Indiana He-Coz

Sorry for the delay, I've been a bit sick.

Indiana Jones, He-man - Purchased by Jenny, and Cliff Huxtable. Tomorrow, Ming the Merciless.

It's the Same as Having Wings

Peter Pan, purchased by Addie. Tomorrow, Indiana Jones.

Tamale Hut Pictures

Here are pictures from the Reception at the Tamale Hut Cafe. I had a great time. Some great people came by and had Tamales, Beer, Wine, and bought some art. Thank You so much to everybody who took the time to come out on a cold snowy night. Special thanks to everyone generous enough to buy some art work. Here's a sample of one of the pieces on display. I'll post a new one up here everyday till I'm out of them.

Bruce Boxlietner as Tron. Bought by Mike Sims. Tomorrow Peter Pan.

Free Beer Dude!

Hey, this is a reminder to anyone interested that the Artist Reception at the Tamale Hut Cafe is this Saturday. There will be Tamales, Art, Free Beer and Wine. What the hell else do you need? Here are some pics of the restaurant with the art up on the walls.

Hot Tamales

Hey, I've got some news on another gallery opening! Many thanks to Jaime at the Tamale Hut Cafe, for hosting my art work for the next couple of months. On display will be several of the Burning Building prints that appeared in the Diane Tanios Gallery. In addition are a whole slew of small paintings I've done over the last year. A bunch of them are Star Wars watercolors and the others are the originals from a mustache comic I did a while back, that I colored in gouache. Then there's some original pages of comic art as well. The Tamale Hut Cafe and I will be hosting a reception for the show on Saturday 21st from 7 to 10pm. Plus hey, there's gonna be free beer and wine! It should be a great time, and I hope to get a lot of people there, so if you're reading this consider yourself invited. Directions to the Tamale Hut are at their website.
What else? I've still been working on the Ivan Brunetti book and will have another post on that up soon. I've also been busy with more bindledog projects. We recently did a cartoon that got over 150,000 hits on youtube. Check it out.
Meanwhile I haven't quite decided what I'm doing for the convention season yet, but I will be trying to do at least a couple of shows to pimp out the Burning Building series, now that it's all done.

Where There's Smoke...

Well there's still some time before Christmas to get some holiday shopping done, and what better gift than mini-comics? To celebrate the holiday I'm offering all five Issues of Burning Building Comix for the discounted price of $12.00! They'll even come wrapped in a beautiful decorative bow. Isn't that festive? To order email me and mention that you want the holiday set. Remember, this is what the what shabang looks like put together.

Cartooning Exercises Part 1

I want to give a big thanks to Laurie at Dreamland comics for hosting my signing a couple weeks ago. I had a great time and got to talk turkey with fellow artists Elliot and Art. I'd also like to thank Rickey Gonzalez for alerting me to the fact that Burning Building Comix got a nice notice in the latest Best American Comics Anthology. It's in the back under Notable Comics of 2008, and thanks as well to Jessica Abel and Matt Madden who picked those titles. Pretty sweet. Now if only I could get a comic in one of those awesome anthologiesSO I've been putting this off for too long, but I mentioned before how I wanted to go through the Ivan Brunetti book, Cartooning. The book has multiple lessons and I'm going to put myself through the paces to try and stretch my cartooning psyche. Not to mention expose my piss poor doodling skills. Might I also ask anybody else who is interested to join in following along with these exercise. So here are my first three.

Exercise 1.1 : This exercise includes 6 drawings five different times. You're to take the same item and draw it 6 times in varying lengths. Starting with 3-4 minutes, then 2, then 1, 30 seconds, and 15 seconds. You start with a Car then go to a cat, a castle, a telephone, and a self portrait.

Exercise 1.2 : Draw 25 quick doodles of famous cartoon characters from memory.

Exercise 1.3 : Draw 100 doodles in 5 seconds a piece drawing images from your stream of consciousness. Don't stop to think about it. (This was very hard for me for some reason.)

So you'll have to either get the book, or take one of Ivan's classes to get the full explanation and reasoning for the exercises. Of course I highly recommend the book, and plan to get through all of them and post them here as they are completed.