Kate Beaton

                       Fig 1, Kate Beaton, 2015 Calendar

Kate Beaton lives in Canada, she trained in history and anthropology but then she started drawing and now she creates comics and characters often involving a comic take on both. She writes the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant that has now been published as a book.

   Fig 2: Kate Beaton Fairytales (detail).

References

Fig 1: Kate Beaton 2015, Calender http://beatonna.tumblr.com/post/97586505940/we-put-out-calendars-in-2012-and-so-many-people
Fig 2: Kate Beaton Fairytales (detail) http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=227

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php

New Year II

                       Fig 1 (above): New Year Red Riding Hood 2015, Hazel Terry

The problem with thoughts in the middle of the night, that you draw/ write in the dark, is their illegibility and mystery in the morning, so you have to study the resulting scribble and try to remember what on earth it was about.

                                            Fig 2: New Year sketch, Hazel Terry

Well this thought was about the New year, and the Chinese New Year which in 2015 will be 'The Chinese Year of the Sheep' and then this . . . a loopy loo hat, which in the middle of the night (was it a nightmare?), I remembered having as a child.

                                               Fig 3 Loopy Loo knitting Pattern

The wolf I wanted to have dressed as a sheep and so I accessorized him with this woolly loopy hat from my childhood. I also wanted to include a sheep for the Chinese New Year and to stack up the protagonists in a new year wish.

   Fig 4: (above) New Year Red Riding Hood 2015 (detail), Hazel Terry 

Happy New Year 2015

References

Fig 1: New Year Red Riding Hood 2015, Hazel Terry

Fig 2: New Year sketch, Hazel Terry

Fig 3: loopy loo Knitting Pattern.  http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mY1UtgvPIsfFGW8Cgs8z1ZA.jpg

Fig 4:  New Year Red Riding Hood 2015 (detail), Hazel Terry