I drew this strip tonight while eating hamburgers and watching Big Brother. It's based on quotes overheard by my friend Amy (one of my favorite people in the world) at her place of work. She says to imagine these sayings spoken with a southern drawl and with full confidence that they are being used wisely and correctly. Thanks Amy! Hopefully there'll be more to come. (Hamburgers and Big Brother I mean).
If you live anywhere near the twin cities, or will be there this weekend, you should drop by the Minneapolis College of Art & Design to see an art show I'm involved in. There will be a bunch of stuff by great artists like Ivan Brunetti, John Hankiewicz, Zak Sally, Onsmith, Lille Carre, and uh, me. Here's the neat postcard Onsmith drew:
Some of the stuff I'll have hanging are original pages from comics I've drawn for Kramers Ergot, the Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, Arthur magazine, etc. If that sounds like the same old jive, there'll also be the cover to my long-awaited new comic, Redbird #1! 
If you don't fancy boring ol' black india ink and white white-out, there'll be this strip which features COLORED PENCIL at least:
Anyway, it should be a cool show. What have you got to lose?!
Part of an illo I did for the Post about the mechanics of improv comedy:
This week's Amazing Facts & Beyond:
Part of an XPLANATiON I did a few years ago for Men's Health Magazine, about what adrenaline does to your body:
A self-portrait / How-to make comics diagram:
An old 3-D "cutaway" I did for a show of Elvis busts:
And finally this sketchbook doodle of my lovely girlfriend - I mean Fiancée! - Jenny:
Hey kids! While your mom is shopping for groceries, head over to the magazine aisle. After you're done sneaking peeks at those car/motorcycle magazines with babes in bikinis on the cover, check out this month's Nickelodeon magazine. (There is a creepy looking rat-dude from The Spiderwick Chronicles on the cover). Inside I've got a one-page comic strip about a family that lives in a gigantic monster truck. The magazine comes with a set of official 3-D glasses that will allow you to see my comic in all three dimensions. I basically just did a 2-color comic strip (seen above: BOOOO-RRRRING) ... then legendary 3DFX master Ray Zone made my drawings (not to mention my word balloons) literally pop off the page! Here's a small section:
There are lots of other cool 3D comics in the magazine too, as well as a sweet ad in which Fruity Pebbles fly out at you. Check it out!
Hey Friends! In case you didn't know, some pals of mine -- Kevin H. and Ted May -- and I have started a comic strip that appears 3 weeks out of every month in the Riverfront Times. It's sort of like a "Ripley's Believe or Not" style strip chock-full of fun facts relevant to our readers. The hero / narrator of the strip is a walking treasure trove of information named Leon Beyond, whose first name (and basic look 'n feel) we lifted from the character of Leon from the great 1980 Disney movie Midnight Madness.
If you don't live in St. Louis, we're posting our strips in a timely fashion up on a new blog here. Bookmark your hearts out. To save you a click (dont' get used to it!), here's this week's strip:
love,
"It's the Big One, Elizabeth! I'm comin' to see ya!" Acrylic, White-Out, & Ink on Board, 18" x 14"
"And the Tree Was Happy", Acrylic, White-Out, & Ink on Board, 18" x 14"
Todd and Alvin, the good fellows over at Comic Art, were kind enough to lend me 5 pages in the latest issue of their wonderful magazine, to draw a weird comic strip on. If you wanna read it, keep your eyes peeled for this awesome cover on the newstand: 
My strips are interspersed throughout the book, and take place over the course of 50 years or so. Each page includes a church bulletin comic, drawn by my (fictional) uncle Darryl Zettwoch, culled from a lifetime Sundays archive of graphic experimentation and corny Episcopalian jokes.
Each bulletin presented was ostensibly printed using a different piece of antiquated technology, everything from a mimeograph machine to a "ditto-maker" (aka the Spirit Duplicator) to a modern inkjet printer. Lots more info on these great devices at the Museum of Office Machines.
Hopefully along with the evolution in printing technology you can kinda trace an abridged history of my uncle and his church. Here are the first couple of pages:
Here's a commission I drew recently. Ink and colored pencil on bristol, 8" x 10". It features the old Batmobile which I think is still the best Batmobile.
Incidentally, if anybody out there ever wondered what he or she (or their cute pet!) would look like in a hot rod with their eyeball popping out -- and would like me to draw it -- gimme a holler. It will probably take a long time and be outrageously expensive but you never know!
If you're looking for something to do this Friday night (Jan. 4th) come out to the Mad Art Gallery for what should be a fun art opening. Everybody's got 2 paintings in the show -- the same size and shape (like last years show) -- but instead of a character from popular comics we all chose a character from popular television (along with literature). If you can't tell who my 2 characters are from the scribbled sketches above, here you go: 
I didn't get good photographs of my paintings before dropping them off at the gallery, so you'll have to show up to see 'em. Or wait until I post them later. In the meantime, here's a painting of a famous NONfictional character I know, my buddy Adam "Picklehead" Bertels. Happy Birthday, Adam!
("Weird Science Adventures: PICKLEHEAD", Gouache on board, 18" x 24", 2007)
A couple of music-themed illo's of mine published this week, all ink/gray wash/white-out on typing paper. They're pretty weird without the articles but you get the idea.
Merry Thanksgiving, everyone!
This year's St. Louis International Film Festival is already in full-gear, and here's a bunch of components I put together for it. The big poster / program cover is seen above. Below are the badges, T-shirt, web-banner, silkscreened prints shown 3/4 of the way through, and my initial sketch. Go see some great movies!
The Pink Pistols Gay Gun-Rights Group:
Muny 2007 Year-End Wrap-Up (bonus points if you can name all 7 plays):
New Study: "Household Appliances Attack!":
Signs of Road Rage, Before:
And After:
