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.
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."
Connie Radar - Fan Art
Here's some fan art from Woric and it's awesome...Joke Du Jour 8
This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7" gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, "You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7" wrench." Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, "The Langstrom 7" wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket." Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, "It says sprocket not socket!"
-Steve Martin
Jessica and the Jawbreakers
2 new songs added to the Jawbreakers myspace page - Happy Hannukah! They're actually old songs that weren't polished enough for the album but now yours to enjoy. My favourite track was always 'In the Garden'. Here's the link
FOT: The Next Big Thing - Trailer
Hello, what's this? It's the trailer to the new FOT animation, first screening this weekend at Rhys Darby's comedy show. It'll be fun to see it on the big screen with a full house. More FOT at the official blog HERE
Pitch For Aussie TV Advert
This was done a couple of years ago during a sevre drought in Australia, a public service annoucement instructing people to not waste water. The country was on the verge of a national disaster, unfortunately the rain came along and the job was cancelled.
The Holiday Girls - Sketch
Another sketch I have drawn for you to be given away at Makeshift magazines launch party...
Pluto as Cerberus
My friends, look what I have drawn for you! This cartoon drawing and 7 others have been made for the launch of issue #4 of Makeshift magazine - November 28th, 9pm at the Whammy Bar. $10 on the door will get you in and a copy of the magazine with some free original art from various Auckland artists.
FOT Knits
Woah! Check out these totally fucking awesome knitted toys of Fot and Angus! They're hard to make and no two toys are exactly the same. Make sure you place your order soon. Remember when this famous cartoon mouse (see below) first hit the market? What do you think they'd be worth now? Click HERE for more FOT
Connie Radar - Animation Test
Above, there should be an animated walk cycle test done in FlashC4 (you may need to install a new Flash player to view it) using the new 'bones' tool, something long overdue for Flash. It's a little mechanical looking but that's why we test. She blinks too!
FOT Premiere!
An animated cartoon I co-wrote with Alex Dron, FOT - The Next Big Thing gets it's first screening at Rhys Darby's Auckland stand-up comedy show at the Sky City Theatre (Dec. 20th and 21st). Voiced by the talented Mr Rhys Darby himself! Last I heard the show was sold out, but maybe you could find something on 'trade me'? Trailer coming soon...
More FOT news CLICK HERE
FOT on Rhys Darby's 'Imagine That' DVD
"Rhys Darby Live stand up show from the El Rey theatre Los Angeles - filmed in 2008. Packed with hilarious extras including an interview with Rhys, outtakes and bonus sketches and more. Rhys Darby is one third of the award winning HBO series Flight of the Conchords. His character, Murray the Manager, is considered by many to be the real star of the show, and with 100,000 Conchord's DVD's now shipped of a show only seen on BBC4 it is fair to say that the fans are a very dedicated bunch. In fact, with average viewing figures of 160,000 people, the conversion to purchase is unprecedented. Rhys' UK profile is set to soar with high profile movie roles alongside Jim Carrey in Yes Man, and the new Richard Curtis film The Boat that Rocked, while his starring role in the new Nike tennis ad with Roger Federer has further broadened his credentials as a comic actor. Rhys' first love is stand-up comedy and in Rhys Darby Live - Imagine That! We see Rhys on stage in Los Angeles performing his highly original, hilarious physical comedy routines that will not only appeal to existing fans but also to those who appreciate the visual comedy styles of the likes of Lee Evans."
- Amazon.com
The extras on this DVD include a preview of Alex Dron's very funny animated short "FOT". Voiced by the talented Mr Darby. You should buy this, it's available pretty much everywhere... more FOT news HERE
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