Too Hot to Sleep…
Maki | July 8, 2010 2:18 amSo here are some birds…
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Got a haircut today in order to try to fight back the oppressive heat. While I feel a lot better, I think the barber took a little too much off the sides and perhaps, through no fault of his own, underestimated the fact that my hair shrugs off gravity until it reaches some planck length which tips it into behaving like normal people hair. Either way, I can't shake the feeling that I now look like Walter Sobchak.
On the bright side, it has a week to grow out before I will ever be photographed again (Wedding! Argh!) So I can always hope that a little time will even things out. Besides, it's not like anybody can ever call you a "Fat John Goodman" !
Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA HA!
….God Dammit. He really slimmed down.
Better Late Than Never… Amirite?
Maki | December 22, 2009 6:42 pmThe December issue of Auxiliary Magazine, which includes drawings by moi, is available for viewing either in PDF or with their snazzy new flash applet! Enjoy!
Big Apple Comic-Con
Maki | October 18, 2009 10:40 pm
This weekend was the Big Apple Comic Con here in NYC and earlier today Nadir and I, along with friends and family, went to take in the sights and buy lots of comics. I’ll have a more in depth report soon as I sort through the photos and read all the comics I bought. Until then, here’s a comic that was much funnier on the train when I thought of it Clicking the above image will take you to it in all its non-sequitur glory.
Note: Shatner was indeed there, though the image of him shrewdly poking his head out from behind a curtain I was standing next to will now always be how I remember him. Enjoy!
Sometimes, You Really Want that Seat
Maki | October 14, 2009 8:44 pm 
New webcomic today, featuring myself this week. Any New Yorker can tell you about the intricacies of the subway system and its riders. You see some messed up stuff sometimes. This story did happen and I do truly hate people who talk out loud to themselves. Stop it. We’re not interested.
Pinup time!
Maki | August 30, 2009 4:37 pm
Just a quick post of some recent digital paintings. Most brain wracking has been a remake of an old painting I called ‘Bad Medicine’ which was going great until it became a ‘sad girl’ painting by a trusted confidant and muse. Utterly shamed that this aspect had slipped past me I scrapped the current version and have been trying to work out the foreground element. Because I’m so proud of my 8-bit pixel work, I’ll post the image without the angst as a work in progress, seen here second. The next image is the aforementioned sad girl I excised from the painting (love digital for this reason. UNDO!) that I decided to keep around if only as a new painting to look at.
The first image is a pinup for Dusk creator/writer David Doub in anticipation of the second trade paperback of the series!
Seems to be an issue with NextGen Gallery (my spiffy image plugin) and the new version of WordPress so image uploads may be on hold as I really don’t like making thumbnails myself after years of NExtGen spoilage! Cheerio!
Yippee Ki-yay
Maki | June 28, 2009 4:59 pmKHAAAAAN!!
Maki | June 22, 2009 12:41 am
That’s ‘khan’ for ‘Comic Con’, but writing ‘Con’ with lots of O’s is bound to get me some hate mail. I spent the past weekend at Nadir’s place along with his brother and trusty sidekick Scooterus The Uterus. Therein we gorged on food, beer, and base pleasures of the flesh. or video games. Whatev. But the highlight of the weekend was the 2009 Philadelphia Comic Con! It was my first, sad to say, and I would gladly do it again. Here’s a slew of photos that will do the talking for me.
I have to thank Nadir for taking us to the Con, his brother Yener for the camera, and Scott for being an awesome cameraman. Nighto!
As promised I have for you some recent sketches I’ve made on my new toy. You may recognize two sketches being that of Eve, the protagonist of the Dusk series written by David Doub (and drawn twice by moi). I offered to do a pinup for volume 2 of the trade paperbacks and have been furiously scribbling away, trying to recapture the character. Then there are da bearsh.
Maki’s Going Digital
Maki | June 13, 2009 2:21 pm
That’s right, after years of pining and worrying about the learning curve, I finally got myself an Intuos4 graphic tablet by Wacom. All I have to say is, damn this thing is sweet. It is taking some time to get used to, as parodied above, but not so long that the joke got old before I could properly flesh it out (well, maybe a little bit old). The hardest part has been getting the brushes in photoshop and illustrator to behave like my paint brushes do. I have to thank a lot of online tutorials for helping me here.
Some things I envision for the future:
Faster comics– Even a comic of this simplicity took twice as long and never scanned in right when I was doing it old school. Faster also means I can flesh out ideas while they’re fresh and pump out hilarity like an incontinent newborn. You’ll definitely see more once I become comfortable enough with the tablet to properly express myself.
More art– More large, lushly colored, print-ready art— No more do I have to slave over a painting only to have my scanner make it green. Also, I can work without the limitations of paper size.
More lunch money– while these things aren’t cheap, I won’t have to buy art supplies for a long time.
I know I had a whole list of these I rattled off to my girlfriend while trying to weigh the pros and cons of buying one of these mama-jammas, but those are the big reasons I think. Stay tuned.
In other news, my little octopi sculptures have been selling like hot cakes at Destination NY, a small gallery/boutique here in NYC.
