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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Quentin Blake Art
May 23, 2011 – 1:25 pm
Quentin Blake’s artwork is relentlessly fun to look at, and he has really given the art appreciator a gift in his well-done, well-stocked website which provides everything a curious person needs: information from every angle, art galleries, images from the archives, process posts, videos and more. The above bird is from the House of Illustration website, another project related to Mr. Blake. Previously mentioned here on this Jillian Tamaki post.
Letter to Meathaus: Gilbert Leiker
May 23, 2011 – 6:17 am
Gilbert Leiker sent over a handsome book, Clutter 1, or How it All Ended Badly Despite Our Impeccable Taste in Science, which also happens to be the title of his blog, which is where you can see much more of these pieces. Unless I lost a piece of correspondence that accompanied this 70 page book of intense drawing compositions, the only info Gilbert wanted to communicate further to us is that an astronautical cat riding a comically mustachioed shark has a soft-spot for Meathaus, which I can appreciate.
Letter to Meathaus: Kelly Clancy
May 23, 2011 – 5:49 am
Kelly Clancy spent two years teaching in southern Turkmenistan and found inspiration for a massive comics story that she published with the help of a Xeric grant. Kelly writes:
“I’m a huge fan of Meathaus, and being originally from Philly myelf I’m always psyched to read about all the awesome art that’s happening over there. I’m sending along a copy of my recently published first graphic novel Soldiers of God for the site. All proceeds from this book go to charity so I really appreciate all the publicity I can get! You can find more information, and more comics, at thedivinebanquet.com—the book’s available there or on amazon. Thanks again!”
Soldiers of God is available to check out on her website and more pages from it are over here. Plus she came up with a new theme for re-captioning The Family Circus.
New Becky Print
May 20, 2011 – 12:23 pm
Check out this new print that Becky made with Mike Moses. Look at that chain mail! Read more about it and get one of the one hundred available here.
Bits of Things
May 20, 2011 – 5:46 am
• Once again this year Meathaus will be at the Philly Alt Comic Con on Sunday, August 14th. Once again I am psyched about such a fun show being in such close proximity to my case-loads of back issues and new comics ambitions. With the sting of not producing new books for MoCCA and not even being able to get away from work that weekend to attend that show still burning on my comics-hide, (Celia did make it to represent Meathaus and hung tuff), showing up at P.A.C.C. with a table of interestingness should be all the sweeter.
• Amid Amidi over at Cartoon Brew mentioned my new drawing/doodle book, Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book in this post yesterday, which totally caught my early promotional efforts with their pants down, which is a good thing because I had to quickly clean up my presentation of images over here where I had begun stashing samples from the book and examples of people’s drawings from the book. Anyway, I’ll certainly be posting about the book again closer to its release date this September, and if you are at all curious to read more unrestrained yakking about it until then there is always my McD Workshop blog, with pictures! I think there is a good chance I’ll have some of these at P.A.C.C. this August, but in the weird way publishing works I think it is better for everyone involved if you buy one from a retailer? Send me any questions you have about it and I’ll be happy to write back.
• Brandon was part of a super-panel recently discussing story concepts with comics-colleagues Paul Pope and Sam Hiti, hosted by Mr. Inkstuds Robin McConnell at TCAF, check it out here.
Meathauser Jeffro Kilpatrick’s Shirt Submission on Threadless
May 18, 2011 – 2:12 pm
Longtime Meathaus member Jeffro Kilpatrick has recently submitted the above design to the online Threadless Tee Shirt Contest. Please CLICK HERE to go to the site to vote for his design. Please like it on Facebook and do all that other crazy stuff to show the Meathaus Love too. Thank ye in advance.
You can see where the original concept for the design came by CLICKING HERE.
You can view Jeffro’s work on his blog by CLICKING HERE.
Yo Gabba Gabba Art Show
May 18, 2011 – 11:56 am
Pleased to pass on the info to you that Yo Gabba Gabba is putting on an art show at Meltdown in LA, with an opening reception June 3rd, from 7 to 10 pm, featuring both kid and adult cocktails. Here’s the info over here.
Phil McAndrew Advice
May 18, 2011 – 6:48 am
Phil McAndrew (previously posted here dressed as a knob) has posted a truckload of solid “super obvious secrets” for anyone trying to make a living as a cartoonist/illustrator/artist. It’s the kind of knowledge that arrives with experience, so it should be especially useful for students just being released into the wild. Add one cheeky bullet point to the list:
• Make an illustrated how-to blog post with useful information that you can share and it will get posted on blogs that link to neat stuff which in turn creates additional awareness of your work.
Via Drawn.
Hato Press and Efdeay
May 18, 2011 – 6:01 am
Get into these prints and books printed by the Hato Press group in London that includes work like the prints above by Andy Ainger (top) and SAC (bottom), both involved with the collective Efdeay which worked in residency at Hato for several months. Read an interview here with Efdeay to learn more about their launderette pop up shops and D.I.W.O (Do It With Others) ethos. Andy Ainger previously mentioned here.