A Ghost Story Of A Playlist For The Spookiest Month. And A Skull Floating In An Ocean Listening To Music

Continuing the 2015 calendar project, this month is Akira! Again. Just a very important comic (to me and recipient of all these cal pages!). Did lots and lots of texture on this bad boy and bloomy light effects (new to my work stuff). Different styling and very pleased with the outcome. More comin’.

Dream JRNL #1

It is not a necessary evil, but an ever-present one: the abbreviated vocabulary used when texting. Like typos, you must be ever vigilant in a time of incredibly disposable communication. There are moments however, when typos happen; usually in those rushed or half-focused texts. For the past few months, I’ve been doing this thing where I will wake up and punch out a text with an autonomous thumb. I scarcely remember doing this in the morning but am always amused by them. So far, nothing bad has happened, so I haven’t switched to another form of alarm system that doesn’t have MMS capabilities. I actually don’t know what MMS stands for, I just know that it stands for something that means texting. Here is an example of one of these dream texts. Funny how just a little typo makes you look insane…

Been working on early stages of an ABC book. All pretty goofy alliteration with some fun animals. Twenty six is a lot of letters...

Man, Seattle is a super great city. We went to Pike’s Public Market and got some excellent sweet and savory pastries and of course saw some fish get ceremonially tossed. Then we biked to see the Space Needle and neighboring architectural interests. After plenty of biking in the rain, we ended the day with a viewing of the strangest movie I have ever seen at a great cinema that prides itself on cult rarities and good beer. If you’ve any interest in bizarre, psychedelic Japanese horror movies of the late 70s, see House (1979) pronto. More soon.

The Transformative Power of User-Comments.

Some one-color pixel art I’m working on for the big ol’ project, Regulation Room.  We’re launching a newly designed, newly content-ed version at the end of the month, so I’m in major crunch mode making and animating pixel art for the various videos that explain the site.

Another "Hey, Koo!" haiku comic, worded by Kalia Armbruster, arted by me. This one got a bit intricate, what with all the lazers, although I am getting a lot quicker with the pencil art sketches that are used mostly wholesale for these panels - scanned in and digitally inked. Kalia and I have been working on some backstory stuff for Koo and are going to start doing "artist inserts" every fifth release which should hopefully flesh out the character and the world. More soon!

It’s October so we’re watching spookies. Here’s good ol’ Deputy Dewey from Scream 1.

Dude Supply EP

New sample-heavy pop music under my music makin’ moniker Prescription Strength Hugs and some cover art as usual done by plain ol’ austin eustice. Enjoy, thanks!

If you’re interested, samples used:

1. Seen Everything

Ode to Billy - Arthur Lyman,  Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead ,Love Lives Here - Faces, I Move Around - Nancy Sinatra,Sleepwalker - Kinks

2. Ol’ Blue Eyes

Beyond The Reef - Martin Denny, Os Grilos - Marcos Valle, Strangers - Kinks, Llulla Mak’Ta - Yma Sumac, Danse Calinda - Richard Hayman, Tudo de você - Marcos Valle, Procissão - Gilberto Gil

3. Questing

Hawaiin War Chant - Arthur Lyman,  Faut-Il Que Je T’Aime - France Gall, We Got The Beat - The Go Gos, Incacho - Yma Sumac

4. Aztec Rock

Oya Ka Jojo - Les Volcans De La Capital ,Similau - Martin Denny ,Melody - Serge Gainsbourg, Lola - Kinks, Come Dancing - Jeff Beck, Got To Be Free - Kinks, Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin, Crystal Days - Echo & the Bunnymen

5. Dude Supply

Want Your Love - Alzo & Udine, Come Dancing - Jeff Beck, May This Be Love - Jimi Hendrix, Windowlicker - Aphex Twin, Tightrope - Leon Russell, 2/1 - Brian Eno

Season 3 Episode 10 in which a supposed NSA agent tries to keep Mulder and Scully from uncovering a dastardly alien-human hybrid experiment gone bad. This is the guy that was in the fantastic zombie film Pontypool, which I highly recommend for anyone liking radio-play style, mostly implied horror.

This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!

6:28am New comic! Whipped this one up after an idea I had in the shower - where all the good ideas happen. Poor guy just got his sunrise and magma swell times mixed up.