swarming flies how do my wrinkled hands taste? – Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

swarming flies

how do my wrinkled hands

taste?

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics)

the winter fly I spare, the cat snatches – Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

the winter fly

I spare, the cat

snatches

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics)

A swarm of flies inside the house

at my home (haiku by Issa)

at my home

the flies too, a year older…

seacoast

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated in haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics

I want to write a haiku with you

Friends forgive each other

Sketchbook – sometimes when I can’t sleep

Another look at my sketchbook and the final version. I drew this teddy bear during HNA 2013, when I was cartoonist-in-residence onboard the Queen Mary. It took me about one hour to draw. The Queen Mary hotel was haunted, so Kaeru the frog needed a companion.

The Fly (Making of the zine)

The fly is one of the many new characters from the Old Pond Comics series I was able to developed thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
In this behind-the-scene video, I show how I put my zines together.
The zine will be available soon on the Old Pond Comics online store: http://bit.ly/1CMjddW

The Fly (Making of): assembling the comic strips

It’s so exciting the moment you realize you have enough comic strips to make a book. (Well, if you can call a zine, a “book”.)  Next step is to assemble the comics in a mock-up version.

This new story features the adventures of a haiku poet who is trying to get rid of a fly that lives in his house. It will be told through haiku-comics.

The zine will be available at the Haiku Canada Week-end in May 2015 and afterwards on my online store.