ELECTRIC ANT ZINE BLOG

While I was sitting on my ass, and you were picking your noses-- Giannis Milonogiannis, Electric Ant #2 contributor and our buddy in Greece, created a 5-page Batman comic for the hell of it. Check out his short comic OUR KIND, which was posted (along with other rad sketches and ideas) on his Flickr:

         

Whoa, this place turned into a bit of a ghost town while I was in Japan. Time to remedy that, ASAP. First item up, Electric Ant #2 contributor (These Bloody Moments, Training for Goddesses) and brush virtuoso Angie Wang is making her first set of prints available for sale!

         

Inés is starting up a series of daily comics on her LJ, the first batch are here.

   

...is going to be THE book of TCAF 2010, and one of the hottest releases of this year. I recently read a huge chunk of the main storyline in this issue (thanks Michael!), and it is gross and wonderful.  Really creepy, beautiful character designs, and major gross-out dripping flesh nasty bits. I'm beyond stoked for this thing to debut, at Toronto Comic Arts Festival in May 2010. Here is the cover, from DeForge's journal:

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Gawker Artists presents NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a group show of works by Gawker Artists. Featuring sexually suggestive works typically considered off limits for the workplace, NSFW showcases Gawker Artists' playful irreverence and ongoing exploration of the boundaries and roles of corporate art programs.

Here is my latest illustrated-photography piece, entitled RESET.  It’s more personal in theme than my usual work.  I’m hoping this year to change a lot of things about my life for the better, and sort of hit the “reset button”. The model is yours-truly, and I am accompanied by a toy space gun and about 30-40 different flowers that I shot pictures of around California, Michigan, and Ohio.

   

Leave a comment & then go check out the rest of Evan's impressive Illustrated-photography work!

Over on his flickr, Electric Ant #2 contributor Giannis Milonogiannis has been tackling our favorite band of mutants (in B&W and color). Check em out! 

         

I'm going ahead this week and stealing the latest announcements and tidbits from the blogs of Electric Ant contributors. First up, contributor and Issue 2 cover artist Hellen Jo created a lovely set of new watercolors for the current Giant Robot New York group show, Playful Extremities. You can see these paintings in person (and buy one if you wanna!) until February 4th.

Check out these (and then go over to her blog to see the rest and tell her what you think!)

         

Dear EAZB,
I never was the kind of guy to do the whole new year's resolution thing. But, for 2010 I decided to at least try these two things:

1) Less chewing on the inside of my cheeks
2) More, shameless pimping of my work

You will be glad to know that I have managed to keep the insides of my mouth relatively bite-free (I chew on my lips now).
Regarding my self-pimping, I made myself a website: http://www.milonogiannis.com/

I'm probably going to regret getting that URL for it, I know people have a tough time spelling my name. There's only 3 short comics and some drawings up there right now. Updating it is a pain in the ass, but hopefully I'll put up newer stuff every now and then. There's an image viewer to make looking at the stuff easier, but the whole site needs to load before that thing will work, which actually makes it more complicated. Let me know if it works OK for you.

Here's a drawing I did today of the Voight-Kampff scene from the Blade Runner movie. I've been wondering lately how things would translate from books and film into comics, without heavily editing the source, so maybe I'll do more of those. I'd really like to draw the abandoned underground highways from Asimov's Caves of Steel.

Also, as an apology for making my first post on the EAZB a sucky one, I'm sending along some music I did recently. I'm totally not serious about making music, so feel free to laugh at those. Here's hoping this posterous thing actually works!

What are your resolutions for 2010?
Giannis