Jason Vorhees

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  • October 9, 2008


10/09

Another “re-imagining”. Though, as I’ve said, I’ve never seen a Friday the 13th movie, I always imagined Jason as a giant mutant baby. With a machete. So I drew him that way (hence the unmasked head shot).

Watched I, Madman last night. Not a very good movie, but I kept thinking that I recognized every single actor and actress in it from other things. Turns I only recognized one guy, who was in a very short-lived but pretty damn good show called G vs. E. He played Chandler Smythe.

Gas is below 3 dollars a gallon. If this is what happens when the economy collapses, I wish it would collapse every week. This just further fuels (get it?) my theory that people like me (poor) actually benefit when the world goes belly-up.

Manana.

Freddy Krueger

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  • October 8, 2008


10/08

A “re-imagining” of Nightmare on Elm Street monster, Freddy Krueger. I watched the first NoES when I was about 5 years old, with my mom, while eating dinner. It was awesome. Freddy sorta became my favorite franchise guy – fitting as I’ve never seen a Halloween movie (I actually did see Halloween III: Season of the Witch, but since it’s got nothing to do with the others, I suppose it doesn’t count) or a Friday the 13th (Freddy vs. Jason doesn’t count either). After 3, and up until New Nightmare, the NoES series pretty much sucks, as Freddy became a jokey joke jokester – a warm and cuddly slasher your youngest children can love (then again, I was 5, but I was a weird fucked up little kid).

As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t do likenesses, and it seems even more ridiculous to try to match a creature like Freddy to what Robert Englund looks like in the make-up. For that matter, whenever I see comic based on a tv show or movie, it always immediately disconnects with me to see that the drawings are so heavy photo-referenced just so the characters look like the actors. Film and Comics are two different things, and I think that, as long as an artist gets the “feel” of the character, who gives a fuck if they go “off model”. So fuck David Boreanaz and William Shatner (second Shatner mention! Score!) and their egos. Or their Eggos. Let artists… um… art. Leave them alone! The amount of photo-reference needed for licensed comics ruins any energy that makes a comic a comic.

And yeah, you can apply that to any comic that uses actors to sub in for characters.

Anyhoo, to help keep me in the Halloween spirit, I started my annual tradition of only listening to The Misfits in my car for the rest of the month, and I’ve reordered my Netflix queue to only get horror movies for the next few weeks. Feast 2 is at the top of my queue, but it’s a “Very Long Wait” at this point. So instead, today, I got I, Madman, May, and The Woods.

Be back tomorrow.

Zombie Invincible

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  • October 7, 2008


10/07

A mix of hero and horror, the unofficial Walking Dead/Invincible crossover I’ve been wanting for years.

I figger since I’ll be posting here everyday, and I’ve stopped posting on Newsarama, I’ll vent about whatever while I post art.

…um… Got nothing to say. There may be a new episode of Gutter Trash up tonight. Hopefully. (Gutter Trash is my podcast which can be found at www.guttertrash.net – just in case). I hope we’ll have Announcer Girl around this episode… it’s looking bleak right now, though. Just check out Gutter Trash for future updates.

OK, see ya tomorrow.

October Treats

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  • October 6, 2008

To keep me further procrastinated away from working on my sequentials, I threw down a challenge at myself. From this point on, until October 31st, I am posting a new piece of – something – everyday. Anything goes – from full blown illustration to a doodle on a post-it. From 10/06/08 – 10/31/08, new “art”, everyday. And, in the spirit blahblah, it’ll be horror related.

So, if’n you actually follow this blog, and you gots a horror-related request, I’ll post it sometime within the rest of this month.

Starting…. now.

10/06. This started out as Michael Myers, but I can’t draw likeness, or Bill Shatner, so I just made him my own slasher. And I’m sure it’s not original, either, but then again, which slasher is, anymore?

X-Men First Class

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  • October 1, 2008


Except I’m not Roger Cruz! It’s good to be me.

To me, my zay-men

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  • September 19, 2008


Y’know what I hate most about the X-Men movies and cartoons? X-Avier. X-Avier? What the fuck is wrong with everyone? It’s pronounced Zavier, folks! Zavier! Grr!

I have a secret shame, and that shame is that I love The X-Men. It’s the comic that turned me into a hardcore geek. Admittedly, up until Grant Morrison started their run, I hadn’t regularly read The X-Men books since 1992, or whenever Peter David left X-Factor. I kept my eye on it, but never really bought it, ‘cept maybe a stray issue here or there. Unlike the seeming majority of fanboys, I’ll drop a book and wait for it to get good again, not continuously buy it until it gets good. I followed Morrison, kept through with Whedon, and now I’m out again. I may pick up Warren Ellis’ run in trade format, but even Brubaker, Carey and Fraction can’t keep my interest nowadays. So, once again, I wait silently, hoping that someday the X-Men will be good again. In the meantime, I draw my favorite mutants far too much.

Slam Evil!

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  • September 11, 2008


What a terrible fucking tagline.

Been a while, sorry. Been working on getting my podcast together.  You can find my podcast at www.guttertrash.net. It’s a swell podcast, with our first official episode being recorded on September 16th. To be released shortly thereafter. We’ll see when, then I’ll try to make that the regular upload day. For my podcast. Gutter Trash. Have I mentioned my podcast yet?

Anyhoo, the purple nurple above is The Phantom, though you might know him better as Billy Zane. And to be fair, I actually do enjoy The Phantom movie. It’s a fun, Indy Jones/Superhero flick. I drew this entirely in Illustrator for a contest that Moonstone Comics is holding. I’m kinda proud of this, and worked harder on it than probably any of the other pieces on this blog. I was actually trying for an Adobe Illustrator-meets-painterly-meets-typical-Shonborn-crapfest thang. I failed on most levels, but still like the piece, which is a rare thing.

Gutter Trash!

This is the Beginning…

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  • August 16, 2008

…of this blog!

I explained myself ad nauseam over at my old blog page. But this is where you can check out new pieces of art (or really old pieces that I tell you are new) from yours truly. Cover your eyes. If you look too long, you’ll grow better taste for comic art, and realize that I ain’t it.
So here’s a new (is it?) piece. I dare you to look.

This is actually one of the very few commissions I’ve done. I would love to do more. You can find me on the internet. Anyhoo, this is of course Robert Kirkman’s Astounding Wolf-Man. It’s a fun book I look forward to reading in trade form (I got the first two issues). I figured what better way to kick off the new blog than with a piece of art I almost got paid for (I asked the purchaser to make a donation to the HERO INITIATIVE instead), of a character by a creator who definitely went out of his way to make a ton of bold statements this past week. If you haven’t heard, you can find Robert Kirkman’s video mission statement here, and his follow-up Word Balloon interview here. I really recommend listening to what he has to say. It’s not perfect, but the ideas are there, and he’s dead right about most of it.

Hawkgirl (30)

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  • August 11, 2008


I’m old today. This is definitely not where I saw myself at the age of 30. 2008 has been a definite shit year for me, mostly of my own design. The comic thing is still a definite goal for me, but I work slowly. I want my projects to mean something personally to me. I no longer have the dreams of being a big superhero artist or writer. I would be perfectly content never having anything published by Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, etc. I still love doodling and sketching all those big heroic characters, but the stories I need to tell need to be smaller, and need to be mine. The goal isn’t fame and fortune in a dying industry, but rather longevity. Something that can sit on a bookshelf, something long-form. Nothing I do will be amazing. My genetic make-up won’t allow me to be amazing, or allow anyone to tell me that it’s amazing. But whatever I do, will be a labor of love for me, and me alone. It’s taken me a very long time to come to that conclusion, and I’m ready to face it.

Meanwhile, as I enter into my third decade, fallen out with two people I used to consider my closest friends, I’m still struggling to not completely shut myself off from the outside world. The biggest regrets in my life for the past 10 years all happened in this past year, but, it also helped me focus I think. I hope that someday I’ll be able to reconcile with the people that I wronged, but that’ll take time, and despite being what I officially consider old, I don’t I’m yet mature enough to deal with that. After all, I still love comics.

Life Failure

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  • August 2, 2008


Project Rooftop had a Superman Redesign contest about a month ago or so. Didn’t make the finalists, but got honorable mention. Drawn in Illustrator.