MQT #7: All Hot n' Bother'd

Eric the Comic Stripper

I've finally found a home for the comic strip I started this year...its still in its infant stages, but here we go! Each strip is based either wholly or in part on conversations had/overheard and people I've met here in our new home in Moncton, NB. The conversations usually end up with a hearty "How d'ya like THAT, Alberta-boy??", but I haven't found it necessary to include that...

Here's the link...
If you think your home paper, alt-weekly, etc would be a happy home for Mon Qui Towne, please contact me @ info@ericdyck.com

Thanks to Scott & BOOM magazine for giving me an excuse to get started...

MQT #6: ...And a Happy New Year to You Too!

All images © Eric Dyck 2007

Rocket Smog

Poster for the latest Lorrie Matheson incarnation...Rocket Smog! I wonder if people are picking band names based solely on myspace name-availability...

Golden Ruckus

FFWD article outlining some of the movie vs. book vs. author facts surrounding the fuss about "The Golden Compass", apparently stinking up theatres near you. So often it seems a movie will around patting itelf on the back for being controversial (regardless of which side of the argument) and after all the fuss is said and done, turns out to not be a very good movie anyways.

MQT #5: The 3 Signs of Winter

All images © Eric Dyck 2007

FFWD illo

Illustration for a series of book reviews featuring pirates, adult diapers, health food, sputnik and Hunter S. Thompson. Yep...that's all of them...

MQT #4: Disposable Pup

All images © Eric Dyck 2007

Cover Lover

Double cover for FFWD magazine; featuring articles on all things "winter" in an urban setting.

MQT #3: Overhear'd

All images © Eric Dyck 2007

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

MQT #2: KKKrazy

All images © Eric Dyck 2007

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

MQT #1: Westward Ho'peless

All images © Eric Dyck 2007

Finished inks for an educational tool for a Canadian military museum's propaganda literacy program. Based on "The Great Whites": paper-ban era WW2 comics in Canada...especially Leo Bachle's over-the-top patriotic bare-knuckle adventures of Johnny Canuck.

I also love the line and brushwork in Nelvana of the North, and oddities like the Penguin (a crime-fighting /zoot-suit wearing detective in a penguin mask...for some reason).


Dialogue and text will be added by the program participants.

Sketches from this project can be seen on my sketchblog.

FFWD illo

A back-to-University article on good eating habits for students. Mmmm...smoothies...I think I've got some frozen mango in the fridge...whrrrrrrrrr

FFWD illo

FFWD article on the historical designation of the Rideau Canal. I found the sad ending to the Canal's (and Ottawa's) British creator rather amusing, as well as the decidely NON-military role the Canal plays in daily Ottawa life. The numerous dead Irish & French-Canadian labourers likely did not really find him tragically amusing, but it made for a good drawing.

FFWD Cover

Cover for FFWD magazine...article on oil development at CFB Suffield.
Sketches can be seen here...

Tim & Tara

A wedding present for the spookiest couple I know...congratulations, Tim!

Broken City Poster

A little hiatus and I'm back at the drawing board...here's a poster I forgot to post from a few weeks back. New work soon!

Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Rings, Roars & Roustabouts

A great title for a kids' play being put on by Wagonstage.

The client had been looking for something in the spirit of vintage turn-of-the-century circus posters. Those posters are a little stiff and awkward for a warm and friendly kids poster, so I energized the composition a little. I sure like that tight-rope walking elephant...hee hee...

Broken City Poster

Sweetheart poster...Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Gigposters.com Card Deck #3

Clay's Gigposters.com 3rd Annual Card Deck is for sale!

Music, Posters and...toques? Support one of the pillars of the "interwebs" today.

The card deck was featured on Drawn!, which is as close as I have gotten to being featured on the premiere Cartooning and Illustration Blog...I'll take it!

Shavuot Maze

Holiday game for Tzivos Hashem's KIDS Magazine in New York for the Shavuot holiday. A lot of work to layout but fun to fill with details and colour. 49 boxes were needed for the 49 days of the holiday, but I felt mazes with deadends and wrong-ways are a bit negative...which this holiday is not. I've designed the maze to use all 49 boxes (to get the flower bunches, of course!) and still be able to get back on track to the finish line!

Here's a close-up:

Broken City Poster

Pretty fun sounding group, some nice songwriting too.

...Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Some great tunes from these guys...may have to check them out! Teri helped with some tattoo and other good suggestions of poor choices. Sorry I left out the pet skunk...sorry babe!

...Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Movie poster...sort of...

Poster for the new movie nights at Broken City. Thanks to Laurie Fuhr...

Broken City Poster

Lee Rocker poster...Feel free to check out the process post on my sketchblog.


...Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...