Cutting Edge Conformity

Cool is just cutting edge conformity. This is a blog about culture, film, television, and story telling. Plus whatever else crosses my semi-functional simian brain. More art can be seen on www.jtillustration.com

Sunday, 6 April 2025

Recommended: Severance

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Severance follows the dual lives of people working for the mysterious corporation Lumon. They've 'surgically' (with some kind o...
Saturday, 5 April 2025

Half-lost comic jam continued

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What does it all mean??? Your guess is as good as mine.
Monday, 31 March 2025

Why is there so little honesty in publishing?

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S ame reason there's little honesty in Hollywood, music, or advertising: it's a business, and the impression of success creates succ...
Friday, 28 March 2025

Recommended: American Primeval

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American Primeval follows a young woman and her son as they try and cross the Rockies, to reach her husband on the West coast. Well. That...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

Alberta is the new 'weakest link' in the Confederation chain

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The US , and Trump in particular, don't give a crap about Québec . It's left of centre, and full of 'surrender monkeys'. Th...
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Rex Libris vs. The Zombies

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Rex vs. The Mob I always rather liked this shot from issue... 6, I think?  Feels like a lifetime ago. It mixes modern vector with a little l...
Monday, 24 March 2025

US invasion of Canada?

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Could the US invade Canada ? This is such a bonkers scenario , it's difficult to take seriously.  Malcolm Nance writes about it here . ...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

The New Odd Couple

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I have a TV show reboot idea: The Odd Couple! Putin and Trump have had to cut costs (Doge efficiency!) and are now living in the White Palac...
Friday, 21 March 2025

So where are the pictures of this new mystery book?

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Good question, convenient imaginary interlocutor.  In the age of AI, when Google and Meta scrape everything online to feed their insatiable ...
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Old collaborative comic jam

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 One done from... 2017 I think. Intercontinental! ] Surprising what you find on old hard drives... 
Saturday, 15 March 2025

Print prep progresses positively!

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I'm sure you are all relieved. A work around for bitmapping the artboards has been found that doesn't involve spending thousands of ...
Friday, 14 March 2025

Random demon designs

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For Rebel Angels , I had to come up with an entire murder worth of demon designs. I'm talkin' a helluva alot. Nothing too mainstream...
Monday, 10 March 2025

Forget the Roman Empire, why do I keep thinking of Harrison Bergeron?

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It is a mystery. But it's well done, and has Sam from Lord of the Rings in it (somehow he's taller here, must be trick photography)...
Sunday, 9 March 2025

Cover of the new book... done!

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Tis done, baby! Other than some text refinements and t and i dotting... And yes, it is upside down.  This went through a number of iteration...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

The new book interiors are done: booyah!

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I finished the interiors of my new book on the weekend.  Whew.  It's taken significantly longer than I'd hoped.  Now I have to do al...
Thursday, 27 February 2025

Rebel Angels promotion page

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Came across this in the ol' archives:  These days I'm working more in ProCreate and ink than I am in Adobe Illustrator.  The medium ...
Monday, 20 January 2025

Predictions for From Season 4: Change is coming!

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As Season 3 of the Paramount Plus TV show From ends, the town is engulfed by winter, after 50 years of stable, consistent warm weather. Thi...
Monday, 13 January 2025

From: Analyzing the symbols in the cave

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I tried lightening and increasing the contrast on some frames to see if that helped clarify things. It doesn't, at least not much. I lov...
Saturday, 4 January 2025

From: The New Lost

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Yet another Mystery Box in a Bottle show in the same vein as  Lost, Dark, 1899, Yellowjackets , and their great grandaddy, the kids show  La...
Thursday, 12 December 2024

Stunning trailer for 28 Years Later

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  Complete with a Yeats poetry reading voiceover from... 1905! Talk about daring! The artistry of this, and the willingness to do something ...
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