Was Doing Some Work On A Graphic About Electronic Medical Files And This Was The First Chunk Of It Before

I launched my first comic of the new year, Friend Mold! It’s been in the works awhile, this comic, and I’m extremely excited to get it out in the world. It was a lot of work, but it has me anxious to get working on another (which I have begun but is still too early to be showing anything. SneakHear: it has a goat). During the process, the toughest design decision was the cover, and it kept changing. I ended up with something quite different from my initial design, which isn’t all that uncommon in the design process, but most of the book’s illustrations were set from the get go. The Friend Mold idea all came from a thought I’d had coming out of sleep one winter morning. I won’t bore you with dream-details, but the thought spawned a concept, a rough script and definite look within a few hours. Here is a look at two alternate cover designs.

The one on the right is closest to my original concept, which had a rubber like pour-mold with swappable head, chest, and crotch pieces. It just never read as well as it should have and the shadowed relief look didn’t fit the interior illustrations. And that always bothers me (pardon to any comic artists out there), where the cover illustration style has little to do with the interior art. The design on the left was just a bit too morbid when I polled some folks about it. While I did like the face down look, it did slowly give me the creeps when working on it. Made me feel very claustrophobic - which also isn’t the point of the book’s content.

So, check it out, and see the book as it is released, a page a day with the final interior on Feb 14th!

In serious need of inking practice, I took the opportunity to draw Patrick Hosmer's Sad Ninja. Grays added digitally.

Logos

Rebrand of RegulationRoom.org logo - a site that houses newly proposed rules from various government agencies.

Alternate mark for Regulation Room, sticking with the "ribbon" motif that has historical value to the brand.

Logo for DJ, blogger, fashionista Lani Love.

Logo for a solo performance theater festival organization group.

Logo for a Bethesda, MD based psychotherapy practice.

Logo for a creative industry jobs listing site.

Logo for website devoted to all things hiking, conserving and experiencing natural beauty around the Washington DC metro area.

Season 3 Episode 6 in which a man woos women on lonely hearts chatrooms and dates them briefly before suffocating them with goo. From his mouth. Into their mouth. If he doesn’t do this, he gets wicked messed up looking.

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

New mix folks! As usual, 10 great tracks of soul, some sweeping, some banging, all quite right. Enjoy!

Soul III by Austineustice on Mixcloud

Picturesque Sunset Reveals Park Slope Rooftop Deathmatch Cage

There was a lovely sunset the other night here in NYC. Stuck out the window of my third floor apartment, I got quite a view of the cotton candy sundown. It was very peaceful and a bit sad because it is the end of summer, and days of warmth and people  living outside are numbered. As I reflected on this change, from out to in, blue to gray, green to brow-HOLY CRUD, THAT LOOKS LIKE A DEATHRINK! There it was, on the horizon, a shoddy looking cage, constructed of chainlink fence with some sort of hide stretched across the top. My roommate suggested it may be for pigeons. This is no aviary, it is a place for dandy Park Slope men to reconnect with their primal roots, I am sure of it. I plan on keeping an eye on this and I will keep you all posted!

I was working on some icons for a live music app today and somehow I got to messing around.  What isn’t surprising is that skulls were the subject of my messing around. 

Season 3 Episode 9 in which a presumed dead but super evil doctor type is seen on a alien autopsy video Mulder got from (the internet? in 1990-whatever?). Some creepy human-alien hybrid experiments going on performed by Dr. Shiro Zama.

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

It’s The Year Twenty Twelve, Time to Find Your Inner Dragon.

Hello all, a happy new year to you. Here at AE HQ, I’m pretty exited for this new year. So much to come: apps, posters, games, and countless blog posts about all the wonderful and awful things that make up our 365 days a year. Thanks for following along.

Night Before Le Tour

The Tour de France begins tomorrow. This will be the first year I watch with any interest. I recently read the book It’s All About the Bike and it got me seriously into the idea of long tours. Learning about how these multi-day races began and what those first competitors suffered through made me look with a pretty critical eye on the modern Tour de France - with its teams of mechanics, daily massages and limit per day. In the old days (some hundred years ago), these men would ride as long as they possibly could (in extreme cases, up to three days without getting off the bike). They were often drugged up and half-crazed and some people died, so I suppose this had to be addressed at some point. Learning a little more about the course I’ve decided the daily set stages and all the pampering of the riders at each day’s finish line does not detract from the challenge of what must be an excruciating 3 weeks. So, I’m pretty excited to see some serious bicycling. I think also, they pee on the bike. Here is what I imagine each competitor will be dreaming tonight.