Like everyone here, I was saddened by the recent death of Moebius (the great and talented Jean Giraud). His impact on the visual vocabulary of comics, illustration, science fiction, and film is impossibly large, and our field and scene has lost one of its luminaries.

The past week, Tumblr/Twitter have been filled with dozens and dozens of examples of Moebius' incredible work, which has been a strange silver lining to his death. It's been a pleasure to get to see so much of his work I wasn't familiar with. One thing I saw today for the first time was this set of "Moebius Collector Cards" via Monster Brains--- a numbered series of cards from 1993 featuring 89 characters and monsters :)

I had an idea for an impromptu drawing collaboration and tribute to JG:  Why doesn't everyone pick a card and draw their own take on that character?  That is, create your own take on one of his designs from this incredible set?  Leave a comment on which # card you're gonna cover, and then when you're done send: 1) your drawing, 2) the #/character name, and 3) your site for credit/linking to quickmoebiustribute AT gmail DOT com and I'll post them up...  SOUNDS FUN?

(Click the link for the long and storied history of the "I DRAW YOUR SHIT" series)

CLAIMED LIST:

(see comments for latest additions)

#1 - Dustin Harbin

#2 - Aaron Shunga

#3 - Ssebastien

#4 - Elliot Alfredius

#5 - saicoink

#6 - Nick Mullins

#7 - MICHAEL OLIVO

#8 - Roman

#9 - saprophilous

#10 - Jovo Ve

#11 - tozo

#12 - leftspeaker

#13 - jay g

#14 - David Huyck

#15 - alison dubois
#16 - Geoff 

#17 - Andrew Schick

#18 - antoniodamala

#19 - pedrozilla

#20 - Ryan Andrews

#21 - michael

#22 - Zzoha

#23 - Aaron Shattuck

#24 - Oliver Rizk

#25 - corrie

#26 - hLile

#27 - J. Worby

#28 - kelly k

#29 - mnkyking

#30 - Sophia Foster-Dimino

#31 - The Wontons

#32 - christine

#33 - Pepperwheel

#34 - Rebecca Mock

#35 - Asiul

#36 - Dan Morris

#37 - Detrocboi

#38 - Ines

#39 - Eric Benton

#40 - Tender B

#41 - Frans Boukas

#42 - weja

#43 - michael deforge

#44 - andrewfulton

#45 - Matt Huynh

#46 - Stephanie Seed

#47 - matthew ro

#48 - Ian Sampson

#49 - maddy trower

#50 - Evan Hayden

#51 - Olle Forsslöf

#52 - jenn yin

#53 - smoot

#54 - Rachel Kantor

#55 - chance

#56 - Zombustudio

#57 - RodrigoBravo9

#58 - Dana

#59 - Matt Deans

#60 - Fort Ignorance

#61 - glorb

#62 - TheTimeCowboy

#63 - C. Sarraga

#64 - kkoktu

#65 - SexualYoukai

#66 - Jen Lee

#67 - jennifermontes

#68 - jesse balmer

#69 - Angie Wang

#70 - jhomnomnom

#71 - Charmaine Verhagen

#72 - Joseph Luster

#73 - Mike Sgier

#74 - RIAK

#76 - Niv Bavarsky

#77 - remoteryan

#78 - rawngandy

#79 - triistan

#80 - daniel thing stiner

#81 - Jefferson Cheng

#82 - berniecrowsheet

#83 - ppcrotty

#84 - Jake Wyatt

#85 - slongo

#86 - cody pickrodt

#87 - Anita

#88 - Marcel

#89 - mmmmmike

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OK, HERE WE GO!

#62: TORMY & GAZIL by Noah Van Sciver

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#14: JASPER by David Huyck

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#1: MAJOR GRUBERT by Dustin Harbin

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#72: THE BREEDER by Joseph Luster

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#12: CERVIC by Amy Harris

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#57: ZAG by Rodrigo Bravo

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#57: ENGINEER BARNIER by Michael Olivo 

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#44: NEST SOLDIER by Andrew Fulton

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#4: SEXUAL SORCERESS by Elliot Alfredius

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#35: MASTER BURG by Asuil

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#8: BARNIER´S ESCAPE by Roman Muradov

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#51: TORNOC by Olle Forsslöf

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#67: BALUTIN by Jennifer Montes

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#27: THE TAR-HAI by Jess Worby

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#37: WAYMASTER by Detrocboi

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#34: ATANA by Rebecca Mock

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#17: THE CONCIERGE by Andrew Schick

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#62: TORMY & GAZIL by Jake Lawrence

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#45: ARZACH by Matt Huyn

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#23: RULER OF THE GARAGE by Aaron Shattuck

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#49: POOH by Madeline Trower

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#39: THE ROACHER by Eric Benton

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#21: THE BAKALITE by Michael Skattum

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#22: SPER GOSSI by Zzoha

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#82: THE FIRST LEVEL by Bernie Crowsheets

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#65: THE OVERLORD OF VUNE by SexualYoukai

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#85: THE WHITE CITADEL by Scott Longo

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#85: HIT MAN by Rachel Kantor

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#15: GRAAD THE KEEPER by Alison Dubois

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#83: ARMJOURTH by Patrick Crotty

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#6: THE ARCHER by Nick Mullins

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#64: J.D. FOSTER by kkoktu

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#56 LADY KOWALSKY by Carlos Aguilar

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#66 THE HYPERSPACE GODS by Jen Lee

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#43: THE COORDINATOR by Michael DeForge

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#43: ABSOLUTEN MAN by Mike Bear

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#74: THE BEETROOT 2000 by Matthew Cahill

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#78: DOLL DROID by Rawn Gandy

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#79: NEST SHIP by Tristan Scow

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#58: RAVEN by Dana Lynch

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#61: LABAJOUE & MAX by glorb

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#73: THE CIGURI by Mike Sgier

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#26 TORPENICZEL CHOT by Hilary Lile

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#19: BOAZ THE CYDBERG ASSASSIN by Pedro Camargo

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#86: THE GARDEN OF AEDENA by Cody Pickrodt

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#42: THE PATERNUM by weja

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#18: THE STARBILLIARD by Antonio Da Mala

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#68: THE LIPPONS by Jesse Balmer

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#60:BOOMY & MAJOR V by Fort Ignorance

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#50: LOONA by Evan Hayden

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#30: AIRTIGHT GARAGE by Sophia Foster-Dimino

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#3: MAJOR ON THE RUN by Sebastien Sunstrum

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#29: GRAVE ROBBER by Nathan Seabolt

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#88: ROCK CITY by Marcel O'Leary

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#80: POLICE ROBOT by Daniel Thing Stiner

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#47: ELAINE by Matt Ro

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#11: LARK DAXTREY by Tonci Zonjic

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#31: REPAIRMAN by The Wontons

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#71: BARTINIFLOR by Charmaine Verhagen

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#28: THE CONTROLLER by Kelly K

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#5: LADY MALVINA by saicoink

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#48: THE GREEN MAN by Ian Sampson

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#33: ATAN by Pepperwheel

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: