Category: Aestheticismo…

  • Comics as Art

    I’ve been one to believe in the above idea for awhile, even going so far as to assert that the History of Art is the History of Comics, and lately it seems I’m not alone. Far cry from those days when I was told that comics weren’t. Seems there is a growing number of artists…

  • “Sam & Max” are Back!

    That’s right, they’re back, but who are they? Sam and Max are the creation of Steve Purcell who based them on the childhood drawings of one of his siblings. Sam is an anthropomorphic dog who dresses like a 1950’s gumshoe and Max is his partner, a “hyper-kinetic rabbity thing” or “lagomorph” depending upon whom you…

  • I can’t figure out if I should be impressed, or intimidated, or just plain disgusted…

    I can’t say I’ve ever been drawn to the allure (can it even be typified as allure?) of the “Cash Money” aesthetic. Personally, there’s nothing about some tough looking mug displaying his/her wealth (or casting the illusion of) in ostentatious amounts for an album cover that makes me curious as to what sort of music…

  • Big Fun in Hay-Vanna!

    Just got in from Hay-Vanna (Havana, FL) where I spent the majority of this weekend in my studio. Managed a little painting, a little planning, and more than a little relaxing. Labor intensive is the best thing for me to just zone out and ride. Managed to finish another this weekend. Steadily moving forward, rearranged…

  • When it’s all worthwhile, Pt. 2.

    Close to a year ago, I was commissioned to make a ceramic strawberry pot. It took some doing but I was very pleased with the results. As were my patrons, who had planned all along to use it for a fresh herb planter. Yesterday, they sent me a pic showing off their newly planted and…

  • Oh My Gawd! It’s like it was planned this way!

    YASS, YASS, thas rah-yat, ya’ll! Two important dates this weekend, a weekend serendipitously put together for maximum consumption of pop-culture iconography. Friday sees the premier of the film SPIDER-MAN 3, Back in Black, and Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! This is better than Christmas and Kwanzaa put together! So go unto the world ye…

  • Go away for a couple of days and see what happens…

    So, took a break, my best friend of the past twenty years, whom I haven’t seen in the last four, came down, so there was lots of cleaning, organizing and prep to take care of..that and our server was down for a couple of days, but in the meantime lots of strange energy in this…

  • Taste of things to come…

  • Coming Soon!

    I am a fortunate human-being, fortunate to know and collaborate with a tireless and talented individual. A man who can never receive enough praise for his prodigious skills and knowledge. A man who helped me see a half-baked idea for a comic book called Hot Lunch realized. A man that I thoroughly enjoy working with…

  • The red-herring…

    Hitchcock was a big fan of it, and countless other story-tellers throughout history have used it as well. A “red-herring”, from a story-telling perspective, is the act of deliberately inserting a plot point into a story so as to set audiences to expect one outcome so that they are taken completely by surprise when the…