Kevie's Metal Shop

fashion sketches

2012-01-31T23:52:00.002-05:00

Wonder Woman

2012-01-29T23:25:00.000-05:00

Lindsay Lohan at 40

2012-01-27T23:21:00.001-05:00

More Kate Beckinsale

2012-01-26T00:21:00.000-05:00

Some more sketches inspired by those movies I haven't seen about Kate Beckinsale and her Vampire Pants. I did watch the trailer for the new one, but I tapped out at the scene where she gets in a gunfight with a falling elevator. Any time I try to watch a movie that stupid, my brain starts kicking me in the base of my skull until I turn it off.

Ronny B quotes: NCAA

2012-01-25T06:10:00.002-05:00

Underworld

2012-01-24T05:45:00.001-05:00

I've never seen one of these movies, but a certain element in the advertising always catches my attention.

MLK

2012-01-16T13:37:00.000-05:00

Adele

2012-01-03T22:35:00.001-05:00

Ron Paul

2012-01-02T23:06:00.000-05:00

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/arguments-vs-associations.html

Ron Shock

2012-01-01T23:24:00.000-05:00

THe Cancer Chronicles, Part I

Palmiotti's Sexy Monday

2011-12-01T02:42:00.007-05:00

I'm still sitting here filling up a sketch pad way into the night, so I wanted to throw up a bunch more crappy-ass phone pics. After my brief flurry of drawing wrestlers, I reverted to my default of just wall-to-wall naked women. And what better source for naked women than Jimmy Palmiotti's blog and his "Sexy Monday" feature, where once a week he curates the very finest of what the internet does best. Jimmy has a great, discerning, tasteful eye, so go check it out right away you pervert.

WWE: Daniel Bryan & others

2011-12-01T02:30:00.004-05:00

My laptop is being repaired today, if you define "repairing" as "shoving a new hard drive into a borderline-unrecognizeable shell." The guy at TekServe all but begged me to not hire them to service the thing. But I digress.

I got nothing to do today but draw with pencil and paper, so I thought I'd just throw down, my first subject being a WWE magazine I took home from the office. FYI Daniel Bryan doesn't actually have a dragon growing out of his spine, that was sort of a flourish.

Oderus

2011-11-17T20:32:00.002-05:00

Said by lead singer Oderus Urungus, from the stage at one of Gwar's first shows following the sudden death of guitarist Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus). Oderus was also quoted as saying, "Fuck you death, you're a fucking asshole," but somehow that didn't have the poetic resonance I was looking for.

(Image source)

Golfin' Beanbots

2011-11-10T13:28:00.005-05:00

I hauled the "Beanbots" characters out of the mothballs for my older daughter's mini-golf birthday party invitation. I gotta start drawing that strip again!

In related news, I tabled at NYCC again this year, even though I didn't have anything to sell but the same old book, and had a really rockin' time. The table rates at that con are way too steep for me to really do anything other than lose my @$$, but gosh do I love watching people leaf through my book and laugh their butts off. Better yet I got to share space with the brilliant artist (and sparkling conversationalist) Jennifer Hayden, whose "Underwire" book has gotten nice writeups in the Onion AVClub, among others. Good times.

The Mind of George Lucas

2011-11-04T12:48:00.002-04:00

Click to embiggerify.

Ronny B Quotes: Car Trip

2011-11-04T00:33:00.004-04:00

Second in a series of some of my favorite nuggets of Ron Bennnington wisdom. (Photo source)

Laptop Girl

2011-10-27T12:29:00.006-04:00

Inspired by a patron sitting at Berkli Parc Cafe one day last summer. (Yeah, I know, I can't imagine what it was about her that I found interesting either.) I made the interior design of the cafe into a design element. I've been on a mission lately to incorporate type into my drawings, but I couldn't figure out what to do with this one until I thought of mocking it up like a poster for the cafe. I created the title lettering freehand in Illustrator -- it seemed easier than trying to find a font that looked like what I had in mind.

Steve Jobs

2011-10-07T14:46:00.008-04:00

Footloose (2011)

2011-09-30T15:51:00.004-04:00

A silly idea inspired by a delightfully savage review of the "Footloose" remake on Pajiba.com. It occurred to me that this blistering sentence could be excerpted out of context to make the most misleading pull-quote in history. Once I thought of it, I couldn't resist the idea of making a fake poster out of it.

Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher!

2011-09-28T14:05:00.008-04:00

A pinup I did awhile back for Bill Presing and Matt Peters' "Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher" graphic novel. I was thrilled to do it, as I admire their work and I'm hugely indebted to both those guys: they basically taught me animation character construction on the fly, when they were at Jumbo Pictures and someone who wasn't paying attention hired me to work on the "Disney's Doug" childrens' books. Thanks to them I went on to fuck up the character designs of many, many animated cartoon shows. Matt and Bill absolutely rule.

"Rex" is one of those strips that manages to be hilariously over-the-top while being played completely straight, and I tried to come up with a funny twist on the premise. The gag is that Rex's evil Nazi nemesis has secretly taken a Bettie Page-style stag reel of Rex's pure-hearted sidekick in the vile clutches of the femme fatale, and Rex is all too happy to kick back and watch it over beers. It probably makes no sense in the explanation, but the guys seemed to get a kick out of it.

Rex was eventually turned into an awesome short animated film by director Alex Woo:

Lonely Girls

2011-09-27T05:31:00.004-04:00

The results of an evening misspent sketching the bar crowds on 2nd Ave near the U.N. Lots of businessmen, lots of diplomat types, lots of women in heels they could barely walk in. Funniest moment was when a passing guy briefly took an interest in what I was doing, only to realize with some disappointment that my pencil sharpener wasn't drug paraphernalia.

weightlifters

2011-09-20T18:36:00.001-04:00

Ronny B Quotes: Waitress

2011-09-14T19:37:00.008-04:00

photo source

9/11/11

2011-09-11T23:50:00.001-04:00

jogger studies

2011-09-09T13:41:00.006-04:00

I love doing studies from stock photography. I thought it might be fun in this instance to take some related images and mash them together into a montage to form a more completed illustration. (Photographer: Tim Tadder via Corbis)

WrestleMania posters

2011-09-07T16:17:00.005-04:00

Some rejected poster concepts for WrestleMania 27, which took place in Atlanta earlier this year. Fans may notice that The Rock is nowhere to be seen, because these were done when his hosting was still a closely-guarded secret.

Rebekah Brooks

2011-09-06T16:10:00.003-04:00

This story is already old news, but I did a sketch of Rupert Murdoch's disgraced editor last month and only now had a minute to color it.

cat study

2011-09-06T14:58:00.003-04:00

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Radio Ghost"

2011-09-04T02:01:00.002-04:00

The last in the current cycle of Sleeves CD illustrations.

Picasso and son

2011-09-04T01:55:00.006-04:00

I just ran across this photo randomly and had to draw it. It strikes me as an amazing composition, almost like circles within circles. Every fiber of Picasso's body seems to be orbiting around his kid. All the lines in his face and those tendons on his neck are converging on that perfect, circular blob of baby boy. I may have failed to convey any of this in the drawing, because I was having too much fun covering every square inch with tiny lines.

character studies

2011-08-26T01:30:00.003-04:00

Character studies I did from photographs, in preparation for today's ad job.

"The Last Ringbearer"

2011-08-24T23:25:00.012-04:00

I haven't done any Tolkien fan art in maybe 30 years. But I started reading an amazing unauthorized novel called "The Last Ringbearer", by a Russian paleantologist named Kirill Yeskov, and when I'm not doing real work I'm having a hell of a time putting it down.

By "unauthorized" I guess I mean fan fiction, but it's fan fiction in the same sense that Gregory Maguire is fan fiction--a beautiful exploration of a well-known fictional universe from a fresh angle, rife with grown-up considerations like economics, relationships, and the moral ambiguity of war. (The only real difference is that Maguire picks subjects that have passed into public domain.) No publisher has dared to try to publish Yeskov's novel in English, but a pdf of a full translation can be downloaded from the translator's blog here. If you're a fan I really recommend it.

Yeskov takes the tack that Tolkien's invented history reads an awful lot like a romanticized, sanitized account written by the victors, involving as it does a war of extermination against the Orcs. It's a surprising take on the material, but Yeskov pulls you right in. The action picks up shortly after the climactic battle in Return of the King, as two Orc soldiers, a scout sergeant and a wounded medic, pick their way home into Mordor as the allies are mopping up the last of the resistance. Yeskov actually makes no mention of the Orcs having their traditional monstrous appearance--he seems to be saying that they're more or less human-looking, the victims of a campaign of literal demonization. Nonetheless, I couldn't resist drawing the two lead characters as traditional Orcs, but perhaps with a more noble bearing.

Some guy from some band

2011-08-22T00:45:00.000-04:00

Randy Orton

2011-08-20T18:22:00.000-04:00

Painter exercise

2011-08-19T18:23:00.004-04:00

While I was in Seattle I crashed a painting class that my mom takes at night. I didn't have any paints, but I've been wanting to learn Corel Painter better so I just brought along my computer gear. I didn't do justice to the model at all, partly because I'm as nearsighted as a bug, but the instructor said nice things anyway.

The Facebook Pose

2011-08-18T18:56:00.005-04:00

This is Faith's favored position for relaxing and looking at the internet. She just stands at the bar looking at her laptop for hours on end. If she needs to get more comfortable she throws a foot up on a stool. This counts as a resting position for her. She is such a weirdo! Not that I'm complaining mind you.

Sketchiness in Seattle

2011-08-18T03:31:00.000-04:00

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Book of Privy Council"

2011-08-18T00:17:00.002-04:00

I can officially allow myself to post to the blog again, since I finally got the next Sleeves piece done, months late!

MITB art

2011-06-30T04:14:00.010-04:00

Original artwork for the "Money in the Bank" spot, much of which didn't make it into the final cut.

Kofi Kingston and John Morrison

Sheamus and Randy Orton

CM Punk

Rey Mysterio

WWE: Money in the Bank

2011-06-25T03:28:00.003-04:00

More WWE stuff: The commercial for their next Pay-Per-View, featuring some (very limited) animation.

Times Square

2011-06-24T03:17:00.002-04:00

Sketching the passerby from the front window of Smith's Bar near Times Square.

Hands

2011-06-18T16:02:00.004-04:00

Via this "handy" little app.

Wrap Dress

2011-06-17T15:16:00.001-04:00

Video Shoot

2011-06-16T11:56:00.004-04:00

While working at Berkli Parc Cafe today I noticed a video shoot going on near the front. When the crew finished they sat down next to me, so I showed them my quick doodle. The model asked me to sign the sketch, all the while raving about how great I made her ass look. Which caused me to blush something awful, I don't mind telling you.

WWE "Capitol Punishment"

2011-06-01T15:28:00.005-04:00

WWE Asked me to illustrate the poster for their next Pay-per view, in a political cartoon style (the event takes place in DC). They usually hang a gigantic poster of their current PPV in the lobby of their HQ in Stamford, so when I was up there this week I got a couple pictures of it.

Here's an article on the poster from one of the wrestling blogs. Considering it's the internet, the comments were surprisingly positive.

Trump one, Trump all!

2011-05-07T14:36:00.002-04:00

Here's to one of the great carny hustlers of our era.

"Who Will the President Kill Next?"

2011-05-06T13:35:00.004-04:00

My tribute to the legal minds at Fox News and their reaction to Obama's ordering the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Exponent of Westbrook, Part 3"

2011-04-24T10:11:00.002-04:00

I find myself wanting to do a different style on each of these. After the quietness of the first few in the series, I felt like doing something more melodramatic and comic booky. It seemed appropriate for the episode, which contained some good old-fashioned radio-drama suspense and chills down the spine.

Eva Longoria

2011-04-09T00:48:00.000-04:00

John Boehner

2011-04-08T15:43:00.002-04:00

Waiting for Godtoad

2011-04-07T02:39:00.000-04:00

More Sleeves love: My rough visualization of Frog & Toad if they were Beckett characters.

Barry Bonds

2011-04-06T02:26:00.000-04:00

Lara Croft

2011-03-25T15:28:00.002-04:00

Images via Film Drunk: "Oh Boy, More Tomb Raider Movies"

Sketching the ads on the train

2011-03-25T11:18:00.003-04:00

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Numbers Station"

2011-03-11T16:46:00.003-05:00

This was a fun one to work on. I was seriously creeped out to research the real-life phenomenon of "numbers stations", mysterious hidden shortwave stations that transmit cryptic codes, presumably for the benefit of spies. ("Lost" drew inspiration from them too, apparently.) There's a lot of youtube clips of recordings of the transmissions--it makes for creepy listening late at night!

Charlie Sheen

2011-03-08T00:49:00.000-05:00

Undertaker T-shirt

2011-02-23T01:48:00.010-05:00

I usually don't post freelance stuff here, because the whole point of the blog is to force myself to do extracurricular work, but I happen to be overly proud of this piece I did for WWE.

I don't usually get hired to do finished illustrations, so it was terribly exciting to really open up and see what I could do. As much of a milestone as this was for me, I had to sit on the art for six months when the Undertaker was temporarily out of action. The shirt very nearly got shelved altogether, and it was well within the realm of the non-disclosure I signed. (Something about sitting in an HR office under a poster of a screaming, blood-soaked Cena makes you sign those standard legal documents with a little more solemnity.)

Anyway, The Undertaker made his heavily-hyped return to Monday Night Raw this week, and lo and behold there's the shirt for sale on WWE's website. I might have to order one for every day of the week.

2/6/11

2011-02-09T09:17:00.002-05:00

Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad.

Ron & Fez: Trapped on a bus

2011-02-09T08:26:00.004-05:00

I finally sent a cartoon to the Ron & Fez show on Sirius that got talked about on the air. They also tweeted to their fans, jokingly referring to it as a "political cartoon". Of course I managed to miss hearing them talking about it, and also forgot to sign the drawing.

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "On the Winning of a Wild Bed"

2011-01-30T23:02:00.007-05:00

My latest cover for Sleeves' subscription-only CD series. I'm pleased that the final art is pretty close to what I saw in my head while listening to the story--that almost never happens. I wanted to try something with a whimsical storybook vibe, like Ezra Jack Keats with the added decorative element of the little fairytale images on the bedcover. I'm disappointed I couldn't figure out a way to identify Sherwin with his iconic hat, but it seemed it would make the image too cluttered.

Just for fun, here's some initial thumbnails I did. I kept trying to come up with an alternate composition, because I thought I wouldn't be able to pull off the one I had in mind. I thought my idea for the bedcover pattern was hopelessly ambitious.

My rough sketches for the characters on the bedcover...

...and the final vector art rendering. I could have just sketched these out in photoshop, but I thought they needed the crisp lines that you get with Adobe Illustrator to distinguish them from the main drawing. There's a knight, a dragon, a castle, a princess locked in a tower; then from C.S. Lewis a faun, a lamppost and the White Witch; and it seemed apropos that Alice's rabbit make an appearance. After all my worrying that I would botch this, I knocked out the actual art in an hour or so.

Daniel Craig

2011-01-12T14:20:00.004-05:00

Huzzah! Sam Mendes Officially Directing Daniel Craig in 'Bond 23' for 2012.

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Dinner in the Dark"

2011-01-08T07:05:00.011-05:00

An illustration inspired by another of Sleeves' stories, "The Dinner in the Dark". (Full episode list here.)

Richard Kuklinski

2011-01-07T06:38:00.003-05:00

I just got done reading "The Ice Man", Philip Carlo's biography of one of the more notorious monsters the Western world produced in the last century. I feel compelled to mention here that I have never owned a Charles Manson t-shirt, ironically appreciated the clown paintings of John Wayne Gacy, or even so much as casually watched "Dexter". Serial killers are not my bag, but this book had me riveted.

Richard Kuklinski was the top porn distributor (legal and otherwise) in New York in the 70's, and that was his veneer of respectability. His real job was a contract killer for the Mafia. And who he really was beyond that was a voracious serial killer who maybe killed as many people for his own reasons as he did for pay, and that's no small number. He wasn't even the skulking, pervy kind of serial killer, he was a loyal (though abusive) family man who quietly went out looking to get into street fights so he could take guys out face to face. He was a huge guy, gifted with near-superhuman strength (if his wife needed a refrigerator moved, he'd just pick it up), a catlike ability to stalk quietly, and what can only be described as a predator's sixth sense for danger that kept him alive and out of trouble with the law over a thirty-year career. The guy could have been fucking Batman had he been so inclined, but as it happened his upbringing left him a straight psychopath. What's truly amazing about Carlo's book is that he so methodically lays the building blocks of Kuklinski's psyche that you almost start feeling like you understand why he took the path he did.

Presenting the Robot Monster Hoodie!

2011-01-02T14:22:00.010-05:00

Bunche put up a facebook profile pic wearing a jacket that he had brilliantly retrofitted from the top half of a gorilla suit that had outlived its usefulness. Since I'm pretty sure that usefulness at least partially consisted of being part of a Halloween costume of the 1950's Z-grade sci-fi flick "Robot Monster", it struck me as a good idea to go all the way with it.

Here's Steve in his gorilla jacket...

...and his original "Robot Monster" costume in all its glory, from our Marvel Bullpen days.

UPDATE: HUZZAH! I FINALLY MADE io9!

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Three Benches"

2010-12-27T18:07:00.006-05:00

Cover art for the first limited-edition CD of my favorite podcast.

St. Nick Redux

2010-12-24T13:34:00.005-05:00

A re-draw of something I put up last year, based on Marcus McLauren's brilliant observation that the St. Nick of "Night Before Christmas" is in fact, "a dirty tiny elf". I'd hoped to have the whole poem ready as a book for download, but I didn't get to it. Maybe next year!

shitfacedbook

2010-12-24T12:44:00.002-05:00

Hat tip to Jennifer Hayden for the idea.

An Urgent appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

2010-12-16T01:24:00.004-05:00

Probably the most random piece of art I ever put up: the guy on Wikipedia's fund-drive banner.

Sword Girl

2010-12-07T04:50:00.003-05:00

Tom DeLay

2010-11-26T00:29:00.000-05:00

Okay, I've renounced most of my Bush-era hatred and bile, but I hope I can be forgiven for indulging in a little schadenfreude on this one: Tom Delay convicted of money laundering, could go to jail for decades.

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "Sarro's Balloon"

2010-11-24T13:39:00.009-05:00

I've been wanting for forever to do a series of illustrations based on my favorite podcast, "Atoms, Motion & the Void", by the brilliant Sherwin Sleeves. This guy is a one-of-a-kind talent: he writes, he voices, he makes music, and he pulls it all together into a singularly haunting listening experience.

The next couple of weekends he's putting up a one-man show in New Hampshire, and I only wish I had the luxury of driving five hours to go see it. But it inspired me to kick out what is hopefully the first in a series of illustrations, this one based on a beautifully sad tale called "Sarro's Ballon".

(iTunes podcast feed here, list of AMV episodes from Sleeves' website here).

UPDATE: Just for shits & giggles, and because I can never leave well enough alone, I took another pass at this incorporating some of the ideas I developed in the later illustrations.

Sketching at Sugar Cafe with friend

2010-11-20T02:59:00.004-05:00

The public schools were closed on Election Day, so I took the Kindergartner to my favorite people-watching cafe and handed her her own sketchbook. To my great delight, she eagerly accepted it and went straight to work. We spent a leisurely morning alternately nibbling on breakfast and drawing the passers-by. I got to witness a wonderful moment when a light seemed to go off in her head and she exclaimed that peoples' heads arent circular, they're oval shaped! Like the consummate perfectionist she is, she promptly ripped all the circle-head drawings out of the book and started over. At some point we took turns drawing each other, something she pulled off with much more confidence than I did.

Katy Perry

2010-11-17T00:58:00.006-05:00

Today's random celebrity practice sketch: Singer Katy Perry launches her new perfume, "Purr". Five minutes after being told she has a new perfume called "Purr".

Greg Norman and wife

2010-11-16T00:30:00.005-05:00

Golfer Greg Norman with his new wife, who is the same woman he was cheating with not one, but two wives ago. Now they can finally be together! Obviously it was destiny. It's like a fairy tale, if you think about it.

Bike Messenger

2010-11-12T11:58:00.003-05:00

Amanda Beard

2010-11-11T04:56:00.003-05:00

Milla Jovovich

2010-11-06T00:42:00.003-04:00

President of Ice Cream

2010-11-05T01:30:00.003-04:00

A pinup illo for my buddy Geoff Sebesta's hilarious book "I Am the President of Ice Cream".

Michael Tarver

2010-11-04T00:51:00.006-04:00

UPDATE: I had an idea to try this much darker, and pop the highlights out some more. I like the result, I think I'm gonna keep experimenting with this.

UPDATE 2: I went in and lightened up his eyes (Thank you for pointing that out, Joan.)

Gratuitous Nudity

2010-11-03T00:06:00.001-04:00

Baseball pitcher

2010-11-01T23:10:00.004-04:00

Some doodles I did while discussing a baseball-themed project on a Skype call that ran waaaay over. I'm working for an English client whose American CEO mandated the baseball motif, leaving me in the position of having to explain the game of baseball to her, which is really the blind leading the blind. We spent a ridiculous amount of time just establishing the fact that "pitch" happens to be a verb in the States, and is not the word for the playing field.

Pike Street Brewery

2010-10-28T02:58:00.007-04:00

Sketches from an afternoon at the Market in Seattle back in August. That was the weirdest afternoon, and by weird I mean insanely great.

Often, drawing on the street is an exercise in frustration at where my abilities are at and how far I have to go. That afternoon though, something clicked in my head. Something about focusing that hard made the experience start to take on a life of its own. I remember walking down the street afterward and almost feeling like my consciousness had been altered, like the way people sometimes describe being on hallucinogens. The world had become hyper-real and I wanted to draw everything and everyone. Everyone I passed on the street, interesting details of their facial features were jumping out at me. Everything mundane suddenly looked miraculous and I had an all-too-brief experience of the wonder of creation. I know it sounds weird and cornball, but it was actually how I felt.

I mean, I'm not ruling out that it could have been all that Belgian draft kicking in, but still, pretty sweet.

Deathlok

2010-10-25T03:27:00.003-04:00

For today's painting exercise I pulled up an sketch that I posted to my old blog a few years back, and mucked around with it. Original below.

Sketching at Sugar Cafe

2010-10-24T11:40:00.002-04:00

Passerby on an East Village morning. Hm, looks like I have a speck on my scanner.

beanbots #38

2010-10-24T03:43:00.001-04:00

"Quiet Time" (Click here for full strip)

Ariel & Ursula

2010-10-24T03:12:00.003-04:00

My 5-year-old drew a picture of a frightened Ariel ("The Little Mermaid"), and asked me to put a scary Ursula behind it.

UPDATE: Added some tone.

Claudia Black (2)

2010-10-22T14:51:00.001-04:00

Claudia Black

2010-10-21T12:49:00.001-04:00

Ed Laz

2010-10-15T12:02:00.001-04:00

Some more facebook silliness: An old pal of mine posted a goofy vacation picture of himself at the blackjack tables, with a well-endowed lady dealer. I started sketching her and this is what ended up happening. Sometimes I find artistic inspiration in the strangest of places. But, it usually has to do with a pair of tits.

UPDATE! Ed is now a published author!

NYCC sketches

2010-10-14T12:29:00.008-04:00

The New York Comic Con was a really good experience for me, even though I didn't make back my table. Or my publishing. Or signage, or hardware expenses. I definitely made back my postcard budget, and probably my lo mein from the food court, so, you know, awesome. Mostly it was great to clear the psychological hurdle of showing my work cold to a random sampling of the public. Learning how to chat up potential buyers, hopefully without being too much of a hard-sell douchebag about it. I was fortunate to have great table mates in fellow Act-I-Vators Thomas Baehr and Rami Efal, both of whose books I really respect. It's easy to talk up a product you actually believe in.

At one point I took a break from fishmongering to doodle some passerby plus, secretly, Thomas and genius illustrator Hyeondo Park.

Baby Snoots

2010-10-06T06:28:00.005-04:00

Ron Bennington's ultra-un-PC concept for a single-panel comic strip, Baby Snoots the drunk baby. It's hilarious as an off-the-cuff radio bit, maybe not so much as an actual comic strip, but I wanted to give it a shot.

Olivia Wilde

2010-10-04T03:30:00.002-04:00

Javier Bardem

2010-10-01T04:19:00.002-04:00

New York Comic-Con, here we come!

2010-09-29T01:52:00.006-04:00

Yes, I haven't updated in weeks. And I was doing so good there for a while!

When not doing real work I've been frantically trying to get this little book off to the printers. The big New York con is in week and a half, and I don't know if I'll even manage to sell any of these, but by God I'll be sitting at a table with a stack of them, come what may. (At least I think I will--what you see here are naught but the advance proofs!)

If you're going to the con, swing by the Act-I-Vate table, ya hear?

Michael Lohan

2010-09-10T02:56:00.005-04:00

I feel weird that I'm even posting a sketch of this guy. I did the drawing because I wanted to study the shadows on his face. I'm only dimly aware that he's a celebrity, and I kind of feel like if I'm going to feature someone, it should at least be somebody whose work I admire. I guess being the biological creator of Lindsay Lohan's tits is something, but I dunno.

Danielle Staub without makeup

2010-09-07T05:06:00.003-04:00

Okay, to be honest I'm not trying to be insulting to this woman--I actually find her kind of attractive--I just couldn't resist fucking around.

Dannielle Staub

2010-09-05T18:43:00.004-04:00

Lucas, Ford & Spielberg

2010-09-05T05:50:00.012-04:00

A bit of silliness inspired by the news that a fifth "Indiana Jones" film is heading into production--for some reason--and by the photo below of George Lucas, Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg celebrating the premiere of the godawful Indy 4 in 2008.

It's an article of faith at this point that everything bad, pointless, or desperately unfunny about "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is attributable to George Lucas' influence. As with his Star Wars franchise he insists on playing big daddy, despite the decades' worth of evidence that he's lost the thread and should really leave it to more capable hands.

Once I started doodling the faces in the photograph, the scenario in the cartoon suggested itself right away--George as a big, goitered boulder rolling over the other two. (That's supposed to be Spielberg dressed in Connery's duds from Indy 3). The face in the crystal skull is that of Frank Darabont, who is said to have written a brilliant early screenplay for Indy 4, beloved by Ford and Spielberg, that is until Lucas got his hands on it and had his Lucasy way with it.

Undertaker

2010-09-03T19:54:00.000-04:00

Louis CK

2010-08-26T06:24:00.006-04:00

Some sketches I did while watching a recent episode of Louis CK's new show "Louie" on FX. A show I identify with strongly, despite the fact that it's about a fat, bald, depressed 42-year-old New York City dad who wears a lot of black t-shirts. I mean, maybe there's something on that list that resonates with me for some reason, but I dunno. The t-shirts I guess.