Two big updates this week! First off is a new issue of Auxiliary, an alternative fashion, music, and lifestyle mag headed up by friend, photographer, and fellow Alfred U alum, Jennifer Link. The magazine regularly features interviews with bands, fashion tips, music reviews, and even a pinup or two. Whether you follow the alternative music/fashion scene or not, I highly advise you to check it out for the beautiful photography and sleek design. Plus, Jennifer lets me throw in an illustration now and then!

Auxiliary is available for free in PDF format on the website, but you can purchase print editions as well.

Also, a few days ago I received an e-mail from comic book writer David Doub informing me that he has collected his Dusk series into massive 4 chapter volumes, and they are available on Amazon.com! I worked on Dusk back in 2005 as the penciller of the first two chapters. In fact, it was probably the first comic book I ever pencilled. Ha!

I should be receiving a copy to review soon. Volume 1 is available now, with a second volume on the way. You can purchase it on Amazon.com and view some of the original pencils in the sequential artwork section of the gallery! Hurrah!

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Holy shmoly, I’ve been slacking. Ladies and gentlemen, what you see here before you are the first stirrings of me coming out of a terrible winter funk. I’ve spent the last few months pittering around with nary a finished piece to show for it save a brewtastic, Mucha-inspired painting and a modified action figure.  But mostly there has just been a lack of updates here on the site, not so much here at my desk.  I’ll get to posting some new works once they get published/delivered to their rightful owners. But to start things off, how about a new webcomic?

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A lovely heartwarming Christmas present for the parentals…

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…and for Nadir. This used to be a John McCain action figure. GET IT? HA!

Ah dreams. Last November I bought myself a newfangled iPhone as a self-congratulating birthday present. Though it has more than paid for itself in usefulness, I find my recent dreams strangely haunted by it. On more than one occasion I have had a dream similar to the one depicted in this week’s comic. Some folk have tried to glean a deeper meaning from these dreams, but I’ pretty sure I’m just afraid of breaking the damn thing. In any case, you can read the first in what I hope becomes a series here. Enjoy!

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Cooking Mama App!!!!!

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Hey folks, I’m showing some prints this weekend as part of a HUGE group exhibition from Buck’s Rock Camp. For those of you who don’t know, Buck’s Rock Creative and Performing Arts Camp is a summer camp for teens which provides a creative environment for both personal and artistic growth. I worked there for three summers as the head of the Sculpture department, and it was without a doubt the most enriching period of my life.  Buck’s Rock is not only a great camp, but a veritable cornerstone of the social universe. It has connected me to people from all over the world and to Kevin Bacon by 2 degrees. The show (which opens Sunday) will feature the works of campers, staff, and even alumni. Here’s the official blurb:

The Buck’s Rock Camp Arts Exhibition is a celebration of creativity inspired from the 67 years of providing teens with learning and growing opportunities within the creative and performing arts. The show features over 400 works of art, including 270 works from over 130 campers from the summer of 2008, and 150 works from 60 alumni, spanning a 43 year period of Buck’s Rock Camp’s creative history. It will show the world the unique experience Buck’s Rock can provide for teens and teachers, and the influential effect the summers spent there have continued to have on their lives as they have grown older.

Over 100 pieces of art are for sale, including Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Jewelry, Drawings, Prints, etc.  The artists will receive 80% of the proceeds, while 20%  will go to the Buck’s Rock Scholarship Fund.

The Art Directors Gallery: 106 29th Street (btwn 6th and 7th Aves.) 212 643 1440
2008 Reunion: Sunday, December 7th, 2 – 430 p.m.
Art Exhibition Opening: Sunday, December 7th, 5 -7 p.m.

The exhibition will also be open from 10am – 6pm, Monday Dec. 8th through Friday, Dec. 12th. I will be showing Octopus Jesus, Gibson Girl, and a piece from a collaboration with Snoozer Loozer! Images coming soon once I get a chance to breathe.

Tags: 2008 Reunion,Art Director's Gallery,Art Show,Buck's Rock Camp,Maki Naro,Octopus,Octopus Jesus
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After a brief hiatus, the weekly webcomic is back! In fact, this week we have 2 pages of goodness! The comic is pretty much word for word, weird image for weird image a dream I had Tuesday night. Spawned no doubt by the election and too much Fallout 3, it got stuck in my head all week until I could sketch it out. Enjoy the oddness!

In other news, you can now pointlessly stalk me on Twitter. You can either click the twitter icon underneath ‘Networks’ or add ‘lonelytylenol’. You aren’t missing anything if you don’t though.

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This time its me. Sorry folks, no drawings though. The show is called The Art Market, and its a two part group exhibition that features easily affordable artwork for the masses. As such, I’ll be selling some of my little faucet octopi as I have 8 of them and all they do is sit in my closet 364 days a year. Here’s the low down (from the official announcement e-mail, complete with adorable engrish):
Destination Art Space’s new series…

SHOW & SELL: The Art Market

Part 1: 10/30 – 11/30, 2008

Opening Wine Reception: Thursday, October 30th, 6-8pm

The Art Market

Destination Art Space, a gallery within an upscale boutique merging fashion and art, is hosting our brand new SHOW & SELL series, The Art Market from October 30 to December 30.

This group exhibition will be in TWO parts,

Part I: 10/30 – 11/30
Part II: 12/4 – 12/30

Each part will be featuring fifteen of emerging and professional artists.

Like our popular SHOW & SELL series: The $99 Art Fair, this Art Market series also maintains affordable prices (less than $500!) and a variety of artwork.

Pick your favorites off our walls and bring them home to grace your own!

With your returning favorites and new artists, there’ll be more unique pieces none higher than $500. Everyone can find something they’ll want to own and cherish.

Destination is making art accessible to the public at incredible prices, offering great artists a public forum.

For further information, please contact Hide Tachibana or Hisa Yamamoto at 212.727.2031/destination_ny@hpgrp.com

Hope to see you clowns there. Should be fun!

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Just some sketches for an upcoming project. More as the details get worked out.

I also added a painting to the last post. Cheers!

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Yeah, that’s how I’m feeling right now. No comics, no posts, not much new art. I know, I know. I’ve been an ultra douche . But I have excuses! Still recovering from various personal messes and an awesome weekend in the City of Brotherly Love. Full of booze, friends, and yes, more D&D. I can hardly contain myself. I mean it, I still feel like puking all that beer and pizza. Nnnghhh…

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I kid you not. The only thing I approve about Wal-Mart. I give it 2 popped collars!

Don’t hurl on me, bro.

Tags: douchebag,Dungeons and Dragons,Maki,pen and ink,stumble upon,ultra douche
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I was recently informed by my friend Lauren that when you Google ‘octopus jesus’, my page comes up first. VICTORY!! All hail our squishy eight-armed savior!!

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Now that I’m active again as a drawer, I found that I was inactive long enough to require me to rebuild my network. Ugh. So I’ve been throwing e-mails around, submitting work, posting portfolios, and all that good stuff. But the hardest part so far, has been finding my niche. Am I a painter or a cartoonist? Do I draw behind the scenes concept work or hang it in galleries? New Yorker or Juxtapoz?

Oh woe is him…

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Did you know that there are two comics this week? Now you do. The above image, which I drew earlier and just had to include will take you to the new and wholly different weekly comic. Enjoy!

For more about the phenomenon talked about in this week’s comic, go here!

Tags: Did you know?,Maki,Phobias,Random Facts,Webcomic
Categories: Art, Humor, SCIENCE!!, Webcomic
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