Sunday, November 04, 2007

Secret Work...shhhhh......

It's always a bear when you've got a great idea and you want to get it on paper, get a layout done, get some finished work and show it off to everyone. You don't want to spoil the impact by showing something that's not finished enough to get the intended response. Hopefully the idea is compelling enough to keep you working on it quickly and finish up. Or...you take a job with a company that's all "hush-hush" and "don't tell" and you can't even show your work off (damn!!) or something like that. Well in September I took the hush-hush job and I've been doing a lot of nothing, but the company has seen my work -- photos from the company Halloween party!


Additionally, I took on a job to do a short animation for a secret product, but it's taken me much longer than I'd anticipated to finish it. Now it close to being finished, I can show some illos, but still cannot reveal the product....anyhow the work is always interesting...

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

This Has Been A Test....

HOLD ON, don't freak on me! This post ain't about nuthin! I'm just trying to see if something will work...



Ta da! Alright! Now I can waste time on a whole new level!

Friday, August 24, 2007

Put Up or Shut Up...


Uh, huh...um... I forget where I put sketches all the time. I think I haven't worked on anything because I can't find 'em, or they're not finished. When I find them, I'm not quick to think "I should post that". Still getting used to life in the age of the BLOG. I used to do a lot of APAs (amatuer press associations) way back in the day, so that will date me for anyone who knows about such things. The pace was so much slower...and people were lazier, or I was more prolific. All that stuff is in some boxes somewhere....

Today's post features more aborted work...pinup stuff...I got no explanation, but I don't think they need it.






Wednesday, August 22, 2007

No Brain Activity...

Okay, another month has elapsed with very little content coming out of my studio. Perhaps it's time to visit a proctologist???

Oh, but there are some things I do to fill the time when I should be working...like this stuff:


The ball purse....a hideous sight, but something I had to sketch when it popped into my head. Better to see it HERE than...well...you know....














And to the right...no, that's not "fire-crotch", it's something I considered doing for someone's web page, but then I let it sit too long and forgot, and found it again and went back, and....the life of the lazy....it's like a chick throwing a curse on her boyfriend. Yeah, the curse might be "fire-crotch", but heck if I know...

I shoulda been working on the boxing comic, afore I get FIRED!!!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Post ex acedia...


OK, the lazy dog does a re-post to outmanuever the quick fox.

I finally uploaded the BATTLEBOT story "BGM Blues". You can read it in it's entirety here:


Thursday, July 05, 2007

Much Ado About Nuthin'

Tina 01
Tina 02Haven't been up to too much cartooning/comic production in recent years, or even recent months, but I do tend to do a few sketches a month...whatever comes to mind...revisiting old stories and characters...

...and sometimes I actually work on something NEW. As mentioned in the last post, it would be cool to just sketch pinups and watch HDTV forever, and sometimes I do a sketch for some shlubb. Mostly I ignore a lot of requested details and draw what I want, which tends to work out alright most of the time....

It seems I will working on something a little different over the next month---I'm not sure how it will turn out. Not really a comic-story, but a set of sequential panels featuring foxy boxers. Yup---a sleazy project, but I really want to try it out and just see what I do with it. Besides, I get to draw chicks jumping, bouncing and falling out of their clothes....how cool can that be?


REAL COOL!!

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Uh...PINUPs...

Dang it, if only my job was to draw pinups all day...I should have MADE IT MY JOB. I should have quit all my jobs and just drawn pin-ups and drawn pin-ups, and well...drawn pin-ups. But I fell into the work trap and started to buy stuff, and well...you know how it goes, but every once in a while, I draw pinups. And I actually got paid for it few times. You might say I have lived all my dreams in small pieces...travel, comics, sex, computers. Here are few pieces of my pinup world:

Surfgirls was done as a t-shirt illo for some surf shop in CA somewhere, I dunno where it is or if they even sold any, but I did another illo for them later.

• I did valentine baby per specs by the site owner. I think it's based on her, but she never sent me a photo.


Yo! Waitress...just one of those things that pop out of my head every once in a while...sometimes I actually get 'em on paper before I forget 'em.

Araceli - just some chick I drooled over way back in the day when I was doing some all night parties with Peruvians...strange days. The girl's brother bugged me to trade watches. I still dunno why, mine was a $2 piece of junk. But I did get to dance with his sister.

Yeah, I sketched a lot of other pinups too....sheesh, like ya gotta ask!!



Sunday, March 18, 2007

Super-Deformed Agenda

From the closet of forgotten work, comes this assault on artistic sensibilities....

In the 80's I took a liking to a certain type of cartoon style from Japan, called 'super-deformed' or 'chibi' characters. I started throwing them into my work, did lots of spot sketches and such, but SDs were not popular in the USA at that time, and I got razzed endlessly for these works.

I foisted the style on everyone, nonetheless!!! Thus fanzine editors were forced to accept my work in the SD style if I chose to use it. I flaunted it boldly with this convention program guide in 1987.
I lot of people kept slamming the style, and after a few years of it, I decided it was time for SDs to fight back! I wanted to get the message out: SDs are LEGIT!!!!!!

This is the first of the SD rants I drew up:
...yeah, it's weak, but it's THERE! Even though the tag line says "Sex and Violence" this sequence has neither! So I had to do another one, something that got the SDs out in the world to face the music.