beanbots #38

"Quiet Time" (Click here for full strip)

Ariel & Ursula

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)

Claudia Black

Ed Laz

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

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

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

Javier Bardem

New York Comic-Con, here we come!

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?