The Art of Julian Bata

Sketches, doodles, and what-have-you posted every week.

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Random doodles, plus a lil finalized Ronny illustration from last year.

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Over the summer, I made a 100+ page comic as part of an independent study researching prison life, automation, potency, and a bunch of other stuff. It’s basically a sequel to my RONNY comic from late 2018, but not strictly so. I’m still working out how to refine story & visuals, and how to release it...but I hope that gets figured out by the end of 2020!

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Snippets of recent art and comics!

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Life, man.

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Essay about Twin Peaks The Return’s use of animation, featuring art by the great Gabor Bata.

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Some pages from a recent comic project

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Made this lil piece for this week’s issue of The Link (Fringe Arts - Poetry section). Give it a read on their website: https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/poems-of-the-week2

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Couple spot illustrations made The Link newspaper at Concordia University. You can read em both here: https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/montreal-police-need-to-better-respond-to-campus-sexual-assaults https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/editorial-a-call-for-better-reporting

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A little comic-essay I made which analyzes the themes of Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2016 horror film The Neon Demon! It’s kinda taken a while to post, but I hope you enjoy it in all its ineligible glory!

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The poster I made for @animateconcordia‘s Halloween party, chock-full of ghouls and ghosts and whatnot, just to get you in the spirit of the season! Have an awesome, safe Halloween, everybody!!!

(Included is an alternative, colourized version I made for fun)

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Gig poster, Calamari Mama (some dates may change, or simply not exist)

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Self-Portrait, 2016

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Baby Face Cover

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I’ve been absent for a looooong time. No excuse, I just never bothered posting on Tumblr. But things are about to change, compadres! I’ll try sharing more of the work I post throughout the rest of my social media accounts starting from this very instant!

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Hey folks, after a small hiatus, TOTUM is back and is going to be making regular updates again for Volume 2 (which you can see here in all its splendour) as well as progress on the upcoming TOTUM Volume 3! 

Keep your eyes peeled,

Gabor.

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Hey all, I made a comic for TOTUM vol.2 (yeah yeah, it's late. But yknow, any publicity is good publicity, or whatever)

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A comic done by Julian Bata for Volume 1! Check out thejulianbata.tumblr.com!

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Here's the artwork I had done for TOTUM, a little indie zine project by a bunch ne'er-do-well artists

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Here’s the zine in full, as promised! We’ll still be highlighting individual contributors and hooking you guys up with links to the rest of their work, but for now, we’ll skip the teasing and just give you the full package! Enjoy!

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Hey all, check out all the damn fine art in this exquisite little zine of ours, TOTUM. I'll be sharing my own comic from collection soon!

And any of you cool cats who happen to be living in Montreal, go and pick up a copy at Drawn and Quarterly for $7