This post is incomplete, I'll add more soon...
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.
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