Esqueleto de la Bruja

This show happened, and I bet it ruled. SkeletonWitch is a pretty awesome name for a band, especially for a band from Athens, Ohio. I'd love to meet whoever designed their amazing logo, high-five them, buy them a grilled cheese sandwich and fight against a bunch of lizard beasts with them, in honor of how much they, as a designer, have improved the overall quality of life on earth at the moment. I think it's important to recognize greatness, and whoever the hell designed the SkeletonWitch logo, you rule.



Here is the brush and ink OG drawing. I'm pretty happy with it. I knew I would be reusing the Dio De Los Muertos skull face-painted female thing that I had just done for the Doomriders poster from a couple posts ago, but it was a weird and sloppy journey to get from there to having this occult shamanic military woman with the strange ancient bladed weapon representing in from of the Rushton Triangular Lodge, which I only know anything about because it's referenced in Voice of The Fire, which I've been slowly reading lately. Good book.



Here's the text as it is when I scanned it. Messy and ...not really planned out at all. I just used a crummy brush that I can't really ink drawing with anymore to draw the big words and a small pen to ink the smaller stuff.

This was a fun poster to draw. Heavy Metal seems to be in the atmosphere these days. I'm not really sure what that means other than these days are awesome. I'll be posting some more stuff soon. So, stay tuned! Also, tune in over at the Genghis Con Blog, where we'll be updating regularly until the show!

Nine Posters on the Third (Red 7 Owns)

All these posters are for Red 7 is Austin Texas. I think the last poster I drew for them that I posted was this guy, back in promotion for the Illustrious show at Wall Eye Gallery:



This one is so obviously a Mignola/BPRD riff, though I think it predates when I just started including the BPRD logo patch on characters gear. Been doing that a little bit lately.

I've been on a pretty fierce warpath for the Red 7 this year, and here (with the exception of the latest one I'm working on RIGHT NOW) are all the posters I've done for them. I may post future blog updates about some of these individually, but here they are in one huge gang, including links to as many of these bands as I can manage and a couple sentences for each.



Cleveland's own RINGWORM, this band Nails from California, New Lows from Boston, and Bitter End. This is the left hand half of a diptych, and I knew I wanted to go post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior types. I recently found this weird art thing called The Eighth Day that kinda sorta blew my brains out, LOOK AT THIS!



Saint Vitus has been around forever, it's pretty cool to get to do a poster for them. Dixie Witch and The Roller are both from Austin. So is Mala Suerte, which I thought was Spanish for Bad Dream, but it actually means Bad Luck. Mala Sueño is Bad Dream... which I think is up or grabs as far as doom metal band names is concerned.

At any rate, I was way into this comic Orc Stain that this complete and total nutbag named James Stokoe is responsible for when I drew this. I especially like how insane that comic is. The colors are good too.



Here's the big drawing I did that I broke in half to make this dippy. Infinite Dragon, I don't know where I got that idea, other than I knew I wanted the images to flow into each other but not have like, a mirror effect so much. I did something like this before, with two dudes murdering the shit outta each other. I like to think these are all good posters on their own but then when you see the diptych it's next level type shit. At least I hope so.





A simple straight forward poster for a simple straight forward bill with three great bands. Big Business, Torche, and Thrones. This is actually also a creature design piece of the Lake Erie Monster, of which Jake Kelly and I are doing comics about. Which I will have some announcements about soon!



Man, there is no limit to how much I love Wolves In The Throne Room. I don't really know anything about Megaton Leviathan, but they were on tour with WiTTR, so they must be pretty cool. Pushmen and Skycrawler, I think are from Austin.

This piece was a lot of fun to draw, but getting a buffalo's head right was super challenging. Wolves in The Throne Room is thematically tied to nature and primitive energies, mythology and nature-based occultism, so I really wanted to do something that worked within those themes. Again, this is kind of sort of Mignola-influnced, but ...I think it stands on it's own, aside from that. Someday I'm going to book WiTTR to play on top of a mountain surrounded by a ring of bonfires in a thunderstorm. The poster for that is gonna be nuts.



Space Natives, Cosmic Nomads, I will be making a comic about these characters some day. I do strive to tell a story, imply a narrative with each piece. One poster conveying a bigger picture and a glimpse into a bigger world. Oh, hey: Dead Meadow, they're alright, Spindrift, and Rings Band (which I couldn't find anything about them but honestly didn't look too hard).



HEY New Bomb Turks! I drew this so long ago, and this show hasn't even happened yet! High Tension Wires, Grand Champeen and OBN IIIs. Did rock bands just run out of names? Or just the ambition to come up with a good one?

So, yeah, I drew this poster and then DC Comics relaunched everything they publish and included a Frankenstein comic where he rolls deep with a team of weirdos. Kinda made me happy, but then I got the first issue and was reminded that I am not the person that DC Comics are meant to be read by. Anyway, I like the idea of a carload of bonkers characters on an adventure, and Frankenstein at the wheel. Frankenstein, dudes. FRANKENSTEIN.



This poster is definitely one I will be posting a separate blog entry about. Why? SLAYER. I DREW A SLAYER POSTER. Yeah, so it's part of Fun Fun Fun Fest and it's not like I worked directly for Slayer, STILL.... SLAYER. This was a lot of fun to draw. Also, it's fun to listen to Slayer.

Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend and the line-up is absolutely absurd. I can't imagine the logistics of something like that, even just going there as a dude that wants to see bands play, and Brian Posehn talk about farting. I will go one of these years, but holy shit, this year is bananacakes.



Again, I'll be posting another process piece about this one. However, I will mention, this might be the most difficult thing I have drawn in forever. FOUR BMX bikes, with riders swinging various things. DOOMRIDERS to be exact. I will link to all the other bands later. They're playing at FFF Fest Red 7 for FFF Fest Nites, it's a free show you need your FFF Fest wristband to get in to. Still, I'm pretty stoked on this poster.

Next up is a handful of other show posters, and some comics pages. Genghis Con rapidly approaches! and I'll be hyping that up some more. Go check out the Genghis Con facebook page and RSVP to the event. Tell your friends, AND your enemies! Genghis Con is a demilitarized zone for all critical beefs!

Love Stinks, An Anti-Valentine's Day Show

Much like the posters for A Holiday Art Massacre, and MAYhem, this is for another awesome Staci McNasty/Dave Lowlife/Heather Young joint. There's even more artists and information that have been added since I was given the list for the poster, so please go check the facebook event page for the full list: HERE.



It started really rough, as you can see, with an original plan to include some word balloons with Skullface saying: "AAAGH! Again?". I opted out of that, just to simplify the piece. I guess I wanted to leave the story open ended, open to interpretation. I liked the word balloon though, just felt it was a better piece with it left out and open to interpretation.



So it's Skullface, pierced by an arrow, fired by who I'm going to claim is Voluptas, Cupid and Psyche's daughter. Why not? I've always really liked Jacques Louis David's Cupid and Psyche painting that's hanging in the Cleveland Museum of Art, but I think maybe Cupid is a little overexposed for St. Valentine's Day representations. I also knew I wanted to include the roses with the thorns. I used Skullface maybe because I miss the character a little. Maybe he needs a little love.



My contribution to hang in the show will be this original art and an edition of inexpensive archival 11" x 17" digital prints of the color version. The prints will only be $24 and the framed OG will only be $144.

If you are not going to the show, or don't live in Cleveland, and would like a print, I'd be more than happy to ship them! Below I've added a handy paypal button for your convenience, which I've added a $4 shipping charge which I'm pretty sure will cover the cost of the flat mailer and postage. If you would like me to ship international, no problem, just shoot me an email and we'll work it out!

UPDATE!: THESE ARCHIVAL DIGITAL COLOR PRINTS WILL BE 13" X 19" INSTEAD OF 11" X 17"! Same Price!

Sniper's Holiday

YES, SKULLFACE returns to snipe some absurdly heinous motherfuckers from the rooftop.

The unfortunately named Star Fucking Hipsters, which is made up of members of other bands like Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack, The Degenerics, and The Slackers. Pretty much, in some circles, legendary musicians. Here's a video for one of their jams:



I like this video. Mostly because it kinda reminds me of episodes of Homicide: Life on The Street where detectives would question suspects in "The Box". Seriously some of the greatest, most compelling, television ever broadcast.

Other bands playing on Friday are Against The Grain, from Detroit, Michigan, Jordan Castro, The Facials, and Flies.



Here's the line art. I'm pretty happy with how this perspective landed. I used a pretty ridiculous photo ref that I took of myself, but I'm definitely not posting that. I ended up drawing all over it anyway. I opted for the photo-copied crusty versions of photographs of Glenn Beck, Lebron James, and Terry Jones for the targets because I thought it would look better and help differentiate between the scene and the perspective of Skullface's point of view through the scope.

Straight Banger 2

Straight Noise Banger 2:

Regression
Dog Lady
Jerk
Fragments
Hot Air Balloon Ride
Andrew Kirschner
Skin Graft
SL Makita
Pimlo
Pabst
Interstates Ect. Collab Project
Fascist Insect
Spykes
John Revolta

Now That's Class

Non-Specific

A Non-Specific Tour Poster for Scarcity of Tanks. Keep it B/W for easy cheap mass production. Skullface and that Giant Robot? Friends of Foes? Stay tuned...

Dysart

Drew this for my dude, killer comics scribe Josh Dysart.

Posters Process Pages

Here's some procress stuff I forgot to post before, here.

I knew I was doing the quadriptic, and that I wanted to feature the Skullface Family. So I got to sketchin'.



As you can see there was originally going to be some tentacle action. Opted out of that for whatever reason.



Lady Skullface has killer boots.



He's a fish, in a bowl. With a body.



I decided to draw the background as one big giant piece so it would be consistent. This drawing is like, 7.5" x 22" or some shit.



Then I drew all the characters separate. The text is all separate too, but I forgot to make a jpg of that.

Booya:

Skullface Unit Live

My dudes and I played a show at Pat's in The Flats on December 20th in 2008. the inimitable Lou Muenz took video, here's the whole set:

Scarcity

These holidays have been beating my ass. As a result, I've totally slept on some work that I really wish I had just busted out weeks ago. Here's one of the projects:



Scarcity of Tanks is playing some West Coast shows, there's actually six of 'em, but the details of the other two were dicey, so I went with a Quadriptic.

Here's some close ups:









Here's the info on all the Southern California Scarcity gigs:

SCARCITY OF TANKS (Chris Grier, Ulrich Krieger, Raul Morales, John Petkovic, Steve Touchton, Weasel Walter, Matthew Wascovich, Tom Watson, Mike Watt) head to Southern California for gigs. They will have their new LP with them if interested.

11 JANUARY 2009 - Los Angeles, CA at The Smell - NO HATE SEEKERS (Chris Grier / Ulrich Krieger / Raul Morales / Steve Touchton / Matthew Wascovich / Tom Watson) with Hawnay Troof, All Leather, David Scott Stone

13 JANUARY 2009 - Los Angeles, CA at The Mountain - SCARCITY OF TANKS (Chris Grier / Raul Morales / Matthew Wascovich / Tom Watson) with Bobb Bruno

14 JANUARY 2009 - Fullerton, CA at House Show at Fullas - SCARCITY OF TANKS (Chris Grier / Raul Morales / Matthew Wascovich) with TBA.

15 JANUARY 2009 - San Pedro, CA at Harold's Place - SCARCITY OF TANKS (Chris Grier / John Petkovic / Weasel Walter / Matthew Wascovich / Mike Watt) with Jack Brewer Reunion Band, The Leeches

16 JANUARY 2009 - Los Angeles, CA at The Smell - SCARCITY OF TANKS (Chris Grier / Ulrich Krieger / John Petkovic / Weasel Walter / Matthew Wascovich / Mike Watt) with Chuck Dukowski Sextet, Jack Brewer Reunion Band, Autogolpe

17 JANUARY 2009 - Long Beach, CA at Di Piazza's - SCARCITY OF TANKS (Jack Brewer / John Petkovic / Steve Touchton / Weasel Walter / Matthew Wascovich / Mike Watt) with Four Level Interchange, Rockland, Playground

More info: http://scarcityoftanks.blogspot.com/

Lady Skullface, Pink Cadillac, Hello Mr. Molotov

I don't know anything about Coshocton, but the John Delzoppo/David Russell/Brendan Sedlak Trio sounds like it's gonna be killer. No process this time. I basically just sat down and drew it without stopping.

I've got three more posters to do by the end of this week. I'm think I'm obsessed with this shit.

UPDATE: Nate posted a link to Coshocton in the comments: http://oculusauris.com/coshocton/

Skullface Returns.

Parts + Labor, National Suicide Day, Tanked, and Lozer. Bring Your Own Ghosts.

Named Permanently Galli-Moto

Just a sketch today. This, minus the zip-a-tone, is a sketch I did to throw in with a copy of Caveman Diaries Number Five that somebody ordered.



Took a trip to Chicago over the weekend, and it totally kicked my ass. Went there to see my three siblings, who were all in the same place at the same time for the first time in five years. Got the special treat of seeing Big Business at the Empty Bottle, Joe Matt at Quimby's, and hanging out with a few old friends that I don't see nearly enough of. I think I'm going to try and write a long form piece about it, but we'll see.

My baby niece and toddler nephew are insanely awesome little people. My nephew had a hand made toy called Galli Moto from 10000 Villages that was basically a little wire man with two wheels on the end of a long wire. When pushed along the ground, the wheels made his legs pedal. Apparently he thought my two wheels made me similar, so he called me Galli Moto.