Me. It's best I let cartoonist Bruin (TubeBear profile - articles) explain what's going on (and his explanation relates to this weeks cartoon as well as last weeks strip):

[Concerning last weeks cartoon] "OK... we're done with the cat fights between Mo and Constance, and we've said goodbye to Ralph's mother.  It's time we got back to the central relationship everyone wants to know about: Andy and Paul. Andy and Paul were established early last year. We've been treated to glimpses of the romance between the two of them, and we'd be hard-pressed to find a reader who's heart hasn't melted at the sight of the two of them in a heart-felt embrace. Everything looks quite rosy for these two lovebirds... but now, Constance, who has tried every trick in the book to throw a spanner in the works, has set her sights on Paul. What bedevilment is this woman up to? What ploy will she devise to separate our two heroes? Nothing else she has tried has worked; is Paul safe, then?"

[Concerning this weeks strip]: "This week, we see Constance's plan put to action as she shares her concerns with Paul. While she seems to care, we know she's merely using Paul's insecurities against him. Trouble is, it seems to be working. What will Paul do? Will Andy be able to intercede before Paul does something drastic?".

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Robert Harmon aka JrBear of Bound in Ink (articles - TubeBear PRO profile) is informing us that his work will be displayed at an upcoming charity event for the Calcutta House. This will be taking place at The Bike Stop in Philadelphia, PA on April 17th. As well, Rob will be showing his new collection of drawings kick off this show. 20% of all the sales from the artists will be given to the Calcutta House.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

French artist Christophe Jannin (website - blog page - TubeBear profile) has sent in his latest piece. It's entitled Lonely (The Missed Call).

It's another excellent drawing - this time Christophes explores a little darker mood than he usually draws - a good looking Bear sitting by his cell phone... did he miss the call... did he do it on purpose (since it is a cell phone, it should be with him at all times). However, altho the mood is a little more sombre, the drawing itself is still very vibrant and full of life, the sun shining through in the back, and the Bear is beautiful.