Geeples Character design

Some concept art for Geeples.

Geeples.com

Finally got WordPress working. Took a week and a half, but I've got the new Geeples site close to how I think I want it. I'm colorizing the first issue, so look for that. The site is interactive, so hopefully folks'll spread the word and leave comments.

Empty The Frig & Coast City First Friday & The Classics Reimagined Show in Freeport

If you all are up in around Portland Friday, stop by The Art House for "Empty The Frig" show, where I have a small painting for sale. The Art House is at 61 Pleasant Street. Opening reception is 5-9.

I will ALSO miraculously be at Coast City Comics on Congress street, for a showcase of my work around the same time. How can he be in two places at once? Come by and find out!

Finally, the next day I will be at the Freeport library for the opening of the The Classics Reimagined show put on my the Maine Illustrator Collective, to which I belong (in case you don't know). I will have a painting there, too, and am in some pretty awesome company for this and the Empty The Frig show.

Be seeing you.

Under The Sea

I finished a small painting for the Empty The Frig show, sponsored by the Drawing Room. A return to some of the magical ladies I painted back in the 90's. I'm getting back into acrylic, and would like to do a bigger, more elaborate series. Need the time, though. The small details are done with Cretacolor AquaStic water-soluble oil Pastels over the acrylic.

Spooky Art Show is up

The Maine Illustrator Collective Spooky Art Show is now up at Kennebooks in Kennebunk. The opening was last night and I was too sick with the cold I caught in Maryland to go. It's got some great local talent represented. I (just) finished my painting for it... a moment from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel I don't think I've ever seen in a painting. 

iAllosaur is in iTunes!

Finally! Get iAllosaur for your iPhone, and find out what I've been doing most of the year.

After SPX

Got back from SPX yesterday. It wasn't too bad a trip, coming and going. I don't know the next time we'll do a convention again, but Sachi and I have the routine down. too early to tell if anything will grow from the seeds sown. Met some pretty cool people, and of course we tabled with the soon-to-be-famous Ben Bishop and the ultra-talented Meagan Anderson , who were nice enough to drive down our crap from Maine.

We were across from a monster-obsessed duo, half of which, Peter Lazarski, I talked to and traded books with toward the end. Nifty design work and a good eye. Susanne Baumann was to our right with her old-timy minis, and I got to talk to David Allan Duncan,  and picked up the first issue (he had at least 3 there) of his "The Moonshine Murders" chronicling the still unsolved murder of three teenage friends in Alabama in the '50s. Talked with Jason Turner, of True Loves fame, one of my favorite reads, and talked to Frank Reynoso, creator of some really fun, offbeat humor comics. 

The hotel, the Legacy, was nice-ish. The bed was comfortable and the water-pressure good, which is abut all you can ask. We did not stay where the convention was for economical reasons, but we were not too far away. Inside the convention hall it was an ICE-BOX, though... I looked over at Ben the second day, and his lips had turned blue. That was about the time Sachi and Meagan escaped to the Chevy Chase Mall to escape the smell of the nerd herd that surrounded the place. Whew! No more of that for a while!