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A case study

[bopusquad]

Debuting at TCAF 2016

What is a home? Is it something you are born into, or something you make? Is it full of spooky ghosts? If you lose your way while going there, will you be able to find it again? How many life-sized cardboard cutouts of celebrity teenagers can you fit in one?

The members of Bopu Squad tackle these and other difficult questions surrounding the theme of “Home” in their first comics anthology.

Featuring submissions from Bopu Squad Members, Lilja, Sigmundur, Daniel, Karliegh, Simone, Dani, Jade, Sarah, Christine, Shi-Yeon, and Manoela, cover art by Kenny

8.5x11 inches, Black and White, Perfect Bound, 72 pages, $15

Purchases at TCAF will come with a limited edition 3 inch sticker while supplies last!

[vicomart]

eyyy, look, comics!!

This is bopu squad’s first anthology, and I couldn’t be prouder!! lots of really good stuff in it

[cosmonautmano]

new blog!

Hi guys! The direction this tumblr was headed was stressing me out something fierce, so I made a new one! 

It’s http://manomartins.tumblr.com

Right now, I mostly have a bunch of school assignments I did in my first semester of second year of Sheridan Animation up. Over the next two weeks, I’ll be posting the work I did during second semester! Then, after that, a bunch of personal stuff, studies, comics...

If that seems like your jam, please consider checking it out :)

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Scribbly portrait! Was watching a documentary about a corruption scheme in Brazil, was vaguely inspired by one of the people who testified on it!

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Figured I’d post some homework! This was so much fun to do :)

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a...thing?

Confession time: I get really nervous about posting my art, I’m working on it! Got a bunch of stuff to show you guys :)

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an in-progress thing I liked the look of!

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Prince Narwhal drinking tea during one of his interrogations. It’s okay, take your time. He can wait. He knows that eventually you’ll crack, and tell him everything he needs to know.

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a very strange, enchanted boy

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and a super super super fast environment thingy! My teacher’s been talking about how to make places feel cluttered, and I’ve been trying to teach myself some composition stuff. Here is the 15-minute lovechild of both those things! related: gotta get faster at drawing!

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hellooooo it’s been a while!

Have a weird thing I drew in like 3 mins cause I felt bad about not posting in WEEKS

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people sketching!

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people sketches

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“Oh, maiden, you are fair, but you have the eyes of a fox!”

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Jesse the-person-who-just-happens-to-be-a-skeleton picked up a copy of the zine me, @onechrispy and @jelajade made! Here’s his review: “Yup, it was very very good. Comics about monster kids in anime high school? Sign me up! All the comics were super funny (except for the ones that were super sad), the illustrations are super nice, and there’s even a comic which includes a skeletons-rights-activist! As a bone-fide person-who-just-happens-to-be-a-skeleton, it makes me happy to see that our voices are being heard.”

[cosmonautmano]

A comic about love and staying true to your ideals. (and bananas)

The physical version of it debuted last week at Canzine! Thank you so, so much to everyone who bought a copy :)