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Giannis does Batman

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:

         

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Angie Wang prints for sale!

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!

These are matte paper, archival ink prints-- likely to be priced in the teens or so (TBD). You can reserve a print you want over at her livejournal. I put my name down for "Vase With Flowers" and "Precious Dork":
         

Available prints:
10 x Young Monsters (8x24)
10 x Froggetta (10.5x13.5)
5 x Vase With Flowers (11x14)
5 x Precious Dork (13x13)
5 x Space Nomad Alphabet (11x17)

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Inés Estrada's dream comics

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

   

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Upcoming art shows: LISA HANAWALT

Okay, so there are basically rad gallery shows by Electric Ant contributors & friends happening in all corners of the country. Just learned about an exciting art show happening in Los Angeles featuring new works from Lisa "Sugarwalls" Hanawalt, our homegirl and contributor to the PLANET X RISES comics jam in issue 2.

Lisa creates creepy and humane illustrations/comics about car crashes, maladies, the human penis, and fancy dress animals. Her stuff has been lauded by folks like Johnny Ryan, Scott McCloud, and Charles Burns, and this will be a good chance to snag original art and hang out with cool folks. (Hellen & Calvin, I saw you guys are going?)

The opening is Feb. 5, 8-10PM at Secret Headquarters in LA at 3817 W. Sunset Blvd.
         
From the Facebook invite:
Lisa will unleash a tornado of recent drawings and paintings this February, featuring animals, fine carpets and crashed cars. Lisa is the author of the comic book "I Want You" and Ignatz-Award winning mini "Stay Away From Other People." Her comics and illustrations have been published in Vice Magazine, McSweeney's, The Believer, LA Weekly and Arthur. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Join Lisa Hanawalt on Friday for some drinks and defensive driving tips!

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LOSE #2 by MICHAEL DEFORGE...

...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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Upcoming art shows: JUSTINE LAI

Electric Ant Zine #1 and #2 contributor, Justine Lai will have paintings in two upcoming gallery shows- one on the East coast and one on the West coast!  If you are in the area, take this chance to see her work in person!
       

NSFW (Not Safe For Work)
Gawker Artists
210 Elizabeth Street, 4th Floor, New York NY
January-March 2010

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.

Chain Reaction 11
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco CA
February 12-May 16, 2010
Opening Reception: Feb 12, 5:30-9pm

Works by thirty artists will be exhibited at our three locations: the Main Gallery in the Veterans Building, our window installations site at 155 Grove Street and our exhibition space at San Francisco’s City Hall. Chain Reaction 11 takes the pulse of the current Bay Area art scene and allows us to get inside the artists’ minds to see what they find most compelling.

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RESET by Evan Hayden

I'm going ahead this week and posting art and releases by Electric Ant Zine contributors from around the web. Here is the latest illustrated-photography piece by Evan Hayden. As posted on his art site:

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!

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Giannis tackles the X-MEN!

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! 

         

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HELLEN'S PLAYFUL EXTREMITIES

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!)

         

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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

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

  

  

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