{"id":1302,"date":"2008-06-01T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2008-06-01T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T06:02:00","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-65-featuring-up-and-coming-illustrator-james-hindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #65: Featuring Up-and-Coming Illustrator, James Hindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jules<\/strong>: It seems like just yesterday that we started featuring student or newly-graduated illustrators at the beginning of each month here at 7-Imp, but it’s already June. JUNE, I tell ya! And this is our sixth one. Yeesh, before you know it, it’ll be December and snowing. Where does the time go? <\/p>\n

And we’re happy that illustrator James Hindle<\/strong><\/a> agreed to share some art work with us. He sent us a handful of images, but how can we not<\/em> open up with cupcakes? (And cupcake tattoos and a cupcake belt buckle, at that. Has Fuse<\/strong><\/a>, the self-proclaimed cupcake fanatic, considered these things?). This is “Bake Sale” from 2007. James, who lives in Massachusetts, has some more illustrations and comics featured at his web site, WorryStories.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, and here are some of the ilustrations he sent us for today’s feature (the first, untitled; the second, “Bed Head”; and the third, “The Tall Man,” all from 2007): <\/p>\n

\"Untitled,<\/p>\n

\"Bed<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

He also gave us free reign to choose whatever we’d like that we see at his site, and I just have to include Tailypo here. Anyone familiar with that old Appalachian piece of folklore<\/strong><\/a> might appreciate this one, which I found at James’ sketchbook<\/strong><\/a> page: <\/p>\n

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James has comics, dating back to ’04, at this page<\/strong><\/a> of his site and more illustrations featured here<\/strong><\/a>. He even, apparently, does an occasional painting<\/strong><\/a>. Can’t you just see some of James’ work in some YA novels, especially graphic novels? We thank him for taking the time to stop by 7-Imp today and letting us feature him. We also wish him the best of luck and hope to see lots more of his work in the future. <\/p>\n

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As a reminder, our weekly 7 Kicks list is the meeting ground for listing Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week — whether book-related or not — that happened to you (as well as featuring new artists like James). You — yes, you<\/em> reading now — are more than welcome to leave your kicks from the week, whether you’ve ever done so before or not. <\/p>\n

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* * * eisha’s kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

1* I saw the most recent play my husband designed, and it was incredible. I Am My Own Wife<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a one-man show about an actual person, Charlotte von Mahlsburg, an East German transvestite who managed to survive the Nazi and Communist regimes while collecting enough antique furniture to build a museum. It was totally fascinating, and the actor Vince Gatton was amazing. My husband’s set was pretty cool too.<\/p>\n

2* We saw the new Indiana Jones<\/em> movie, and Prince Caspian<\/em> too. Both good, but I’m a little sad about some of the divergences from the book they did with Caspian<\/em>. <\/p>\n

3* The art this week is very cool. I love the girl with the book.<\/p>\n

And I’m just gonna leave it at that. It was a good week, but fairly quiet, so not much to report. How ’bout you, Jules?<\/p>\n

* * * Jules’ kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

1). I’m<\/p>\n

2). taking<\/p>\n

3). a<\/p>\n

4). blog<\/p>\n

5). break<\/p>\n

6). this<\/p>\n

7). week. <\/p>\n

Yes, I’ll miss you all, but I really need to take some time off to just read<\/em>. There are so very many fabulous-looking books, all rife with potential, sitting and waiting on me, twiddling their thumbs, staring at me expectantly…and I need to take a big honkin’ chunk of time and read them. In fact, I should probably take more than one week, but we’ll see if I can even last this<\/em> long. <\/p>\n

I blog about books, but I’ve been blogging too much and not reading enough. Yeah. Weird. I guess it’s all the interviews and picture book posts and illustrator features (which, to be sure, I enjoy tremendously). Those good-looking novels are about to give up on me, give me the middle finger and huff off, if I don’t attend to them. So, I’ll be back next Sunday (oh, and—for the record—I’m not speaking for Eisha here. She may post. This is Jules’ declaration here), and I wish everyone a good week. <\/p>\n

What are your<\/em> kicks this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jules: It seems like just yesterday that we started featuring student or newly-graduated illustrators at the beginning of each month here at 7-Imp, but it’s already June. JUNE, I tell ya! And this is our sixth one. Yeesh, before you know it, it’ll be December and snowing. Where does the time go? And we’re happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}