Dead Beat Dad Greetings

One of the finer aspects of being a freelance illustrator is doing a variety of gigs that can be unique in their own ways. Recently, I have been fortunate to work on a line of greeting cards for a Denver based company called Dead Beat Dad Greetings and you guessed it, they are aimed at the ever present dead beat dads of the world who never seem to be able to grasp that they "may" be shirking their most important responsibility. Their own children.  I've been having a lot of fun working on these images as they are challenging and unique. The cards will cover all the holidays, large and small and the major events in a growing child's life, so go on over to the website and check them out and pass the word along. I think we all know (or know someone who does) a few of these characters who may need a reminder that they should be doing the right thing.  

Columbus Day
Take your kid to work day
Christmas
Christmas

2008/09 Upper Deck NHL Legends Masterpiece

Here are a smattering of the 50 cards that I did for the Upper Deck NHL Legends Masterpiece set earlier this past summer. I had to wait until the set was released before I could show these and since that happened in September and one of my cards has already shown up on ebay (last time I checked the bid was at $112 for the Esposito card in the second row), I can safely show them. I had to do 10 of Gordie Howe and 10 of Wayne Gretzky and the other 30 were of my choosing from the list of Hockey legends that was made available to us arteests.

I did these right at the time of the Stanley Cup and refused to do any Mario Lemieux cards until after the Wings beat the Penguins. Didn't want to jinx 'em. But, I did do two of Mario (not shown here) afterwards.

Marvel Masterpiece III Sketch Cards, Part 4

Here are some more Marvel goodness from the Upper Deck set. As you can probably tell by now I focused on head shots for this set. No special reason, I just wanted to do them in this way, so I stuck with that approach for all 400 cards.

68. Baron Zemo 69. Captain Marvel 70. Deathstalker

71. The Destroyer 72. Egghead 73. Ghost Rider

74. The Green Goblin 75. Nova 76. Satanna
77. Son Of Satan 78. Spider-Woman 79. Thanos

80. 3-D Man 81. The Torpedo 82. Warlock

83. White Tiger 84. An A.I.M. agent 85. The Beast
86. The Beetle 87. Beta Ray Bill 88. The Collector

89. Colossus 90. Deathstrike 91. Gladiator

92. Goliath 93. The Guardsman 94. The Hulk
95. Iron Man 96. J. Jonah Jameson 97. Krang

98. Kro 99. The Awesome Android 100. Marvel Girl

101. Master 102. Mister Fear 103. Vindicator

104. Aurora 105. Northstar 106. Vindicator II

107. Box 108. The Vulture 109. The Green Goblin

110. The Jackal 111. Spider-Man 112. Tarantula

7th Annual Goreyfest and Auction

This past weekend I was in the fine state of Massachusetts and had the chance to visit the Edward Gorey House over on the Cape in Yarmouth Port. In the midst of spending way too much money on Gorey books and other such trinkets I had mentioned to the gentleman behind the desk that I had done a portrait of Mr. Gorey and he had said that he would be interested in seeing it and mentioned the auction that was to be held the next Saturday. So, once (I should say immediately) I was back home, I sent the image out to them and they seemed to like it as they agreed to my sending something in for the auction, even though it was well past the deadline. Awesome. So, I will have five 8x10 prints of my Gorey portrait available for bidding. How very serendipitous.

The auction will be held in support of the Edward Gorey House this Saturday October 4th from 4:30 to 7:30pm at the Yarmouth Port Community Center right across the street from the Gorey House. In addition to helping out the museum, I believe proceeds will also help out the International Fund For Animal Welfare. So, two very good causes that I am happy to be a part of.

I'm really giddy over this.

Marvel Masterpiece III Sketch Cards, Part 3

Here are some more cards from the Marvel Masterpiece III set that will be released in November. So, my first 45 cards were all rejected by Marvel, but out of the next 355 that I sent in only about 30 of those were dismissed for one reason or another. All in all, not bad, but I am disappointed that I can't show some of those first cards. Some of my favorites were in there. 

1. Ronan, The Accuser (already shown) 2. The Sandman (already shown) 28. Sasquatch

29. The Scarecrow 30. The Scarlet Witch 31. A Sentinel 
32. Shanna, the She-Devil 33. The Shroud 34. Sidewinder

35. The Silver Samurai 36. The Silver Surfer 37. A Skrull

38. Snowbird 39. Speed Demon 40. The Sphinx
41. Spider-Man 42. Stingray 43. The Super Skrull

44. The Supreme Intelligence 45. The Taskmaster 46. The Thing

47. Thor 48. Tigra 49. The Titanium Man
50. Ultron 51. Union Jack 52. Valkyrie 

53. Viper 54. The Vision 55. The Vulture

56. The Wasp 57. A Watcher 58. Whirlwind
59. The White Queen 60. The Wizard 61. Wolverine

62. Wonder Man 63. The Wrecker 64. Bulldozer

65. Gabriel, The Airwalker 66. Baron Blood 67. Baron Strucker

Muck Man #2

I haven't posted a Muck Man adventure in quite awhile. This one was supposed to be in the next issue of Rice On The Other, but I have not heard anything from that camp in some time, so I will go ahead and post it. I have more, really I do.

Muck Man #2

10.5x12.75

ink and black gesso on bristol board

Husker Du

My buddy Chris Quigley has recorded another song and he asked me to do the artwork to accompany the tune, which is called Husker Du. He wanted a take on the Clash's London Calling album cover, but instead of a guitar Chris would be smashing a sax as the good 'ole sax hater that he is. It really has nothing to do with the song, but not going off on a tangent just wouldn't be our style. 

So, go to his blog and have a listen.