Happy Hockey New Year!

The big Winter Classic in Pittsburgh betwixt the Capitals and Penguins has been rescheduled to 8 pm thanks to expected lousy weather, but it looks like they'll be good to go at night. WHEW! Really looking forward to this one!

Orioles

Pitchers and catchers before you know it. Which means nothing to we Pirate fans, but still...

How 'Bout Them Cowboys?

1998 Penguins

This commission even made me blush a tiny bit!

1993 Maple Leafs

Robot Fighter

Or robot ass-kicker maybe...take your pick.

This was a concept sketch for a client who ultimately went in another direction...still like it though.

Yoga Redux

Awhile back, I mentioned that an illo I'd done for Seattle Met had been changed a bit, the original being a little too spicy for publication. Here's how the piece appeared in print, along with a link to the ridiculous story.

Holidays in Alberta

Ah, Christmas in Edmonton...and all the comforts of home!

Akina Minami Sexy Photo

where should the asia girls can be pretty well as before make up, here is akina minami wear minim bikini. Akina Minami (南 明奈, Minami Akina?, born 15 May 1989 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese gravure idol and tarento signed to Free Style Company

Bikini Hot, Hot Bikini, Photo Bikini

It Came From Outer Space!

Print Shop

I added four new prints to the shop ...and everything is still 20% off when you use the code HOLIDAY10 at checkout!

More to come, including the Cavs, Indians, and much more hockey...keep your eyes peeled!

Santa in Animal Land, Again

NOTE: I originally posted this entry last December, but as I've gained a bunch of new readers in the last year, I figured it was worth posting again, so as not to rob anyone of any, uh...enjoyment!

There are all kinds of Christmas specials. Sappy ones. Earnest ones. Classic ones.

But I guarantee you'll never see one as creepy as Santa In Animal Land.

Let me back up. Years ago, my good friend Bill used to host a Christmas Film Festival every December...we'd get together and watch a few of the classic animated specials (The Grinch, A Charlie Brown Christmas), but the real fun was always in seeing what obscure nugget Bill had unearthed from the depths of history (or more specifically, from cheap VHS collections of public-domain Christmas cartoons). One memorable year, Bill presented 1948's Santa in Animal Land, which he described as a "Felliniesque nightmare of epic proportions disguised as a puppet show". The film was as bizarre and freakish as advertised, and became a staple of the yearly event.

In later years, I'd host my own version of the Film Festival...and Santa in Animal Land (now on cheap, public-domain DVD) was always a big part of it. So much so, in fact, that I created this illo of the awful, awful characters for the invitation to the 2001 edition.

I'm always a little worried that I'm overselling this thing when I tell people about how weird it is...but time after time, folks are genuinely, fabulously creeped out by it. And thanks to the magic of the internets I can share it with you now, thankfully without having to actually invite you jackals into my home. Enjoy?

The Red Menace

SOMEBODY had better be very excited to receive this for Xmas, 'cause I wanted to gouge my eyes out the entire time I was working on it!

Lions

Big winners today...Go Detroit!

Christmas Cards!

Now in the shop!

2011 Winter Classic - Pittsburgh Penguins

The team is as hot as this game is gonna be cool.

It's a great time to be a Pens fan!

2011 Winter Classic - Washington Capitals

All in the interest of fairness. Trust me, fellow Pens fans, I'm just as disgusted as you are.

Holiday Sale!

Folks, everything in the webshop (with the exception of the sports commissions) and at my Etsy Store is on sale all week for 20% off! Please, skate on over and enter the code "holiday10" to save some bucks!

Also, all orders will receive a special Atom-Bomb Bikini Christmas card!

Swann on Sale

As post-Thanksgiving sales go, you could do a lot worse than Mitchell and Ness's 40% off deal all weekend. You can even pick up Swannie's Super Bowl X jersey! He was unquestionably my favorite Steeler growing up (though I still probably wouldn't'a voted for him in 2006!).

Devil Yoga!

This piece was for a new client...kind of. Supremely talented art director Benjamen Purvis hired me to do a few of my all-time favorite illos while he was at the helm of Las Vegas Weekly a few years back. Ben has moved to Seattle and begun working for a beautiful magazine called Seattle Met, and recently got in touch with me to provide some art for his new book.

The story was a light piece poking fun at a local pastor who'd made some kind of dull-witted equation between practicing yoga and practicing satanism. His idea was for an over-the-top devil yoga instructor lasciviously hovering over an unsuspecting young student. Always nice to know I'm the first guy folks think of when they need something seedy drawn!

Anyway, as it turns out, it was too lascivious, and had to be toned down just a smidge for print. I received a copy of the issue in the mail today, and even with the changes, the whole production looked pretty fantastic. Here's hoping I get another chance to provide more art sometime soon!

Wednesday Night

Soon to be colored, and made into a print. (and just in time for the holidays! What a coinkydink!)

Special Edition

Back when the Atom-Bomb Bikini hardcover came out, I was toying with the idea of including an original 6"x6" pencilled pin-up in a limited number of copies. Didn't really have much time to sink into the idea, so I scrapped it, but not before I worked up a couple of examples.

How the Cavs Got Their Colors

This illustration from the latest issue of UVa Magazine helps tell the story of an orange and blue scarf that led the University of Virginia to choose their school colors back in the late 1800's. The actual scarf still exists!

Weekly Sketch 11/11

Jun Natsukawa Hot Pants

Jun Natsukawa wearing hot sexy pants, she is japan idol and also a model, please take a look the gallery of Jun natsukawa

Bikini Hot, Hot Bikini, Photo Bikini

Gator Bait

This piece is running in the current issue of Virginia Living, accompanying the humorous tale of a southside Richmond man who was stunned to discover an alligator under his neighbor's porch early one morning in 1910.

Post-script: Clemson

This goes out to Tom, who posted in the comments section of the previous post. As it happened, the Clemson book I mentioned never materialized beyond the thumbnail stage, but for this single image that I created as an example. I wish it had; that Tiger mascot was pretty fun to draw!

From the Vaults: High Point University

I found the original art for this job as I was rifling through my archives last night, trying to locate some reference for another project I'm currently working on. I had almost completely forgotten all about it!

Just to back up and explain a bit- Back in the early 00's I worked with my pal Chip on a couple of kid's storybooks about college sports mascots. Such things are pretty standard fare at university bookstores and the like, and of wildly varying quality. Anyway, we'd done one for Wake Forest and one for NC State, and had begun working on one for Clemson when this book for Chip's alma mater, High Point University, came up and needed to be completed tout de suite. I finished the whole thing, 14 full-page color illustrations, in a little over two weeks, including one marathon session of inking and coloring over the long, rainy Labor Day weekend of 2005.  

The results? Eh, not bad. My coloring is a bit garish, but it's supposed to be for kids after all. One thing that was weird was that the story seemed more aimed toward older kids who are about to choose a college, in more of a "here are all the cool things about High Point University"vein. But who am I to say, I'm just the drawing monkey!

The Hawk and the Whale

When life gives you lemons...

Weekly Sketch 10/27

Haven't posted any sketches in awhile...

Big Baby

This here was a recent piece for The Stranger, an article about the Seattle PD fighting tooth and nail against new measures which will actually help the department.

Anna Kamwawura Bikini

Anna Kawamura, 1986 years April 25) Gravure Idol. T160 B88 (F) W59 H86.

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