Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Raptor, Rapture?


Here's an early development drawing for a possible cover to a Seattle-based band's upcoming record.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Technicolor Jackass


Here's something I once said I'd never do, apply color to my Jackass cartoon. The book collection of this strip from the mid 1990s, published by Jason Miles, has just received notice as one of the best reads of 2010, by the review blog Midnight Fiction.

Monday, June 28, 2010

The Jester's Bones


Here's a panel from an unpublished cartoon from the mid 1990s, now given the color treatment.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Talking Dirty


Here's another illustration from this week's Seattle Weekly.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Globe-Trotting Globe


Here's an illustration that runs in this week's Seattle Weekly.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Saturday Morning Television Goes Pop!


Here's this week's I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury. For an overview of past illustrations for this column, click here.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

How's the Water?


Here's another installment of my weekly strip from the late 90s, You Stupid Little Duck, now with color added. To see more than half a dozen of this strip's funnier episodes, check out the brand-new anthology, Wet Paint #2, now available from Jason Mile's inimitable Profanity Hill zine empire.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Obsolete Dodos of the Mod World Outside


Here's another of my Absurd Short Story covers from the early 1980s, this one a twisted ode to Bob Kane's four-color Batman of the 50s.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Jackpot #29


Here's another cover of one of my illustrated superhero weeklies from back in the 1970s.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Know Your Rights


Here's another recent T-shirt design, this one to be used (in part) for a new line of skateboarding shirts, coming out later this summer.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Jackass Warning


I awoke to this interesting message, scrawled in chalk across the signature engraving I placed in the sidewalk outside my front door a few years back. The face is that of my character Jackass, who appeared in a weekly strip back in the 1990s, and also in a book collection from Drink Me Press. For a for extensive travelogue of the engraving's life cycle, go here.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Popcorn Guts


Here's an illustration that was cut from this week's Seattle Weekly, now an exclusive to this site only.

Friday, June 18, 2010

I Love Miley's Teeth


Here's this week's I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Open Wide, Mr. Mayor


Here's an illustration appearing in this week's Seattle Weekly.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tell it to Your Congressman


Here's another rejected T-shirt design. Look for those that did make the cut in the near future.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Colorful Noir


Here's a "film noir" styled illustration from the late 90s, recently colored as part of a pitch for a potential job involving creating the graphics for a documentary film.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Weather Wizards #8


Here's another illustrated comic book story from my childhood, this one from 1978, the eighth issue of Weather Wizards, another inter-mingling of Marvel and DC characters with my own creations.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sonny Side Up


And for those interested in continuity, here's the panel that follows yesterday's archival moment.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Egg Returns to the Nest


Here's another panel from a mid 90s unpublished comic, newly colored.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Couch Tuber


Here's this week's I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Spoils of the Poor


Here's an illustration that runs in this week's Seattle Weekly.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Breathing with the Demon


Here's another panel from my work-in-progress comic story, as yet untitled.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The City Will Swallow You


Here's another unpublished comic panel from the mid 1990s, now given the color treatment.

Monday, June 7, 2010

A Prince Succumbs


Here's a panel from an unpublished comic story I created in the mid 1980s. The man in his underwear, lying on the ground, is supposed to be Prince Charles.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Speaker Loses Control


Here's another panel from my new comic-in-progress.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Rainbow Rider


Here's this week's I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury.

Friday, June 4, 2010

A Moon, A Boy, A Beer


Here's a color variation of an illustration that appears in this week's Seattle Weekly. The drawing was done while on vacation, sitting beneath a large oak tree.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Eel, in an S-Curve


Here's my entry in a recent contest to design an imagined cover to poet Eugenio Montale's The Eel.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

War is Green


Here's a cartoon I created back in the late 1970s, one of a series of such featuring lime-oriented characters, a running in-joke that lasted for quite a few years.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Madness, Interviewed


Here's another comic panel from the mid 1990s, the title panel to an unpublished story. For a peek into the thought process that goes into this, and much of my art, go to today's cartoonist interview at David-Wasting-Paper.