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I painted a couple of rebels for gouache demos in Alex Fine and Greg Houston’s illustration classes. These guys are kind of evil…kinda got a devilish lean to em…the rebels too! (badum chh) (sorry)
I’m always amazed that anything I have to share in demos with classes are things students will appreciate and be able to use, but it’s always great. So long as I’m not going off on too many random rants about dumb things then I just hope I’m imparting some tips, and it’s a pretty good time.
“I’ll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle.”
The Warriors. is. my. favorite. movie. of. all. time.
This is my tshirt design for another Pizza Party Printing movie night at the Ottobar here in Baltimore. On Sunday, April 28th, they’ll be presenting the best movie of all time, The Warriors, along with another best movie of all time, The Road Warrior so you’d best soldier over to this one. Admission (and pizza) is free as always, and BASEBALL TEES of my design as well as regular tees of Jimmy Giegerich’s utterly rad Road Warrior shirt will be on sale. SO…
Come out to playy-ayyy!
“Pest Control”, my piece for the LADY KNIGHTS // WOMEN WARRIORS zine by Abby Boeh, Roxie Vizcarra, and Julia Scott coming out at MoCCA this April. No three-eyed tusk-mawed pest is a match for this bitchin babe exterminator.
She’s also the star of an upcoming comic I hope to have all ready for SPX this year. That’s the plan anyhow! We’ll see…In any case, she’s a little too rad for me to ignore.
Fantastic Tales II from Scout Books’ Good Ink: American Shorts series just came out, and it features the short story I illustrated last year, “The Isle of Voices” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Other mini books in the set are “The Giant’s Heart” by George MacDonald, illustrated by Lark Pien; and “Mowgli’s Brothers” by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Rebecca Dart. This was a lot of fun to work on, and I loved the story I got assigned. Thanks to editor François Vigneault for including me in the series!
You can pick up the Fantastic Tales II set for $12 and check out all the other Good Ink: American Shorts sets from Scout Books here. All are illustrated beautifully by many talented artists and come in nicely-packaged mini-book form. They’re all great little classics that are definitely worth revisiting.
Wicked Lady for Jenn Woodall’s Moon Power zine. Always liked this bitter angsty babe.
This is my piece for the Silver Screen Society’s February exhibition honoring the very funny podcast “How Did This Get Made?” Artists chose one of several bad movies reviewed on the podcast by Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael (who can make the word “disgusting” the funniest thing I’ve heard) and my choice, if it’s not obvious, was Batman & Robin.
My little brother and I have seen this movie too many times, and it is oh so silly, and we love it. There are enough nipples sculpted into costumes that I figured I’d give everyone a chance to show theirs off. And revisiting those costumes…boy are they dumb. Mr. Freeze’s get-up is one of the most convoluted, stupid things I’ve ever had to draw. So this was tons of fun.
Check out all the great work on Silver Screen Society’s online gallery here, including Jimmy Giegerich’s excellent Cool As Ice piece (which got him followed BY Vanilla Ice on Twitter! A very rad outcome). And, if you haven’t already heard “How Did This Get Made?”, correct that error here. You’ll be better for it.
Thanks to the guys at Silver Screen for inviting me to take part!
Some months ago I illustrated and hand-lettered materials at Spur Design for the Maryland Humanities Council’s One Maryland One Book program. Every year a book is chosen for state-wide reading and discussion, with materials distributed to schools and libraries, and the 2012 selection was The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. It’s a story based on true events about a musician during the seige of Sarajevo who honors the memory of his friends and neighbors by playing his cello everyday in the square where they were killed, a day for each victim.
It was a thrill to work on this at Spur, and lovely to work with the hardworking people at MD Humanities. You can find out more about the One Maryland One Book program here. Art & design direction by David Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth.
Portrait study: Rosemary Woodhouse.
First face in a horror movie heroine series I’m working on in my “spare” time.
A 2012 year-end review! Here are some of my favorite pieces I created in 2012. All of these were either tons of fun to make, helped me grow in some way, or gave me a chance to play with something new. Looking back, I think what I’ve learned from this past year, and what I need to do better this new year is simple: Make more. More more more. More.
2013! Gonna make so much more!!
It’s a little snowflake sprite!
I desperately want it to snow, and would like to inspire a little mythical assistance.
Cthulhu Fhtagn!
For Trevor Henderson’s upcoming grim and dreadful H.P. Lovecraft zine “Puffed Shoggoths”, which has incredible line up of artists including Trevor himself, Jimmy Giegerich and Jon Vermilyea. You can find out more about the zine here.
With Halloween on it’s way, I figure I’ll tie this little story into the piece: this illustration is based on an intense fear I experienced on the one and only cruise I’ll ever take in my life. I was on the deck one night, in the middle of the Atlantic; it was cloudy and a new moon so no light whatsoever came from the sky. I remember looking out past the railings and seeing the lights from the boat just end only a few feet out at the most charcoal-deep blackness I’ve ever seen. It was such a profoundly dark and completely unbroken void that it just seemed to swallow everything. As if the ship had sailed into a black hole, there was just nothing in every direction. I remember finding my back to the wall of the ship before I even knew I’d moved and just filling up with the most instinctual fear and dread. There could have been a colossal eye staring at me in the dark and I wouldn’t have been any more disturbed than I was in that moment.
“When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you,” apparently…according to some guy…
So in true Lovecraftian style, I let the dread take over and this is the result! Stay tuned to Trevor’s tumblr for news on the “Puffed Shoggoths” zine.
Last night was another Pizza Party After Dark at The Ottobar in Baltimore where The NeverEnding Story was shown and my poster was sold (also shirts!). It was a blast. If you’re in the Baltimore area, get out here every last Sunday of every month for free movies, free pizza and rad screen-printed posters & shirts by Pizza Party Printing.
You can get said rad screen-printed goods and my NeverEnding Story shirt (poster coming soon) here!
New illustration for the New York Times Letters section. This one’s about reigning in health care costs by taking away numerous, sometimes needless testing rather than rationing who gets what care. You can read the article here. Art direction by Alexandra Zsigmond.
I want to watch the sun set on Mars with you.
A little warm-up piece inspired by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit’s photos, which are just incredibly moving, right?
Happy Friday!
& the end to another crazy-busy week amirite??
This is my piece for Jimmy Giegerich’s much-anticipated Bits in Multiples of 8 Video Game Fan Art Book (it’ll be B&W in there).
