Oh hey,

I took today off from this crippling torture of drawing whatever I want. Me and the misses went out with gigantic mirth to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under our feet.

We hit up the sculpture park here in Seattle.
They've coated the concrete of the place in something so when you spit on it it rolls down like mercury.

-----------comic store-------------------------

I got that new Dave Sim book and the Comic Foundry magazine. It's weird because they both seemed like parodies of mainstream magazines. I know comics foundry is a real magazine, it's just weird to see comics journalism being handled like music or movies. Kind of awesome actually. Plus I like that they had a page on my pal Ross Cambell.

Anyway more importantly there's excitement going on in this comic book world.

The big deal is that my girlfriend is drawing a fucking CONAN story. dooooooooooooooooooooooooode!

It's an 8 page thing that Tim Truman of 1980's Scout Warshaman fame wrote. I'm lettering it. It's gonna run in Dark horse presents.
Everyone I mention it to keeps thinking I'm jealous.
The cold harsh reality of it is that Marian's art is more conan than mine. She's such a fucking badass.

And so I don't look like a slouch here's a new King city 2 picture. I'm on page 105 out of 160.


My pal David called and told me that Akira Toriyama
of Dragon ball fame and Masakazu Katsura who did Zetman, Video girl Ai, shadow lady and DNA2 are doing some one shot comic together. I think Toriyama is writting it. i dunno, that's on the other side of the planet.

Here's an awesome Akira Toriyama drawing from some art book. I think his real impressive stuff gets way over looked by that juggernaught DBZ.
This drawing is like Asterix level awesome:


I also found some Michael jackson website that has a bunch of Dragon ball fan art drawn by some other big manga artists.
http://www.mjhideout.com/foro/showthread.php?t=70954&page=8
If it was a contest, I'd say the Eye shield dude brought down the Thunder.

Also the stumptown show was cool. Saw all the dudes and Met Liz Greenfield and got hugged by Carla speed McNeil. Dude, I'm rereading Finder. I love that book.

Light the big fires. Comic wize things are good.

Tags: toryama conan king city
Current Location: Dicecat Seattle
Current Mood: conan
Current Music: Red and Meth

I'd like Mountain dew to get one of those honorary
doctorates that colleges give out to bill cosby.
Then you could just slam a doctor!
More importantly it wouldd finally level the playing field with Dr pepper.
Maybe mr Pib should get on that too.

But more imortantly, and in the real real world.
I just did an Inkstuds interview.
It's a comic-centric radio show that my pal Robin runs.
You can listen to it here:
http://www.inkstuds.com/



I dug up this old Shonen jump from my youth. I really like this
picture of all their artists.
I like how skrawny the fist of the northstar dude is.
(he's in the middle)

Shit, I gotta run to Portand right now.
I'll be at the stumptown show this weekend.
And I'm gone like zoom!

Tags: interview inkstuds
Current Location: the road
Current Mood: gone
Current Music: road songs

I've been drawing lots lately. It's all coffee shops until 5 in the morning listening to books on tape.

I got nominated for a fucking Eisner award this week. DUDE.
I'm in the same catagory as Kyle "why I hate saturn" Baker.
No, I know.
My pal James who chainsmokes in godzilla slippers and screams at me to bring him moochas
got nominated for 2.

I thought we were just banging out some tracks in the studio.
Apparently people read this shit.

Here's an old photo of us to commemorate the event.

Tags: eisner award tracks banging
Current Location: space
Current Mood: coffeee
Current Music: bbc audio neromancer Vrrrrrrr(cyborg arm)

Here's a photo that my homie Justin "moritat" Norman took of me and Marian
in a bar in SF


I was watching some Manara videos offa youtube
I like this one, a commercial for his figurines.
I like the dude in his sweater lining them all up while his
moms at work.

Oh, but more importantly I wanted to throw up the frst ever Multiple Warheads story
for anyone that hasn't seen it. It's old, it's porn.
it's important to note that It was drawn in Post 9-11 nyc.
I had some big rant about world comix but with manara and porn I'll leave it at that.
( porn )

Tags: porn sexica
Current Location: marians bathtub
Current Mood: today
Current Music: spook country disk 6

I've been thinking about the face on the Lion Voltron. As a kid I was sure that
it was meant to be a statue of a long dead hero. He looks like that purple jungle Phantom.

It's been a week of 80's japan nostalgia for me, I've been reading Coreys early dragon ball
books and now I'm going through all of the appleseed books. I think Shirow is my favorate dude at laying out pages.

There's this scene in book one where Deunan and Bri are talking in a park.
There's a panel of an ice cream truck with their word baloons above it without them near it.
Then it goes back to Deunan laying on the grass. The next panel is them walking with ice cream.

I would've just drawn them in the panel with the ice cream truck, but that fact that he didn't and it still works just as well is like comic book magic.

And then ghost in the shell happened and now I'm like Dre "Used to be my homey, used to be my ace---"

Anyway, I'm back in the comic book trenches after Sakura con. It not suprizingly wasn't my scene but I sold some books talked on some panels and met some artists and drew some pictures:


Ass and titty is my default drawing. I blame my wireing.
Speaking of here's a Sexica and Cat commision:


After a convention it takes me like 2 days to get back to real comix pages.
I've been thinking about skipping some. But all I've got planned was Seattle where that
Scott Pilgrim artist is gonna be and Portland where liz greenfield is gonna be.
So I'm bound by the unholly rules of comix brutherhood to go.

Here's a cool comic Rachel Dukes did about me and the misses after the SF con

I like her stuff.
http://www.poseurink.com/journalcomic/

So I was thinking of throwng up the whole 10 page origonal Sexica porn comic on here in a day or 2 but I wasn't sure it was kosher. It is all 2 dicks and sodomy and shit.

Ok dudes I gotta get back to King city tooo.
Here's an awesome picture of the car voltron I ran into on this internet.

I want my crotch to work like that. What is it a cyclopian eye or some shit?
Awesome!

See you in the funny books.

Tags: shirow voltron sexica
Current Location: backhat
Current Mood: back like vertibre
Current Music: But when you're young what the fuck you expect?

Ok so I'm in the middle of pimping my stuff at an anime convention.
My pal Aaron said and I quote "pedophilia is really being killed by childhood obesity."
ahh cha cha cha

I've been playing Crash bandicoot in between panels.
I missed the era of the x-tream bandicoot because I was too into
comic books at the time.

Ah, I've changed so much. Here's a portrait of how I imagine a Crash "gentelman" bandicoot might have evolved since the game.

That's supposed to be spuds McKenzie as his foot rest but there was no foot reference so I dunno how much it looks like him.

I've been on a Canada dry gingerale kick since I'm deep in the mapple leaf these days.
Dudes, It's the champagne of gingerales! It makes me wish that there was a champagne of everything. I want the champagne of toilet paper. I was thinking I wanted my books to be the champagne of comix then I realized more important I wanna make the Real-pain of comix.

The other thing is I've been remembering my dreams lately. It's new and exciting for me.
Still I don't have very exciting dreams. But the other night I had one where my homies Corey and Claire were both wearing chain mail hoods. Like this:


Comix wize--
I finished the King city boardgame. It's like in the 90's of pages in the book.



and the board


I'm thinking of making the inside front/back covers of the book more random king city boardgame characters. Floating mummies, moon men, armless spies--that sort of thing.
I dunno if many people will actually play the game.- like the crossword in the first book.
But it was cool to make.

harveyjames showed me an old post he made on old dragon ball
http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/55398.html#cutid1
I need to go out and get those again. I forget how fucking amazing Toriyama is.
I was sipping tea this morning thinging about the early thick awesome feelings that I got from
80's Toriyama. I need to get all those again.

Whatelse? I did a bunch of drawings of porn stars and shit I was thinking about doing a pin up book for cons. Maybe someday I'll have drawn enough ass and that'll be it.
I know It's one of those things that people get good at and are known for - even my grandfather did it. But when I think about the dudes that get known for drawing hot chicks I dunno if i wanna throw my addidas in with them. I mean, there's manara. I dont wanna be just the dude that draws ass. No that I'm gonna stop this week, I've got this MUSIC in me.

I was at the SF con and my pal John grabs me to go to J scott cambell's table. And I grab a comic to give him, I like how he draws girls. he's good at it. Then I got over there and he's mobbed selling some sketchbook of slave leia or some shit. He does draw well (not comix mind you) but it soured it, OK I'll stop I'm the asshole posting up Crash bandacoot fanart then talking about real art.
I've typed too much.

And then you put your finger to my lips and just say "shhhhhh"
"now come to bed."
You are a rapist.

Tags: crash bandacoot comic king city
Current Location: gentelman fort
Current Mood: champagne
Current Music: Rhymefest anddddnd Spook country on tape.

Woke up in a hotel room in Brussels. It's 6pm in the afternoon here.
SIKE!

I'm under the maple leaf as usual these days. Mancougar BC.
So I couldn't sleep and me and the misses started saying puns back in forth
I was calling her a maya Angeloose canon and I got called a maya Angeloser
and that picture is where it ended.

It's been an aight week, week wize. 3 swords on the conan scale...
I didn't draw yesterday wich is unlike me
lately, but probaly necessary. I went to comic stores. RX comics is sooo good.
Quarter bin gold. So now I lounge around reading Scout:warshaman and ESPers.
I love a getting the team together issue, where it shows all over the globe.
COLORADO: and there's just a naked dude fighting a bear and then he looks up and
there's a guy with a breifcase "I'd like to offer you a job"
man, I can read that shit all day!

Here's a new sexica commission thing I drew in a coffee shop.



I was just reading that stuff about Paul Pope doing DKNY clothes.
crazy planet. I mean, that's cool. I hope he uses it to fund some
THB. I wont even say shit.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120493146397420559.html?mod=at_leisure_main_reviews_days_only

heheh
Ok I'm gonna go draw some pages today.KING CITY TOO
TRIKTRIK!!

Tags: free time
Current Location: Marians comic book dojo
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: RhymeFest

I just woke up at the hour I'd normally be going to bed.
5 in the am. I had this dream where I was on some marvel universe
shit looking for a secret base, I had a map. it looked like this:

I said something about how we're never gonna find it then the ground shook and
galactus horns came up through the ground. I was laughing yelling out "THIS IS AWESOME!!" then I woke up.

In the real real world I've just been trying to draw as much King city 2 as the day allows.

I just found out that I've got like 30 less pages for this book than the last.
160 this time, im at 79.
The good news is that it means it'll be done sooner. I think it's the best stuff I've ever shown paper.

Dude, I've been thinking about how comix is basically puzzle solving.
fitting jokes and character into story, story into boxes, boxes into pages ect.
And laying out pages is all Feng Shui. It's kind of rad how when you draw all day you can flip through a comic and tell if the pages they work or not before your brain registers what the page is even about.

anyway, here's another lettering free page.
Her glasses say nuts and nard

hehe look at that sissy in the last pannel with his tea.

In all this ink and paper I've been listening to lots of RhymeFest since Violet recomended him. "my styles running to the toilet you aint seen shit yet." dooode! his michael jackson tribute album is brilliant.

I read some interview with him talking about Chicago hip hop that I though related to how I feel about comix--

"we always look at it like we’re gonna make it on our own. We don’t realize that the only you can be successful is through movement, an the only way to have a movement is to unify. Until we learn from others, we’ll never have that"

I was reading some review of James Won-ton book and they always throw in me and Corey It awesome to be finger tip to guys I like in life and art as much as those adamantium solid dudedawgs.

I like that comix hasn't even seen half our gang yet. When Marian, Marley and Sheldon get full books out dude if David did one too comix couldn't even handle it. Comix would be calling in sick cause it's ass hurt.

speaking of dudes I heard that Gabe is taking his stab at that Zuda.
I haven't even looked and I know he's gonna win.

Here's a quick picture I did of me and my lady when she was working.



She was drawing this, to prove that girls can draw horses:



and then she did a picture of me fucking with her while she works:



Yeah I know, awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Sorry to lay that pony and puppy shit on you good people.

yaaawwwwwwwwwwnn.
Ok I think I hear a muffin and coffee calling.

Tags: rap king city muffins marian
Current Location: canada
Current Mood: early
Current Music: RhymeFest bluecollar

Ok, I'm back.
Well kind of, I'm up in Vancover again.
Wondercon was cool.
San Francisco was cool.
Violet let me and Marian stay in his china town estate wich was awesome.
I was thrilled to be in the Chinatown of Big trouble in little china.
Normally I can't walk through my Seattle china town without quoting that movie
"china is here me Burton" but in SF CT it meant something.

Most of the con I just hung out with Becky and Vassilis, the high point of the thing sticks out as the day where after the con we all went to see Natonal treasure 2! goddamn that's an entertaining peice of crap. As my pal David once decribed the weath of Nikolas Cages acting ability lies in that look where he's apears to be trying to figure out what he ate through the smell of his farts. "brocolli?...no mayce a sweet bread custard with yams?....."

And I got to hang out with John Christ and we all went to the comic book legal defense fund party where I think Justin Norman made a kid sign his name in blood to promise that he'd stay in comix his whole life. And I drew a picture on the toilet door then used the same pen to draw a quick thing that they sold off for $100 clams. Wich probaly isn't that big a deal but it seemed cool to me.

And I sold some books and drew a lot of pictures for people.

Here's another unlettered king city too page to confuse you guys:



Like I said I'm in canada again. Marians place has become my fortess of solitude.
The convention trip killed my schedule so now I gotta catch up.

I remember reading Paul Pope talk about eating a shit load of indian food before a big comix push. So I tried it with Tai and now I'm going in deep.
Old Loveline , Merl haggard and Meatloaf.
push ups and coffee.

oh and John Christ told me the term "Civillian" for anyone that dosen't read comix.
That'll get thrown into the Bro-dex.

I watched some KRS-1 interview on youtube where he said "if you're still using the technology the way the manufatuer intended, you're not doin' hip hop." I like that. Victory over the streets.

"we don't wear white shades around here"

Tags: boom back deadline
Current Location: fortress of bathhat
Current Mood: deep
Current Music: the BOOM BAP