This American Life Cartoon

I recently had the opportunity to provide some animation assistance to John Kuramoto for an upcoming Chris Ware cartoon on the TV show, This American Life. I have been a huge fan of the radio show for years, listening to the entire backlog while coding at my job at IBM. So you can imagine how excited I was to learn that John had already worked on a short cartoon for Season One and was asked to work on one for Season Two. He was nice enough to let me do a little of the work! Chris Ware once again did the art and story boarding. John then digitally cut up the art into moving pieces and did the animation. I did the lip sync animation.

The epsiode, Every Marriage Is a Courthouse, will air Sunday, June 1st on Showtime, but the cartoon short has been released as a sneak peak.

There's also a web bonus download in the iPod friendly .m4v format. Also check out John Kuramoto and Chris Ware's cartoon for Season One. Finally, here's a trailer for Season Two.

Wordless Comic - Finished

Heeb Magazine Comic

I colored this one page comic drawn by Neil Kleid that appears in the current issue of Heeb Magazine (Issue #16). You can check out the official version here -- while you're at it, check out the whole issue -- it's got some good stuff!

Here are a couple of other color versions of the comic.  My initial direction was to do a full colored version which ended up looking a little busy:

The editor and I decided to try a two-toned coloring which is what we ended up using in the magazine.  Here are a couple of other two-toned coloring schemes:

In the end, everyone agreed that the blue and orange one was the right one to go with!

Wordless Comic

Here's a one page comic that I am working on for my Comic Storytelling class. The assignment was to create a one page wordless comic. I've got a couple things to touch up, but I thought I'd post it anyway.

Hat Portraiture in Reverse 2

Ink Drawing on Vellum, 9"x12"

Hat Portraiture in Reverse 1

Ink Drawing on Vellum, 9"x12"

TimeOut NY Illustration

Here's an illustration I colored that appeared in this month's TimeOut NY magazine (Issue 639). The illustration was drawn by Nick Bertozzi. You can see the official smaller version here.