"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.

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"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.

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"... 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.

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"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.

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"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.

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“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.

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“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