How to Eat a Pizza

I have been commissioned by Seattle fancy pizzeria Via Tribunali to create a little 6 page fold-up instructional booklet on eating pizza for use in their restaurants. Initially, I was asked to do something in more of a "Stumptown Style" but that's not really my thing, so I opted for what I guess would be the 50's/early 60's equivalent of that, which is much more suited to my aesthetic I think. Thankfully, they went for it. This is a scan of the cover to the second mock up. Once this is approved, I imagine I will start the final version.

A related poster, this design was chosen from a handful of roughs. This is also a mock-up, awaiting approval. He is a tomato man and loves cooking his own people.

Page 5ive

A comic I am drawing.

Trip Fantastic

Here's the top half of my page from the upcoming Public Access Art Newspaper Thing. It will be published newspaper size (12x24) on newsprint and available for free around Seattle and maybe some other cities too. It contains art by lots of local artists, some writing, some photography, some comics.
This is Trip Fantastic, a celebrity boy-adventurer with a reality show documenting his exploits. It was written by Jason Baxter, of Universal Studios Florida and Debaser and drawn by me. This one page story is the first of a planned many.
I am editing this publication as well, so I'll let you know when you can start hunting for it.
(Jason, I finally added the whooooosh)

More LEGION

The Karate Kid movie came after the Karate Kid character. In fact, the movie studio had to pay DC comics to use the name.
ALSO, I was watching the OC while working on a project, and Seth and Ryan casually drop Legion references all the time.

UPDATE:
Shadow Lass

New Action Pack Pressing!

This just came in the mail, the new pressing of Action Pack. Now in ORANGE, with staples instead of glue binding it together and a much nicer matte finish on the cover. Also, the dot shading looks right in this one, not sure what they did differently. I am much happier with this version.

Legion (UPDATED 9/16)

I have been reading Legion of Super-Heroes comics thanks to the wonder of the internet (none of the good stuff is reprinted, or else I'd buy it) Legion Lost is pretty good. I am starting to get into the early 90's reboot stuff right now. Chris Sprouse is a great Legion artists, that's all I'm saying.
So, yeah, I drew Lightning Lad. Threw in a little Howard Porter electric craziness. I love love love Howard Porter's 90's JLA art. It's so cool! But for real.

UPDATE:
Here's Matter Eater Lad


And, I was laughing out loud when I read issue 2 of the 90's Legionnaires comic. Not only is the art great, but the Legion are portrayed as total dick teenagers, with a strict "No fat chicks" policy. It might be extra funny because she's not fat.



UPDATE:
Pelly requested Stone Boy, so here he is (although technically Stone Boy is a Sub)


UPDATE:
Colossal Boy

Duck

I've been sick so a lot of drawing is happening. I've also watched Ghostbusters 1 and 2 twice. This happy monster is Mr. Duck. Created by Myke Pelly, Derek Charm and Lex Luthor. Mr. Duck has been following Pelly and I around in voice-only form for the last six months.

Working on.

Moonagers page

Minus the text

Spying on a Transmission from Skeletor

12x16, Gouache on Clayboard. I was going for a thicker, choppier look than usual here. You can't tell but it has like 6 coats of varnish on it, making it the shiniest thing I've ever done.

ALSO, check out the Fall Sale to the right. I need some space in the studio so these paintings gotta go!

Moonagers

Geef

All this Disney buying Marvel news (and a text I just got from my friend Clark) has reminded me how much I love the George Geef (or Goofy) cartoons from the 50's. They are some of my favorite cartoons ever, a strange depiction of the "everyman" in the Atomic Age. They all have a muted palate and a sort of boring quality that I really like. I purchased the Disney "Tomorrow Land" DVD recently, it too is full of some of my favorite animation ever, including a creepy, stylized depiction of a possible Martian Landscape directed by Ward Kimball (who is awesome). I totally recommend it. It also contains the former-Nazi heads of NASA explaining their grand (and unfulfilled) plans for the future. By their estimation we should be living on the Moon by now. There is a similar DVD of just Goofy cartoons, and I believe the "Geef" ones make up a bulk of the set. I should get that next. Those 50's Disney animators were amazing.

Here's the wikipedia on the "Geef" cartoons

The 1950s saw Goofy transformed into a family man going through the trials of everyday life, such as dieting, giving up smoking, and the problems of raising children. Walt Disney himself came up with this idea,[2] hoping it would put personality back into the character which he felt was lost when Goofy was merely a crowd of extras. Interestingly, Goofy is never referred to as "Goofy" during this period. While every cartoon continued with the opening, "Walt Disney presents Goofy", before each cartoon's title, he was usually called "George Geef" in the cartoons' dialogue. When the stories featured Goofy as multiple characters, then he had numerous other names as well. In addition, the 50's Goofy shorts gave Goofy a makeover. He was more intelligent, had smaller eyes with eyebrows, often his whole body was flesh-colored instead of just his face (while the rest was black), and sometimes had a normal voice. He even lacked his droopy ears, the external pair of teeth and white gloves in some shorts.

I also just learned Goofy is not a dog (like Pluto), but a DOGFACE