Hey, it’s Meat-colleague Jay here to plug a little comic I drew for the excellent sports journalism operation, The Classical. It’s about minor league hockey in Maine and features drawings like this:
And this:
And should that not be enough, it also includes a youtube link to a dude getting elbowed in the face.
What’s up dudes, let’s go to the Plymouth Meeting Mall Babbages and see if we can buy “Leisure Suit Larry” from the five dollar bin while mom’s getting soft pretzels.
EDIT: This is Jeffro’s post from yesterday so the shirt link works but you can’t buy it anymore. Anyways check out Jeffro’s blog. -Chris
Today only I have a shirt on Teefury.com in one of those “one day only” sales. The shirt is a parody of the show Cheers and the bar scene in Star Wars.
I used to draw a lot of cartoons in bars and just cram the page with weird patrons. I think I started doing this back in 1996 or 1997 at the tail end of my college years. It was the first time I really remember kind of liking my own drawings.
A few of these drawings were used as fliers for local Philly bars, like this one:
I haven’t done one of these cartoons in years, but I kind of missed it. So i did this shirt design in that style. If you are interested, you can CLICK HERE go to Teefury’s website to take a closer look or get the shirt.
I am throwing in something special with the next load of GFTG!4 orders just for the hell of it. Know why? You are very special to me.
Mark Sunshine, contributor to the new GO FOR THE GOLD! 4 receives a copy and records his initial impressions of it and then chills out on a car talking about the production of a new RIOTGOD track and the coming rainy weekend and the strangeness of life and then GO FOR THE GOLD! again. Check out Mark’s youtube channel for more video entires about monster dreams (with a diagram) and emotional puppy deliveries. I like watching these videos, it’s like a digital hang out session. Up top are a few of Mark’s drawings from his website collection.
Available for you to buy right now. GO FOR THE GOLD! 4, the latest sketchbook anthology from Meathaus. 379 b/w pages. Color cover. See a few more details in the store here.
And wow look at this contributor list:
Angie Wang, Arik Roper, Chris Capuozzo, Seth Scriver, Dash Shaw, Fritz Bol, Hannah K. Lee, Jesse Moynihan, Keat Teoh, Kristina Collantes, Matt Houston, Mikkel Sommer, Richard Short, Thomas Herpich, Tomer Hanuka, Victor Kerlow, Devin Flynn, Brandon Graham, Mark Sunshine, Mu Pan, Nick Edwards, Sam Vanallemeersch, Nicholas Gazin, Takeshi Tadatsu, Phil Rynda, Jim Rugg, Grant Reynolds, Jeremy Tinder, Jonny Negron, Jesse Balmer, Jeff Kilpatrick, Max Fiedler, Gary Leib, Pendleton Ward, Jon Boam, Chris McDonnell, Vincent Giard, Farel Dalrymple, Jason Sacher.
It has been a little slow around here for posting on the Meatlog recently because it has been very busy otherwise preparing for you something that is fantastic.
• 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.
Hey, a lot of us went to and met up at The School of Visual Arts over a decade ago, and so the Visual Arts Journal caught up with us and included Meathaus in the latest issue in an article about collectives. Read the online version here. As usual, when something neat happens I find a way to end up cringing in my shame cube regardless. For instance I saw the reproduction of my cover for GO FOR THE GOLD! 3 shiny and bold, pleasingly paired with Keat Teoh‘s creep on the opposite page, and shuddered with my stupidity. The credit line says Chris McDonnell, and yes, I made that cover, but I also included bits of every contributing artist’s work in the background for the specific purpose of the GFTG sketchbook anthology. And here it is running in another publication with no credit noted on each of those fantastic background bits. I’m here to correct that by once again listing all the colloborators on GO FOR THE GOLD! 3, which you should buy if you haven’t already. It’s a sweet peach. Preview here. Meathaus store here. Complete list of contributors here:
Andy Ristaino, Arik Roper, Benjamin Marra, Bob Flynn, Dash Shaw, Dave Kiersh, Esao Andrews, Farel Dalrymple, Jason Sacher, Josh Latta, HARVEYJAMES™, Inés Estrada, Jesse Moynihan, Katie Rice, Kevin Fagan, Michaela Zacchilli, Mu Pan, Nathan Fox, Nicholas Gazin, Nick Bertozzi, Peter Chung, Rebecca Sugar, Ron Wimberly, Sam Kim, Thomas Herpich, Victor Cayro, Vincent Giard, Vincent Stall, Zachary Baldus, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Brandon Graham, Robertryan Cory, Al Columbia, and Chris McD.
Also above you also can see a page of Rabid Rabbit art, another comics-centric collection of ex-SVAers.
I’ve started a weekly illustrated column over at The Bay Citizen, reporting on San Francisco culture and events. It’s called Drawing Crowds, and the first column is all about local art film advocacy group, Artist’s Television Access. The Bay Citizen does good, much-needed work for this town, and I’m honored to be a part of it.
Not that any of you are waiting with bated breath, but I’ll continue drawing weekly reviews for Meathaus every Wednesday, although this week is sadly postponed due to work-related activities.
