Moving to the Planet of the Abes (dotcom)

I’m moving the blog to a new home at www.PlanetOfTheAbes.com.

If you’ve bookmarked or subscribed to this site, I won’t be posting anything new, so howzabout updating to the new one here?

 

Hello Again Internets

ahh. Sipping coffee, stroking the ol’ beard the morning after Lincoln’s bicentenial. A time for reflection. A time for blogging.

I haven’t posted anything in a while. I got a little distracted with the real world, but I’ve come to my senses and realized my priorities and I’m back in front of a 15 inch screen communicating like man was meant to. I’ve made a goal for this weekend to clean up my virtual space. Get all my tweets in a row, do my stupid 25 things, tinker with wordpress software, and… call tech support for my laptop’s wifi issues. I’ll try to barf out a few posts here about what’s been going on in my life and maybe some crap that isn’t about me.

This is all just to distract me from doing my taxes.

PS Thanks to everybody who sent me “Happy Lincoln’s Birthday” messages. It will only make me that much more depressed next month when no one remembers my birthday.

awww.

PPS Charles Schulz’s birthday was yesterday too.

 

Happy Holidays

Merry X-mas! Here’s a drawing I did for work. Xplane got just about everyone in the company to contribute to this fun-factoid-filled holiday video

Bonus Stocking Stuffer! Guy at Desk Ornament (sans pants)…

 

The Battle of Snookum’s Creek

 

Stephanie and I are having our own show at Star Clipper soon. About a year ago Ben and AJ told us we could use their gallery and we came up with this idea of each of us making an army of handmade toys and turning the gallery into a plush battleground. Aware that people might find the couple-fighting-with-toys concept to be a cutesy gimmick, we just decided to roll with it and called it The Battle of Snookum’s Creek.

I’ll post some more pics and backstory in the next couple weeks, but for now here’s a couple promotional images and some process pics on Flickr.

And come out on Dec 5th for the opening reception from 7-9. Drinks and snacks!

Stephanie’s drunken sailors…

 

My hamster chariot (check the header at the top of the page)…

 

20th Anniversary Show at Star Clipper – Last Week

My favoritest St. Louis comic shop has a show up celebrating their 20th Anniversary. They asked a bunch of friends/artists to look back at their years with the store and submit pieces for it. Having worked there into the wee hours of the morning, I’ve seen some shit. So I did Ghosts of Star Clipper, illustrating the forgotten tragedies of perished patrons.

Other contributors were Jenny Cimono, Kevin Huizenga, Brian Hurtt, Matt Kindt, Sharlene Kindt, Sacha Mardou, Ted May, Jason Robards, Stephanie Richardson, Anchovy Sciarrino, James Stark, Ronald Weaver, Dan Wilson, Peat Wollaeger, Brian Yap, and Dan Zetwoch.

These are some of St Louis’s best, so thanks to Ben and AJ for the chance to join in.

Pics from the show on Flickr. My pieces below. And If you get the chance, stop by the store before Friday when they take them down.

 

Go Buy Chronicles of the Wave Cutter #1

Things that are guaranteed to make any comic good:

1. Boats

2. Large belt buckles

3. A cover that I colored

4. Nikola Tesla

Drew Crowley’s new Chronicles of the WaveCutter has 3 and its only the first issue so who knows what sort of Tesla appearances could come. Pick it up at Star Clipper or go straight to the source and contact Drew through his blog.

 

Mary Engelbreit Stole my Pic-i-nic basket

Most people don’t know this, but every Sunday I dress up like Waldo and Stephanie and I meet friends in the park for a day of pretend picnicking and acting all artsy-like. Most people didn’t know…UNTIL NOW!

from the current issue of Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion…

 

Cape Con

Stephanie and I went with Steve Higgins down to Cape Girardeau over the weekend for the Cape Comic Con. It was the first time having a booth for Stephanie and I so it was pretty cool. Steve Just released Myriad #2, a fable about tigers which Stephanie did some gorgeous art for, so we all had something to peddle

We sat across from the guy from Who Wants to Be a Superhero, the guy from the original Halloween and the guy from 4 different Sci-fi shows. Cullen Bunn, who wrote the excellent The Damned (new 3 issue series just came out) was there. And then there were a bunch of Storm Troopers and some other people…

Cape Con is no San Diego. Nor does it have that hip, indy coolness of SPX or MOCCA. Not that I’m knocking it. I had a good time, and it did have 2 Boba Fetts, which my friend Drew decided is the proper way to gauge how good a con is. If you only go to one comic convention in Cape Girardeau, MO, make it that one.

 

Supes is 70

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Playback’s in the middle of a week long tribute with articles on him every day. I would have written something, but it wouldn’t have been much more than “I thought that airplane scene in the new movie was pretty cool, but where was General Zod?” So they let me draw a picture instead.

That being said, take it from a non-superman fan, the All-Star Superman book that’s currently running is one of the best books on the shelves.

Steve Higgins did yesterday’s article about when he was a kid and his dad, through shear luck, brought home the first part of Alan Moore’s classic Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow (from the supermarket of course), which lead to a 15 year quest to get a copy of the conclusion.

My parents got me a copy of Visionaries #4 (based on a forgotten toy line). I just spent a 15 minute quest trying to find a picture of it and gave up. Not quite the same impact. So deprived.

 

Smash Brothers

All productivity has been put on hold for 2 months. Check back in June. Maybe July.