The Weather's Changing (and So Am I)

Just finished a new print for the Instigatorzine Pink Awareness Sale! Click HERE for a link to their Etsy! Here are the deets straight from the gator's mouth:

"For the entire month of October. buy artist prints and support Breast Cancer treatment, prevention, and education. Instigatorzine will donate 50% of all purchases to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Purchases will be mailed at the end of the month."

All prints on sale will also be making an appearance at Instigatorzine's booth at New York Comic Con which is running at the Javits Center from October 13th through the 16th! Click HERE to RSVP to the event on Facebook!

I'm screaming a lot in this post...the first one in almost a YEAR...YIKES! Stay tuned...

Laura's House

 

Here are my two most recent spot illustrations for the upcoming issue of Instigatorzine for the short story Laura's House by Lisa Sofranko. Currently, these are digital, but I'm in the process of converting them into a silkscreen print to get a better handle on my transparency overlays. For these new pieces, I purposely limited myself in terms of imagery in an effort to broaden my symbolic visual vocabulary to reinterpret the story in a concise and different manner. Check it once its printed!

The CREEPS Annual Zine Release Party was excellent! The turn out and distribution was incredible and exciting. Check out the NEW website designed by fellow CREEPS Joseph DeDalto and Michael Maguire (who also made super cool Goosebump POG pins for all the collaborators) and stay tuned for information on where you can get your own copy of CREEPS Annual. Thanks again to Nina Carelli for letting me be involved and being the bomb.com!

 

By the way, if you're into cartoons, the retro, hoarding, collaging, etc. and finding yourself free these days go check out Kenny Scharf and Dearraindrop's collaborative show at The Hole: Hot Glue Hullabaloo. It was INCREDIBALLZ! Kenny's Cosmic Cavern was like experiencing my childhood rolled up into a ball and exploded onto the surrounding walls. Blew my mind and left me with a Sour Patch kids taste in my mouth...which is never a bad thing! Check out Flavorpill's review of the show HERE and check it out for yourself before December 4th.

Its been really difficult keeping up with updating since the loss of my Macbook (RIP), but hopefully my pockets will run deep enough soon to heal my heart with a replacement!

Live Electronics

Since my last update, my friend, Narciso Espiritu, has invited me on board the illustration staff of a local literary zine, Instigatorzine, which is gaining popularity and expanding its distribution at a quickening pace! Above is my second submission for the upcoming October issue, which you can pick up at any of the distributors or order online via the website. CHECK IT OUT!...and lets pretend my first submissions never happened!

PRINT ACHIEVEMENTS
I finished it in two days and I only used 3 separations, which in my experience is unheard of. PROUD!

SAVE THE DATE October 20th, 2010!
Another collaborative effort I've been enlisted for by head creep, Nina Carelli, The CREEPS Collective, is having its Zine Release Launch Party and Gallery Exhibition (which I will be a part of) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM at CULTUREfix in the LES. Check out the FB event here and come out, buy a zine, and have a drink...or four! I'll be debuting a new wacky print that is developing deliciously.