Denis St. John's MONSTERS AND GIRLS

Amelia part 5 color sample.

2012-01-31T08:21:00.000-08:00

A sample of Amelia part 5. This is a color sample from Chapter 12.
I finished penciling the end of Amelia not too long ago.

Happy Friday the 13th!

2012-01-13T11:09:00.000-08:00

kind of a companion piece to this old doodle,

Amelia in pain, Chapter 8

2012-01-06T10:29:00.000-08:00

Just colored these panels from Chapter 8.

The panel at Dartmouth yesterday went well. It was fun, and I'm going to go to Baby Universe tonight.

2012-01-04T10:26:00.000-08:00

Gonna be talking apocalypse on a panel at Dartmouth tomorrow. If you're in the area come check it out.

chapter 13

2012-01-02T14:36:00.001-08:00

20 some pages into the final Chapter. I can feel the end drawing neer.

I'm still in DC/Maryland, for another day. I went to the Smithsonian today, drew some dinosaurs and looked at some arts.

Happy New Year

2011-12-31T10:27:00.001-08:00

A colored panel from Chapter 12. Bites!

Amelia photo

2011-12-23T09:12:00.001-08:00

not very christmasy.
Just messing around in photoshop.

merry christmas and such

2011-12-16T14:34:00.001-08:00

I've been reading Thimble Theater and Peanuts recently.

werewolf comic!

2011-12-12T10:52:00.000-08:00

I decided to post the comic Mangia La Mia Carne! (Eat My Flesh!)
That I did for Werewolf!V (4)
that Rob Clough described like this, "Quirky horror artist Denis St. John's "Mangia La Mia Carne" is a bizarre bit of fetish-fiction about a woman who is a bit too turned on by what wolves can do."
Here's a little sample,

and this

Wolf Bites!
The story is only three pages and very not safe for work. I'm linking it through my flickr, which you'll have to be logged on to see.
HERE

Amelia color panel

2011-12-09T11:26:00.000-08:00

another Amelia panel colored. From Amelia part 4.

Amelia 4 color cover

2011-12-06T11:57:00.000-08:00

I realized I never posted a full color picture of Amelia Part 4. So here it is.

And a colored panel from Chapter 12.

Atomic Age Cinema and Amelia

2011-12-05T11:29:00.001-08:00

panel from Amelia Part 3. Amelia is an Atomic Age Cinema fan. Probably was a regular during the live show days.

more Chapter 12 Samples

2011-11-30T12:03:00.000-08:00

I'm about half way through the drawing of Amelia part 5, which is going to be over 60 pages of comics.
As you may have noticed, Amelia Part 4 isn't on sale online yet. I'm trying to figure out what to do about that, and Amelia and Monsters and Girls sales in general, and will let you know about that. So keep watching for more info on that. You can also go to my flickr page to see another sample from Chapter 12 that isn't getting posted here, you'll need to be logger onto flickr to be able to see it.

Chapter 12 samples

2011-11-18T14:22:00.000-08:00

The first couple samples from Chapter 12.

Amelia and Sammy.

Amelia touches the knife.

Casting the Amelia movie

2011-11-04T10:44:00.000-07:00

Amelia as played by Sherilyn Fenn

The Mysterious Mustache Man as played by Vincent Price

Sammy as played by Lukas Haas

And Barbara Steele as Amelia's mom, Anita

but why?

Sammy comic and more DCFF

2011-11-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

I did this comic as part of my 24 hour comic book day activity. I went out on the streets of Montpelier for an hour or so and came back with some cool comics, some Berni Wrightson comics an Alien Worlds comic and an I Vampire comic.
I drew out the panels with no idea what would go in them and then picked random panels from the comics I had just bought and drew them into random panels on the page, then concocted a Sammy story around it.

Here I am with Betsey, Penina, the D20 girls, and the AAC monsters. in other words monsters and girls!

my table, missing one important element...

Betsey and Penina at the Team Werewolf table!

Happy Halloween!!

2011-10-31T11:33:00.000-07:00

Oh October, you are my month
I was in Bloomington all week for Dark Carnival Filmfest
had a great time with friends, sold some comics, did other stuff.
I missed my flight back to Vermont due to weather and so missed the Spooktacular showing of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf-Man.

I did this as a raffle prize for Spooktacular!
While I was in Bloomington I saw my brother, Liam, and we did these hillarious jam drawings,

did I mention that Dark Carnvial did an indoor fire show?

Amelia photo comic

2011-10-19T09:43:00.000-07:00

a non continuity Amelia story. Amelia meets Count Orlok.
I'll try to do one last post before I leave tomorrow, then expect internet silence from me for the next week.

Amelia Part 4 Printed

2011-10-17T12:35:00.000-07:00

Printing is finished for the first batch, debuting at Dark Carnival the end of this week, and then online sometime soon after.
Here's some awesome art from friend cartoonists that appear in the back of this issue,

from Beth Hetland

from Penina Gal

More to come this week...

Whisper in the Darkness

2011-10-13T14:27:00.000-07:00

So the Main Street Museum here in White River Junction was severely damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. As a fund-raiser for it, they're going to be putting on the Vermont Premiere of the H P Lovecraft Historical Society's Whisper in the Darkness.

Here's the trailer for it!

As part of the fundraiser they're putting together books, I've made some art for them, as have other local cartoonists. Here's my Mi-gos and mysterious stones.

more info about it Here at Steve Bissette's blog

werewolf transformation

2011-10-12T09:46:00.000-07:00

So on October 1st I taught a monsters and comics workshop for kids in Montpelier to coincide with 24 hour comic book day. I'm sure I've talked about it here before.
I wanted to show examples of different kinds of monsters and different kinds of the same type of monster. SO, for Werewolf 3 I did this illustration.

which perfectly illustrates different kinds of werewolves, but is a little too sexy and bloody for kids, so I edited it for them,

Spot the differences!

Dark Carnival Film Fest

2011-10-06T14:08:00.000-07:00

This year I'll be tabling at the Dark Carnival FilmFest in Bloomington, IN.
Im many ways it will be a homecoming for me. It'll be great to see my Atomic Age Cinema pals again. I'm also going to b staying with Penina and Betsey, who will be tabling also, as Team Werewolf!

Amelia Part 4(the penultimate book!!!) will be debuting there! Here's the new back cover,

Thanks to Jess Abston and Rene Gerrior for helping and posing!
I'll be posting more samples this month!

I haven't been to Bloomington or Dark Carnival since I think 2007, here's some photos from last time,

Dark Carnival is October 21st to the 23rd, see you there!!!

2011-10-03T10:44:00.000-07:00

Monsters and Amelia

2011-10-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

More Amelia...

Monster!

Part 4 cover!!! That means part 4 is coming soon!!!

Monster Workshop

2011-09-30T21:42:00.000-07:00

This morning at 10:30 I'll be at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library for 24 hour comic book day!
I'll be running a 3 hour workshop on making comics and monster for kids.
Details about the the whole event Here

Here's a little sample of some of what I'll be showing the kids.

art by Jim Steranko, reproduced strictly for educational value,

not werewolves!
I'll be posting more later.

more photos

2011-09-23T14:26:00.000-07:00

actually the same two, but playing around with different filters.

First, here's the screen shot from a silent movie look.

I like the old magazine look of the halftoned one, like I found this is in an old girlie mag.

Amelia mystery

2011-09-16T11:06:00.000-07:00

Was there an old Amelia silent movie?

More info and photos coming soon.

Chapter 11 samples

2011-09-07T11:34:00.000-07:00

some more panels from Chapter 11.
Hypno-dancing

just decided to color a panel for the heck of it. I used much the same colors on Amelia that Colleen Frakes chose for her Amelia drawing. I had never picked the colors for her outfit, I like what Colleen picked. I'm definitely not an awesome colorist.

book four will debut at the Dark Carnival Film Fest!

Fan art!

2011-08-23T12:45:00.000-07:00

The Awesome Colleen Frakes left this picture on my desk last week!

Unfortunately for Vermont Colleen is moving to the West Coast in September.
Fortunately for you she is having a moving sale at her Etsy store, Check It Out!

Chapter 11, October and horror

2011-08-19T10:18:00.000-07:00

SO,
I'm going to Bloomington for the Dark Carnival Filmfest. I'll be tabling with Werewolf.
It's going to be a lot of fun, I'll give you more details about it as the time comes.
But, I wanted to talk about Amelia 4. Which will be debuting there.
Here's some samples from Chapter 11(You'll remember chapter 10 samples here and here). Relatively spoiler freeish.

Amelia scared of someone, in the print version I'll remember to fill in the black on the knife!

A disgusted Sammy with arms full of snacks.

Amelia being spooky

And finally a mysterious new character.

So that's it for now, I'm well into drawing book 5, and want to have that finished soon also.

But, for 4 and 5 I'm looking for friends and fellow artists to help me out with some pin-ups for the back of the book. This is an open call, anyone who gets there art into the book will get a thanks in it and a free copy.
Thanks for reading!

Dark Corners

2011-08-02T10:58:00.000-07:00

A few years ago now I made a Sammy spin-off story for Dark corners, it got reviewed HERE if you need a refresher.
Well I'm probably not going to reprint the story any time in the near future, so here's some panels from it.

Young Sammy upside down vomiting.

Young Sammy having some pretty viscous hallucinatings

Sammy looking more like the kid we know now.

Fleischer scans

2011-07-28T09:27:00.000-07:00

Last week was the Create Comics workshop at CCS.
I taught a character design class that I think went really well.
Here's some scans I used or were scanned but not used.

Popeye

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Original Betty Boop

Dog eared Betty

Another old Betty.

There's more over on my flickr.
Thanks to Dakota McFadzean for doing the scanning and drawing with me in class.

sketches

2011-07-13T11:54:00.000-07:00

The beginning part of thumbnailing for me is always drawing in my sketchbook.
Some of the stuff makes it into the comic and some doesn't. Here's some examples from my sketchbook.

Sammy

2011-07-05T12:54:00.001-07:00

Cartoon Art Museum yeterday.

2011-06-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

When I got to the Cartoon Art Museum yesterday I saw

My name on the door!

So I sat down and sold comics! I really like this museum.
It was the same day as the Gay Pride Parade. The town was full of energy and excitement.
There wasn't much of a cross over, but we had an okay crowd. Everyone in rainbows got into the museum free.
I Had a good time. They have a new permanent collection, a Berekley Breathed exhibit, a Green Lantern exhibit, and an Art of the movie Howl show.

I met a Museum student whose putting on her own Con in Berkley on July 10th, info about it HERE!

After the event I went to a Giants game with my Dad, we had a good time! All in all a good day!

Cartoon Art Museum.

2011-06-22T14:01:00.000-07:00

So if you're in San Francisco this coming Sunday, which is the day of the Gay Pride Parade, come and see me at the Cartoon Art Museum.
I'll be the Cartoonist-In-Residence there from 1 to 3.
I'll be doing drawing for people and selling comics.

I'm excited to be there!
Cartoon Art museum check it out!

wolf face colored

2011-06-10T11:52:00.001-07:00

Hands

2011-06-06T12:46:00.001-07:00

Amelia and Sammy hands from chapters 8, 9, and 10.

Mecaf

2011-05-28T11:01:00.000-07:00

Portland was fun last weekend. Mecaf was real nice. It was on the water. I like that I could stare at boats from my table. Tabling with Werewolf was fun. check out Colleen's Flickr page for photos of the event, including Jon Chad and me we a Sasquatch!

Graduation and Eyes

2011-05-17T13:47:00.000-07:00

This last weekend The Center for Cartoon Studies class of 2011 graduated! Congratulations to all of them, Josh Kramer, graduate, is doing a review of the thesis of all the grads HERE!

This coming weekend I'm going to be at MeCAF at the Werewolf table. There will be two new wolf books. I have a new short comic in Werewolf IV. WOLVES!!!

I won't have any new books but I'll be there with Amelia 1 through 3.
I made a new back cover for Amelia 3,
here,

It's meant to be a kind of bookend with this drawing,

Here's the back cover in color,

Free Comic Book Day!

2011-05-06T10:45:00.000-07:00

If you're in the Upper Valley tomorrow you should go to Newbury Comics. A ton of cartoonists are going to be there for Free Comic Book Day!
I'll be there from 12 to 2 with my Werewolf mini and maybe a couple issues of Amelia.
We'll also be drawing and stuff.

Big Read and Werewolves

2011-04-29T11:38:00.000-07:00

So a couple weeks ago I was touring around Vermont teaching comics for Vermont's Big Read
It was a cool experience, in one week I toured about 5 high schools and saw many classrooms. The idea was that all the kids read The Things They Carried and then wrote monologues based on the idea of truthfulness, and then I came in and taught them how to make the monologues into comics. It was a pretty crazy week, and then since then I helped edit a book that's going to be printed today of some of the selected comics and monologues. I haven't seen the book yet, but I'm excited about it.
For that I also taught the same lesson over CATV, so people can learn at home, and I happen to have the video of that right here. You can watch me be super nervous in front of a camera,

Okay, wow that was embarrassing.
I've also been working on comics, Amelia of course, but also a new Werewolf Comic.
It's called Mangia La Mia Carne a.k.a Eat My Flesh and it's going to be in WEREWOLF !V (4). Which is debuting at MeCaf this year in a couple weeks. I'll be there also.
Anyway, the comic is super crazy, maybe my most disturbing comic to date. for now here are a couple samples.

(Eat My Flesh)

Wolves!

The Vintage Sleaze

2011-04-15T07:38:00.000-07:00

Jim Linderman over at the Vintage Sleaze is doing this "Contemporary Vintage Sleaze" series, where cartoonists are doing gag comics or illustrations for his site.
I have up now, right HERE!
He also has some nice things to say about me.

new art

2011-03-18T11:36:00.000-07:00

to make up for it being a while since the last post here's more art than usual.
First up some previews of Chapter 10 of Amelia.

Amelia and Sammy cruizing in style,

Then,
I've previously only posted a small preview of the backcover for Funny Aminals 2, so now here's the entire thing.

CCS appreciation week

2011-03-11T09:06:00.000-08:00

Here's a link to a CCS appreciation podcast are Art School Fraud I did with Chris Warren, Matt Young, and David Yoder.
HERE
That same night we did one about Drive Angry (3-D)

BatGirl Pin-Up

2011-03-07T09:41:00.000-08:00

So why am I doing these pin-up drawings?
kind of just for fun, also I'm going to MoCCA this year and I think I'm going to put out a small book of fan art pin-up.
Happy Mardi Gras tomorrow.

public domain "superhero"

2011-02-21T08:42:00.000-08:00

So a little while ago I did a couple illustrations for John Rovnack's Panel to Panel.
The idea was to update a public domain golden age character.
Here's the Original Madame Satan,
and here's my version,

The concept for her character is that she was an evil woman who poisoned her husband but was then killed by him, and in hell she marries satan and goes back up to seduce men into hell, and then reveals her skull face.
As you can see I pretty much kept the original concept and color scheme. Her Satan was really boring and generic so I made him a little more goat like, or Rosemary's Baby like. I also added skeleton hands and put her in a teddy instead of an evening gown.

Bryan Stone was part of this project, he did a post showing off his art HERE
So did Josh Rosen, HERE

We did these for a panel to panel BOOK that should be out in march. check out the Facebook page for updates.
Here's the rundown of the book, it sounds super interesting,

PANEL TO PANEL
Edited by John Rovnak

Featuring New Interviews With…
*MARK BODE: A 21st Century Renaissance Man by John Rovnak.
*GLENN DANZIG: Damn, It’s Danzig by John Rovnak.
*JIMMY GOWNLEY: Normal Guy to the Naked Eye by Rachael M Rollson.
*ALAN MOORE: The Magical Adventures of an Extraordinary Gentlemen by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe.
*STEVE MURPHY: Comes Out of his Shell by John Rovnak.
*DAVE SIM: The General in His Labyrinth by Jon Mathewson.
*JIM WOODRING: A Touch of Madness by Daniel Barlow.

*BY JINGO: A Personal Meditation on the Comics of Jack Kirby by Rob Walton.
*MARVEL 14: The Incredible History of France’s Censorship of Marvel Comics by Jean –Emmanuel Deluxe.
*KEEP YOUR PANTS ON! The Rock Art of James Kochalka.
*BUDDY COPS in Full-Color by Mark Martin.
*BEAT PANELS: OR; IS THERE MONEY IN POETRY COMICS? by Stephen R. Bissette featuring the graphic poetry of Peter Money and Rick Veitch.
*ORGANIZING COMICS: How Comics Created a Community in Rural New England by Daniel Barlow.
*EUROPE'S KRIMINAL HISTORY: featuring MR. KRIME by Mort Todd with Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe.
*EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Re-Imagined Interpretations of Forgotten Characters of the Public Domain.
*MY SKETCHY SUMMER, or 5 Days Hard Labor at the Center For Cartoon Studies by Philip Charles Crawford.
*CLOVER FIELDS ON FIRE: The Intellectual Architecture of Robert Crumb and the Tyranny of the Masses by Experience Kring.
*Organic Comix presents JIM SIMON'S SHIELDMASTER.
*DEFT MASTERY: The Genius of Early 1960's Archie Comics by Philip Charles Crawford, featuring Teenage Wildlife: an interview with Craig Yoe by John Rovnak.
*MEET JOE PRIEST: A Personal Reflection on Where Faith and Comics Meet by Fr. Chris Kulig, O.Carm.
*An archive of past interviews, from paneltopanel.net, featuring DAVID MACK, LARRY MARDER, LARRY HAMA, JAIME HERNANDEZ, JAMES STURM and STAN SAKAI.
* and more....

Cover by MARK MARTIN

So it should be pretty awesome, I'll update again when it's out.

Amelia 3 review up on Groovy Age

2011-02-14T07:08:00.000-08:00

Curt Purcell over at The Groovy Age of Horror just posted a review of Amelia 3!
Go Check it Out!!!

Amelia 3 cover and beer

2011-02-11T13:36:00.000-08:00

I re-colored the cover for Amelia 3, which is available at IKJK. Have I mentioned that before?
The original print run had a screen printed cover, but as soon as that runs out the new ones will have color printed cover.
Here's the new one,

Here's a scan of the original,

So you can see it's not that different, just a little deeper colors.

Also, I've been working on this high school play, it's been a lot of fun, Here's the website
It's running this Valentine's weekend, if you're in WRJ you should go!
Anyway, since characters in the play drink beer, but this is HIGH SCHOOL I made fake beer labels that go over root beer cans. Here's the label.

Happy Valentine's weekend all you happy people...

Black Swan

2011-01-31T11:24:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I don't usually post about movies that are up for Oscars, but I really liked this movie.

Chapter 10 preview

2011-01-27T12:48:00.000-08:00

A little preview from Chapter 10 of Amelia. It might be awhile before part 4 comes out, but I'm working hard on it.
In this page Amelia quotes from Salome by Oscar Wilde.

pin-ups and bones

2011-01-21T11:11:00.000-08:00

Just some old stuff I haven't posted before.
First a picture of Sammy being scared of bones.

These bones are from a church in Prague, they had so many plague bodies they made art out of them.

Next is a picture is an Amelia pin-up. I use a variation of this image for the title page on Amelia 3.

it's a bit dirty, maybe you shouldn't look at this on a work computer.

just a reminder, Amelia 3 is available Here!

Amelia 3 on IKJK dot com!!!

2011-01-14T13:24:00.000-08:00

The 3rd issue of Amelia is only 3 dollars at I Know Joe Kimpel
So go there now!

Atomic Age Cinema

2011-01-10T14:03:00.000-08:00

A flyer for an AAC show from long ago.

pin-ups and holidays

2011-01-06T14:07:00.000-08:00

I took a two week vacation in California. It was great, had a fun time, stayed with my family. Here's a couple pin-ups I did while I was away.

Vampirella. I bought the Dynamite Vampirella number one at a comic store in San Francisco. Can't say I really liked it, but it might be too early to tell. I bought that and the new issue of Crickets, which was great. The comic store owner was shocked and confused by the combo.

I found a box of my old comics at my parent's house, I had a bunch of the Ed Brubaker Catwoman comics. Those are great.

Happy Christmas and stuff!!

2010-12-19T15:02:00.000-08:00

Birthday

2010-11-10T09:50:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-10-28T09:14:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-27T13:07:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-25T14:32:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-11T11:46:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-24T13:35:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-14T14:57:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-08T12:05:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-27T09:35:00.001-07:00

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

2010-08-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-22T11:20:00.000-07:00

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

maybe a little like this?

or this?

Amelia Samples and other stuff.

2010-07-21T12:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-21T10:34:00.001-07:00

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

2010-07-13T11:46:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2010-06-30T11:02:00.000-07:00

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

Chapter Nine promos

2010-06-28T12:30:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-18T13:21:00.001-07:00

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

2010-06-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-11T12:15:00.000-07:00

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.

New Picture

2010-06-07T11:07:00.000-07:00

I made this as an inking demo for my Sharon Academy class.
Which ended this last Thursday. And was totally awesome. All the students did a great job making their own comics. I wish this could be my full time job.

Last year I did this drawing as my inking demo for the class.

More Sketchbook again

2010-05-24T07:20:00.000-07:00

Popeye vs. Jason

Daffy Duck, I tried drawing an older styled Bugs also that was a complete fail

Splinter, I think the ear thing is just from the original movie, but I like it.

One of the turtles practicing his high kick.

So yeah, all non-original characters this post. I didn't use any reference for them, just my remembering.

Mermaid Hostel

2010-05-21T10:41:00.000-07:00

My friend, fellow cartoonist, fellow CCS graduate, fellow graduation speaker, Jen Vaughn asked me to do a guest strip on her webcomic Mermaid Hostel!
So, it's up Right Now! Go look at it!

WEREWOLF!! part !!

2010-05-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

Okay, here it is, the second story, Redneck and the Wolves.
Click on them for the larger pictures, and this time you don't have to sign in to flickr to see them.

I was real happy to be a part of the Werewolf !! antho. the first one was so good, and I think this one is just as..if not better.

Buy both of them here! I really recommend them, they're awesome. Not just because I'm in one of them. Really. I swear. Awesome.

WEREWOLF!!

2010-05-05T12:01:00.000-07:00

Dance of the She-Beast
Not Safe for Work.
Click on the pages to go to Flickr for larger version.

Coming Monday, Redneck and the Wolves

comic tomorrow

2010-05-04T13:10:00.000-07:00

Things have been pretty busy here at CCS recently.
I'm going to post one of my werewolf comics on the blog tomorrow, so come back soon.

Space aftermath and sketches

2010-04-28T08:43:00.000-07:00

So,
S.P.A.C.E. was real nice. I didn't end up making my Amelia 3 preview, just didn't have enough time, so sorry about that. But, other than that I was well prepared for the con and ended up having a great time.
It ended up being a 13 hour drive to Columbus, and on the way back the same amount of time, but all in the rain.
The con itself was not that well attended, but there was still brisk business. One thing that struck me was how nice everyone was. I met some real cool cartoonists, saw some real sweet books, made a couple cool trades. I met Guy Davis, who I've been a big fan of for a long time. I traded with Mark Bloodworth, who's got some real cool comics
After the con a friend of mine who lives in Columbus told us about Studio 35. It's a cool old theater that was having a...get this... beer tasting, local Columbus beers and screening of Pee Wee's Big Adventure! Yeah, so I had a good time.

So, here's some more sketchbook and marker drawings, a couple of these I did at Space.

you might remember this drawing, but with marker color.

More Freddy drawings (have I mentioned how pumped I am for the remake?),

Nancy, final girl

half dragon half centipede, all stupid

I don't know what that is

Amelia
there's more on my flickr page, I might post them later.

Sketchbook samples

2010-04-19T10:43:00.001-07:00

Some new sketchbook drawings.
I was at Staples buying cover paper and saw a Crayola marker set for 2 bucks. So I've been having fun with that.

Christopher Lee as Dracula in markers

doodles and stuff. melting guy among other things.

Amelia in the hallways
I'm going to run out of red and green first.

I've also been in a very Nightmare On Elm Street kind of mood.
I'm actually pretty excited about the remake coming out soon.

Freddy with his skin pulled off

Tina

bathtub scene
I drew those while watching the original and colored them later.

So that's that story.
I'm getting prepared for S.P.A.C.E. this week. Should be fun.

S.P.A.C.E. in a week

2010-04-16T10:25:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,

As you may know I'm headed to Columbus, Ohio, next weekend for the comic con, S.P.A.C.E.

I'm not done with Amelia part 3 yet, but I'm close enough to put together a con-exclusive preview of it.
Here's the cover,

For the finished part 3 this image will probably be used as the interior front cover.

MoCCa 2010

2010-04-05T11:40:00.000-07:00

So, I won't be at MoCCa this year. Sorry all my friends and fans who planned to go just for me :-(

BUT, I will have work in an anthology there. Werwolf 2, a.k.a. Werewolf!!

Cover by Penina Gal. I've seen most of the comics that are going to be in this, and they are awesome!
New work by Penina, Josh Rosen, Nick Patten, Laura Terry, Betsey Swardlick, Mark Bilokur, Matt Aucoin, David Yoder, Jose-Luis Olivares, I think that's it. This is what I showed the samples for HERE

I'm real proud of my work for this story, I think my best inked page ever is in this comic!

just because

2010-03-27T00:48:00.000-07:00

Friday!

2010-03-26T11:48:00.000-07:00

I just finished my week at Oxbow High School, teaching comics!
Check out my week worth of visitor passes.

I had a fun time. Some of the students did a really good job.

Also, in the background of that picture is Joe Lambert, printing comics on CCS's new copier.

Busy Week

2010-03-22T11:30:00.000-07:00

CCS is on spring break this week, but I'm not slowing down!
All week I'm teaching a comics workshop At Oxbow high school!
Today was the 1st day, it went well. We did a jam comic and I gave some basic rules of cartooning.

I'm also stationed at the CCS library today and tomorrow, come on down and I'll check some books out for you.

I also need to finish my werewolf comic (1 more page to pencil, 7 to ink!)
I also am going to start inking something else (secret!)
I also need to watch Lost tomorrow!!
I also need to catch up on Caprica.
Okay, this is degenerating. Here's two panels from Chapter 8 of Amelia.

The Mustache Man is all up in your face, giving you nightmares

Amelia is all up in your grill, giving you bumming outs.

Come to S.P.A.C.E. to get the latest Amelia comic, most likely a convention exclusive.

Werewolf

2010-03-17T12:00:00.000-07:00

Here's two panels from a comic I'm doing for an upcoming werewolf anthology.

You can buy this comic at MoCCA from Team Werewolf! More details on that later.

I am working!

2010-03-15T14:53:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
I know I haven't shown any new Amelia stuff in awhile. But I have been working on it. In fact the rest of the story is completely thumbnailed and I'm happily drawing away. I pretty much finished inking chapter 8 yesterday. Here's some samples from it.

I'll show some more later this week.

In other news I'm teaching a workshop at a local highschool (by local I mean 30 minutes away) next week! And I'm going to to to S.P.a.C.E. this year!
I'm sharing a table with fellow CCS alumn Matt Young. More on that later.

S.p.A.c.E.

2010-02-26T09:36:00.000-08:00

Might go here this year.

more sketchbook

2010-02-25T10:22:00.000-08:00

wolf puke

some horror poster, I forget, maybe Breeders, or Parasite?

sketchbook

2010-02-23T11:56:00.001-08:00

I'm going to try and post more sketchbook drawings. Here's one from Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors. I colored it in photoshop.

HorrorHound and sketchbook

2010-02-17T12:05:00.000-08:00

I checked out the latest issue of HorrorHound
and found an article about horror hosting.

The article mentions Atomic Age Cinema and shows a picture of them.
The folks from AAC are also emceeing a Vampira retrospective in Indianapolis this March. So if you're in the area check that out. I wish I could.

Here's a couple sketches I've done recently.

Dr. Calimari (drawn on an airplane)

fat fisman. (drawn in an airport)

There are more over HERE on my flickr page.

a comic book store I actually like

2010-02-16T12:04:00.001-08:00

I flew to Ann Arbor, Michigan this weekend to celebrate Mardi Gras. I'll let that go unexplained.

Whenever I'm in Ann Arbor I go to The Vault of Midnight, a comic shop I actually like.

Here it is, on Main Street.
It's brightly lit, the staff is nice, it's two stories, it seems to get a lot of walk in business and younger people.

One of the things I really like about it is the way it's organized. Every section is well labeled, the kids comics are in the front, the small press comics are in the back.
Then there's tables and racks filled with staff selections and stuff like that.
The downstairs is long boxes and other stuff. The other stuff consists of a bookshelf of Hernandez brothers books among other stuff.
Here's their website

Of course one of the things I like most about them is they sell MY comic.

Have a good Mardi Gras everyone.

parks and Rec

2010-01-22T11:32:00.001-08:00

Do you watch Parks and Rec? is it just me, or is Ron Swanson stealing my look?

Judge for yourself.

Mardi Gras Flyer

2010-01-19T11:53:00.000-08:00

The flyer for my parent's Mardi Gras Party!

You might remember last years, here

new review on The Comics Journal

2010-01-04T13:16:00.000-08:00

Rob Clough gave the second issue a nice review, check it out here

"St. John’s comics are a blend of body horror, the humor of awkwardness and misplaced eroticism. They’re always unsettling in the best kind of way"-Rob Clough.

Hippy Holidays

2009-12-20T09:31:00.000-08:00

Have a great Holiday season from Monsters and Girls.

I know it's been a while since I updated. I'm working on stuff, some of which I can't talk about yet. I've been thumbnailing a lot of Amelia, and I'm pretty close to finishing the story!!!

Art School Fraud interview

2009-11-27T11:20:00.000-08:00

Radical Warren and Matt Young, of Art School Fraud interviewed me, you can listen to me talk about myself for a long time!
The interview takes place in our local watering hole, CJ's at Than Wheelers.
http://artschoolfraud.com/
I'm listening to it right now, and am very uncomfortable with the sound of my own voice and the things I'm saying.