Wednesday, January 27, 2010

CREWiSM







This off season I thought I would be making a buffet of banners and two-sticks. I've only made three because a hobby from my past crept back into my life. It's a hobby that has come to the point where this will probably become a full-time thing, if not this season, surely for future ones.

I started drawing cartoon-like caricatures of baseball players in Japan in the late 1990's. I stopped but have brought the drawings back in the form of the Columbus Crew Soccer Club. Part of my several likes of Japanese things is the anime/manga. I would decide that the name of my comic would be CREWiSM. How did I come with this title? Well, honestly, my wife came up with the name and I found the font. The suffix -ism in CREWiSM can best be define this title as things Columbus Crew, but in a gag comic sort of way. The font for the title is called Bad Mofo, which I consider the Columbus team to be, out of my own bias. If broken up, the word Crew Is M in bad English could stand for Crew Is Massive.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

2009

No need to go over why the hiatus from this blog. In a nutshell, I've been working on gag comic/manga called CrewIsM. More on that later. For now, it's time to catch this blog up from where I left off. Columbus had the best overall record in the league once again in 2009, yet due to the second-chance nature of American sports, the Crew didn't win the playoffs. But 2009 saw some nice carryover value in terms of displays of passion. I'll just let the pictures do the talking.