I’ve really been enjoying what booooooom has been offering lately, including this illustration by Justin Nelson.

Check the above exquisite corpse drawn at last month’s rent party at the West Bank Social Center. We had the projector running all night, and the people just kept on drawin’.

This Friday we’re throwing our September rent party, and trading the overhead projector for team of typists. You can come, dance, dictate a letter to your mom, and then top it off with a delicious grilled cheese sandwich.

One catch though: if you plan on coming this month, you’re gonna have to RSVP. I know, it’s sort of annoying, but it will hopefully reduce headaches and make it more fun for everyone.

RSVP for this Friday’s rent party!

(photo via West Bank Social Center/Flickr)

From South 12th:

Ruling pens are amazing devices, and I still have one somewhere that I use for ink drawings on occassion. It works a little like a dip pen, where pressure draws the ink up into that cavity, and you use the knob to adjust the width. With enough practice, you can make incredibly fine, straight, continuous lines with ink that would be impossible with even a quill tip or dip pen.

Another proponent of the ruling pen: Chris Ware — although I’ve seen multiple interviews with him bemoaning the lost hours spent learning such an archaic and obsolete device. From Chris Ware, a biography by Daniel Raeburn:

I do all the curves with a brush, I do all straight lines with a ruling pen. I try to get my pictures to read like words, so that when you see them you can’t make yourself not read them, in the same way that when you see a printed word you can’t make yourself not read it, no matter how hard you try.

Clearly that hard work didn’t pay off at all.

(image: “Untitled,” Quimby the Mouse letterpress print by Chris Ware)

Lou Beach, World of Men A.  (via arielk, but does it float)

Drawn by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy. (via softculture)