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Columba oblivia

This is a remake of a patreon comic I made a few years ago. I had planned for it to be in the comic collection I've been working on, but it didn't make the cut because of time issues (not having enough of it).

Never Enough Time

I forgot to add this to my post last week! I made a little soft eraser maquette of a loon so that I could figure out perspective for the first frame when the loon was underwater.-Josh

Loonacy

An ode to loons, one of the best.

Quick Comic

I love swallows. I think they're one of the more elegant fliers.

Belly Flop!!!

Sharp-eyed, long-time patrons may recognize this comic from a sketch I posted two years ago. There are a couple other silly mallard comics on that post too. -Joshua

Climbing the light

Hey pals!This is a comic that was commissioned by Québec en toutes lettres, a literature festival taking place in Québec City this October. The theme for their 15th edition is "climbing the light" (escalader la lumière), an excerpt from a poem by Jean-Paul Daoust.My intention with the comic was to show the way that artistic creativity can inspire others throughout space and time. Artist...

Mme. Punaise

I wonder if I'm continually escorting the same insect outside week after week...Before I painted this one, I asked Mélodie if she'd like to try colouring it, and this is what she whipped up using Procreate on our old tablet:I like her bug, maple keys, and lamp better!

Parallel Dimension

There have been many distractions in my life in the last few months–it feels good to get another comic out! You may have noticed a strange waviness in backgrounds of this strip (if not, great!). The reason is because I ran each frame through a program called Glaze, a defence against machine learning image generators. I have mixed feelings about using this software: it takes time and computationa...

Sketches!

Here are some sketches for a comic about house sparrows and pigeons I've thought about for a while. I really want to show the true size difference between the two, with some good low-angle shots!Made this doodle for when I'm feeling like I'm not sharing enough of my work (all of the time).-Joshua

That's a wrap on convention season!

Hey pals,This past month has been a real whirlwind of activity over here at False Knees Corp.! Last weekend was the Festival BD de Montréal (Montréal Comic Arts Festival). At the opening ceremonies for the weekend, my book Sporestook home the Bédélys award (Québec award for comic books) for independent anglophone publication! It came with a hand-crafted award from Karl Dupéré-Richer that lo...

Top Bird

This weekend is the Montreal Comic Arts Festival on Rue Saint Denis! I'll be tabling at tent A03 close to Rue Roy on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Saturday at 6pm I will be doing a live comic reading with Sarah Andersen at Section C22! Very excited for this weekend, it should be beautiful weather. I'd love to see you if you're free!

Time to wake up

Hey pals! We are going to be tabling for TCAF this weekend in the Reference Library at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto. Come say hi if you're in the area!

Quick Comics

Hey all! A couple quick comics here to stretch my making-new-comics muscles. I've been working a lot on an anthology of my comics that will be coming out sometime next year, so I haven't had much time to make new comics. I'm feeling good about the project and I think I'm getting pretty close to the end. One of my main motivators right now is to finish it so that I can start making ...

Weird light

Last week I saw my first (and hopefully not only) total solar eclipse. We were so lucky to have a clear day and to be able to see it from our balcony in Montréal. I can't get over how surreal of an experience it was. The birds really did go quiet during totality. I imagine they were just as flabbergasted as I was.

Six minute comics

Hey friends, I will be in tropical Rochester, New York this weekend for RICE (Rochester Independent Comics Expo)! I'll be doing a live comic slideshow on Friday, and tabling for the fair selling wares on Saturday. I would love to see you if you are in the area! More info on that here: https://wnycomicarts.com/Joshua

Woven is here!

Kneesvember 2023 (Woven) is finally in book form and ready to be purchased in my store!!!As Patreon members, you get first dibs, plus each book you purchase comes signed with a special print. Don't forget to write your Patreon name or email in the cart notes!I'm so happy with how it turned out. I made an effort to really maximize each page to make it feel really comic-booky and I think it ...

six-minute comics

Six minutes from pulling a word from a hat to finishing the last pen stroke!

Today's word is 'icebreaker'

This silly comic is in tribute to the three improv classes I took which I was never not incredibly nervous for.

France Trip & Kneesvember Cover Preview

(image above: crow on statue in Paris)In January, to promote a french translation of my comics, I travelled to France for a little book tour and my first international business trip (apart from the one-day comic fair I attended in Rochester, NY last year). I had three signing events at different bookstores in Paris where I met many friendly people who were patient enough to wait in line for a dood...

Seedy Snack

Hourly Comic Day 2024

Here are some comics I (and Mélodie) drew for hourly comic day, which is February 1st, but I can never manage to upload them on the day. Pretty calm day! Of course, things don't tend to happen on hourly comic day because cartoonists are too busy drawing themselves drawing.

Kneesvember Recap

I thought it would be fun to share with you all of the behind-the-scenes material that I wrote before and during Kneesvember 2023 since there was a lot of it, and some from years ago!This first image at the top was some colour-testing I did in late October using a range of Prismacolor coloured pencils. I was pretty convinced beforehand that violet would be at least one of the two or three colours ...

Happy New Knees!

Wishing you great fortune and exceedingly large cats in 2024!I can already tell that it's going to be a busy year for us here at False Knees Inc. Mélodie is currently updating my website, and I'm slamming my head against photoshop to prepare files for the Kneesvember 2023 book!I'll be traveling to France in a couple of weeks to attend Angoulême Comics Festival and two bookstore book ...

The Hole

Stumbled across this old comic of Lady and Caxi I never shared as I was flipping through a sketchbook.Cats love jamming their paws into crevices, who knows why. Maybe they get lucky sometimes!In case I don't post in the next little while, I wish you all a nice and relaxing holidays and a happy new year! Can't believe it's almost 2018, feels like it was 2009 just last week.:>Joshua

Kneesvember Day 30!!! (The Finale)

Thank you for reading and thank you so very much for all of your wonderful comments! I didn't reply much all month (and there were a few days in the middle that I avoided the comment section altogether), but I appreciate all the love and enthusiasm you've given to this story!I know I said yesterday that I would write a bit about my perspective on kneesvember, but I think I'll postpone ...