New Website Design
Hello, my friends, here's something I've been meaning to do for you for ages, I've gutted my entire website and will be rebuilding it from scratch. Most of the Jessia stuff is sold out now and little chance of reprinting it anytime soon, there may be a box set at the end of the year. As I'm still putting the site together all sorts of errors and oversights will be present, please check it out and if you notice anything wrong let me know. Please ignore the obvious stuff, dead links everywhere! The center piece animation has a file size that's way too big, around 500MB, considering it's just a slide show with 3 pictures. They layout looks fine on my monitor but I'm guessing not everyone has big fancy screen like me, so if the site is too big and you have to slide the bottom to see what's on the right let me know (also what's your screen specs?).If you live in Auckland, go check out a new gallery called The High Seas, there's ton's of indy comics, indy music, Buenaventura Press, Fantagraphics books, and currently some nice new illustration on exhibition, here's the website link! Actually there's not much to look at, just a picture of a pirate ship but here's the address 14 Beresford Square, Auckland.
Short Fuse Animation Evening
"Women in Animation NZ is teaming up with Short Fuse on Thursday 30 July, presenting a selection of 2D animated short films which represent some of the best contemporary industry talent."I have Mr Gasalaska Meets a Friend and Alex Dron's FOT cartoon showing on the night. So now you have to come...
Mr Gasalaska at Flip Book 2
A rare screening of Mr Gasaslaska Makes a Friend will be at Mukpuddy's next Flip Book animation evening. Fordes Bar, 122 Anzac Ave, Auckland July 23rd 7pm.UPDATE:Unfortunately Flip Book 2 has been postponed for a later date.
More FOT Official Selections
Toot toot! FOT has been selected to play at the worlds biggest comic book convention Comic Con in San Diego and in Los Angeles at LA Shorts. Did I mention was involved with the writing?
Connie Radar - Late but Finished
Coloured and completed. Better start another one... oh oh and big thanks for colour assistance from super talent Shoo! Go look at her blog now...
Connie Radar - Last Frame
One year later and I've finally completed the pencils and inks for a new 2 page comic strip, it doesn't sound like much but I'm doing 15 panels a page here (and it's meticulously inked). Now I just need to get this thing coloured...
Connie Radar - Update
The 2 page comic strip for Hot Wire #3 (Fantagraphics) is almost done now (already on borrowed time), a few panels to ink and colour. Also in the works a new publication titled On the Origin of Drawings will be ready very soon, only 50 copies will be printed and available through this site, put your name down for one now. It will be very expensive and small.
FOT Sweeps the Oscars
Alex Dron's animated short 'FOT- the next big thing' has won best comedy short and collected their "Golden Flamingo' at the South Beach International Animation Festival. Did I mention I was a writer on that?
Los Angeles - Final Photo Post
The Hollywood sign from the Griffith Observatory, the polluted air helps filter any good lighting out of photographing anything at a distance.
I thought it was cool to see the house where they filmed Six Feet Under.
Pretty grumpy that we arrived just a little too late to eat at Dr.Hogly Wogly's BBQ resturant. If there's a better named resturant anywhere in the world I've never heard it.
A "siesta" in the shaded doorway of Klasky - Csupo, a famous animation studio that made Rugrats and Duckman
The incredibly cool Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, part owned by cartoonist Sammy Harkham.
Another favourite tourist destination, the La Brea Tar Pits.
Los Angeles - Squeeze the Lemon
LA has been lot's of fun for the most part, lot's of sight seeing and shopping. Above is me driving the Batmobile at the Skirball (a Jewish arts and cultural center), they had a great exhibition about the Golden Age of comic books on, lot's of original artwork on display. "Squeeze the lemon" means, while driving, to just make it through a yellow light before it turns red... I also got my first ever traffic ticket here.
More New York
Outside the New York stock exchange... 
From last nights HUMBUG talk at the Strand. The camera I had always shoots out an orange beam for light detection, this isn't a good idea when your subject is 20 feet away, it's dark and there are about 50 people wondering what the hell that is. I only got the one photo. Was an interesting event, it's always good to hear even these top illustrator/cartoonists struggle to balance art and commerce.
A friendly panda near Wall St. he didn't even seem to be selling anything or promoting anything, just a guy dressed in a panda suit.
Chinatown has the best crap in town. My $5 umbrella felt like light aluminium and regretted the purchase minutes after the 'bargain'.
The bumper stick reads $10,000 Reward for arrest and conviction of shooting a police officer. 1-800-COPSHOT to report it!
Cartoon kids on the back of an ice cream van, it's now freezing cold and very wet. The picture presents the exact opposite of what I'm seeing on the faces of people here and I think it has nothing to do with the weather.
New York - Street Graphics
New York is cold but not that cold, it's comfortable to walk around without a scarf or gloves. There are lot's of great street graphics everywhere, and will get photos of the better, more interesting ones I can find.
Tonight there's a talk to promote the release of the collected HUMBUG at The Strand book store with Al Jaffe, Arnold Roth and Gary Groth. No doubt there'll be a bunch of NY cartoonists/comic book artists there.
Today's important events consist of making phone calls to set up meeting for the rest of the week, followed by lots more wondering around. No much to report really, just seeing wall to wall concrete, drinking lot's of coffee and looking in books stores, just like home.
Stopped in a park to watch squirrels (we don't have squirrels in NZ) chasing each other and searching around for food, the little bastards are hard to photograph, they'll either turn their back to you or run fast enough in the opposite direction to get a furry blur, but they are super cute!
Ethel Mania - Title Sequence
ethelmania
Here's another one from the archives, the title sequence from Ethel Mania another project that wound up on the shelf to complete 'at a later date'. The theme music was done by the talented Katy Cable
Here's another one from the archives, the title sequence from Ethel Mania another project that wound up on the shelf to complete 'at a later date'. The theme music was done by the talented Katy Cable
Connie Radar - Character Roughs
Some rough character drawings done last night for panels 11 and 12. Guns, chicks and robots, how can the story fail?
Connie Radar - Rocketship panel
Here we have a new panel from the current Connie Radar comic strip I'm working on. I swiped most of elements from a serious book about space exploration printed in the 50's.
Jessica and the Jawbreakers - Alternative Ending
Look what I found in the ComicBook Factory archives! The alternate ending to the first Jessica & the Jawbreakers comic strip. After spending weeks doing numerous re-writes of the dialogue, the entire panel was scrapped and replaced with the vastly superior exisiting one (it can be seen on the VICE magazine website HERE)
Yukfoodles
Here are some doodles done at work today using MSN Messenger, half of them are done by with Shoo. See if you can guess all the characters...
Big Fat Connie Sketch
Sketch #6 for Makeshift Magazine.This ones from the sketchbook when I was developing character back stories. Connie's really let herself go here, and I'm a big fan of Starbucks and I'll say that for free.
Fred The Clown in Vice Magazine
VICE magazine has 'reprinted' my tribute to Fred the Clown (created by Roger Langridge) on their website. As one reader commented "every sunday a new cartoon. every sunday they suck."
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