Evolution, sort of

From my sketchbook.

Jack Kirby and us parasitic artists

 A petition for Kirby family HERE , images above from Kirby's God series of images.

 I rarely keep up with comics news so this is old but still important. I can easily end up wasting a lot of time reading comics news, in hoping I'll find some great new artists; I think Tom Spurgeon's Comics Reporter is the best. I at least did find out about Araki's new Rohan book, but aside from that I was most interested in the boycotts on DC & Marvel and the fans financing books by certain creators.

 If you follow Comics Reporter or even if you dont, you may have seen THIS article about there being a widespread disdain for artists with a lot of assumptions about their income. I recall my parents often thinking whenever I started communicating with other artists that they might pull me up into a land of wealth, not realising that even well known artists are less safe than a lot of blue collar workers. So many well known actors who dont get on magazine covers and adverts are just scraping by like the rest of us. One of the things that annoys me most is the assumption that all rock bands must be rolling in money.

 Also good is THIS piece on skilled illustrators being very rare (if the piece is accurate, it really surprises me how rare we apparently are) and being treated like beggers grateful to be working on anything.

El Borbah

A portrait of El Borbah doing something he never does in his detective stories: an actual wrestling match. This was done for a Charles Burns tribute exhibition which takes place in Lille, Northern France, some months from now. I thought it might be funny to have El Borbah taking on Burns's biggest influence, Tintin.

DARK TOWER OF GOBLINKO

I GET MORE & MORE INTO DRAWING EVERY DAY THAT PASSES. I LOVE IT. I WANNA DRAW ALL DAY LONG.

Metallicut 2 The Revenge

Hi

Here's my last work on zinc, still working on...

die ärzte - Das finde ich gut

Okay, the super secret Totentanz-related project I mentioned a while ago is finally out. It's a music video for the german pop-punk band "die ärzte" and it's part of a larger conceptual framework in which the band members are hunted from one clip into the next, covering their whole new album "auch" which they actually put on youtube in it's entirety on the same day it was officially released.




I drew and animated the whole thing. As you can tell the song is about death.

P.S. Happy 180th Birthday, Wilhelm Busch! (For those who don't know, this blog is named after the fate of his most well-known characters, Max and Moritz.)

Seven Works of Mercy

Study after The Seven Works of Mercy by the Master of Haarlem, painted in 1504*). The original is in the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam. It has taken some serious damage, probably during the Protestant revolt, but still it is fascinating to see. You can tell from its stern composition it comes from the land of Piet Mondrian!

I am using it as reference for the clothing and architecture from around 1500.

IN HELL THERE IS NO LAW

HELLSHIRE III IN COLOR

I STARTED DOING THIS PAINT JOB THREE TIMES. THE FIRST TWO WEREN'T CLICKING. I STARTED THINKING ABOUT RICHARD CORBEN'S PAINTING STYLE & WENT & GOT THE FIRST 20 ISSUES OF HEAVY METAL TO LOOK THROUGH. I LEARNED THE HEAVY METAL COLOR TECHNIQUE WHICH INVOLVES USING DUOCHROMATIC SCHEMES FOR DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF THE PICTURE, BUT THE TWO COLORS USED MUST BE NEXT TO EACH OTHER ON THE COLOR WHEEL. LIKE RED & ORANGE. OR GREEN & BLUE. OR PURPLE & BLUE. THEN YOU USE THESE TO DRAW THE VIEWER INTO DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE PIECE. CORBEN I THINK PAINTED ALOT OF HIS PIECES IN CMYK, MAYBE EVEN PAINTING THE DIFFERENT LAYERS SEPARATELY, BUT I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE ABOUT THAT. HE USES A LOT OF PROCESS BLUE THOUGH! HOLY MOLY!
I'M WORKING ON A COUPLE OF POSTERS FOR THE GO! GO!

MetalHead

I'm training to metalcut, on zinc with drypoint. Here's 3 I made these days, spending maybe 4-5 hours each... I'm now trying to get higher in detail, spending more time on a plate

Rightwing bullshit

Adventurous politicians dabbling with fascist sentiments are all the rage in Europe since 9-11. Normally, I wouldn't even touch a pen to give my time to these creeps, but a good opportunity came along as a free comics newspaper is planning to have populism as a central theme and now it has come to this. Charicatures of politicians on EBD. My apologies.

OK, if you are not Dutch, you probably haven't heard of this guy. Nevermind. He was the first to play the islamophobic card after 9-11 and would have been elected as PM if he hadn't been assasinated days before the elections. Of course, that was when the shit really hit the fan and it has only gotten worse after.

HELLSHIRE III B&W

So each Hellshire Beer label explores a different part of this house. Hellshire I was the cellar. Hellshire II was the library. Hellshire III is the out-house. I'll be painting this one tonight. I'm thinking of a grass-green & orange or pink.
This is also getting me way more stoked on doing some children's monster picture books. If you go to even a GOOD bookstore these days, the selections for kids are all really twee, artsy fartsy but not in a good way, irrelevant, stupid or an overt product tie-in. I was crazy into Mercer Mayer's monster books & those seem to be out of print. Anyhow, pretty much everything that I look for in products isn't being made these days, which on one-hand is lame as a general citizen, however, as a business-man, it's great & ideal & say hello to my niche! Gritty, grimy, funky, weird & crazy!

new work & a cool day with mr Lynch

k8pr3135 - Aural Carnage (excerpt)

Excerpt from an 11 minute harsh noise track on "Deconstructed Raw Data" 3 inch cd-r released by Debila Records in a limited & numbered edition of 30 copies.
Info: debilarecords@gmail.com

EXPLORING HELL

I've been doing so much character based work that I became concerned that they didn't have a world that they lived in. So for this next Hellshire Beer release, I'm detailing some of the world that my monsters, weirdos & creeps live in. This particular area is a swampy, wooded land. The swamp is littered with all manners of trash & waste, tires, refrigerators, dead animals, oil drums bones & crashed cars are all submerged in the polluted muck. This misty murk is of course a great place for all manner of distorted freaks to hide away & practice their secret stupidities.

Cannibal Caniche

Cannibal Caniche is a forum/webradio dedicated to copyleft/free music, mostly electronics, ambient, dubstep, indus, noise etc

Sometime ago we do a paperzine, this year we do a digital one, including videos, music compilation and pdf zine. I was very glad to do my first LP cover, even if it's still digital stuff! I really hope I could do more in the future.

Check all things creeps, that's good tunes !

Downloads : http://www.cannibalcaniche.com/forum/index.php

Online : http://cannibalcaniche.com/2012/

Report : http://www.cannibalcaniche.com/forum/index.php?topic=17136.0

HELL's Kitchen

T-shirts ready!

Also my 8 silk-screen prints on paper - SATAN IS MY BOYFRIEND.

So yeah, started to work with silk-screen printing. Have to say I enjoy this technology a lot.T-shirts - sold out. More different designs in the future. Also prints available, A3 (white/pink/yellow paper), 5 euros.

Springtime on EBD

A sketch after the "Death" card in the Visconti-Sforza Tarot deck (around 1450).

Coprophantiasis

You figure out the allegory.

MetalHead

Here's maybe my third or fourth metalcut, dry point on zinc. First time I try that alone, managing the pressure, inking & paper... There's still too much ink on this one I suppose