The Oconocon - May 4 - Oconomowoc, WI

I will be a guest at the Oconocon om May 4th in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It's a new convention, this year is the first year it will be held, but it is shaping up to look to be pretty cool. Check it out here...

hairy

Here's a quick sketch of some guy:

Flying rat

In my continuing quest to draw the entire animal kingdom, I did a bat drawing for someone who asked real nice.


Also, did you download PACIFY for free from wowio.com yet? If not, friggin get there already!

PACIFY available FREE on Wowio.com!

My graphic novel PACIFY is now available for FREE as a PDF download from Wowio.com! This is a special collector's edition PDF containing all sorts of extra content, including a "lost" PACIFY short story (so be sure to keep the file in mint condition after downloading to preserve it's market value!). Here's the links to get there- go download it, you will love it...

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=3244

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=3245

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=3246

Quick something

Here's something I whipped up last night for a "Make Mine Metal" art show a buddy of mine is having... the theme of the show is heavy metal, and as such, I did a Viking Zombie. If you are the type of person who lives in the greater Los Angeles area and would like to check the show out, it will be this Saturday, December 22 @ The Comic Bug, 1807 1/2 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA. Get there.

Old is the New New

I am going to be releasing a very special edition of PACIFY very soon -hopefully in the next few days- that will include a lost PACIFY short which never saw the light of day. It's from back in the halcyon days of 2006, when things were different, we were innocent, and anything was possible... anyway, here is a page from the short, which is cleverly disguised as a small homage to two of my favorite artists.

Sales Department # 2

Happy Halloween! I put those two watercolor paintings below for sale in the original art section of my website's store, go and buy one if you've got some extra cash burning a hole in yer pocket...

It gets all over

Dusted off the old watercolors and used them for the first time in about 6 years... forgot how much fun they are. Anyway, I ended up doing two small paintings, nothing too crazy- here they are:


The colors get washed out in the jpegs, but whatever.

Snowboard action, what kind do ya think?

A couple 2007/08 5150 snowboards I did the board art for are now available in stores and from 5150snowboarding.com. The models featuring my illustrations are CRUX and NOMAD (click those links to check them out, or just have a look at the photos below). They are available now/this fall/winter in ski & snowboard shops, as well as in stores like the Sports Authority and Dick's, so go buy one...

Hairy bag of bones

Someone asked me to do a sketch of their dumb cat a couple months back, this is what came out:

PACIFY superfan

At the 2006 Wizard World Chicago convention, a nice fellow came up to my artist's alley booth and established his status as the most devoted PACIFY fan I know of by showing me the tattoo he got on his leg (of one of my illustrations from PACIFY)... very cool and flattering, here's a pic:


here's the original image:

Se7en Review (a.k.a. This Reviewer is Awesome!)

Pretty cool review of the issue of SE7EN I worked on (#4/Lust) here.

SE7EN – LUST Sin Issue #4
Written by Christian and Adam Beranek Art by Steven Perkins

There’s some deep pain in this issue focusing on “Lust”, and the emotion put into the story makes it the best book in the series. Along with a very stylized painting-look to the art from Steven Perkins, this tale of John Doe as a boy discovering the world of sex is both gripping and dramatically intense. Writers Christian and Adam Beranek lay it on thick for young John’s growing desires, and the story is told in a way that the reader feels sympathy for John, but also gives more depth to John’s struggles with the seven sins. They’re rooted here, John’s focal point in ridding the world of sin because this is where we see him fall victim to them. Especially lust, a common encounter amongst many teenagers. He’s uncomfortable, thanks to his mother and “uncle” exploring such desires in the other room while John spies on the girl next door. This is an amazingly well-written book, and I’m enthralled to witness everyone involved, including Tedesco and Brusha redeeming themselves here in the editing and story department, really deliver the product I wanted to see in this series. And the artwork, both different and surreal, is mesmerizing. Not because of the sexual content, but because of how it relates to the story’s tone. It’s dreamy, yet nightmarish in that it’s a state of flux for John Doe, and Perkins captures that confusion perfectly in his art. A great collaboration from everyone, and the standout book in the series. Definitely landing on my top 10 best for 2007.

GRADE: A+ HIGHLIGHT? John fights his lustful temptations, both past and present, but also relating back to his connection with the gluttonous fat man.

Updated Store

I made some updates to the ORIGINALS section of my store. I added some new stuff for sale, including the animal drawings below, and also discounted a number of the pieces (some by as much as $100)... go have a look, see if anything whets your whistle.

Sales department

I listed the Snapping Turtle, Elephant, and Tiger drawings on ebay, if anyone is interested in buying them... here are links to the auctions:

Tiger

Elephant

Turtle

Thanks!

Turtle Turtle

Alligator Snapping Turtle- quite possibly the coolest animal walking the earth today.

Jazz Hands

A recent scribble I did that came out weird, I sorta like it.

No Rules in the Animal Kingdom

Since I'm doing so much digitally-painted stuff lately, I've taken to doing the occasional pen and ink drawing, just to keep my drawing muscle limber. I like drawing animals for this, so I just use (probably-copyrighted) images I find online as reference and just go. Anyway, here's two recent drawings:

By popular demand...

... I now have a blog. I'm pretty sure I was the last person on Earth who didn't have one. I'll be updating from time to time with new art, comics, and stuff that doesn't make it to my website. Anyway, here's a pinup I did a while back for a motorcycle story: