Amazing Facts…and Beyond! With Leon Beyond is the comic strip by the stalwart USS Catastrophe comics crew, Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch (previously mentioned here) which you can read in a much more pleasing, larger size on their Amazing Facts blog.
It’s a great day for Rob Tyner of the MC5 singing “Grande Days” solo on the autoharp!
Damon and Aaron of invademyprivacy.com sent over their latest sampler pack of comics, music and stickers and a note thanking us for posting their art last time. You bet, pals. Keep drawing those monster comics.
It’s a great day for YMO’s “Technopolis”!
Remember all the way back to yesterday when we posted about these wallets from Poketo? Well here is an interesting wrinkle: we are giving away one of each of the five designs in the new “Perverse Universe” series to five lucky people over the next week that will be selected in five different ways. Poketo describes their new series thusly:
“We are so very thrilled to present to you guys the Perverse Universe Wallet Series. We have harnessed the wild and crazy energies of Matt Furie, Jon Vermilyea, and Louie Cordero into wallet form, as well as comic books, prints and posters!”
To see what they are talking about, check this link. The five wallet designs are above.
Let’s begin. To win the first giveaway wallet selected from above, comment on this very post by late tonight, July 20th. That’s to be safely entered in the running. If you happen to catch this in the early hours of July 21, you can still comment and enter. The selection happens when I roll out of bed at some ungodly hour in the morning and devise a computerized system for random selection of the winner. Then I will contact you to get your name and address. So be sure to comment with your email, not anonymously. Duh.
The remaining four wallets will be given out over the next week in different ways. Stay tuned. Secret clues: Twitter. Registered Meathaus Blog Users.
Bill Plympton is the ideal case study for all independent animators who want to achieve some level of success doing what they love to do: producing animation that pleases themselves and their audience. While it is all relative, most would agree that continued survival while working with creative autonomy is a major benchmark of indie animation success. Fortunately for artists everywhere, Bill has written a new book (with David B. Levy), that details his history of success and failure in animation and live action filmmaking. As the art director of the book, I’ll be able to share peeks at its progress over the coming year here and there. As an independent animator myself, I’m already inspired from reading Bill’s rough draft, and planning my next short. Keep this book in mind and be sure to pick it up next year. Pair it with Jon M. Gibson and my previous book about Ralph Bakshi, and you’ll have yourself a double visual ass-kicking any time you need to motivate yourself back on track on your own indie production. Above is a small detail of the cover drawing from Bill’s book.
Michael Lomon writes from the UK:
A gift to say thank you this spring for all the lovely pictures posted. #1 Metal Between Two Faces comic – enjoy!!
Thanks for send over the book, Mike. I’m digging the three point perspective city scape panel, with pencil rough on the last page as well.
Despite already being covered in every magazine in the world, the people of POKETO knew that they still desired to reach out to the specific, highly-intelligent, cartoony art blog enthusiast, which of course is you, dear reader. Consequently, they sent over samples of the wallets that they produce featuring two artists that we know and love, Jon Vermilyea (previously posted here) and Matt Furie (previously posted here and many more). Each wallet has artwork sewn into a clear plastic body with plastic pockets that could handle a modest amount of cash, cards and doodads. Besides wallets, POKETO produces a lot of products and works with a large group of artists that are all worth investigating further.
