TWO comic book events

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

I will be at Brave New World Comics in Santa Clarita on May 7th for Free Comic Book Day.  I’ll be there selling books of my work and making sketches for adults and kids.  This is a great opportunity because Brave New World Comics is not just an ordinary run of the mill comic book store.  They promote comics and their store almost daily with events, class and guest that keep comics vibrant and alive for the Santa Clarita community and beyond.  If you don’t believe me, get on their email list and you will see I speak the truth.  On top of that they were 2008 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing award winner and owner Atom was named a judge in the 2008 Eisner Comic Book Industry Awards.
Come out if you are in the area and visit, say hello and see a store that will have your re-thinking what a comics books store can look and feel like.  They are located at 22722 Lyons Ave., in Santa Clarita, California (about 20 miles from LA). Or follow them on Twitter.

KIDS READ COMICS

This is on June 17^th & 18^th in Chelsea, Michigan at the Chelsea District Library. 

This is a great event that was started a few years ago by youth and teen librarian Edith Burney of Chelsea, cartoonist and educator Jerzy Drozd of Ann Arbor, comic shop owner Dan Merritt of Dearborn, and comic book writer Dan Mishkin of East Lansing.  

Although this is a long way to go to event like this I think the people behind this and participating are people that believe in showing how comics can be used as a creative story telling device and the advantages it has to the creator and the reader and what the future might bring in this medium.  It is also packed with super talent published comic book creators that I look forward to meeting.  Check out the list of guest that will be there.

Take care.

Abstract piece I finished recently.

I did this with watercolor, marker and ink & then combined it in PS.  May need to be cropped.

Business men digital ink sketches

Playing around with a character I was building.   Drawn in Manga Studio

Business trips in Vegas

I drew this as a tribute/joke about business conventions in Vegas

"Imagined Worlds" Art show at Undergrounds

I was very fortunate to be asked to participate in art show at a really cool coffee shop in Valencia, CA called Undergrounds called "Imagined Worlds"

The art show will is put on by the insanely talented passionate art and culture group called Proxart and the other artist in the show are Disney animator Glen Keane (the most legendary Disney animator still working in animation - Google him, seriously), John Loughlin III, and Tiffany Ford. 

Tickets must be purchased for the show but should be filled with lots of cool art caffine and a great crowd. Sorry I did not post about this show sooner as it is taking place this Friday.