Total Eclipse of the art(ist)

Well it had to happen sooner or later the perfect storm of teen hormones that is the ‘Twilight” book/movie franchise, which despite being an essentially bland retelling of an old concept, seems to only be gaining further momentum and about to hit our shores.

This series was never made with my demographic in mind and frankly the argument that the book was better than the movie is not up for grabs. I have neither seen nor read either and when it comes down to it the counter arguments leveled in rebuttal to fans ”OK did you buy the books? Did you pay to see the movies? How much did each form of media earn, i.e which made more movie or book?

Now do you think that anyone cares that your opinion of the material has been reduced to such an overused, trite throwaway line?

It’s much like saying the same thing about Mel Gibson’s movie “Passion of the Christ”!

But I digress.

Well its gonna be something tomorrow, stars Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart will be coming to my stomping ground Luna Park for an advance screening of the latest in the series of what is concidered in the vampire genre equivalent of Bambi.(Considering vampire protagonist Edward Cullin drinks deer blood is fitting) Hopefully this will garner some interest from some fan girls. Stewart plays Bella Swan, the archetypal damsel in distress combined with angst wrapped up in the high school every-girloutcast format.

 Lautner on the other hand is the bad boy who’s currently trying to steal Bella away (This info has been gleaned via osmosis) from Edward who I mentioned before is a vampire, however as the rival/ally the character he plays is Jacob Black- a werewolf.

I’ve seen clips and Jacobbeing able to transform in broad daylight without the use of the full moon looks more like an oversized Husky.

Then again Edward too, has all the traditional weaknessess and flaws of being a supernatural creature of the shadows conveniently shelved so he has extra time to “sparkle” in the suns rays.

Again I make no bones that this was never intended for my eyes still I do applaud the phenomenal success it has had and at the end of the day… 

  …it should be good for a laugh.

Bring back the Buff(y)

Tags: Bella Swan, Edward Cullin, Jacob Black, Kristen Stewart, Luna Park, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, vampire

It’s a nice day for a wet winter

Yep just like bears and squirrils go into hibernation so must I use the current weather conditions to relax a bit, but with deadlines looming I’m glad I’ve got reserves stored. I’ll be working on a few things away from the park over this weekend.

Everything is Tweet

I will be heading into Luna park Sydney this evening to briefly drop off some new material which will appear soon in the caricatures section of www.eddyer.com. As part of a 2 month long complete overhaul of my public base of operations the Luna Park Cartoonist Booth and my website.

Updates pending are:

1. The ability to follow me and my work on twitter/EdTMDyer
2. New Youtube clips featuring the process of my work
3. Online webcomic (to be announced)

Tags: caricatures, Luna Park, twitter/EdTMDyer, www.eddyer.com

Currently in production.

Coming soon will be my animations, new display drawings and eventually, games. All I have to now is fugure out how to get them here and I’ll be set.

…recap after 2 years of cartooning part 1

…continued from part 1

So began the updating process, I had drawn new material in the past and introduced better stronger work in stages, lord knows I had to replace all the old drawings left over from the previous cartoonist.  After much trial and error as more and more pictures would come in, some where shuffled, some were placed in more prominant spaces and some where retired with me shaking my head what was I thinking?!

The latest to emerge I feel more correctly reflect the artist I am, not the hack drawing big heads little bodies and bumper cars (I’ve lost count how many times I’ve drawn that tired tourist theme) to say I’ve been wanting to break the mould for a long time may be an understatement.

So over the next few weeks a new major overhaul is pending with a new look for www.eddyer.com and I would also like to announce that I can be followed on twitter look me up EdTMDyer, most of my tweets will be cute little one liners however important info on whether I’ll be drawing at Luna Park will be regularly posted.

Cheers

-Ed Dyer

Tags: EdTMDyer, Luna Park, new work, overhaul, twitter, www.eddyer.com