imPOSTERs!

You know when you overhear someone say something like “Gentle Canadians”* in casual conversation and you instantly think “Good band name”? The poster show opening tonight at Gallery Visio is like a tribute to these talented, yet existence-challenged bands and their gigs.

We’ve been so busy lately (oh yeah, we bought a house. more on that soon) that I almost didn’t do one. But Stephanie suggested I dust off an old collage I did back when I was on crack and turn it into a poster. I decided to draw it since I’d always wanted to anyway, and I thought it might make it look a little more consistent. It’s light boxed, so I don’t know if that really “counts” as drawing, but whatever. It was good exercise with a brush.

I stuck with the original file name as my band name. Simple, but it was hard for me to imagine anything else. Probably indie-electronic, like Simian or Cornelius.

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and here’s something new. How bout some wallpaperz.

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*Stephanie’s….she came up with all the good ones.

[Update]

Flickr Set from the Opening

 

Go Buy Chronicles of the Wave Cutter #1

Things that are guaranteed to make any comic good:

1. Boats

2. Large belt buckles

3. A cover that I colored

4. Nikola Tesla

Drew Crowley’s new Chronicles of the WaveCutter has 3 and its only the first issue so who knows what sort of Tesla appearances could come. Pick it up at Star Clipper or go straight to the source and contact Drew through his blog.

 

Mary Engelbreit Stole my Pic-i-nic basket

Most people don’t know this, but every Sunday I dress up like Waldo and Stephanie and I meet friends in the park for a day of pretend picnicking and acting all artsy-like. Most people didn’t know…UNTIL NOW!

from the current issue of Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion…

 

Cape Con

Stephanie and I went with Steve Higgins down to Cape Girardeau over the weekend for the Cape Comic Con. It was the first time having a booth for Stephanie and I so it was pretty cool. Steve Just released Myriad #2, a fable about tigers which Stephanie did some gorgeous art for, so we all had something to peddle

We sat across from the guy from Who Wants to Be a Superhero, the guy from the original Halloween and the guy from 4 different Sci-fi shows. Cullen Bunn, who wrote the excellent The Damned (new 3 issue series just came out) was there. And then there were a bunch of Storm Troopers and some other people…

Cape Con is no San Diego. Nor does it have that hip, indy coolness of SPX or MOCCA. Not that I’m knocking it. I had a good time, and it did have 2 Boba Fetts, which my friend Drew decided is the proper way to gauge how good a con is. If you only go to one comic convention in Cape Girardeau, MO, make it that one.

 

Supes is 70

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Playback’s in the middle of a week long tribute with articles on him every day. I would have written something, but it wouldn’t have been much more than “I thought that airplane scene in the new movie was pretty cool, but where was General Zod?” So they let me draw a picture instead.

That being said, take it from a non-superman fan, the All-Star Superman book that’s currently running is one of the best books on the shelves.

Steve Higgins did yesterday’s article about when he was a kid and his dad, through shear luck, brought home the first part of Alan Moore’s classic Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow (from the supermarket of course), which lead to a 15 year quest to get a copy of the conclusion.

My parents got me a copy of Visionaries #4 (based on a forgotten toy line). I just spent a 15 minute quest trying to find a picture of it and gave up. Not quite the same impact. So deprived.

 

Comics Lecture in St. Louis…well, near St. Louis

Steve Higgins is hosting a guest lecture on comics tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 (4.4.0 at the library of Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL. The guests are B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun, and Cullen Bunn. Rumor has it an additional artist, Jason Latour, will be parachuting into the signing afterwards blindfolded and on fire. They’re all super talented, but I won’t post any of their work here because it might detract from my own art seen below

Unfortunately, I won’t be making it. I’ll be working and/or serving my fine country on jury duty.

Steve is a writer who teaches classes on comics among other things. He also wrote this comic “Expectation Fails” that I did the art for which is now for sale on my etsy shop.

 

Smash Brothers

All productivity has been put on hold for 2 months. Check back in June. Maybe July.

 

Hope Larson’s Chiggers

 

Hope Larson (Gray Horses) posted a drawing on her blog the other day and invited anyone to color it, so I gave it a shot just for fun. Its from her upcoming book, Chiggers, about a group of girls at camp, and that’s all I know about it, but I like the drawing.

 

Chat with Tony Millionaire

Last month I got to interview Tony Millionaire, creator of Maakies and the Sock Monkey comics for PlaybackSTL. He’s probably my favorite newspaper strip cartoonist working today, so it was a pleasure and an honor to share a couple of beers with him via phone.

You can check out the interview here

 

Please Stand By

Okay, that’s the last time I make promises to my stupid blog. my laptop blew up on Sunday, so no Mushroomy updates until I stop sobbing and find somewhere else to do some scanning.