Is it on?? Oh Hell, yes! It's ON!!

Tomorrow, I fly out to (some say "scenic") San Diego for America's largest comic/pop culture fest, known to many as "Comic Con" and too a few others as "Squid Elder Things Attack 2009". I have all my art work prepped, portfolios ready, and my "medicinal" flasks filled for the long march to sunny San Diego fanboy glory.

If you do make it to the convention, I will be appearing at the SLG Publishing booth (#1820) all weekend. Not only will there be plenty of copies of the Byron GN, but I will also have many prints with me from all my series (Drunkards, Horror, Jazz, Cabaret, and a couple others...) I may actually dance a small jig if you ask nicely...

So, here's the game plan:

Thursday 7/23: 2:30-4:00 pm
Friday 7/24: 11:30-1:00 pm and 5:30-7:00 pm
Saturday 7/25:10:00-11:00 am
Sunday 7/26:10:00-11:00 am

Other then that, I'll be wandering around the convention (Kelly, knowing her priorities, will be at the beach...) while trying to find a decent bar without having to taser anyone. This is a lot more difficult than it seems...

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 16: Holiday

NUMBER 16

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's is the sixteenth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday

For Billie Holiday's bio, go HERE

'Holiday' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 15: Brooks

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fourteenth images. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

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“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.” - Louise Brooks

For Louise Brooks's bio, go HERE

'Brooks' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 14: Baker

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's is the fourteenth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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For Chet Baker's bio, go HERE

'Baker' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 13: Brecht & Weill

DOUBLE SHOT

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the thirteenth images. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

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"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels." - Bertolt Brecht

For Bertolt Brecht's bio, go HERE

'Brecht' Ink/Digital Color, July '09



"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. " - Kurt Weill

For Kurt Weill's bio, go HERE

'Weill' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 12: Monk & Gordon

Double Shot

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's are images number twelve. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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"I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum." - Thelonious Monk

For Thelonious Monk's bio, go HERE

'Monk' Ink/Digital Color, July '09



"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up." - Dexter Gordon

For Dexter Gordon's bio, go HERE

'Gordon' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 11: Dietrich & Berber

DOUBLE SHOT

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the eleventh images. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

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"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact." - Marlene Dietrich

For Marlene Dietrich's bio, go HERE

'Dietrich 02' Ink/Digital Color, July '09



"The Priestess of Depravity"

For Anita Berber's bio, go HERE.

'Berber 02' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 10: Parker

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the tenth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

Click on the image for a larger view.

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker

For Charlie Parker's bio, go HERE

'Parker' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 09: Bow

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the ninth image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

Click on the image for a larger view.

"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs." - Clara Bow

For Clara Bow's bio, go HERE.

'Bow' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 08: Davis

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the eighth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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“For me, music and life are all about style.” - Miles Davis

For Miles Davis' bio, go HERE

'Davis' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 07: Baker

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the seventh image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

Click on the image for a larger view.

"... I improvised, crazed by the music... Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone." - Josephine Baker

For Josephine Baker's bio, go HERE.

'Baker' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 06: Calloway

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fifth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

Click on the image for a larger view.

"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience." - Cab Calloway

For Cab Calloway's bio, go HERE

'Calloway' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 05: Berber

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fifth image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

Click on the image for a larger view.

"Life in the service of poetry is a life not wasted" -attributed to Anita Berber

For Anita Berber's bio, go HERE.

I highly recommend the Feral House book: "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber. Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity" by Mel Gordon.

I will post the second Berber piece in a couple days. Would love to do a comic just about Anita Berber and her pet monkey.

'Berber 01' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 04: Mingus

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fourth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

Click on the image for a larger view.

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” -Charles Mingus

For Charles Mingus' bio, go HERE

'Mingus' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 03: Lenya

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the third image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

Click on the image for a larger view.

“Seeräuber-Jenny (Pirate Jenny)” Text: Bertolt Brecht
 Musik: Kurt Weill
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Und es werden kommen hundert gen Mittag an Land
Und werden in den Schatten treten
Und fangen einen jeglichen aus jeglicher Tür
Und legen ihn in Ketten und bringen vor mir
Und fragen: Welchen sollen wir töten?
Und an diesem Mittag wird es still sein am Hafen
Wenn man fragt, wer wohl sterben muss.
Und dann werden Sie mich sagen hören: Alle!
Und wenn dann der Kopf fällt, sag ich: Hoppla!

Und das Schiff mit acht Segeln

Und mit fünfzig Kanonen
Wird entschwinden mit mir.

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And hundreds will come ashore around noon
And will step into the shadows

And will catch anyone in any door

And lay him in chains and bring him before me

And ask: Which one should we kill?

And at that midday it will be quiet at the harbor

When they ask, who has to die.

And then they'll hear me say: All of them!

And when the heads roll, I'll say: Hurray!


And the ship with eight sails

And with fifty cannons

Will disappear with me.

For Lotte Lenya's bio, go HERE

'Lenya' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 02: Coltrane

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the second image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

Click on the image for a larger view.

“I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.”

For John Coltranes's bio, go HERE

'Coltrane' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 01: Dietrich

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days" (yes, SDCC is only 16 days away.) I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the first image. This is from the new Cabaret series I'm working on. Click on the image for a larger view.

"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. "

For Marlene Dietrich's bio, go HERE

'Dietrich' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

FAIM WORLDWIDE 3rd annual Helmet Show

From FAIM WORLDWIDE:

"TONITE come check out the 3rd annual FAIM WORLDWIDE helmet art show and SUPERSCREENPRINT and EQUILLIBRIUMS open house to help celebrate their new location. Festivities kick off around 6 and will go through the night. SPECIAL musical performance by COREY DAGGERS starts around 930. Come down for a night of great art, great friends, and good times. Alameda & Platte River Dr, South on Platte to W. Custer, BE THERE!!!"

Here's my entry the Sugar Skull helmet: