Any Given Sunday

Chest Terrific!

The latest bit of design for Stage Blood, some wearable merchandise so that you can advertise to the world your unusually good music taste:



The final product should look pretty much as depicted. There may be a selection of colours, but I predict the red will be most people's first choice!

Poster II

Man, I can't believe the amount of effort I put into re-drawing the image from this and then scaling up all the text and re-spacing it and so on. It doesn't look significantly better than the mock-up (below).

Ah well... has to be done I guess.

Whimsical Tuesday Project

I spent this afternoon and evening making a creepy stuffed "toy" from an old shirt and some shredded newspaper. Considering this is the first thing of this type I've done since my "patchwork pig" in first year of high school (and that I was following no plan whatsoever) I think it turned out OK! His stitching is mostly on the inside, except for around the neck, 'cause I couldn't figure out how to do that properly.

Kearney thinks I should run a competition to find it a name. If you have a suggestion that can make me laugh half as much as I did while I was putting this monstrosity together, feel free to chime in. And if you can refer me to a decent website for shit like this, that'd be nice too.

Stage Blood

Kearney's got another gig next month with his excellent Stage Blood outfit, and this is my mock up for the poster. It stays with the same theme and aesthetic as the first one, but is a bit more restrained. Again, most of the composition stems from the type, and I'm pretty pleased with the internal shapes and rhythms of the text here.

Managed to keep it down to 3 fonts as well!

Is it just me?

Curses!

I got about 4 pages into my proposed minicomic before running out of ideas and motivation, and it has languished on my desk for the last few weeks. Suddenly, out of the blue, I have received a slew of stamped, self-addressed envelopes (which, looking at my post below, I did not solicit!) along with some amusing self-made order forms.

So, rather than just letting the Jungathon hardcopy edition disappear into the wasteland of my aborted projects, I now find myself OBLIGED to finish the damn thing and mail it out. Even worse, some of you seem to expect me to produce a follow up issue, since you've provided me with more than one of these bloody SAEs!

OK, I've started working on it again and will put it together as soon as I am able. Please note that I am deeply ashamed of the quality of the strips produced to date, and this whole fiasco will probably be as embarrassing for you as it will be humiliating for me.

I'll need to start smoking weed again, or something, if I'm expected to come up with something even vaguely amusing in the future...