Landon Complete

Landon is done and at his new home The Diamond in Greenpoint(he's living in the basement until he can be put up). Here's a few photo's of the almost finished, which looks more painterly, and the finished Landon, and Landon on the streets in Queens. I can't get over how nice it was to paint big again. Thanks to Dave and Alex for commissioning Landon. I'll put something up when he makes it out onto the wall's of the bar.

World's Last Classic New Yorker

I love the 14D bus. It's one of my favorite places to listen to other
people talk, some of my favorite overheard and involved in conversations happen waiting for or on the bus. It gives me hope that there's people still in Manhattan other than the douche bag cookie cutter yuppies and their trend following hipster sheep peers. This said, I've only lived here 8 years and am from the suburbs of D.C. (I'm guilty!), but point being, I'm a lover of the classics and probably a bit of a romantic revisionist when it comes to the "old days", but Hell, whatever happened to a REAL culture done for something other than MOney...OK, OK, OK, I'm hoping there's lots of exceptions and I'm just bitter that NIKE never wanted to buy me 20 acres at a surf spot in central america for my work, but ,
BUT
I rode the bus this morning with this guy that I wanted to wrap up and save because I'm afraid he was the last one I'll ever see or get to interact with in his natural environment. It was wonderful, strange, and a little sad to think that this freakin' 84 yr old guy riding the bus and blabbin' about the O.T.B. on Delancey (crossing himself at every church we passed) and Octagon soap in Chinatown (4 boxes for a dollar) waving his hand off at me while saying "f'a get about it.. are you kidden me..." (and not in an "I'm imitating this" way) was so rare. I know plenty of classic old Peurto Rican and Dominican guys in my neighborhood and the same goes for Jewish ladies and gentleman, but this guy!! Lord have mercy, I watched him in the window of the bus as it pulled away and thought, "There he goes, the last of the old New York in Manhattan I may ever get to share a bus ride with."

This Old Experimental Comik

this isn't olde and it's not really new, it's an experiment in puking up ideas without reflection...don't harsh my mellow bro!

Landon Mural

Michael Landon's head is coming alive. I cut the head shape out of MDF board, backed it with some framing, put a "french cleat" piece on the bottom, filled in the counter sunk screw holes with wood putty, gessoed, sanded the whole thing, sketched the basics on with pencil, reverse Osmosisized the transition brackets, registered the coordinates with Local 318 and last nite began the underpainting. I forgot how much I love painting big and ended up doing lots of coordinated dance moves as I dance jam painted the hell out of Landons head complete with dive rolls around the studio floor. Looking at the painting I may have let my beret and the smoking, naked, wine drinking bohemian bon vivants go too wild and will have to reign in the dancing kicks and spins and opt for more pensive naked lounging between brush strokes.

H2O and Ink

Playing around

Local Horror Continues...slowly-ish

The Comic I began for the Horror of Rabid Rabbit #9 that I just mentioned is currently being continued and supposedly headed for a 2 month trial run on surf website Wetsand.com
It is a slow process, but I'm trying to streamline the process and keep the results good. Here's the story so far. I'll mention the links to the Wetsand site once that happens. (click on the images for the full size version)

C.R.E.A.M. -Rabid Rabbit #9 (buy this comic!)

It's been out for awhile, but not THAT long and it is the holidays and what else....
READING IS FUNdamental and you can be the first person on your block to own it, etc. etc.
Where can I get this previously Blogged about EC Horror tribute Collection of varied great new and old comic creators? Many places! On the Rabid Rabbit website for those interwebcommerce inclined (click on the "online store" tab).
or maybe you prefer walking into an actual store and previewing before you buy, holding it lovingly with your hands? Well,
you can do that in several wonderful stores around the U.S. (click on "R.R. in stores" tab)