Sneak Peek: Monkey Mod Comic Panel

If you've been listening to Art & Story, you've no doubt heard Mark Rudolph and I talk about a story for a comic anthology (Tales of Hot Rod Horror Vol.2) that we are working on. The comic we are working on will feature one of Mark's characters and my character Monkey Mod. This is a story we've been kicking around for a little while now and, with this upcoming comic anthology, we've been presented with the opportunity to do it, use our own characters, get paid for it, and retain our rights as creators. Dream come true? You betcha!

Today I thought I'd share a sneak peek of one of the panels from this comic. Its a small sneak peek and doesn't give anything away. But, I wanted to show it to sneak peek the newer, more cartoony look of Monkey Mod. I had been wanting to redesign him for some time now and this anthology story gave me the opportunity to do that now too.

Introducing Artie Slammo!

Ladies and Gentlemen... I'd like to introduce you to Artie Slammo.

Artie Slammo is a pseudonym that I had planned to work under to do pretty girl pin-up illustration. What has happened is that Slammo is starting to take on a life of his own. Slammo is not only an artist, he is an Adventure-Illustrator, bon vivant, and world traveler.

Artie Slammo has his own website and updates will be starting soon. You can follow him through Google Connect, on his site, to see the updates as they happen or follow him on Twitter.

In closing, and in his own words, " I'm putting the needle on the Hi*Fi while laying down sweet inky lines to bring you the most way-out chicks ever committed to paper."

Big Illustration Party Time in iTunes Top 10!

I'm usually not one to subscribe to popularity contests. However,  I was sent an email today that pointed me to the iTunes list of top design podcasts and Big Illustration Party Time is number 9 in the top 10.

The biggest thing this highlights for me is that BIPT did in fact have awesome listeners and we never should have gone away in the first place. I missed doing the show and I missed interacting with all the listeners. I'm glad to be back!

Thanks everyone!!!

Big Illustration Party Time

I'm stoked to announce that the podcast, Big Illustration Party Time,  I used to co-host, with my friend Joshua Kemble, is coming back! Big Illustration Party Time has a new URL and we are redoing the show notes for past episodes to make them as current as possible. This will take some time to do, but that ain't gonna stop us from doing new episodes! As a matter of fact, we are hoping to have a new episode posted by February 22, 2011.

If you listened to the show in the past or might have just discovered it, you can contact us at www.illustrationparty@gmail.com with your questions or comments. We'll read them on the air, so please include your URL so we can give you proper credit. Heck... if you wanna send us an MP3, that'd be super cool! We'll play those too.