This past weekend our crew of cartoonist friends got together for what we hope will be a SF biweekly drawing hangout. The first one was held at Sightglass Coffee and we ended up playing a round of the Caption Game. Here are seven entries...
I've Got Nothing To Say - Shin Joong Hyun
More drunk cartooning, from the midnight tables at Encore Karaoke Lounge.
(here are sketches from the last time we went out)
Kaapeec Tu Mani Negribi by Dzeltenie Pastnieki
Mystery Chant - Jeff & Jane Hudson
Pound, Pound - Jeff & Jane Hudson
Electric Ant #2 (and Gaga fanzine Prison For Bitches) contributor Chris Kuzma received a sweet and happily perplexing email from a U.S. Marine this week. The dude is our age (or actually, younger!?) and seems really rad. He's serving in Afghanistan and currently home for December-- and wanted to let us know he got a tattoo of Kuzma's intense NECROMANTIK illustration from the THESE BLOODY MOMENTS feature in Electric Ant #2!
This past Thursday (11/3/11), Floating World Comics in Portland was awesome enough to host THICKNESS for a release party as part of their ongoing First Thursdays series. Complete details about the show are here on their site.
Sadly my co-editor Michael DeForge couldn't make it, but I was joined at the show by my sister-from-another-mister Angie Wang and my travel buddy Evan Hayden. The show flew by and was a blast, and then later that night we all drank/sang our faces off with aplomb at Zack Soto's birthday party/karaoke shindig. Here are a few pics of the exhibit, which will be on display for the month of November at Floating World! (thanks to Evan for taking the last two pics in this set):
My heartfelt appreciation to Jason for arranging this show, and thanks to friends like JFish, Robin, Bwana, Tim, Jack Snakebomb, Julia and other friends/artists/readers for coming out and having fun with us!
The Tuesday after APE, as a final coda to a fun and exhausting weekend of comics, a group of us went out to karaoke at Encore and drank our faces off. The group included me, Evan Hayden, Roman Muradov, Jonny Negron, and Jesse Balmer.
Here is the collection of sketches we drew on the back of the karaoke request slips:
(by Jesse, Jesse, Evan, Evan, me)
(EVAN by Roman, me)
(SINGING GIRLS by Roman)
(JESSE by Jonny, Roman, me)
(JONNY by Jesse, Jonny, Evan, me)
(ROMAN by Jonny, Roman, me, me, Jesse)
(RYAN by Jonny, Roman)
Our buddy (and Prison For Bitches contributor) Lala Albert is not only a talented illustrator, she blows minds at her day job creating patterns for the textile design studio Eye Dazzler. She just shared some incredible pieces that debuted in runway shows recently, built around her patterns. Check this eye-melting stunners out!
More works by Lala:
I read today that the coastal town of Matsushima, just north of Sendai in Miyagi-ken, was spared some of the devastation that affected surrounding areas. Despite early reports that Matsushima was "seriously damaged," locals now are reporting that Matsushima (perhaps because of its series of coastal islands) was not hit as hard as some nearby towns despite being so close to the quake's epicenter.
I was digging through my photos this past weekend, and found photos (in addition to some already posted) from my trip in May 2003 up the coast to Sendai and Matsushima. I have found memories of the few days we spent up there, and my thoughts continue to go out to folks recovering slowly in Miyagi.
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