tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209724845358920522012-02-07T22:55:13.800-06:00The Blog of Alex Fukui, the rootinist tootinist cartoonist this side of the Rio Grande.Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.comBlogger1341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-59275363445442582512012-02-07T22:55:00.002-06:002012-02-07T22:55:13.808-06:00

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Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-27776649688138248802012-01-20T18:14:00.002-06:002012-01-20T18:22:25.611-06:00

Aging a character design. The second issue of this is a possibility - I'd like to push out to New Orleans with this one.

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Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-45174326179851942962011-12-23T01:03:00.008-06:002011-12-23T01:13:43.469-06:00

Jesus christ I'm terrible at drawing cars. The only reason I keep trying is because cars are vital components if I plan on telling stories set anytime in the 21st century. It's like guns, hats, umbrellas and lightbulbs. You can just juggle a bunch of props around and the stories write themselves around them. The Maltese Falcon is essentially a bunch of people orbiting a plank of wood, with guns

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I'm sort of developing a unified universe in which most of my comic's worlds are set. I'm going to do a short on one particular aspect of it, which is one of three primary female goddesses, and it will be all digital, just as a test (and also because I seem to have a severe paper phobia right now). I'm going to be building a new website to house this project and some other stuff I'm figuring out

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Bleh. Okay, think this means I'm done. This is just...ugh.

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Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-13961044333324962022011-12-03T00:44:00.000-06:002011-12-03T00:44:20.580-06:00

I am in a weird mood, but I'm catching up with those color sketches no matter how absurd these get.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-69124805716505876922011-11-26T01:54:00.001-06:002011-11-26T01:54:29.773-06:00

The first drawing I made on Corel Painter that I haven't destroyed out of frustration.

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Divine as the Penguin. Divine and Penguin go amazingly well together, likely due to Danny Devito and Tim Burton's interpretation of the character as a disgusting circus freak. Divine achieved a level of disgusting rarely matched in her work with director John Waters, and while not technically a Factory superstar, there's a lot of overlap. I'm afraid this ended up being a little more penguin than

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I'm going to do a series of Batman-related characters as Factory superstars and Warhol contemporaries, based off a photo of Andy Warhol as Robin and Nico as Batman. Whether or not this becomes an actual comic relies on how well these go, but for now I want to chart all the possibilities. Joe Dallesandro as Superman  I was kind of split between skeezy hustler-turned-sex idol Joe Dallesandro as

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I'm going to do a color sketch a day in order to sharpen up my color sense and build some palettes. If I can do this successfully, I might be able to pull together a weekly webcomic in full color. They will be experimental colors, and the drawings will be obscenely stupid. This is the first drawing I've done. Several of this colors are on the default palette in Photoshop. I will be using various

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The frustrating thing about any kind of painting, even digital, is that it takes a long time to realize you're doing it wrong. I was so very close with some of the basic gestures of this one, but it's not quite right. So, up it goes anyway. Extremely rough colors for the Noble, a character I can't stop drawing, who is trapped in an endless cave, seeking a definition of nobility amidst the chaos

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-17070584551942636322011-10-22T02:30:00.003-05:002011-10-22T02:35:51.840-05:00

Yes, I very much like to enjoy light-hearted family comics and draw fan art for them. And yes, I'm doing productive stuff, I'm just taking a break while I'm away from my studio to play with my tablet. Plus that stuff is really big, and I can't scan it that easily anymore.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-3994943652584046182011-10-22T00:57:00.006-05:002011-10-22T02:58:34.586-05:00

Keeping it hot!! Gläm Thor, God of Many Genders. Sometimes zhe grows out their facial hair and puts on a plaid shirt. Hails, coincidentally, from the planet Transylvallhalla, and is nemesis to Low Key. Odd how the long cape is more masculine than the short one. For the benefit of Mr. Freeze, there will be a show tonight on Gotham Street. And of course, Henry the Horse dances the

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I did an ink drawing of the Joker, but I can't scan it because I haven't finished his feet yet.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-80678210664913012582011-07-13T12:22:00.001-05:002011-07-13T12:23:39.524-05:00

The churning waters of Gay Beach, which smack me round the head and cause my nose to bleed, where the tiny trannies fear to tread further, for fear of being swallowed in by the green-black waters. The black man on the beach shouts to us from behind reflective lenses: "Your shit is getting wet!" I drag myself back onto the sand and see the dark waves licking at the edges of the blanket. Caked with

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-3705277977408441752011-06-08T17:02:00.001-05:002011-06-08T17:02:41.782-05:00

Here's some beachy music.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-22870271946778232032011-05-29T17:42:00.000-05:002011-05-29T17:42:59.314-05:00

A reminder for visitors to jail. Created for my dad's prison workshops.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-41757298565653062702011-05-25T03:19:00.009-05:002011-05-25T03:41:26.152-05:00

Yer darn tootin'. Now that my analog inking is getting better, it's become far more apparent how much drawing with a tablet is an opportunity to utilize a much more painterly process when inking digitally. I'm not sure yet, but if I do decide to paint this, it'll probably take all summer alongside my other projects. I've logged maybe one or two hours on this so far; it's a little bigger than

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THE DEATH OF ELIJAH LOVEJOY by Noah Van Sciver Colour and Design by Raighne Hogan Published by 2D Cloud http://nvansciver.wordpress.com http://2dcloud.com This review may contain spoilers, although this should have been spoiled for you already in elementary history class. So, yeah, if you want the spoiler-free version, it's a friggin' awesome book, go buy it now. This is the Death of Elijah

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My big challenge this summer will be submissions to three different anthologies. They're all short pieces, but each deserves my best effort. In addition, I'll be visiting New York to see my saintly brother, who's studying urban development and community building in underprivileged neighborhoods. I'm also keeping up with my drawing! Click ahead to see more: I rather like the black and white

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-62879109373025448322011-05-17T17:01:00.003-05:002011-05-17T17:05:08.959-05:00

So I'm graduated. Yeeha. I'm still figuring out what to do now, but I might as well try to keep updating. This is Ben Kjos's awesome speech.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-3058580536418994952011-05-07T04:40:00.001-05:002011-05-07T04:41:04.657-05:00

The story of a family with twisted secret inner lives, the last of which is the most perverse. Read on at your own peril.

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-28550111777412466432011-05-06T20:59:00.003-05:002011-05-06T20:59:49.495-05:00

I'm graduating tomorrow! BFA Comic Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Buy me presents!! :D

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-20962495079497888552011-04-28T16:18:00.005-05:002011-04-28T16:43:19.320-05:00

All 14 pages after the break.

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Woah guys. I was checking out the referrals I've been getting for this blog and discovered that I got a couple from Prism Comics, which is a queer comics organization. I was horrified, thinking that they'd done a review of my blog without telling me (especially since I haven't put a finished comic up on here in ages), but the truth was actually more interesting. Waaaay down on the bottom of

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Hiya fellas! I fixed up the blog a bit to make it a little bolder. You might also notice that Awkward and Bereft can now be found at...  TEE HEE HEE, alexfukui.com!!! Hope it doesn't burn out your eyes. More content coming soon, just have to focus on that graduating thing right now-eh? What's that? WHAT?!? You still want more?....Oh, uh...um... Oh hey, look over there, it's Marlon Brando!

Alex Fukuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18340829002039578905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-5753813539231624572011-03-30T00:14:00.010-05:002011-03-31T19:00:46.633-05:00

A professional practice assignment. Since part of the assignment is scanning it in and making it presentable for the web, it's convenient enough to post it here too. --- Well, I guess they posted everything without mine, so too bad. I either forgot to send it or sent the wrong file in an improper format. Or it just sucked too much or offended someone. In any case, I shot myself in the foot and

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-15666660146395990382011-03-28T01:26:00.001-05:002011-03-28T01:29:45.843-05:00

I like watching cartoons and I don't want to do real homework anymore tonight. So I'll write a paragraph about this movie. --- Dancing on the Moon: the moon is clearly a metaphor for sexual gratification. Having "gone to the moon" alone (clearly a symbol for masturbating), the miserable cat loses his chance to reproduce normally, and thus is miserably dancing by himself the whole trip.

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Today's issue: Sketchbook pages from my internet-severed time at my grandparent's house, college basketball, and I indulge my fetish for kitsch Pennsylvania-Dutch architectural features (smell that wood!). --- I was sadly restricted to using a tech pen while at my grandparents, but I managed to fill up a bunch of pages. Here's the cream of the crap. --- Also, I have to mention this very

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-76680616222507817062011-03-17T00:50:00.015-05:002011-03-17T02:30:55.327-05:00

Yes, the song is Danny Boy. I sang it. This is really an Irish-American song, but then Saint Patrick's is sort of an Irish-American holiday. In any case, I think it adequately expresses post-partum depression, the partum being from the most beautiful country in the world. Happy Saint Patrick's from me and my uke. And heartfelt praise to the Burren and my long-suffering ancestors, who

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Venice, Louisiana. A thriller about family, food, predation and adorable dollies. Will most likely be available as a mini for MIX, if registration ever opens.

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Sorry I have nothing finished to put up lately. Here's character designs for a figure in my senior project.

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-69936676017877536602011-02-14T02:58:00.004-06:002011-02-14T03:03:26.369-06:00

I'll be thinking about you in the shower.

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Oh geeze, one of those wordy art comics.

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Lots of stabbing/violence so far...

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A children's story I'm collaborating with some dude on. The toning is a bit of a problem on this one. Not to mention my fugly inks.

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-66030325500807517762011-01-13T16:39:00.011-06:002011-03-30T00:20:44.301-05:00

Oh, goody daddy! New comic!! Click to engorge. Warning: Adult contents.

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(This is the first draft of an assignment for my Comic Artist's Professional Practice class, where we are to describe our dream day in the comics industry) My dream day would be spent drawing, writing and reading comics. I want to breathe it in when I wake up and exhale it when I go to sleep. Realistically, it will also happen when I’m very old and unable to appreciate it. I am 67, a horned old

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-42492186836005870382010-12-14T03:28:00.004-06:002011-03-17T02:32:18.468-05:00

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-19620047001300563332010-12-11T00:02:00.005-06:002011-01-13T17:39:00.943-06:00

Here's the first pages, minus tone/color. I'm hesitant to post the whole group until I reconstruct the last few pages. I'll hopefully have it available as a small book for Minicon - in color?

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A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-592070771163235722010-11-11T18:52:00.014-06:002011-03-17T02:32:43.037-05:00

Some of my favorite old webcomics. These range from the 90s to the 2000s. • The Good Crook A cute father-daughter story. • Anders Loves Maria Up and down drama. Very Scandinavian flavor. • Ozy and Millie This is probably the best of the old ones. Clearly in the vein of Pogo. The creator, Dana Clair Simpson, came out as trans after the strip run was over. • Checkerboard Nightmare Chris

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Sweet liquor puris,Mingling with my neutrophils,To generate pus.Pus, flooding my joints,The bone can't heal properly,Damaged fluid sacs.Mucopurulent:The definition, you ask?You don't want to know.

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-19639497662726115622010-10-23T16:38:00.006-05:002011-03-17T02:34:15.251-05:00

Let's take a break with some stylish fight sequences!

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This is a comic which is mostly about Floyd Gottfredson, with some extra tidbits about Carl Barks. Both men worked for Disney comics. I'm working on toning it right now, so pages will go up as I finish them.Floyd was shot in the arm in a hunting accident (I assume; my sources don't really define what happened exactly) when he was a child; this came to affect how he drew. Both Floyd and Carl came

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My superhero. She's tripping.

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Where were you hiding all my life I missed you sweetheart where were you hiding all my life I missed you sweetheart where were you hiding all my life I missed you sweetheart where were you hiding all my life I missed you sweetheart where were you hiding all my life I missed you sweetheart where were you hiding all my life I missed you sweetheart I missed you sweetheart I missed you sweetheart I

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-26685412495328998362010-08-24T19:47:00.010-05:002011-03-17T02:34:51.092-05:00

My name, my name, my name was Henry, and I was, I was a little boy. I was the son of a beekeeper named Henry, so I was Henry the second I was. Bees, oh bees, were in my blood. I buzzed and buzzed and buzzed and buzzed. I loved my father, although I was- At one, one night, I was alright, I buzzed my buzz without much fuss although my skin was full of pus from a sting committed innocently by a

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-72774023457395326012010-08-13T08:18:00.007-05:002010-08-13T08:25:49.839-05:00

Super-quick sketch of the titular character of Poe's Hop Frog developed for a comic adaptation. I've pencilled the first couple pages of it. Hop Frog is a homicidal dwarf jester.The story is the closest thing to a fairy tale I've seen Poe do, so it's fun to draw.

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-33147655496155532372010-07-22T02:43:00.014-05:002011-03-17T02:35:40.490-05:00

I don't want to think about you. The boy on the other side of the page, writ in purple ink. I made you make me happy, so no surprises when it all collapsed, like a tent pitched on the back of a turtle with a calcium deficiency. Spikes were driven down into soft organs and snapping brittle bones, cracks formed and weight finally caused the whole thing to cave. The turtle, stoic, does it notice?

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-18972276405209945882010-07-07T20:49:00.008-05:002011-03-17T02:36:00.914-05:00

Not much time left until I have to complete my senior project. I've started outlining a few potential projects for the pitch next semester, which shall follow below. It won't make total sense to anyone but me for a while, so bear with me. In general, when it comes to lengthier projects I either overscript or overdraw. Something about my process on 24-hour comics has proven successful in

A.H. Fukuinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020972484535892052.post-24823515219148770402010-06-21T22:24:00.036-05:002010-06-21T23:32:17.505-05:00

This is two pages from a sequence in Les Aventures de Jerome Moucherot: J'Assure!, by François Boucq, featuring a traveling salesman with a pen through his nose. He eventually catches a bus full of cannibal children who eat a passenger's arm. I can't understand a word of what they're saying but the cartooning is pretty great.The caricature is very rich, the action is confident and bold, and

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Just an experiment.

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Starting work on Daddy for the next part of my website as a subtle reminder that father's day is coming up. Not sure if I'll stick with this pose, we'll see what happens on the line art. I've been drawing Momma and Baby for a while, but Daddy will be relatively new and likely ungraceful the first run out.I'm a few minutes into developing the pose, and I'm letting you know now - this will probably

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This is a rundown of how I picked colors for this Baby illustration. Click any image to enlarge. Initial color, missing a few elements. Far cry from the final. For complex coloring, I usually just color in forms solid, like the gun rack in the background. Then I can select the solid block of color, create a new layer, and color based on the selection, saving a little arm strain. Baby looks

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I've been considering inking Ronin Erin in mechanical pencil. Pencil certainly flatters Cuthbert's nasty rashes. The tricky part is line quality and toning. Large part of effective pencil work, as with all inking, is scale. This little beauty is only a little more than an inch across. The flaws start to show up when you blow it up, but they're easy to fix.

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Furnishings in Mama's house. I was going to stick some Calla lilies into the vase, but I wanted to experiment a little bit too. Who the hell would buy a creepy painting like that.

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I don't know if I can still use her for the website. We'll see. She's a little too...I don't even know what, but definitely too much of it. If I push forward with my concept I think I'd need to consider a background other than black.

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Redesigning some of the rushed, gross parts of my website. I'm transforming the home page into a sprawling horizontal pulp horror scene with Momma and Baby Bear. I finished the linework for Momma a couple days ago, but you can probably see there's a couple spots I missed. And I'll probably change the color to unify it with the rest of the scene.I was most of the way through roughs on Baby and the

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He can tell you have lyme disease because he gave it to you. Also look at his cane and pill bottle. Isn't that cute.I WENT TO ART SCHOOL FOR THREE YEARS

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He took Uncle Scrooge off anesthetic until he admitted he slept with a hooker, but it turned out that the Hep C was mixed with terminal cancer anyway.

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(Warning: Foul language and concepts) Writers are pretentious cocksuckers, far less intelligent than they think and unqualified to testify to anything but their own misguided and empty lives; they make up for the cock they suck by trying to force us to swallow their mealy, vapid words. As if their idea wit, grammar and vocabulary can save them from total obsolescence. All too often they choke

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I've updated Nightmare in Green with the third page. Clicka da linka to visita.I just spent the last few days recovering and sorting my music from the last hard drive crash I had last year. I ended up throwing a lot out (amazing what changes in a year), but here's some gems that I'd really missed.

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I've updated Nightmare in Green with the second page. Clicka da linka to visita.In the meantime...This is a preview of an illustration I'm working on for Enthusiasm, Featuring Cuthbert and Jerome. This will be a storyline about cooking.

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This has been Nightmare in Green. Ink on bristol with digital colors. Click an image to enlarge.The Nightmare Color series will cover Green, Red, Yellow and Orange, and over the next few weeks I'll be posting Green, which I finished in Ireland. No word yet from my psyche on the other colors.

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Altogether too brilliant. A sequence from A Boy Named Charlie Brown. They cropped this short down a few minutes on the TV version my parents taped for when I was little. Beautiful cruelty. I need to watch the whole thing together again sometime.Also note the split-screen shots. Tastefully done for a comic aesthetic. Charles Schultz clearly dominated this project.People say that we were spoiled as

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Of some story with a femme fatale who killed some dude. Inspired by an exhibit I saw in Paris.

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Is this the end? Will Jerome do anything? Does Jerome do anything?

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MAN MEN MASCULINE

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The roughest part of being an artist is getting over yourself. I need to let loose a lot more with my inking, and I think I'm developing solid strategies here for overcoming bad habits I have when it comes to making comics. The following images are not pretty, but they represent a major step forward for me, and the culmination of many, many sad, pitiful hours of historical reference, media play

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The pose of the central character struck me really hard as a total Sharaku rip-off, so I added some colors:In my ideal art universe, there's Edo Period Tokyo, Weimar Germany in Berlin, and then there's a wee bit of Ballyvaughan.

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"Brush your teeth!" "Twice a day!" "File them sharp!" "Brush...and...Flosssssssssssss...."Part one of a three-part series, questioning whether 'dentata' can ever again be separated from 'vagina.' This is, of course, the succubus tooth from my 24-hour comic, the Ascent, paired up with a nasty toothbrush.

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A little tidbit of the big project I've been chewing up for the past couple of months.

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"...he who is not newly initiated, or has been corrupted, does not quickly rise from this world to that other world and to absolute beauty when he sees its namesake here, and so he does not revere it when he looks upon it, but gives himself up to pleasure and like a beast proceeds to lust and begetting; he makes license his companion and is not afraid or ashamed to pursue pleasure in violation of

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A golden dog with fluffy hairand teeth so sharp to rip and tearEyes so blue to plunge intoand patchy whiskers everywhere.Dog wanders far as dog will doand to one owner can't stay trueIf I could control the way I feelI wouldn't feel the way I do.If I could tame the golden dog,what dog would be beholden to?The painful gnashing in my gutis just that dog, with teeth so sharpas to rip and tear, and

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I saw many things in Dublin. Trinity College had a beautiful library where they were holding the Book of Kells, and there was a Punch and Judy puppet show put on in front of a dead church, in which Punch seems to kill everyone in the world, including the Devil. I had some intimate time with Degas and Francis Bacon in the galleries. I regret I can't show you the incredible bog mummies from the

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Ireland is amazing. It's just like the movies, except some of the guys here look like they're going to rip off your testicles and there's violent graffiti everywhere. This is going to be interesting.

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Hey folks. Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for the Emerald Isle, where I'll be studying for six months. I've been pretty worked up about this trip.I'll be staying in Ballyvaughan, County Clare, which I still can't spell correctly. Apparently my grandparents stayed here on their numerous excursions to Ireland, so this will be pretty eye-opening.A little family history: My great-great grandparents

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Merry Christmas!

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Finals are weighing heavily on this fragile soul, but fear not. I still have time to produce artwork of...finished...quality. Just that this particular artwork is for school, not you, dear reader.Be content with this rough, which I may end up painting or elaborating on. These two happy fellows will be some of the characters I continue to follow in my comics career; I think they'll have

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Baby lost his legs in 'Nam, he has a warrior's gaze, it's nice and sweet and saccharine with just a hint of glaze. He is quite flat and lifeless, on the picture plan he sits, whilst deep within his perfect mind he throws a thousand fits.The little face on baby's chest speaks ill of hollandaise, so suck on baby's bottle, and join the merry craze.

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Have you ever been stricken with the horrible feeling that you're never going to grow up? That there's nothing left for you to gain or mature into, either because you've lost all functionality or have hit the ceiling? That you still think and act like the same selfish pig you were in high school, and you always will because there's nothing in your life to push you forward and no reason to look

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Shh! You gotta watch this part. In this version, Hamlet rips off his shirt and hurls the skull like a shotput at the castle. It barrels through the stone walls, then kills Claudius in mid-coitus with Gertrude, knocking off his head and replacing it. Gertrude doesn't notice until the cigarette.

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So, guys, I'm trying to learn how to script comics. And I'm going to be spending a semester in Ireland, and I'm going to spend most of this time developing a larger project (if all goes according to plan). So I'm going to start laying out stray thoughts about it here.How does one script for comics? With careful scrutiny and resource, particularly if one is writing for oneself and more so if one

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This is a photo of my new girlfriend. Her name is Lucinda May Harper, and she's 24 pages long. Yeah, breath her in.Quite a catch, huh? I met her at a sleazy function called the Minneapolis 24-Hour Comics Challenge. It was love at first sight. I think I can hear wedding bells in the distance.The great part for you is that she's got a lot of sisters. If you want their numbers, I can hook you up.

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Minneapolis College of Art and Design Annual Art SaleFriday, November 20th and Saturday, November 21st.I'll be selling some zines and cartoons, and being a general nuisance in the comic studio. On Friday, it's $35 advance / $40 at the door, but on Saturday it's free. Lots of tasty deals from the talented student body.

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Stumbled across Allison Bechdel's Coming Out Story while looking for queer comics. I think I'd be inclined to make a coming-out story in comics form. These kinds of stories helped me through a bunch of rough patches, and they obviously helped Allison through her process of coming out. I've been trying to pick up Dykes to Watch Out For, but my reading list keeps building up and re-prioritizing.As

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There may or may not be sparkling champagne, a chamber orchestra or a beautiful crystal chandelier at the Zak Sally/John Porcellino release party tonight, but there will be Zak and John and there will also be me, although I'm far less important than Zak Sally and John Porcellino and their books, and thus I'll probably just stand outside in the cold wishing they would let me in while corks pop and

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Fallcon, Fallcon, hurray hurrah. I'm going over there tomorrow to help man the MCAD table, but I was a naughty boy and didn't prepare anything to show off. I'll probably sit around with a sketchbook and mouth breath around the cool kids.COMING SOON: My latest 24 hour; gotta put aside at least an hour or two to scan and touch up 24 pages, so yeah.

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When you grow up big and strong, and you got a big ol' tree on your head like mama, you can help mama kill those GOD-DAMN BIRDS.The 24-Hour Comics Challenge is rolling around again this Saturday; you may remember this cheerful character from last year. I believe we're meeting around 9:00 at the Minnesota Book Center this year. And then we'll just sit there for 24 hours. It'll be fun. Come along

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I need to make some comics, man. This single image thing is getting STALE.

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Coincidence? I THINK NOT

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Seuss? Is that you? People mentioned Dr. Seuss when talking about my work, and until this piece I didn't understand why.

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Listerine, Windex and Coca-Cola, three teenagers with super fabulous attitudes, magnificent hair and gorgeous looks take on high school, a world all too small for their healthy egos. What new adventures will senior year bring them? Starring Rob Schneider as the poor schmuck they're pushing over for some reason.Yeah, updating an image from last summer. These ladies are growing on me. I may have to

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