Of Beer Tokens and Birthday Jumbles

The following gallery offers a varied selection of recent illustrations. From gifts to auctions to print assignments, it’s all here. Enjoy!

This watercolor, an obvious appropriation of the style of Silver Age Wonder Woman artists like Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, was commissioned for an auction to benefit Neil Cummins Elementary School in Corte Madera, CA.

This special Cartoon Jumble was created as a gift for a good friend, in order to celebrate the dual birthdays of he and his daughter, hers being the very first. Happy birthday, kids!

This cover for Albuquerque’s The Alibi was created the evening before I was due to fly out of town, a pinch-hitting job that, thankfully, came together quite well.

This was created for The Portland Mercury, a header image for their new Questionland web feature.

This over-sized wooden beer token facsimile was created for a friend, in order to help his brother celebrate his long years of service in the United States Air Force.

Following are ten recent examples of my illustrations for the I Love Television column, which runs every week in The Mercury.

Following are ten recent examples of A Drawn Perspective, my bi-weekly editorial strip that runs in half a dozen Seattle-area newspapers. Click here for a more extensive look at this strip’s four-year history.

Jumbles for July

The following gallery features eleven new additions in my ongoing Cartoon Jumbles series of watercolor illustrations.
These, and a dozen more, will be featured in a their own show, opening this Friday, July 3rd, at The Secret Headquarters comic shop and gallery, located at 3817 W. Sunset Boulevard, in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. All will be available for purchase.
If you happen to be in town that evening, from 8-10, please stop by and say hello, as I’ll be in attendance. The show will be running throughout the month.

Dagwood Bumstead & Robert Crumb

Hobbes & Tony the Tiger

Charlie Brown & The Watcher

Little Lulu & Wonder Woman

Bazooka Joe & Nick Fury

Mr. Natural & The Yellow Kid

Mickey Mouse & Nancy

Lucy Van Pelt & The Dragon Lady

Snuffy Smith & Luke Cage

Hot Stuff & Iceman

Uncle Sam & Uncle Scrooge

Hey, Kids! Comics!

The following gallery features half a dozen photographs of myself, reading six comics from my collection of well-weathered odds and ends, the sort of books you once could find in boxes of other unwanted treasures. They were taken as part of the publicity for my new Cartoon Jumbles show, which opens this Friday, July 3rd, at The Secret Headquarters comic shop and gallery, in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
I present them here, more a testament to the comics than the bearded man reading them, each captioned with a favorite quote from the book within.
I’d like to thank my good friend, Kevin Schlosser, for helping me to realize this presentational concept with his keen eye. He’s a fine photographer, available for pet weddings, kid’s birthdays, and, most especially, bachelorette parties.

“My right fist is a rock-crusher! Put your face back in the hole!”

“We’ll heat up his electrodes with the electric lash!”

“Surrender, humans! You cannot defeat my brilliant gorilla army!”

“You made it just in time for the beating of your life!”

“That’ll teach them to bomb the king with his own royal bombs!”

Pencil Studies, Unleashed

The following gallery of rough pencil sketches comes from Ruby, the Rock and Roll Dog, a picture book project that was in development with a major publisher for the past few months, but which has been aborted due to an editorial impasse concerning the text, the author choosing to seek another publisher. Nevertheless, I wanted to share these images, hoping they might be illuminating, revealing something of the intricate process involved in creating a picture book. Please note that the sequence is random, and is not in accordance with the story itself.