Grand Central Station

Vine Charcoal on Paper, 18"x24"

Girl Scouts Comic

I did some coloring work for Christine Norrie last spring which is finally available!  Christine is a fantastic artist with great inking skills, and so when she asked me to help out coloring an 18 page comic for the Girl Scouts, I was happy to get involved.
 

The comic was for the Agent of Change Handbook and was about a group of girls that found a box of abandoned puppies and chose to "do the right thing." Christine wanted to color the comic in gray tones with dots reminiscent of the old comics using Zip-A-Tone.  We settled on four shades of gray and the best combination of dot sizes.  I colored in flat grays and then converted the layers to dots.  Here are a couple of the pages as they looked before the dialogue balloons were added.  Click to enlarge them to see the dots in full effect.

Figure Drawing 1

Graphite on Paper, 24"x18"

The Chelsea Market

 

Vine Charcoal on Paper, 18"x24"

Snake 'n' Bacon

I have once again had the pleasure of doing some animation work with John Kuramoto. This time I provided "additional animation" work on a pilot for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming. The show was written and drawn by Michael Kupperman and based on the characters and stories in his comics.

The pilot was a 14 minute mixture of live action and animation starring Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), Dan Bakkedahl (The Daily Show), David Rakoff (This American Life), Bill Hader (SNL), and of course Snake and Bacon.  Animated in a low budget 70s cartoon style, the pilot has several vignettes that flow into each other.  Unfortunately, this Mr. Show type charm has been lost when Adult Swim cut it up and posted it in pieces on its website. Here are the rest of the clips in the correct order:  It seems that Adult Swim has removed the clips from their website, so here are a couple of screen shots instead:

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