Tiny Comic - Cute things

Here's a very quick one that I cranked out today. I said that I wanted to get a comic posted before the holiday week, and so that's what I've done.

Click to enlarge and get your heart so warmed that it might be unhealthy-

Comic revision: Pygmy Hippo with color

Not exactly a new post, but I thought it would be fun to throw a little color on the pygmy hippo comic. I love black and white, but this comic in particular seemed to be begging for some sprucing up, and if nothing else that "leader" panel looks more fully realized.

Click to enlarge and enter a colorful world of hippo-related fancy-


I want to do a quick new comic in the next day or two and get it posted before the holiday week.. If I don't make time, I think my parents have a decent scanner back home so I can at least get it up sometime before Christmas day. We shall see.

Comic: Can I Interest You in a Pygmy Hippo?

A few weeks ago, the world fell in love with Monifa, the pygmy hippo baby born at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.. So let's start breeding these things faster and in bulk, because we all want one.

CLICK to make the tiny hippos grow up too fast-

Comic: Comic

I made a comic today. I still do that.

Click to enlarge-

I've been pursuing other creative endeavors lately, though there should be more here soon. I don't want this blog to be about how little I'm blogging.

Tiny Comic: Soy Milk

Been a while.. Here's a wee little comic that might just add a small touch of joy to your day. Like a tiny scented candle implanted beside your heart.

CLICK so you don't have to strain your eyes so much-

If I find myself getting upset about something stupid, I think that the best course of action is to make a comic about it in which I make myself look ridiculous (see last post too). Perspective!

Comic: Road rage is sexy

After far too long without one (though I guess that's a matter of opinion), here's another comic, done today.

CLICK to expose your innocent mind to the salty language within (not for the young ones)-

Remember: You shouldn't get angry about that which you can not control or influence.. Some unsolicited therapy for you.

US Presidents with facial hair #1

Only full-on beards and moustaches, sideburns excluded so far (sorry, Martin Van Buren). It might be fun to draw some of the livelier muttonchops in presidential history, but then where do I draw the line?

Abraham Lincoln-


Ulysses S. Grant-


There's a string of facial-haired presidents from Lincoln through Taft, with Andrew Johnson and McKinley being the only spoilers.

I didn't get much drawing/comic-making done in the past two weeks, and I'll blame the conventions for the most part, but also a changing work schedule.. I may continue this series, but I've been sitting on several comic ideas for weeks, and though I've second-guessed them by this point, I'd like to do one as soon as I can.

Flightless birds, stupid hats

Sometimes you get what you pay for, and this blog is free.

Clicking will magnify somewhat-


I haven't posted much this month, but I've got some stuff in the works. I'd like to put together a small zine or something. Hopefully I'll make time to do a new comic this week as well.. We'll see how it goes, with the real job to contend with and all.

Comic: Owls doing stuff

I was going to post this in the morning, but I got back from the Mike Bertino show at Secret Headquarters and I'm awake/inspired, so why not scan this bastard and move onto the next one?

Click to ENLARGE, making the owls so big and lifelike that you may feel them flapping around your room-

I guess I missed my self-imposed deadline by a few days, but the great thing about self-imposed deadlines is that failing to meet them only results in a nagging feeling of self-hatred, and nothing worse.

Comic: It's a tasty treat

Bears! Comic! Done today, just for you. Perhaps you'd like to print it out and tape it up somewhere in your workspace. Let everyone share the laughter. Maybe you could staple it onto your shirt.

Click to experience life at its fullest-

The average adult male thinks about it once every 7 seconds.

Comic: Productivity is relative

I seem to recall a time, not so long ago, when I would draw and post quick, simple comics about bears.. Let's revisit that time, shall we?

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Ahh.. A nice change of pace after all of the real humans lately. It's always easier with bears.

Comic: Goldblummates

Jeff Goldblum and Jeff Goldblum.

Click/Enlarge to receive maximum Goldblum-


The dialogue consists of quotes from the man himself (and not characters he has played), which I found online and arranged. I can't say for sure that the lines are entirely accurate as I didn't compile them, but I seem to remember him saying such things on Letterman or Conan some years ago. Who cares, anyway? The words themselves are clearly somewhat inane, but the magic is that they are from the mouth of Goldblum. I do not appreciate Jeff Goldblum in an ironic way; He is a fine actor and one of my all-time favorite talk show guests. Remember those Apple commercials? I want to have a conversation with this man.

As for me completing the redo of what I set out to do last week, I am not thrilled with each depiction seen here, but I feel that overall it's Goldblumy enough, at least compared to the failures as described in my previous post.

Failure: Goldblum

I am having a personal crisis: I can't draw Jeff Goldblum.

Maybe I can draw something that looks vaguely Goldblumesque, once or twice, but I've given myself the task of drawing Goldblum six times for something that I'm working on (or was working on up to this point). I have penciled and redrawn all six figures many times, and I can not manage to muster more than a couple of slightly Goldblumish creatures, who seem to only get much less Jeff-like after the introduction of ink..

-A sampling of my feeble attempts at Goldblum.

Have you seen pictures of Jeff Goldblum? Of course you have. You've seen him on television, on film, and perhaps even in your dreams. You know what Jeff Goldblum looks like, as do I. I can close my eyes and picture an entire room full of Goldblums (laughing, pondering, chatting about this and that), and each one of them looks enough like him in my mind to the extent that I can certainly say, "I really, really know what Jeff Goldblum looks like," and I can mean it.


Jeff Goldblum is a chameleon. He is such a great actor that he has the ability to look totally different every time his image is captured on film, and yet he still completely remains himself. I'm confused by his nose, his eyes, his eyebrows, his chin, his damn smile-crevices.. What's up with his hair? His ears- what is going on there?

Has he had work done, or is his ever-changing appearance just the effect of aging and muscle gain and/or loss? Have you considered the possibility that there might be several Jeff Goldblums?


I couldn't draw Giada De Laurentiis, either.. and I was only trying to do just one.

(Sigh) I will get past this.. Perhaps I will at some point, sooner or later, redo what I started.. not that the idea is necessarily worth it in and of itself, but this could become a personal mission.

TV Chefs and Cooks #3

More food people you mighta seen while lookin' at the TV..

Nigella Lawson-


Guy Fieri-


Julia Child-


The Swedish Chef-

-For Aaron. Bork bork bork!

TV Chefs and Cooks #2

Mario Batali-


Anthony Bourdain-


Duff Goldman-

TV Chefs and Cooks

Paula Deen-

Butter, y'all!

Gordan Ramsay-


And tonight, let us all shed a tear for Petrozza-

Oh, Petrozza.. If only you hadn't started off so poorly. You were still robbed. This may not have worked out, but maybe now you can become the "Next Food Network Star" instead. You may be messy, but then again so is Rachel Ray.

Me?

A self portrait.. The nose seems to be a little off (a bit too Duchovny-esque).

Bad People #2

More total jerks.

Click on them and they shall appear larger, and perhaps more sinister-

Bad People

Collect 'em all!

Click images to make them grow slightly before your eyes-


I did this first one with a ballpoint pen.. I later took a rapidograph to it in an attempt to touch it up a bit.

Comic: This wheelin' ain't free

Comic! ..Done today.

Click the image for maximum enjoyment-

Has "pimp" ever been on one of Groening's "Forbidden Words of.." lists? If not, it should be. Not only is it kind of a stupid word to use for anything other than an actual pimp, but by now it's also terribly antiquated. Rappers and whoever else may continue to use it to describe themselves should it apply, that is if they wish to repeat the same things many of them have been saying since 1992, but neither objects such as cars nor elderly folksmen are "pimp."

More Filler!

In an effort to put some wood on the little campfire that is my blog, here are more sketches, some more recent than others.

As always, CLICK for optimal image display-


First, above we have a bit of concept art for a comic I made for an as yet unreleased CD by composer Michael Perilstein (The Deadly Spawn, Winterbeast). Buy his The Least Worst of Michael Perilstein, and you will not only enjoy some of his finest music (plug!), but you will also see the first comic I did for him a few years back. I suppose I own this image as it didn't end up in this comic, but my current profile picture is actually from yet another comic that I worked with him on, and therefore he technically holds copyright on it (!). I, however, retain ownership of myself and Michael Perilstein likewise holds all rights to Michael Perilstein. Above we find him in France.


Birds are always pretty good.


"So I was hawlin' muh trailurh down ta Dixon Cownteh.."


Attempts to draw my old roommate's dog.. Honestly, it doesn't really look like her.


Why not?

Comic: onyd!

Clicking this image will make it oh so much better (and somewhat bigger)-


..I used different paper this time and suffered for it. My pen line was quite bloody, though it doesn't look much different than usual when shrunk down a bit.

Filler

I picked a bad time to start this blog, given how I've been pretty busy in the month or so since its inception.. Barring the event of some sort of disaster or personal crisis, I am vowing to not let this blog go an entire week without a new post (and I'm certainly hoping to post more often than that). That being said, I haven't drawn much of anything in the last week. So here, instead of something fresh, is a bunch of old stuff from a sketchbook of mine from several years ago. Is there anything more exciting than looking at somebody's old sketches? Of course not. Something good came of this though, in that I found an old idea that I plan to turn into a new comic when I get a chance.

Also, I think it was actually a great habit to be in.. Just coming home at the end of the day and drawing without really thinking, which I too rarely do nowadays, especially with just a pen. I would scribble out anything that came to mind.

Click to digitally transform them into larger, more robust images.


Abe Lincoln often comes to mind.


What?


Hmm.


I like this a little bit.


Moustaches can be a little creepy. Not always, but sometimes.


I don't know.


Yep.

Comic: Gull

No gag, just some sketchbook fun.. I haven't had a great deal of free time lately thanks to work, but today wasn't so bad; hence this comic's existence. Click to enlarge-

Comic: She

What do you do when you get home after an opening at Secret Headquarters? You crank out a comic, that's what. Then, if you happen to still be up after the ink dries, you post it. Click for a larger view.