Drawing Junk

This week I let Leon Beyond into my house to dig through my junk drawer and catalog all of its contents.

He made a comic strip out of it.

Card Sharks

Two Zettwoch-themed greeting cards I've drawn recently!

The Birds on the Bat

Trying to sneak St. Louis Cardinals' trivia past Leon Beyond on baseball's opening week is like trying to sneak the sun past the rooster. This week he traces the evolution (and occasional evolutionary dead-ends) of the Redbirds' famous emblem "The Birds on the Bat." Click for a larger version:Paul Lukas (of the wonderful UniWatch) has written about this important insignia, and the invaluable 'Dressed to the Nines' MLB uniform Database is a great reference, but Leon didn't need the help of course. Here are some of the articles mentioned, starting with the original worn by the likes of Rogers Hornsby:
Audubon-inspired ornithologically accurate version. Birders to this day still decry that two male redbirds would ever sit that close to each other on a yellow baseball bat without pecking each other's eyes out.The template that Catholic Kardinals use when designing their uniforms:Vinegar Bend Mizell, the best drawer in the 50's Cardinals Clubhouse and future Congressman, sporting the disastrous one-season-only non-Birds on the Bat jersey:And local architects' ongoing battle with the Lumber industry:Stay tuned for future updates, including the slated 2014 league-wide switch to aluminum bats, which will surely necessitate the R&D of chrome embroidery.

Amazing Facts about Pole Dancing

This one is beyond 100% true.

Puerto Vallarta Sketchbook

March 4 - 10, 2010.

Am I Forgetting Anything?

Bleeding Ink!

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One Day at a Time!

This week Leon Beyond discusses the past, present, and future of Page-a-Day Calendars.

Leon Beyond in The 66 YEAR STINK!

USS Catastrophe and their pal Leon Beyond have an exhilirating new 7 page comic strip in this week's Riverfront Times. The best way to experience this sensational overload of facts (as well as the best way to meet singles in your area) is to get your fingers inky with an old-fashioned newsprint copy, but you can also read the story online at The RFT's site, or at Leon's Blog. Here are some DVD extras:
Above: Initial story outline and breadown and evidence of a tragic studio glue-spill. Below: thumbnails and wardrobe.
Some reference involved in the making of the comic:
How my pencilled pages looked:Kevin H.'s cover:
And the teaser and open-source tattoo design. Support your local newspaper and content providers!