It’s been awhile since my last post! A lot has happened, Artomatic has come and gone (made some great sales!), I moved (a mile away from my old home), I attended San Diego Comic-con and I’ve turned 30

(I recommend Wolfgang Puck’s The Source restaurant). All of which were quite a blast. Below are 2 highlights from my trip to comic-con taken by Tony.

Comic-con was a new adventure, I’ve never attended or been to San Diego. Got to see one of my favorite artists speak, Jim Woodring, saw Gwen Stefani’s pants at the Hard Rock Hotel, ate fish tacos and doodled on my nintendo DS.

As mentioned, I moved recently, so I haven’t been doing much at home other than putting my house and studio together. Work has been keeping me busy with a really fun super secret project, it’s a printed piece with tons of drawings in it and I can’t wait until it’s released upon the world. I’ll get images up here as soon as I can.

I’m also getting my gocco warmed up so I can offer some prints. All in due course. I’ll keep everyone posted!

“Futakuchi-Onna” 11.5 x 11.5″, acrylic on wood

This past weekend was the opening of Yokai in Your Eye group show at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery in Florida, I was unable to attend, but Amanda, the gallery owner, was able to take some really great shots of the participating artists’ work and the show itself. Check out her Flickr set here.

Bear and Bird Gallery walls.

To purchase this painting, check out the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery Online Shop (unless you’re local of course!)

Tonight is the night folks!

It’s time for ARTOMATIC 2008 and I’ll be participating for the very
first time! I’ll have 2 new paintings and a new serigraph print
available. (pictured here)

The opening night is TONIGHT, Friday (May 9th) from 12pm-2am. Free
admission.

I’m on the 11th floor (the floor with the bar) on the NW side (the
side without the bar). I plan on being there from about 7pm until late. So drop by whenever you can.

Artomatic (http://artomatic.org)
Opening Friday, May 9 - Closing June 15
1200 First St NE
Capital Plaza I - corner of First & M streets NE - NY Ave Metro
Wed-Thu: 5pm-10pm; Fri-Sat: noon-2am; Sun: noon-10pm; closed Mon-Tue

The amount of artists this year is huge, There’s around 1,000 participants. 10 floors of artwork. And no worries about finding your way around. It’s a simple layout (unlike the maze of rooms from last year).

Parking, from what I understand, is on the street, there’s 2 clubs nearby, so the metro is probably your best bet. It’s a quick couple blocks from the NY Ave. train station, you can see the building from the platform.

Thanks everyone, hope to see you there, with friends!

Here’s a couple images from Yuri’s Night 2008. Had a great time and saw some great artwork and amazing stripteases. Thanks to Jared, Kate and Art Whino for a great evening!

If you want to see some more photos from the event that night, I believe Jared has some, and Scott Brooks does as well!

The popular illustration portal Little Chimp Society and many of the illustrators featured on the site have been ripped off. A Chinese publisher of mysterious origins has produced a several hundred page book of the website’s content and is selling it online for $100.

Interviews and artwork were swiped verbatim from the website and while the artists are all credited, none of them were contacted or are being compensated for their artwork. The clincher for me is the fact that the book contains a CD of all the images in the book and they didn’t even bother to change the file names from the web!

The rightfully disgruntled Darren Di Lieto has posted about this on his blog and the contents of the book have been posted as well.

legitimate irony:

I’ve posted to the site and fortunately my artwork wasn’t swiped, so either A. I’m not popular enough to include, or B. my low-res images saved my ass.
So if you’re a copyright lawyer or know one, I hear LCS is looking for one.