Minnows

This comic is inspired by Maxianne Berger’s book Winnows (Imago Press) featuring haiku found in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

NaHaiWriMo #10 wiped

The Beckoning

 

being an orphan

being an orphan

I cast no light…

firefly

haiku by Kobayashi Issa (English translation by David G. Lanoue), illustrated with a cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

Haidan (December 2016)

Here’s the most recent Old Pond Comics published in Haidan (December 2016). I had the pleasure of illustrating twelve haiku this year to accompany articles by Emiko Miyashita published in Haidan issues from January to December 2016.

Haidan (December 2016). Photo by Emiko Miyashita.

warmth

tearing a sponge cake

the hand’s shape

• Haiku by Eriko Tsugawa

Though it can never fly

Though it can never

fly in the sky, put my wife

upon this carpet

• Haiku by Michio Nakahara translated by James Kirkup from “Message from Butterfly”, cartoon by Old Pond Comics.

This cartoon was published in Haidan (November 2016) in Japan.

at the dinner

at the dinner

tray’s edge…

a green rice field

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

three times ’round

three times ’round

the little shrine…

departing geese

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, carton by Old Pond Comics

in Kyoto

 

in Kyoto

east, west, south, north…

summer kimonos

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

My Haiku Canada Weekend 2016 Freebie

I spent Easter Sunday cutting, folding and sewing a small comic book.

I will be giving them away at the Haiku Canada Weekend, May 20-22, 2016, in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Every year, I was always waiting to the last minute to prepare my freebie, but this time I decided to prepare them early so I could focus on my presentations: I will be the keynote speaker and cartoonist-in-residence at the next Haiku Canada Weekend in May. I hope you can join us!