In a shocking breach of centuries-old tradition, a Fudebakudo master has gone public. Ba Desheng publicly reveals the art. Unbelievable. Note elderly bystanders pretending not to be interested. According to the British free “newspaper” Metro, “Ba Desheng gives a whole new meaning to the term martial art, using kung fu moves to sketch out giant [...]
Aikido’s sumi otoshi There are some new graphics in the creative-commons aikido graphics collection, which now includes, amongst other things, eight basic techniques. See www.fudebakudo.com/aikido for the images.
Uke & tori (useful terms) Some aikido graphics (drawn for the “welcome pack” of my local aikido dojo, Spelthorne aikido club) are now available under a creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This means you can use them for your dojo’s website or welcome pack or even aikido book — provided you credit Beholder, and propagate the [...]
Here’s the ad we’re running in the current (Christmas) edition of Martial Arts Illustrated magazine. MAI tends to have a lot of photos of grimacing, bald men in their pages, and no kittens. So Fudebakudo has changed that, at least for one issue. Photo credit: Neil Hamilton (Flickr:neilh205) under a CC attrib 2.0 generic license. [...]
Cartoonist Ed O’Grady’s Mikka Bouzu appears in his 200th cartoon this week. That makes it an epic. Well done Ed!
A winter ninja demonstrating good covert snowballing technique. There’s a new Fudebakudo cartoon in the gallery, which appears in the latest (December) edition of MAI magazine. It shines a cold light on the different snowballing styles to be found in the martial arts. Somehow, snowball fights never really worked for me when I was little. I [...]
The Fudebakublog lurches back into life after a long sleep . . . I’ve been giving all my attention to the release of the latest Beholder project, The Knot-Shop Man. Unlike the Fudebakudo book, The Knot-Shop Man is a limited edition art project. No martial arts*, no comics, not even a flick-man in the corner of the pages. The [...]
Cartoonist René and special agent Sung doing something too obscure to explain, which seems to involve holding up tiny, tiny jars of tiny, tiny things. I am back in the UK after a seven-week trip to Bangkok. It was good to catch up with old friends in the Big Mango. Special thanks to Ben (and [...]
Finally, an announcement! Exploding Pen is publishing a special edition of The Knot-Shop Man on 09/09/09. This is a Beholder project, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the story-puzzle Planetarium. And there are no martial arts in it. Sorry. For more information, go to www.beholder.co.uk/knots/
Martial art without boundaries There's a new illustration in the gallery on the topic of Shapes in the Martial Arts. This was drawn for the May issue of MAI magazine so you won’t find it in the book. This one really span off from the well-known oddity that a boxing ring isn’t round.
