Happy Christmas and stuff!!

Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday,

I got some pretty kick-ass presents, like,

This crazy banner made by Radical Warren

And this,

Awesome Black Sabbath poster birthday art by Bryan Stone

Both super awesome, thanks guys!

BOOM!

Saturday—October 30th—start the Halloween weekend extravaganza at COMIC BOOM!

From 12 noon until 4 PM, multiple-award winning cartoonist Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing, Taboo, Aliens: Tribes, Vermont Monster Guide, etc.) will join Denis St. John(Monsters & Girls, Werewolf!!, etc.), Bryan Stone (Funny Aminals, Oniohead, etc.), multiple award-winner Colleen Frakes (Tragic Relief, Woman King, etc.), and fellow Center for Cartoon Studies monster-lovers and ink-slingers for an afternoon event at Comic Boom in downtown Keene!

Bryan Stone will be debuting the brand-new issue of Funny Aminals #2! Denis St. John will have the new issue of Monster & Girls! We’ll be selling comics, minicomics, sketches, t-shirts and more! Come and join us, and be sure to bring your best fiends!

FREE SIGNED BISSETTE ART PRINT to ANY KEENE STATE COLLEGE STUDENT who can provide photo proof of having posted info or fliers about the event in quantity!



It's all at COMIC BOOM!
22 West St.
Keene, NH
(603) 352-4261

Werewolf!! mini

I collected my two stories from Werewolf!!(2) and made a 1 dollar mini. That's right, 2 stories for 1 dollar!!

Here's the cover, I just finished printing them and they'll be on sale at Comic Boom! This Saturday.
Also!
Here's a sample of the back cover for Funny Aminals 2, which will also be for sale this Saturday.

To see the rest you've got to buy the book!

Halloween zombies and such

SO,

It's going to be a busy week for me, which hopefully means multiple blog posts.

First,

On Saturday, October 30th I'm going to be at Comic Boom in Keene, New Hampshire. I'll be doing a Halloween signing of Amelia 1 through 3 as well as a new 1 dollar comic (more on that next post)!! I'll be there with Steve Bissette, Bryan Stone, who will be debuting Funny Aminals 2(I did the back cover for it), and I think some more CCSers.

After the signing we're going to go to Spooktacular V! They're screening Return of the Living Dead. More details at Saturday Fright Special. They're live horror hosting it, it's going to be awesome, they'll have prizes and a raffle. I'm donating some original art to it, check it out,


Second,

This Sunday's Family Circus was super creepy by the way.


third,

Oh, did you guys see the Amelia pin-up Josh Rosen did for book 3? It's awesome.

October sketchbook and movies 1

I rewatched Santa Sangre last week. It's an awesome and insane Joderowski movie.

I made some fan art for it.
In case you haven't seen it, here's the trailer,

Also, more fan art.
I'm a big Richard Sala fan, so here's some fan art. This is a sketchbook scribble of a Peculia panel.

I'll post more sketches soon

MICE and WOLVES

I'm not going to Mice
but
I'm in the new Werewolf!!! anthology.
I was in the last one and it was awesome, and I think this one might be more awesome!
I only did one page for the new one, but here's a couple samples of it.

Post SPX Post 2010

Yall,

So SPX is over. It was tons of fun. I saw some old friends who I've missed. Got some real good comics. Played free pin-ball at my cousin's house and drank their beer. Over all a good time.
Here's me at the table with my books and my Nerdlinger I got it for Best Character in Fishnets: Amelia

Picture provided by Jen Vaughn.
My table mates were Holly Foltz, Tim Stout, and G.P. Bonesteel.
I also drove down with Keny Widjaja, Holly, and David Yoder

I haven't read all the books I got yet, but so far I'm really digging them, maybe I'll write more about them later.
But now it's back to the "real world".

SPX 2010

So!
Spx is this weekend! I'll be in Bethesda, Maryland. Selling Amelia parts 1 through 3!
That's Saturday and Sunday. I'll be at table G-14 with several other very good cartoonists.
But on Friday I'll be in Baltimore for the Nerdlingers where I'll be receiving something or another.
So!
If you're in the area come and see me!

Amelia 3 cover finished

So here's one of the finished covers from the new Monsters and Girls.

First I screen printed the cover,
which I hadn't done in a long time. I used a green paper and a blue paper.

Then I printed the eyes on label paper and cut them out with an exacto knife,

Then I stuck 'em together. I think it looks good, here's the other color,

So, I still have to print the guts, I'm waiting on some fan art first (if anyone out there has any they want to send my way...)
Have I mentioned yet I have a new roommate?

Amelia 3 cover

I'm working on putting together the next issue of Amelia for SPX.
This is the finished inks for the cover.

Here's a close up the eye.

It'll be a sticker, the veiny background stuff will be screen-printed. I'm working on that now.

Saw and Amelia

Does this poster for the new Saw movie look familiar to anyone?


maybe a little like this?


or this?

Amelia Samples and other stuff.

Some new samples from Chapter Nine.

A penciled panel.

Amelia cruising around in her bad-ass car.

Also, not Amelia related, but a panel from Thimble Theater that I really like.

Unreachable Breasts

My friend and fellow cartoonist Nick Patten has a new blog.
It's got dirty drawings!
I made a drawing for him,
Unreachable Breasts
Check them out, they're not safe for work!

Popeye

Yesterday I helped teach a character design class with Steve Bissette for the CCS summer workshops.
I used Popeye as an example, since he's awesome. Here's some pictures I used.

Popeye from his first appearance to 1960.

a model sheet from the Fleisher cartoon

Popeye's first panel.

Spooktacular IV!!!

This will be awesome. If you're anywhere around the area GO! GO! GO!

Chapter Nine promos

Here's from finished inks from Amelia Chapter Nine.


A new character, who just happens to look a little bit like one of my old roommates. He's in it for all of 4 panels.

Amelia's a little hesitant to try that door.

Amelia getting back into her car, more on the car later. I might do a whole post about that, someone remind me later.

Amelia is startled by the mirror

Amelia thinking, with dark lines on her face.

I've been pretty happy about these new pages, I've been putting a lot more lines on the page and really liking that.

More more sketchbook again again

Okay, so I was over at Bryan's house for a drink n' draw,

Kevin Uehlein and I went on a crazy mid-90s X-Man rant, which led to me drawing these,



Then José-Luis Olivares inked my pencils for this drawing,


That same day I drew these funny aminals,





Later in the week I watched Alien 3 with Nick Patten and drew these,

New Amelia picture

I'm penciling Chapter Nine of Amelia right now. Here's a small sample from the 1st page.

Amelia imitating The Mustache Man.

More Sketchbook again again

I saw Splice on Tueday. I really dug it. Here's some fan art of child Dren in her pretty dress.

Betty's face

a page of my sketchbook with Betty, Bimbo, the Walrus from Minnie the Moocher, and some other stuff.

Some N-Man fan art

And Mickey Mouse ready to give you a hug.