Alien here to kill us all or viral advertising for a movie about an alien here to kill us all?

Video footage from the North Carolina sewers.

More Archie Cards

Page three- top 1/2

Midge Klump and Moose Mason, Melody Valentine, Katy Keene, Betty Cooper, disembodied head of Archie Andrews.

I can't be wearing long sleeves in the summer.

I don't know if this is done.

We'll find out soon!

And now we're back...

The second half of the second page-

I spent a lot of time looking at Dan Decarlo's art before doing these. After my move I might pick up the book "Innocence and Seduction". It's a collection of his pinups.

From left to right- (in the distance) Jughead Jones, Big Ethel, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Valerie Brown (originally Smith).


I would like to make a retraction in my earlier post! It turns out that Josie's last name Jones was in an early version of the comic! It was also sometimes James, I think. Her current last name is McCoy. It's also the last name that was used in movie, which I did not see.

When the scurrying sounds stop, the time for concern begins.

Orwell was just a couple of years early.

A while ago I showed a few things from England's paranoid war on crime. Before I get to what I want to show I want to do a little recap, feel free to skip to the bottom if you know all of this stuff already. Citizens are being encouraged to be watchful of each other and report strange activities such as rifling through one's own garbage, there is a cctv camera for ever fourteen people (or some I'm told, the police brutality has increase, and petty criminals are still as plentiful as they have been.

The recap:
Some colorful posters-
Watchful Eyes
More CCTV

An article on a CCTV camera that has policemen watching a live feed who are able to scold people via a speaker for jaywalking, riding a bike on the sidewalk, littering, etc. Read it HERE.

All of this has lead to a civilian organization called "Fit Watch". These people follow England's Foward Intelligence Teams to protests and whatnot with cameras in order to watch the watchmen. Often times Fit Watch members themselves will get arrested for obstruction and assault, but almost always have the charges dropped later.

Here's what I wanted to get to:
The Guardian recently released footage of one of the arrests that took place last year. One woman was going around to all of the police writing down their badge numbers. When one of them refused to give her his number she told another woman she was with to take photographs of the officer so that they could file a complaint about him later. When the second photo is taken both women are forced to the ground and handcuffed. One of them is given full body cuffs. Here is the video of the arrest.

Awww... but he's my favorite.

No Love For Ringo

Archie Sketch Cards- part 3

The colors are a little blotchy here, but that's the scanner. They look a lot cleaner in real life.

This is the first half of page two! I venture further into the wonderful world of secondary characters. Page one only had Dilton Doily (I'm not including Hot Dog since he had his own title for a while).

Here we have, from right to left: Pop Tate, Cheryl Blossom, Della- high witch of the witch's council (in the live action television series starring Melissa Joan Hart Della lost her heels and fishnets and became Dell, portrayed by magician and comedian Penn Fraser Jillette), and lastly, the 50's era Archie Andrews.

Archie Sketch Cards- part 2

This is the second part of the first page.

From left to right: Josie Jones of "Josie and the Pussycats", Dilton Doily, Betty Cooper and Archie Andrew in the outfit features on the album for "The Archies".

BLOGGER ERROR.

OH NO! I can't upload images. I don't know what's going on!

Please enjoy this slow loris while I sit here frustrated because Google has set all of their shit up without any sort of contact info. I figured that one out when they tried to shut down my blog because their robots thought it was spam.

SLOW LORIS CUTENESS.

Archie Sketch Cards

5finity release Archie Sketch Cards to raise money for the March of Dimes. I was fortunate enough to be a part of it and now that the packs have been released and almost sold out it's very safe for me to post these.
I did three sheets of eight, but I'll only be posting 4 at a time.

These were a lot of fun to do. I haven't looked at Archie comics in a long time because they're so bad nowadays. In fact, they've been bad the entire time I've been alive, but they used to be so good. That's the Archie that I was trying to draw.

CLICK THE THUMBNAIL FOR A LARGER IMAGE.

From left to right- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (the way she was meant to be), Veronica Lodge, Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Hot Dog, Forsythe "Jughead" Jones, and Veronica Lodge again.

Even Photoshop Is Not Immune

Oh Sherika, she didn't realize what she was saying until it was said...

For those who don't know, "stroke" in photoshop is a line that you can put around your image and you can adjust the thickness of the line. In flash, stroke adjusts the thickness of lines, but not brush strokes.

HAPPY SNAIL LOVES YOU.

The Main Drag's New Video

It has the best theme ever.

Hamster Close-Up and Trees.

The title kind of speaks for itself.

WACKY.

Ancient Whale found in luxury kitchen counters.

CUTEST TINY PAINTINGS EVER.

They're giving me a toothache- 'cause they're so sweet.

Apparently people were seeing today's post as a blank space. How is this?

Smoke in my Dreams

More Mark Wagner Currency Collages. There are also a couple of other things in there too.

This is my New England piece.

Even though a good portion of the birch was killed a while ago.

So, I'll be away at Portcon Maine tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday- but since I did seven tiny paintings tonight there will still be posts! They're all set up and ready to pop up at midnight!

Eh. I don't know about this one.

I'll probably touch up the edges some more.

Rat Pile

This is the TENTH tiny painting. I should take a photo of this one. There's a lot of layered white paint that you just can't see because the scanner didn't pick up the textures.

Aww. Rats are too cute. Well, fancy rats are. I would still be a little on edge if there were sewer/canal/1984 rats in the vicinity.

Fat Bird 3

This may be my favorite fat bird yet.

Mark Wagner's Currency Collages.

See them HERE.

Tiny Painting 3

This is a terrible scan. Anyway- for anyone who is wondering, the tiny painting canvases are 2 inches by 2 inches.

Shadow Art.

CRAZY!

Childhood Fears

... brought to life in photographs by Joshua Hoffine.

I saw Penelope for the first time this morning.

It was TOO CUTE. That movie was charming in a way that most films nowadays aren't. There was a perfect fairy tale feel to it despite the hanging out in bars and emo musician.

Baby Bird.

Another for the tiny paintings.

This one is kinda silly.

Yet another small painting- and yet another fat bird.

Blik Wall Decals.

So I'll be moving to my new apartment soon, and I can finally start looking into getting a wall decal. They're a great solution to having walls that you're not allowed to alter (I can put put pictures, but I can't paint). I want a text one, but I need to figure out the text. It has been difficult narrowing it down. Here are some that I like:

"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
-Douglas Adams

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
-Mark Twain

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
-Woody Allen

Here are some from "Inherit The Wind", one of my favorite films:

"Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"

"Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape. His creed's still a totem pole. When he first achieved the upright position, he took a look at the stars - thought the were something to eat. When he couldn't reach them, he decided they were groceries belonging to a bigger creature; that's how Jehovah was born."

Next Small Painting.

This one is gouache on watercolor paper.

JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES IS ON HULU. YES!

THIS JUST IN: "Toilet Paper is Archaic and Disgusting"

Here is the solution: COMFORT WIPE.

I hate people.

Circular Painting.

WHOOT. Three paintings by 4:00. Not too shabby.

Tiny Painting 2

DUCK BUTT.

Tiny Painting 1

I have one other tiny canvas. I might get more. We'll see!

FINIS!

That is a portly bird. I tried doing the colorful cityscape below, but it was hideous so I just whitewashed the bottom.

The Subway- a constant source of entertainment.

There are always revolutionary war guys on the train with me. It's really strange. What's weirder is the fact that I haven't seen the same revolutionary war guy twice.

I know, I know, I used the copy and paste.

Underpainting

At about 11 tonight I suddenly needed to do this painting. I don't know if I'll do much more right now. Gotta get to bed soon!

"I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water."

Derek Smalls was always my favorite member of Spinal Tap.

Best New Blog!

Goths in Hot Weather

Cleaned Up Art

Flash Mobs

Hammerpants Flash Mob

Japanese Flash Mobs

Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

So, I'm still getting the Archie out of my system. It took me a long time to get a lot of my references because google is flooded with the new shit. If you want to be sad for the rest of the day, look up Sabrina. It's awful! It's bad enough that Dan Decarlo got nothing from the tv show, but they're white washing his designs out as well- and poorly at that.

If you used to like Archie Comics, you'll be interested in this tidbit.