waiting till you're back

How cute is my Kym!

Useful Boyfriend

This is again referred to when I just moved to Toronto.

First I moved in Feb 2009, and Kym couldn't come here with me because at that time he was still working under a Work visa, so he had to go on working in Vancouver until in July he finally got a job over here. So, this is what happen in the first few days of his arrival... And nobody can tell I don't have the best boyfriend!

Taronga zoo

Grocery in Quebec

Yes, so much time since the last publishing... Life got really busy, but I'll try to go back in track.
As Thailia said, after reading these comics, you can say to already know us.
Then I don't want to private all the dear friends from following these stories.
A intermission comic is the good way to re-start the Nana's adventures, back then in beginning 2008, before leaving Montreal with Kym.

Greatings to Vancouver

And that is for closing Vancouver Chapter.
New Nana comics soon!

Un po' di spiegazioni per gli italiani... Vancouver e'conosciuta per essere molto piovosa. E cosi', quando ho deciso di seguire Kym, mi sono detta: "Beh, basta che mi prenda un paio di stivali da pioggia trendy, un bell'ombrello (viola come piace a me) e un impermeabile. Saro' troppo carina!!!" Peccato che di pioggia non se ne sia vista poi molta...

The Spy

One of those letteral translations that doesn't work in English...

Slow Talk

It happen often that I continue to talk of something I was speaking about a while before (ppl have trouble understanding what is the subject then), or talking again and again of the same matter that is stationary in my mind... Kym is a saint to tholerate me.

Succede spesso che io riprenda un discorso da dove lo avevo lasciato ore prima (e dunque il mio interlocutore ha difficolta'a comprenderne il soggetto), o che parli piu'volte dello stesso problema che mi sta tormentando in quel determinato periodo... A ogni modo Kym e'un santo a sopportarmi!

Easter in Toronto

That is from a conversation through e-mails for organizing Easter in Toronto with friends from different areas of Canada.
We're also mostly foreigners with no so much knowledge about different religion uses and costumes, than we ended up in a really funny conversation...
In order of appearance: Alex S., Kym, Laurent, Nana, Jim, Gabrielle, Jesse.

Questa converstazione via e-mail era sull'organizzazione del ponte pasquale qui a toronto. Naturalmente siamo un gruppo di ignoranti che, in buone intenzioni, stava organizzando un pranzo di pasqua con menu' non proprio ebraico in memoria di un nostro amico che non puo'raggiungerci.
Info utili alla lettura di questo fumetto:
Poutine: patatine fritte con grasso di maiale e formaggio sciolto.
Nella religione ebraica non si crede che gesu' sia il salvatore, dunque non si celebrano Natale e Pasqua. Inoltre non si mangiano carne e formaggio nello stesso piatto con le stesse posate.

Hamster Wheel

This has happen in Commercial Drive, the little Italy of Vancouver. I wanted to say something like "Oh, it's so cute" but I didn't had words for express myself at the moment... than Kym got free on the interpretation....

Playing the PSP

Back on track!
After the moving to Toronto, I'm finally set up with scanner and time for going back doing my nana comics ;)
Lots are ready from my sketchbook to be published, so don't worry, I'm not short on ideas. Indeed for a while I'll try to finish those with Kym, passing then to holidays in italy for arriving to the present, my new life (and new/old friends) in Toronto. Enjoy!

Messages in the snow

Oh, yes, it snow also in Vancouver! As never in the last generation, then enough to cause troubles in the mobility of the town.
Anyway, Kym and I like to enjoy the small of it, as it remind us of Montreal ( but nothing as majestic).
That happened before X-mas (Dec 2008)
Kym's artistic skills are not of the best ones, but he has a big hearth :)

New Friends

I met few new people on the Sketchcrawl day, in between this Jeremy, which works in some videogame studio.
On Friday night I often go to the Soho lounge and billiard, in Yaletown, Vancouver, to join the evening with other people of the cg industry, mainly videogame ppl, but also vfx and cartoons. So here happened the mistake...
Ho incontrato diversa nuova gente durante lo Sketchcrawl a Vancouver, fra cui questo Jeremy che lavora in videogames.
Al Venerdi' sera vado spesso in questa sala da biliardo dove si ritrova specialmente gente che lavora nei videogames, ma anche in effetti speciali e cartoni animati. Ed e' qui che e' successo il mio errore di riconoscimento...

Intermission

For a night we could be ourselves :D

Funny English

Here we are with a more Halloween environment in occasion of this period.
That has happen last year in Montreal, when me and Kym were still just good friends. Kym is Australian, then his mother language is English. Alex is his best friend, or the "Amaretto" / "Snow table" guy

Muddle

That's happen a morning I was paniking late for work...

My demoreel menu

I couldn't post last weekend, because I was in California for my "american sister" wedding and now I'm working for opening a real website (!!!) focused on my work -modeler 3D-. But I don't want to leave your "mouth dry" and so I'll post today the Main menu of the DVD I send to studios for showing my 3d demo reel. I know, doesn't look like anything of real 3D, or cool, but I am really affectionate to my Nana comic character ;)

Cover for demoreel

OK, that is not serious, Kym needed a cover for his DVD for showing eventually his works when he redid the VISA (work permit). So, since he was in rush, she asked to me to take care of that. Of course I did the Nana comic's version of him, as it's really looking alike :D

Recycling

For who is not Canadian, here you have to pay 5 to 20 cents more each bottle and can you buy, which will be payed back when you return the bottle for the recycling (usually to the supermarket) . I guess is a way to be sure that people actually recycle their bottles and don't put them in the generic garbage. That become a kind of business for homeless people, who look in the streets to take the bottles left in the side of the garbage (Yes, in Vancouver they don't need to check inside the garbage, as there are apposite outside containers for bottles and cans). They often collect these bottles in big bags or supermarket trolley and last evening one had this huge Garfield in it!
Which made me think about this new comic :D
ITALIANO SEGUE NEI COMMENTI ;)

Attentions

Again, a big sorry for the long absence, the mentoring work and the moving took away a lot of time. Also British Columbia is beautiful and I spend my weekends discovering always new places. Well, I'll try to don't leave again empty for too long this blog.
This time I have a soft one. Hope it's understandable. You're free to comment that "it sucks" if it's the case ;)

TAGGED!!!

I Got Tagged!!!
And here my answer ;)
Pascal tagged Joel here,
while Joel tagged me here.
And here the lucky new tagged friends:
Anna, Shane, Luca, Rick, Erica, Federico

NEWS: Rick answered here in a very artistic page, while Shane posted his one on his website here.