Belleview Drink N Draw

 

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colored pencil in sketchbook

Last night I was invited to a Drink N Draw night at Egan's Pub in Belleview. A fun time was had by all and up above is the one and only sketch that I did (gabbing, eating, drinking, gabbing, etc). Todd made for a good subject, so I did my best to be quick about it.

Great Lakes Comic Con Wrap Up

 

This past weekend was the Great Lakes Comic Con and this one was truly one of the best cons that I have had in some time. Catching up with my fellow artists, (some with whom I haven't seen in a while), all the people who came by to talk and great sales, to boot. One of my table mates, Jason Westlake had to put up with me all weekend, but I think we had a good time. At least I did! 

It was also a bittersweet weekend, in that show promoter Mike DeSantis passed away just a few short weeks ago. I talked with quite a few people who knew Mike (including his wife) better than I did and enjoyed the stories about him. He seemed like a heck of a nice guy who was passionate about comics and comic cons. I hope that this weekend was a huge success in all ways possible for the DeSantis family.

Above are some of the sketches that I did inside some books that I sold. There were more, but I neglected to take pics of the others.

Great Lakes Comic Con and Leonardo

 

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ink on bristol board

I'm all set up here at the Great Lakes Comic Con. Festivities start at 5 and go to 9 tonight. 

Keven Eastman of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame will be here this weekend, so I did up a drawing of Leonardo. If you are nice, I'll let you buy it and have him sign it for you. But, you have to be nice.

The Great Lakes Comic Con 2025

 

This weekend, starting on Friday evening, I will be set up in the Artist Alley section. I will have all the usual, books, prints, sketch cards, original art, etc, so stop on by and say hello. 

Second Star Character Profile: Uncle Buck

 

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ink in sketchbook 

So, I'm currently inking the third issue of my comic, Second Star. In this issue there is a character called Uncle Buck, who is the uncle of the main guy, Holden. In this comic, all of the main characters are based on people that I know or knew when I plotted this whole thing out. Don't even get me started on all that! Uncle Buck is based on my Uncle Chuck, who passed away in 2016. I even drew him with 'The Spy' on his t-shirt. 'The Spy' was a sketch that he did for me when I was 10. I still have that sketch, too. He was a big fan of Mad Magazine and Big Daddy Roth and I'm sure that his sketch was inspired from somewhere in those things. Anyways, in this issue he plays a small, but important role in Holden's search for his missing and presumed dead, archaeologist grandfather. 

And I think that my uncle sort of liked it when I called him Uncle Buck. I'm sure that he was a fan of John Candy. Stay tuned for more about Second Star...

Kill Krill Kill!

 

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ink and digital

So, a few weeks ago, I mentioned on a couple of social media sites that I had had a weird, yet entertaining dream about watching a horror movie where a village was attacked by plankton. It was a slow moving movie, but horrifying as you might imagine. Being more of a cartoonist than a movie maker, I finally did up a toon depicting a gruesome scene with an unsuspecting victim. 

Workplace Cartoon, Part Two

 

My latest Substack post wraps up all that Star Florists nonsense...

Click here to take you there!

Democrat-esque

 

This is pretty much what I feel about Democrats these days. 

"Hey, it's a shitstorm, but could you keep me being a millionaire?'