The Lotion Song

Knocked out the color finals on this piece I started last summer. It's inspired by a song called the "The Lotion Song" by The Silversmiths.

There's a funny story behind the song, but I'm not sure this is the place to relate it. Needless to say it is not necessarily safe for work. But one of the members had an idea to do a multi-media evening and asked a bunch of his artists friends to "interpret" the song, giving us the loosest of parameters and asked that we all come together on a single night to display our art and listen to some music.

 

Come out and check it out!

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Missed last week with some not-feeling-goodness, so here it is, back on schedule.

Snow Day(s) Comic!

In honor of The Blizzard(!) I'm posting another comic that has been waiting to see the light of day. 

This one actually began life as an example for my cartooning class. The assignment was to study the work of a cartoonist, then create an homage comic, trying to emulate the style of the artist. I chose the amazing Bill Watterson and I almost don't want to say that as I fall far short. However, it became something else, somehting more me, so....Anyway the comic was actually drawn almost 4 years ago to the week, on another snow day, and inked and finished up today.

It draws upon my tendency to quote Star Wars in situations where the quote is less than appropriate and the imitable Calvin's tendency to drift off into his imagination, like all of us dreamers.

New Page of Random Comicness

I'm going to present stories that don't fit into the Red Rocket mold here under Comics Odds and Ends. The first one is "The Gift". 

 I've been getting out some past comic projects that never saw much daylight (done as I was finishing my teaching license and in the middle of having kids) whilst putting together a portfolio. I've always been fond of this story and really pleased with the way it turned out - though now I would take out the self-portrait and any autobio reference. Maybe I'll do that when I color it, but I'm happy with it and wanted to "get it out there". I'd like to add color and get it looking a little more "web friendly". 

 Hope you like it.

New Cauldron Page

New Cauldron Page

New Cauldron page for the story.

You can still vote for the AVA Awards here.

Got some new music this week.

For some good Rock and Roll In The Car, some Americana Done Victorian Style and good Music To Create To:

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How about a bonus Cauldron page since I got the day off due to freezing rain covering our streets in thin layers of ice! (It's getting a little creepy now.)

Don't forget: you can still vote for me in the Drawing category for Artlink's AVA awards online here!

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Artlink's Visual Art Awards

Fort Wayne's Artlink Gallery is sponsoring the 1st Annual AVA Awards. You can vote for a whole mess of talented people for your choice of Outstanding artist in a whole range of categories. I was fortunate to be nominated for an award in the Drawing category. You can vote here.

Hopefully you'll vote for your favorite! To maybe sway your opinion in the leastest, here are a few examples of my work.

Illustrations from my book RocketBoy and the Space Ghosts! copyright 2010

  

Pages from my comic Red Rocket Comics#1 The Elevator of Doom copyright 2010

Some other great nominees and some friends of mine are Nate Utesch and Drew Kora and Jake Sauer in Graphic Design; Eric Tarr in painting; and Clare Christian Tarr in Fabric Design.

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Cauldron in the Back Cabinet