Belle Isle Aquarium Update and the Mid Summers Expo

I have some changes to report about the Night At The Aquarium event scheduled for the 25th of this month. The Friends Of Belle Isle Aquarium have lowered the price to $60 per person and $100 per couple. Also, Port Huron artist Gregory Lashbrook will be painting live under water in one of the tanks, so that should be quite entertaining. And to add to the evening's shenanigan's, I will be on hand doing aquarium related cartoons. Yikes.

Red Sonja

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And on the convention front, I will be one of the many guests at the Mid Summers Expo tomorrow, July 11th in downtown Detroit at the Detroit Civiv Center. I know practically nothing about this show, so you may know more than me. It's a sci-fi, horror, comics type show not unlike the Motor City Comic Con, but on a smaller scale. One of the guests will be Tom Sullivan, who was the special effects guy and designer of things scary for the Evil Dead movies. I met Tom at the MCCC back in May and he is a really cool guy and has some interesting stories.

So, if any of you two people who frequent this blog are in the area, stop on by and say hello. I'll have the usual: magnets, book markers, prints, cartoon books and original artwork.

A Night At The Aquarium

On July 25th, The Friends Of Belle Isle Aquarium will be hosting a dinner fundraiser at the aquarium itself located on Belle Isle on the Detroit River. All the necessary information is on the flyer provided by FOBIA and this will definitely go a long way in helping to reopen the historic and cultural establishment. And keep in mind, if the price is too steep or you just can't make it down on that night, you can always visit the website and make a donation of any size.

Muck Man #6

Such is the downside to being a hero made of muck. The chicks don't dig slop.

ink.re.ments #4

Here is part two of the Bottle Breaking Hippie Kid episode. As you can plainly see, my imagination was already off and running at such a young age. Not much has changed since. Every time I see one of those Chinook helicopters flying out of Selfridge I always think of that day and laugh at what I thought was coming to me.

ink.re.ments #3

Finally, I scanned ink.re.ments #3 for your viewing pleasure. This little adventure actually happened to me when I was a wee lad in a parking lot down the street from my house. What I was doing in a parking lot that young unsupervised I'll never know. Part two, next!

I swear he called me a hippie.

Hey Crab Man

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This is a painting of Crab Man (My Name Is Earl) that I did last month. The print of this was my biggest seller at the Motor City Comic Con a few weeks ago.

Rehab Tribune Cartoons

These are the cartoons for the April and May issues that I did for Seattle's Rehab Tribune magazine. The first was done as an introduction for the print version of the mag and the second is about the cuts to funding that will not allow physical therapists to treat two patients together. I'm not sure on all the details of that, but you can read that here if you so please.