Mmm, Bacon
I thought I’d show my Weekly Print this week because it’s about bacon, and bacon should be shared.
Two colors, 8″ by 12″
Available for $15 in the Weekly Print store!
Baby Otto Research+Update
For those of you who may be curious, pages from the fourth volume of The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin will start posting later this week, and I think you’re going to like it.
As I have explained in the past, my research method for each volume is to go to Portland’s downtown library branch and read the newspaper for each day in 1900 which is covered in that volume. This is such an enjoyable and relaxing practice for me, as it takes hours to pore through nearly a month of very dense, 100+ year old newspapers on microfilm. Generally I am alone because the only other people who seem to use the microfilm room are old men and a scattershot of young, hipster artists looking to snag some sweet “found art” from old advertising. It totally satisfies my geeky historical research loving side though. I print out things that I can write into the story as well as things I find interesting or amusing. Here are a few things that I came across during my last research trip.
The main front page focus of the paper during this period of time is the Boxer Rebellion war going on in China. That’s all interesting in a historical sense, but c’mon, look at all that amazing facial hair. Each man has something totally different and yet equally fantastic. There’s another facial hair shot that tops all of these, hands down, but I can’t show you because it’s going to show up in the comic.
I print out almost every piece I can find by illustrator C.E. Toles, whose life and career remain somewhat mysterious. I absolutely adore his caricature style seen here. Toles’s illustrations usually pop up maybe once or twice during the week, but also sometimes two or three times in the larger, Sunday editions; quite prolific considering he wasn’t from Portland and did work for other papers across the country as well.
More of Toles’s regular illustration style.
And still more.
This is about as funny (to modern standards) as cartoons get when it comes to the comics seen in a 1900 newspaper. I kind of want to get one or all of these poses tattooed on me.
The Sea Bastard
I created the Sea Bastard out of the blue for an art show last summer and have always wanted to use him again. He’s fun and easy to draw, and such a bastard.
Available for $15 in the Weekly Print store.
Even Sasquatch Rides!
I posted this on my Flickr a day or so ago, but totally forgot to post it here. I’m taking part in a coloring book being put out through Gigposters.com, and this is my piece for it. It combines two of my favorite things, biking, and hairy things. If I can find any free time in the next week, I think I will try to color this digitally because I feel like it has been a while since I have worked on anything in Photoshop that wasn’t a Weekly Print.
Ghosts
Something a little different for print number nine of The Weekly Print, so I decided to show it here too. About two years ago, while fooling around in a college class, I doodled the inspiration for this image. The original has been hanging in my bathroom ever since and always garners a few chuckles from visitors to my apartment. So, I decided it was time to make it a little more widely available.
Available in the Weekly Print store.
Seeking More Studiomates
Indigo Kelleigh, Les McClaine, Jon Siruno, and I share a studio space on the east side of Portland called Tranquility Base. We are currently looking to move studio locations soon and some of the better spots available would be more than big enough to accommodate another person (or two). We’re just four illustrators and cartoonists looking for some good studio space for around $100 a month, and we’re looking to make it five (or even six), now wouldn’t you like in on that?
If you’re an artist in Portland looking for some studio space, let me or one of the other guys know and we can go from there, OK?