Wow. Long time, no post. Sorry, but I’ve been stupid busy with all sorts of stuff comics and animation related. I just thought I’d throw a quick post up with a new short I knocked out in about 4 days (brag!). For a local variety show hosted by Jon “the pop culture King” Waterhouse. It was a great show and I’m really looking forward to the next one. They did a 3 camera shoot of the thing, so it might make it’s way to the internets at some point. It’s called the Wang Dang Doodle Variety Talk Show. Anyway, here’s my contribution:
Thanks for reading! And I’ll try to throw up some more comics real soon!-B
I drew this one night when I couldn’t sleep. I started out taking random panels from two terrible Disney comics I had lying around, but the story quickly took off on its own. I kind of wanted it to feel like the nightmare that I had just woken up from. Nightmares are new to me, and they usually involve myself or someone else being in a confusing and horrible situation that they cannot escape from. It probably says something about me, but I think that it’s the scariest thing I can think of.
Did I mention that I come from the weird Al Yankovic School of comedy? Well I do. I find food to be just about the funniest thing in the world, and I have a ton of comics to prove it.
I originally drew this up for the Wide Awake EATS anthology back in 2007, but quickly stopped working on it as soon as I found out that the book was vertical and not horizontal (I’m an idiot.) The panel layout is a little loopy, but you can figure it out. You’re smart like that.
I’ll try and get more comics up soon as possible! (Until then enjoy the glaring continuity error on page 2.)
Last night I ran into Robert Vendetti at the release party for Van Jensen’s new book, Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer. Rob mentioned that nobody in the comic world had noticed his cameo in the recent Surrogates film, which is, of course, based on his comic series. We were shocked! None of us had noticed it! I thought for a second that Rob might have been joking about his cameo, but this is “Hollywood Rob” we’re talking about! I leaped over the hot wings buffet and dashed to the door. I HAD TO SEE THIS FOR MYSELF! After 17 full viewings of the film I finally located his moment of stardom. Turns out it was in the trailer the entire time! Go figure. Prepare to be starstruck beyond belief internet peoples!
Did you catch it? Crazy huh? Not even Stan Lee gets cameos like that!
Nice work rob!
Food for thought: do you think he met Bruce Willis????!!!!!!! (I do!!!1)
I like Batman. He looks cool. He can be a fun kid-friendly thing, like the super cool Brave and the Bold series. Or he can be a pretty decent serious character, like in that R rated Dark Knight movie, that still has merchandise stocked at Toys R Us for some reason.
The Batman is not too hot, but the Mr Freeze is decent. I didn’t have a lot of time to knock this out, and I actually would not have posted if it weren’t for good ol’ pal Shannon Smith’s nice email. Speaking of Shannon, you should go buy his bible comic. Everyone thinks it’s better than R Crumb’s!
I don’t know why I’ve fallen so behind on posting these things! They have been done for weeks! Sponge bob is great and everyone knows why it’s this point. So i won’t bore you to death with the obvious… okay, maybe i will! It all comes down to the visual gags. No other modern cartoon has half as many great sight gags as single episode of sponge bob. I’d love for someone to do a total series sight gag count. Anyway, Here is my pretty off model homage to the guy!
I forgot to scan the pencils this time, and I really should have lowered the horizon a bit, but whatever. I’m pretty proud of the background, I don’t have acess to painter, but i think i pulled off a decent job using just photoshop. Maybe I’ll post Batman next.
Oh man, I love this show! This in my eyes is a perfect cartoon. It has really funny specific characters, great voice talent (Amy Poehler!), and every background looks like it should be in a gallery behind glass. Everyone involved is amazing ( Seonna Hong, Bill Wray, and again Amy Poehler). Plus it’s got the added bonus of being one of two shows ever to have a girl character engage in hilarious slapstick. Other than Olvie Oyl I can’t think of any other “slapsticky” girls in the world of cartoons. I wish that Nickelodeon would play this half as much as they play Sponge Bob.
Here are the pencils:
Again, This was the first time drawing the characters, and sadly I had no model sheets to go by. I Drew this the same day I drew the flapjack one so I still had no pens, so I opted for the brush. I drew all the background stuff in photoshop and recycled those same textures that I used for the flapjack drawing. I would have loved to really spent some serious time on the backgrounds, but I only had 2 days to do 4 illustrations (I’m full of excuses).
Thanks for reading and be back next week for sponge bob!
Hey gang, I read something in the last week or 2 about Chowder (on cartoon network) getting canceled and Cartoon Network pushing in a new era of live action shows. Now I don’t know if the canceling of chowder was related to the programing shift, but it got me worried about the fates of some of my other favorite modern cartoons and how i should do something to spread the word about their greatness. So I had a day or two of down time at work and thought I would do some illustrations based on some of my favorite cartoons on the air right now just to show a little support. So let’s kick it off with Flapjack!
Flapjack is funny, Gross, and cute all at the same time! Love it! And you will too if you check it out on Cartoon Network.
Here are the pencils:
And here is the slightly modified final image. I was going to ink this with a pen and make it a little more “on model” but The pens I had dried up , so I went with the ol’ brush (Raphael #2). I thought it turned out alright. This was my first time drawing them, and I couldn’t really find any model sheets, but I had some fun with it. I did all the background stuff in photoshop using some old watercolor textures I had scanned in for a music video we did. I was really surprised how true to the show the textures looked. yay me.
This is my story from the 2009 FLUKE anthology that I edited along with J Chris Campbell. I did 3 of these stories but they didn’t work lay out the way i wanted them to so I only printed this one. I don’t think it’s all that great on it’s own. Maybe I’ll ink up the last two and throw them up here sometime soon. The coloring is not what I wanted but I really wanna keep throwing up the web comics on a weekly basis so I figured some color is better than no color right?
I know just about everyone and their mother has done some kind of tribute to Michael Jackson at this point. But Wide Awake Press decided
to put together a little book of sketches and comics from some cool cartoonists Like Josh Latta, Sarah Louise Wahrhaftig, Jim Mahfood,Rob Ullman and J Chris Campbell. It’s called Off The Wall and I know it will be at San Diego comic con next week, and I assume it will be up for sale at wide awake press some time after that. Here is my mind-blowing/life changing comic in it’s entirety:
