INTERVIEW!

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Comix and Stories! British Dinosaurs!

Hey everyone! Two cool things on the horizon!

FIRST! If you're on the west coast of Canada and near Vancouver for the 23rd of August, PLEASE stop by Heritage Hall for "Comix and Stories"! It'll be good, I think - everyone from Kate Beaton to Brandon Graham will be hangin' out there!

SECOND!

Remember that collaboration I've been talking shit about? No?

Well, the fruits of this collaboration (paintings being made by myself and Nemo Ramjet) will be on display at the University of Surrey as part of the British Science Festival! THAT'S RIGHT!

Here's the blurb from the program:

What if dinosaurs hadn't died out but evolved into an intelligent species? Artists C. M. Koseman & Simon Roy imagine how such creatures and their worlds might have looked. This startling and playful exhibition and children’s workshop makes us question our unspoken assumptions underlying previous images of dinosaurs and our own notions of what it means to be human.

Pretty cool, eh? (It'll be open from the beginning of the festival until the tenth of september). So if you're in the UK or in Vancouver at all over the next little while, either come get a book signed or go admire some feathery dinosaurs.

Signing!

Yesterday, I was on CFAX 1070 (an AM radio station in Victoria) with Gareth Gaudin of Legends comics, talking about comics, the comic industry, watchmen, and stuff like that. You should really check out Legends this coming saturday - I'll be doing a signing there. 

C'mon down!

Fun with the bird-men!

These are three dinosauroid illustrations I've just been doing for fun. They might end up being part of a set of pieces, each showing a different stage of technological development. 

They've been a lot of fun so far...

PRESS!

Also, stegodons aside, over the past little while I've been doing some interviews with Victoria's finest. A local author and comic-book lover by the name of Troy Wilson has been incredible in helping me get some local press. I did an interview with ShawTV (which will be playing tonight at six o'clock) and on the seventeenth, I did an interview on CBC One in Victoria. Once I can, I'll set up links to 'em... 

The wee proboscideans of Flores...

Ah, the flores stegodon. How confusing those paleontologists have been. 
In the first national geographic article, the dwarf stegodon described as being contemporaneous with H floresiensis was stegodon sondaari. The problem was that this water-buffalo sized stegodon went extinct some 900,000 odd years ago. It was replaced by s. Florensis, a "medium to large" sized proboscidean - a size, I assume, to be close to that of your average asian elephant. Hundreds of thousands of years on Flores, however, did dwarf the stegodons, and the proboscidean that did live alongside h. Floresiensis was s. Florensis Insularis, a stegodon which, according to the one paper I could only read the abstract of, was 30% smaller then the ancestral s florensis, based off of the size of the juvenile molars found in the same layer as H floresiensis.

With all this shit in mind, this is my new dwarf stegodon - which, visually, I think is more dramatic a juxtaposition to have with h floresiensis. What do you think? 

Vancouver was fun!

A little something Ed made for the launch... which was great. I got to meet and drink beer with all types of wicked folks - all of whom I'd like to thank for a great time.

MAN ALIVE!

MAY HAS BEEN INTENSE!

I got back from TCAF (the Toronto Comics Art Festival) last week, which was abso-fucking-lutely great. The whole place was just tingly with positive vibes, and I got to drink a lot of beer with Ed and the indubitable Jason Turner. I had a great time there - then got to have a blast in winnipeg with  some friends who I went to Ukraina with. And if the good times weren't rolling enough, I got to do a radio interview with Robin at Inkstuds THIS VERY DAY! CHECK IT OUT!

I KNOW!

IT'S RIGHT HERE!

OH - AND GUESS WHAT! I'LL BE IN VANCOUVER FOR THE LAUNCH, TOO!

Fresh and Delicious

Hot off of the presses!

PRESS, PRESS, and MORE PRESS

There's now an interview I did a few weeks ago with Shaun Manning up on Comicbookresources.com. It's got a whole bunch of preview pages and interesting personal tidbits!

Swing on over and look it up!

"Jan's Atomic Heart" Review at Eyeoncomics!

The awesome Don MacPherson, resident critic at eyeoncomics.com, did an in-depth and very favourable review for JAH - 10/10!

Here's an excerpt:

Simon Roy brings a Euro-comics look to bear on this project, which makes sense given that it’s set in Frankfurt. His style here is easily comparable to that of Guy (B.P.R.D.) Davis, and the gruff, grizzled look of some of the characters also reminded me of similar characters in Paul Grist’s Kane and Jack Staff. The story presents a visual challenge in that the robotic facade of the main character isn’t the most emotive of visages, but Roy demonstrates his skills by conveying the appropriate feelings through the character’s body language. There’s a nice variety in his repertoire of storytelling techniques. He offers some convincing cityscapes and backgrounds, but there are other times when he isolates the characters in fields of white to emphasize a moment or to enhance a particular mood.

I'm feeling understandably good about this...

An... interview?

"SNEAK PEEK: THE BEATING OF JAN'S ATOMIC HEART 

An interview and 6-page .pdf preview of the upcoming sci-fi mystery, Jan's Atomic Heart. Fans of Blade Runner and I, Robot are in for a treat. Take a look inside the thought process of Simon Roy, who thinks robots may do more than just clean our house in the future."

I know, eh? Check it out!

(plus here's a dinosaur)