Keep America Weird Week

I sure hope you're keeping up with Keep America Weird Week at Woot! this week. Here are some banners I made to advertise and commemorate this great event.

Lots of great discussion of American Weirdness and Weirdos. I especially like this one about Baseball Oddities (literal ODDBALLS).

I was also proud of this 'WEIRD' font I drew, although now it looks more like 'GREEN BACON' font. Which I guess it still pretty weird.

Tonight! Reading/Signing/Party at Star Clipper!

7 - 10 pm! Party! Free* hand-printed BIRDSEYE BRISTOE bookmark containing an instructional diagram on how to build your own birdfeeder out of items you may have around the house. *just say the code words: "I want to learn how build my own birdfeeder out of items I may have around the house".

Art vs. Lovecraft

Here are a few more pages from The Shadow out of Providence project I've been working on. There's only a couple days left on the Kickstarter campaign - get in while the gettin' is good, and help make this weird/wonderful book a reality! 

I'm contributing a bunch of production sketches and monster costume designs for the HP Lovecraft meta-play "Facts Concerning the Late Eadweard Thurston and his Family" by Ezra Claverie. The costume designs are inspired by the work that legendary cartoonist Jack Kirby did designing costumes for a 1969 production of Julius Caesar:

Here are a couple of drawings detailing a sequence in which a decomposing ghost/corpse character stumbles on to the stage, then is manually disemboweled by demonic stagehands (called Night-Gaunts) using crude puppetry:

(note Kirby hand!)

There are several other great artists involved in The Shadow out of Providence, including another legendary illustrator - Erol Otus, pioneer of fantastic gaming art.

 I'm honored to work alongside him on this.

So yeah, check it out! Phnglui mglw nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah nagl fhtagn.

Book Launch Parties

Kevin H. and I are doing a couple of book release / signings in conjunction with our brand new comics -- GLORIANA and BIRDSEYE BRISTOE -- coming out this month from Drawn and Quarterly.

This Friday, June 15th, we'll be at Quimby's in Chicago. Next Friday, June 22nd we'll be at Star Clipper here in St. Louis.

 

We made a fancy collabo-commemorative 2-color screenprint (top of this post) to give away to anyone who comes to the parties and buys the books. 

Hope to see many of you!

The Shadow out of Providence Kickstarter

I'm honored to be a part of this new project currently up for funding on Kickstarter: The Shadow out of Providence: A Lovecraftical Metatext.

I'm contributing production drawings, costume designs, and set diagrams for the play-within-the-book FACTS CONCERNING THE LATE EADWEARD THURSTON AND HIS FAMILY. Here are some sketches for the sketches:



I know everyone has been dying to know how I would handle illustrating a work of Brechtian Anti-Realism. You'll have to fund the Kickstarter to find out! Hint: it involves a lot of creaky gears, wires and dudes hiding inside crazy monster costumes.

This is a different project than I've ever worked on before, so please think about contributing to help keep me in india ink, bow ties, and smokes:

Summer Survival Handbook

Here are some airplane-safety-style illustatrations for this year's St. Louis SUMMER SURVIVAL HANDBOOK insert of the RFT. Check it out here!

How to survive a float trip:

Summer Concerts:

Best outdoor drinkin' spots:

Summer dog tips:

Navigating the Mississippi:

Short Day Trips:

And Firework saftey tips:

Here were sketches if you're interested in that kinda thing:

Be safe out there this summer!

Eads' Diving Bell Cycle

This print was done for the 2012 ArtCrank bike poster show here in St. Louis.

It's sort of a fantastical sequel to this older EADS print I had done a few years ago.

Lineart:

Vector Art:

I've still got a few of the final 4-color prints available for purchase (seen at the top of this post), get in touch if interested: danzettwoch (at) gmail (dot) com .