Signing Mr.Easters!

Poster designed by Kevin Panetta

July fourth if you’re in the DC area and wanna hang whilst I personalize your copy of A Home for Mr. Easter with loving care then swing by Big Planet Comics in Vienna, VA!!!

There will be pins and other goodies up for grabs so swing by if you're in the area and have a gay ol' time.

I'll be takin' the train from Georgia to Virginia, I love adventure!!

Also I did an interview for Jazma so if you're bored and at a loss of reading material... then there is that.

And the reviews have continued to be real positive and sweet and I appreciate all of them!

Anywho, can't wait to escape Georgia where everyday I open my door and know exactly what its like living on the face of the sun...

Brooklyn Gremsley: 1,000 Deaths 1,000 More

(fig. 1A)

A little more process work and unfinished pages from Brooklyn Gremsley. The first 6 or so pages basically explore her unusual talent for escaping death. She reflects on several different animals that she's had the pleasure of being eaten alive by, but this is her first time down the gullet of a gator.

... girl just can't catch a break...

P.s. "Mr. Grin" sends his love, y'all (see fig. 1A above).

I'll be sure to post these when they're finished... but in the mean time, here they are.

And here's a tiny sculpy Liny... he was not part of my final... but shhh.

Kids with Guns!

Some unfinished illustrations for my friend William Casey's senior film Liam and Ben... which consists mainly of kids with guns battling some pretty nasty veggie monsters and learning to get along... but i know all you heard was kids with guns, so HERE THEY ARE.

Cant think of a better SOUNDTRACK... after all kids with guns and Savannah ( C-PORT) kinda go hand in hand.

p.s. I do so miss Bear Face and the good times

P.P.S SCIENCE RULES!

Don't Worry, it's my Birthday

It's true. Fear not, I've become 22.
Here's my African Art notes for today!:









I left the SCAD equestiran team one up to you, dear reader, to finish.
I have nothing against the equestrian department, I consider it a privilege to go to a school where some major in comics and others major in ponies... maybe SCAD should be called Mrs. Paula Wallace's School for Imaginary Careers in ... whatever.

I did none of those things in reality... just in spirit. (well... except turn super saiyan level 200 billion. That did happen over breakfast).
Over all Birthday Day 2010 has been a total success, I've aged a year and had a good time doing it.
SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY!!

OH p.s. I WANT A PIGLET to name Prickle.

Goodbye Bear Face

My doggie Tess the Bear Faced Terror died Friday.
Heart attacks shouldn't happen to puppy dogs, little loyal spirits should be allowed to live forever.

She's sorely missed.





p.s. Im never going to die. It doesn't look like much fun.

Tough

It's been a bad year for the things I love...

heres an armadillo



p.s. I CRASHED ANOTHER ONE!
Brooke= 2 Macs = 0

Backgrounds, Boards, and Brooklyn ... oh my.

Aesop backgrounds: 3 of different entrances to Aesop's cave and the other a part of Dr.Stoatenstien's lab. ...in the middle is a doodle of my dog LINUS who's diet consists of children and has nothing to do with Aesop.




... some of these are out of sequence because pieces are missing... but maybe you wont actually try to read it





and Im still working on Brooklyn...
It kinda feels like that last picture

Working on this comic is making me notice more and more my love/hate relationship with crocodilians, I fear them and yet all I wanna do is poke them with sticks from a safe distance ...

Brooklyn Gremsley

Here she is, my senior project still on the slab. Twelve 22x30 gouache and watercolor painted pages due at the end of the quarter.... why on earth would I do this to myself you ask? Because deep down inside is an evil self deprecating Brooke Allen who never passes up a chance to self sabotage... curse her.

So heres a little process, if you've got time to kill and you're curious about what on earth I was thinkin when I made A Home for Mr.Easter you can see my post on process HERE.








more to come from the lil studio of horrors.

CITRUS CEL 2010 STUDENT DESIGN IN CHARACTER AWARD GOES TO:

AESOP LAMB OF VENGEANCE!!!!!

I know some of this is redundant, but these were the Aesop designs that got displayed (and ultimately won!!!!) at Citrus Cel this year.

Next step: get these sheeps in motion!









This time Vengeance was spelled right... but if you read any of the character bios there is a bounty of typos ... but I guess I was banking on no one would read it... D:


(story boards, animatics, and backgrounds to come!)

Good things and HORRIBLE EVIL NO GOOD THINGS OF FORLORN

MoCCA:
MoCCA was fantastic and everything I had hoped it'd be!!!
NYC was amazing and it was an awesome experience sharing the NBM table with Greg Houston, Neil Kleid, and Ted Rall which I owe Terry Nantier big time for. I sold out of A Home for Mr. Easter and had a chance to get my feet wet signing/sketching in books (which is utterly horrifying). I also snagged a copy of Greg's blaxploitation meets the pope comic Vatican Hustle which is seven different shades of groovy and if you haven't read it already then there's no place in my good books for your kind.
Over all it was a great weekend that went very well....



Switching gears to things that DIDNT go so well:


If you've seen THIS then you've seen the face of satan breaking your dreams

My hard drive died and took everything with it to Mac Book Pro hell where I hope it's happy burning for the unforgivable sin of ruining my life!!!
And if you ask me why on earth I didn't back everything up I'll answer by killing you. So we'll just silently acknowledge that I am the worlds most heinously dumb human being and walk chin up into the future....


Here's some drawings of little nature things I did three years ago...




... BECAUSE THEY WERE THE LAST THINGS I BACKED UP

So all in all I learned my lesson: back up your files or gamble with the fates (and lose).

.... I like to believe that when apple tried to save my data it happened exactly like this: