Iguana Bay 2.0

April 19, 2011Book Review, inspiration

The book “Iguana Bay” (I have the second edition) is one of my favorite books in my collection. It features the artwork of french illustrator / comic book artist Claire Wendling. Claire is super talented, especially in her animal drawings. She simply does the best animal drawings hands down. Her line drawings are very fluid … Read More

Drawing at the MET

April 18, 2011Sketches

I went to the Metropolitan museum on Thursday. When I was making my way to the ticket booth, some guy stopped me and gave me his admission button. Thank you random guy for allowing me to save some money. 🙂 So I went to the museum to sketch me some statues in the European art … Read More

Mocca report

April 13, 2011Exhibitions

So this past weekend was my “MOCCA weekend”, and my very first convention as an exhibitor. Here’s my half-table setup. It was more sparse on Saturday, but then on Sunday I added more stuff to my display because I didn’t think subtlety would get me anywhere in this situation. I had no idea what to … Read More

The Village Voice article

April 12, 2011News Articles

The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don’t They Pay? Article detailing exactly how broke cartoonists are….and they’re pretty broke. From most illustrators and cartoonists I talked to, it helps to have a second job. But in my previous desk job, I found that bosses weren’t necessarily appreciative of my diverse skill set. … Read More

NY Times Article

April 11, 2011inspiration

I just read this article, “That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret”, thought it was funny/interesting. Whereas Tyler Durden hid porn inside films, the animation director of the Woody Woodpecker cartoons hid fine art. I’m going to have to find some woodpecker cartoons now to see if it’s true.

Threadless “Noir” contest

April 10, 2011New art work

I just submitted a design for the Threadless Noir contest. I just did it tonight in 2 hours. Don’t expect to win the contest, but wanted to submit to see how fast I could churn something out. It’s an amalgamation of all the film noir clichés I could think of.