In Search of Opening Day Jitters

Be sure to check out Leon's Opening Day Baseball and Beyond strips in this week's RFT...... and get a sneak peek into Leon's baseball card collection.Let's go you redbirds!

MY DAD! HOW DOES HE WORK?

I don't think I ever posted pictures of this magnetized birthday card I made for my WORLD'S #1 DAD a couple months ago. Here were all my little drawings that we printed on sheets of inkjet magnet paper......then cut out and affixed to this sheet of tin:Love you, Dad!

Blue Streak / Lunatic Fringe

Recent Amazing Facts & Beyond strips: Tbe Great Blue Streak of Trail County, North Dakota. Dispatches from the Lunatic Fringe.

Know When to Fold-In!

I worked with Leon Beyond to draw yet another Fold-In, this time in honor of Al Jaffee's upcoming 90th birthday.

Talking and Pointing

Here's how that presentation from the St. Louis PECHA KUCHA evening a I did a couple of weeks ago went. Enjoy.

Happiness is a Warm Hot Glue Gun

This is a cover I drew for this week's Albuquerque Alibi, illustrating both their annual homemade Valentine's Day Card Contest and a freak southwestern snowstorm.Happy Valentine's day out there, and stay warm!

Valentine's Day... & Beyond!

Leon explores matters of the heart (and obscure 60's toy construction sets) in this week's Amazing Facts & Beyond.

Forget the Minions, They're on their Own

Check out this not very informational info-graphic I illustrated for my pals at Woot! for their affiliate marketing program called 'Woot Minions'. Here was the sketch:The whole time I was drawing this I had this song stuck in my head:
In other Woot! related art, here's a soda machine face I designed for their offices a while back. The can pops out under the robot teeth.Keep up the good work, Woot!

Birds of Carbondale

I'm trying to figure out what all sorts of birds we saw (and I sketched) from the back porch of our cabin. 1: Red-Tailed Hawk 2: Carolina Chickadee 3: Red-bellied Woodpecker 4: Northern Cardinals 5: Tufted Titmouse 6: Redheaded Woodpecker 7: 8: Blue Jay 9: Great Egret 10:Dark-eyed Junco (?)

Come Pecha Kucha with Me! Thurs: 1/27/11

I'm participating in St. Louis' Fifth Pecha Kucha Night on Thursday night. I also made the poster. Along with several other local fascinators i'll be showing a few slides (20) and giving a short (6 minute, 40 seconds) lecture. Them's the rules.Here are a few sneak peeks from my powerpoint presentation.The event is at Bridge / The Foundation (1004 Locust Street 63101) and is FREE. Get there at 6:30 or 7 to make me feel less nervous or just adjust my bow-tie.Hope to see you there!

In Hot Blood

I did this cover illustration and 5 interior spots for this week's NY Observer, about the grizzly murder of Portuguese telejournalist Carlos Castro, allegedly by his companion and Portuguese reality-show star Renato Seabra, in a Times Square hotel. Here's Seabra on the model-hunting show A Procura do Sonho (In Pursuit of a Dream):Apparently the couple had seen Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark the evening of the murder:Castro had been gruesomely killed & mutilated with some combination of a TV set, corkscrew, and wine glass on the 34th floor.Here were some alternate cover ideas:Seabra was seen rushing out of the hotel lobby that evening, neatly dressed but visibly shaken and with cuts on his wrist:The scene from Seabra's arraignment hearing, while he is held at a local hospital:Castro's remains being emptied by friends following the funeral, into a subway grate in Times Square, a "place that he loved":

Timely Facts & Beyond

Hope you haven't missed these recent nuggets ripped from the headlines of knowledge, courtesy of Amazing Facts & Beyond. In this one, Leon Beyond solves St. Louis' recent Smoking Ban.Jerry 'the King' Lawler pile-drove opponents on one of the most expensive Rugs in the Commonwealth of Kentucky:And finally, Leon recaps Top Ten important Dog-Walking related inventions of 2010:

Mary, Mary!

Here are the paintings I showed in November's Famous Fictional Verses! art show. My characters were Mary, Mary (Quite Contrary) and Mary, Mary (Why You Buggin'?).
Sketches & color list:Some reference:My original vector drawings:Vector art converted to outlines and output to tiles for tracing:The idea was to think of these paintings as 6-color prints with flat, fluorescent & metallic color. Key-color mock-ups:First few color layers down:Another couple:Finished paintings:Acrylic & Gold Leaf on Illustration board, 36" x 34".