Sobriquiet

I stayed inside and piled all my grandparents' stuffies on my head during black friday, so I didn't buy a thing! If you are like me, and fear being trampled on any old day at the shops--let alone in December--perhaps you'd like some holiday shopping help? I put a few paintings up on My Etsy Shop, plus I added my Mickey's Diner Print to my BigCartel Store, and screwed around with a goofy Linney T-Shirt.

Woo, and I'm back! Being away and seeing my mom and fat cat and snooty cat was awesome. I had a traditional Thanksgiving meal - steak and shrimp and chocolate cake (you know, just like the pilgrims did) - and I still feel full. :I

It was also nice to just be away from this house for a couple days. It actually made me feel a lot more sure that things will end up okay when I get out of here for reals (hopefully before the end of the year, fingers crossed, knock on wood).

Also, I think this is the first time I've ever drawn a member of my family in one of my comics. And it only took five years.

Alright! So I've got my Etsy store updated with all my sculpted goods!


This one I'm most proud of, he's so shiny! He's 2.1" tall and 3.5" wide at his furthest points.
( More Potted Tentacles )
There's all of them together. The smallest tentacle is about 1" tall and the very tallest is just over 3" Mostly they're a bit shorter than 1.5" and every single little sucker is filled with bright gold paint.


For anybody that was interested in purchasing my Cephalopony or her big pot of tentacles, please contact the OMG PWN!ES show curator Kaebel Hashitani at sequentialart (a) gmail.com

Four Creative Professionals, One Cup

Dylan Meconis, Bill Mudron, Katie Lane and I talked about comics and freelancing for a couple hours today for Dylan's podcast and I broadcasted it live. You can see a recording of it by following the above link!

Aaaaand my little tiny boxes arrived so I'm working on getting my tentacles listed on Etsy. Yaaaay.

Death Enjoys A Holiday Treat
Originally uploaded by Studio JFISH. Here is my 2009 holiday card! Even Death itself gets into the festivities; a red cloak, sugar cookies and even a little jingle bell to herald its arrival to your holiday party! Don't worry, it's just visiting to drink your egg nog (unless it also happens to be your time to die)

If you would like to order some blank cards of this art to send to your loved ones, please email me and let me know!

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the second printing of the pfsc book arrives next week, you'll need to order it soon if you want it for christmastimes

santana v. - totensamba

I actually had a nightmare* about packing last night. D: I kept packings tuff up, and every time I'd turn around there would be even MORE stuff left to pack, and I didn't even recognize half the stuff I was packing up, and I started running out of boxes, but more and more stuff kept piling up... I think maybe the stress is starting to get to me. Just a little bit.

*Not like a spooky scary nightmare. Just a dream that I didn't realize was a dream until after I woke up type nightmare.

Also, HAPPY TURKEY DAY, FRIENDS. Now, off to my mom's. Wooosh!

Helllo,

I'm on the end of a 3 day run of non drawing comics work.
Mostly reworking the King city dialog and doing balloon placement for
Lucas at Tokyopop to letter it.
I'm making lots of pages that look like serious debates about the alphabet

And the guy talking to pete is Exekiel, from Green porn that was in my
escalator collection.

Doing this stuff gets me excited about making comics, for some reason I get much more burned out doing covers and one page jokes. It's the storytelling that gets me most hyped these days.

And here's the cover to the issue I just got together.


Here's a panel from the Korean xombie war flashback in that issue.
Relentlessly cat. pat pat pat.


Here's an old catmaster cover from 2002. I'd made a photocopied
book of pre King city king city to give out at a nyc con.

I think I was trying to get some 70's Conan lines in my stuff back then.

I got some exciting emails with drawings in them:
Aaron Conley:

(check out those catpaw sneakers)
http://www.invademyprivacy.com/

AYO:

http://nervousystem.livejournal.com/

HARVEYJAMES

http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/

Also Speaking of mr harveyjames-- he's printed along with me in a new Meathaus sketchbook book that my pal Chris McD just put together.
Here's the cover Chrs did for it--


It's looking to be a pretty serious book chocked full of all the hard core meathaus dudes-- Farel Dalrymple, Thomas Herpich, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Jason Sacher, Mu Pan ,Dash Shaw, Zachary Baldus, and a bunch of other impressive artists -- Al Columbia, Nathan Fox, Nick Bertozzi, Peter Chung, Ron Wimberly.ect etc
I'm excited to see it.

Here's a small picture of the Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame and Tom Herpich of being a genius fame--

more on it here:
http://meathaus.com/read/go-for-the-gold-3-preview/

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ahem--

I got the full set of the 1990 Viz printing of Buichi Terasawa's COBRA
that I've been eyeballing at RX comics(bestcomicstoreever)


So it starts out like Total Recall with a guy with a boring life
going to a clinic that sells fantasies that awake who he really is.

You know how it is, sometimes stuff gets too rough being a lone wolf
space pirate with a phycho gun for an arm.
Sometimes you just have to erase your memory a reconstruct your
much too pretty face to look like gene wilder and just hide out for a
hot minute.

It's like plastic surgery to make him look less like he got plastic surgery-

It's set in a 70's more starwars than star wars universe.
Look at that wookie belt and those serious star wars vent/lights.



Every sign in the comic is labeled as basic as possible: CLUB and BAR
like in the future use of the english language has been trimmed down to
its basics. in Cobra my next book would be called COMIC.

Oh and see that dude casually scooting out of his hover car?

that's the evil plant phychic named Tarbeige. He takes off his already creepy gas mask to show vagina mouth metal tounge face.
He plants his seeds in the hindbrains of his victims to control their minds.

look at that casual look in his eyes.
He's so bored of women screaming in terror.
yawwwnnnnn

He even dies creepy.


Cobra has such good villans.
check out this smooth skelleton in a spacesuit on the left-


The main villan in the first couple issues is CRYSTAL BOY.
He's a dude that used to be human and is now made out of polarized glass
so lazers have no effect on him. and his creepy mask face never changes even when he's laughing his seethrough polarized ass off.

He's such a dick.

I think it's inevitable that when you encounter a cyborg that you'd wonder the state of their cyborg crotch--Like how Briaroes has almost no human parts on his outside but his dong is still there.
Crystal boy has gone out of his way to show you exactly the state of
his buisness.
Dude wont even wear pants!

I find someone that used to be human so much creepier than just a robot.

He cant taste booze and he has no genitals --he cant even poop.
But he remembers doing all those things.
so what's left but cold conquest of the universe.
brrrrrr

I'm 7 issues in now. right now Cobra and his sexy sex robot sidekick
are on their way to where?

PUBE!

Aside from Cobra the other best thing I saw in a comic this week was
this ad-- Elf hating pervert!


And here's some early Shirow I thought was cool.

I like how this comic is trying to pass itself off as
battle comics when it is clearly thong backed um-puming bath comics.

That japanese lettering on that is so cool.
Like its made out of wrenches or handcuffs.


And this , I guess it was from a Dirty pair radio play,
broadcast on the Internet.

This site mentions it--
http://www.elenorecity.com/seiyuu.html
Also I really like seeing the photos on there of the american vs the japanese
voice actors. I remember watching Ranma with my pal david, trying to guess
what the voice actors looked like.

and some drawings from the 90's anime, Weathering Continent.
I like the colors on these.



And some old Otomo art I hadn't seen.


that guy is good.

This moring my pal Steve Rolston sent me this page from his Oni book-
Ghost Project. He drew me and james Stokoe (in a russian sex bandit hat)
in that top left panel.

I'm looking forward to Steve's Russian ghost comics.

Oh also, I forgot to mention it but the issue of Resurrection that I did
a back up comic in came out last week.

ok?
ok.
now im going to go watch some polar bear documentry.

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Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

For Sale on Etsy

I'm so embarassed I filled in BOTH her little booties with black! One's sposed to be red. I realized my mistake two seconds after I did the deed. I'm terrible Harley Quinn fan!

Rich (my housemate and studiomate) is working on a Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy illustration too, so I'm gunna draw another one so we post them on the same day and be fan art buddies.

Also, here are some other neat things to look at!

Dylan Meconis' Family Man has its very own super snazzy website now! Dang, it is lookin' hella classy. If you like the dick-n-fart-joke-filled hit TV show Family Guy, you'll mother fuckin' LOVE Family Man. I guarantee it.

Hope Larson has a completely delightful Etsy shop of her original drawings and comic pages! I absolutely adore her work and it is a real treat to see her original work before it gets cleaned up on the computer. It's so much fun to see how someone constructs her drawings, before the guidelines get erased.

SEEDLESS U 6u6u!!


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The more these get, the more I like 'em. I maight have to say this is the finest looking Seedless yet.

In fact, I'm gonna gonna go ahead and post this week's Seedless right HYEAH

Swah! swah swah swah!

I love my little Seedlerz. They're my micro cosmic DBZ/Megaman/GurrenLagann everything I need for 4 hours bursts every week. I'm hyped on the latest few strips coz they are leading into some multi-narrative stuff coming up. If this one intrigues you, I suggest checkin out SEEDLESSCOMIC.com, as the FULL STORY archive has returned! Read that shit from the START. NUH

I am about pissing myself, coz Sharknife 2 is actually getting graytoned by a Mr. Daniel Ciurczak (of Sattelite Soda fame & lore), and he is actually quite suited for the monumental task that is toning this book that is this book that has been talked about a lot but rarely seen but will very soon be actually seen.

In fact, there are solid, sturdy plans to reveal the first ever, fully completed, fully readable Sharknife first chapter... A prelude to the entire saga that is DOUBLE Z. The second volume of Sharknife begins with a flashback to Ceasar's daring childhood...

AND HERE'S A GLIMPSE!



Oh good times. PEEPS.

Here's a crazy thing I randomly did tonight for my band of friends:


And here's a Carl Sagan music video that if you claim to be a science or hip-hop neard of any kind, you MUST WATCH.



And here's a remix of this one Black Kids song I like been listening to a lot while comicking


Want to plug an old internet friend of mine, G (formerly known as Zakoni), who has a very interesting website, and one song I'm really really into right now you can listen to HEREEEE.

There are cool things being made around the universe. Sweet.

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Not much to report!

For those curious, here's a breakdown of Matt's accent: His French mother and Australian father have super thick accents which definitely have rubbed off on him (You can tell when Matt's pissed because his speech gets extra Australian) and though he lived in the south of England for most of his life his time up north also influenced how he talks. And now, of course, there's the American slipping in. He's my International Hobo :)

Oh, in case y'missed it a couple posts ago, but I'm now offering a super pack of my books and minis. Save five bucks! Man. Wotta deal.

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Haha, I'm so boring. Also, now that I think abou it, I don't remember anyone buying corndogs recently. And why would there just be one corndog? Do they sell individually packaged corndogs? Nothing about this makes any sense at all, I tells ya.

Also, GOTTA FINISH PACKING STUFF UP FOR THURSDAY STRESS STRESS STRESS D: