Monthly Archives: March 2010

Douglas Bicicleta Art

Check out the work of Douglas Bicicleta over on his Flickr area for dolphin bazookas, headless bikini surfers and the above TMNT fan art.

Berol Meltdown Drawings

Berol Meltdown keeps a selection of sketchbook drawings, print and wall work up on the Flickr.

Brendan Danielsson Drawings

Brendan Danielsson draws and paints in Atlanta and is an expert at eyebrow, multi-boob, head-genital technology. Here is the website and the blog.

Josh Holinaty Illustration

Josh Holinaty has a nice collection of artwork about ambiguous biomorphic lands with dangerous train tracks you wouldn’t want to ride, plus sketchbooks and an editorial illustration section. Plus blog.

Ralph Bakshi Show Opening

This weekend in NYC at the Animazing Gallery, Ralph Bakshi returns with a gallery opening of new work called The Streets. Friday night is an invitation only reception followed by a Saturday afternoon public opening and book signing. The show consists of his constructions which are dimensional sculpture/painting hybrids that usually hang on the wall. Here is a video made in relation to the opening that describes the context of the work. The gallery info on the show is here.

While on the subject of Ralph, here is a video that has been popular on the internet amongst students and the creative crowd, produced by Stephen Worth of the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive. It is a clip of the interview he conducted with Ralph at the San Diego Comicon a few years ago. Ralph answers a question about surviving tough times with such great enthusiasm, humor and conviction that this clip has actually motivated people to get off their asses and start producing their own work. I know this because I’ve read it on blogs over and over again in the last few years. This is definitely worth watching for all of you who haven’t seen it or haven’t seen Ralph in person before. And it is worth watching again if you saw it last year, it is about time for a recharge.

Yellow Owl Workshop Giveaway Contest

Jay here, hijacking the MH blog from Chris McD for a shameless plug. Over at my day job as an editor at Chronicle Books, I get to work on all kinds of amazing stuff, from silly art books, to a publishing line with Meathaus’ own James Jean, to whole array of stationery and paper goods with different artists and designers.

Today I wanted to cue you in to my friends Christine Schmidt and her husband Evan Gross, who run San Francisco’s Yellow Owl Workshop. Chronicle has just published The Yellow Owl LCD Notecard collection and the Yellow Owl Woodland Notepad set. Both items are quite frankly awesome and Readymade online is hosting a give away contest for them as well as a great interview with Chris. Follow this link to the contest…

Chicken Billy Art

Chicken Billy does up these designs and posts them on his blog and Flickr areas.

Seb Van Doninck

Sebastiaan Van Doninck has a blog which includes some sketches and ink drawings and a website and was recently featured on illustrationmundo.

Mineshaft Comics Magazine

Mineshaft Magazine is an off-set printed little comics zine with contributors that span generations of comics scenes including big names from the “underground” like R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson. The first few issues were put together with rubber cement in some kind of combination of log cabins and chicken coops, but they’ve now got their production methods down and serious fans looking forward to each issue. Older issues are getting sold out. It would be cool to see PDF versions on the website of sold out issues and more art, but there is enough stuff there to whet your art desire. Checkitout and buy issues here.

Geoffrey Skywalker Art

Geoffrey Skywalker is a student that likes type/form experimentation and more importantly he likes my favorite video game, Burgertime.