did you know...?

...that my roomates in college were George Pratt, Kent Williams, and John Van Fleet?

believe it or don't!

favorite movie ever?

...is the Pope of Greenwich Village. Then what's with the Blade Runner drawings? Well, I've never done any sketches from 'Pope', so the best I can offer is stuff from my SECOND favorite movie ever...yup...Blade Runner.

Well, ok, maybe my second favorite movie ever is a tie with Chinatown/the Godfather/A Place in the Sun/Paper Moon/A Very Long Engagement/Taking of Pelham 123/Godfather 2/the Searchers/To Kill a Mockingbird and Blade Runner.

please don't make me decide.

goodbye bernie fuchs...

one of the true giants in the history of American art,  a hero to all of us illustrators.

thank you, Mr. Fuchs.

"prez"

had a good painting weekend, got the first piece in a new gallery series done. The series is one of legendary jazz musicians and vocalists, the painting is of tenor sax genius Lester Young.

Next up is Billie Holiday, of course.

and so it goes...

put the final issue (#12) of my baby, Wednesday Comics to bed today. Lots of hard work, lots of great writing and drawin' by lots of great creators. Thanks guys from the bottom of my exhausted heart (except for Stelfreeze and Paul Pope, youse guys were punkass!).

the evolution of a print part 5

...and then I thought I'd go a little bit overboard and have a perforated postage stamp-like seal created for the project that I would affix to each print.  I designed the stamp (based on a painting of Peter Cushing I had done a few years ago), but ran out of time before I could have them printed up. Oh well, maybe next time.

...for your enjoyment, for the very first time anywhere, the Grand Wilhuff Moff Tarkin memorial 'Tarkin Doctrine' stamp:

the evolution of a print part 4

in order to fully embrace the propoganda aspect of the whole concept, I thought it'd be cool to add a hand-stamped seal at the lower lefthand corner of the print.  I did a little research, designed the seal, and had a rubber stamp made up.  It was actually a lot of fun to sit at the convention and stamp the seal right onto each print as they were sold.