Remember issue #44 of Barnyard’s Finest, where Awesome Possum has to rescue Octopussycat from Hypnopotamus? I found the original art. I’ll be framing it and putting it in the Vancouver Comic Jam Art Show at the Wallflower Modern Diner in April. Click “attending” on the Facebook event, if you dare!
Here’s a tiny preview of an eleven page comic I’m illustrating for the Panels for Primates anthology. This story is written by Mark “Northguard” Shainblum and will be lauded by anyone who like Curious George and/or Superfriends parodies. I’m pretty jazzed about being associated with Rick “Classics Illustrated” Geary. Additionally, proceeds from the book will go towards Primate Rescue Center.
UVic student and former Camosun student Troy Wilson is fighting to raise money for a primate sanctuary and he’s going about it with an unusual approach. Wilson is the editor of Panels for Primates, an online anthology of comic strips about primates. The project started in October and one new comic strip will be installed every Wednesday until sometime in April. At the end of each installment is a page encouraging people to donate to the Primate Rescue Center.
Wilson admits the fundraising initiative is “an odd endeavour” and questions whether many people will donate money online for something they can view for free. But he says he hopes comic lovers will come around, as his own appreciation for comics inspired him to take on the project from the start.
There’s a PayPal icon right on the Primate Rescue Center homepage now (primaterescue.org), and you don’t need PayPal accounts to use it; you can click on that icon and use credit cards as well. And here’s an important detail: when people donate, they need to specify that it is a Panels for Primates donation. Otherwise, their donation won’t count towards our total. There is a box/field at the end of the PayPal process in which they can specify this.
Panels for Primates is @panels4primates on twitter
Here’s another article about the project.
This past Sunday at The Wallflower Diner, conveniently located just below my studio, local sexy burlesque weirdo Bloody Betty posed for Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Class – the “Cthulhupalooza” special.
For the first half, she wore her tentacle dress, and for the second half, she wore a chainmail bikini. I mostly avoided drawing the accoutrements as I was really there to draw the female form, but the tentacles had to be set down on paper.
Extra bonus, Matt from the Wallflower blasted all four albums by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets as mood music.
Two of my “classic” (read: more than a decade old) Cthulhu-themed drawings are featured on Craig Mullin’s unfilmable.com. Unfilmable is a great resource on Lovecraft film adaptations and Craig has resurrected his “Pickman’s Models” section of the site featuring Lovecraftian artwork. Check out my pics plus art from Tom Sullivan, Andrew Ozkenel, and more.
I’ll have a dealer table at Vancouver Comicon on Sunday Jan 16 @ the Heritage Hall 3102 Main St. I’ll be there from opening until about 4pm, selling my art, my books, my band merch, and promoting Cthulhupalooza 2! Come on by and say hello and pick up a copy of the new Strange Aeons magazine featuring Spaceship Zero the comic prequel!
Wow, I’m honored and excited. Because of my contributions to New Reliable Press’ comics anthology Acts of Violence, I am eligible for a Shuster Award this year. In case you don’t know what that means, Joe Shuster was one of the creators of Superman (and Canadian), and the awards recognize the work of Canadian comic book creators. The 7th Annual Ceremony is in Calgary this June.
Hey Call of Cthulhu roleplayers! The new issue of The Unspeakable Oath is available in pdf format right now on rpgnow.com for $6.99 and it’s filled with illustrations by, among other people, Mr. Toren Atkinson. Check out some previews on unspeakableoath.com
I expect that the printed versions will be available presently at gaming stores near you and unspeakableoath.com.
The Spaceship Zero comic book prequel has been published at glorious full size in the new issue of the Lovecraftian comic anthology magazine Strange Aeons. I’ll be selling copies and other nerdy stuff at the
I’ve been very busy with 4 different art jobs lately. Here’s a sample, published in Unspeakable Oath magazine #18.
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