Arachnum

Panel project.. another one for Carousel

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Card

A little sloppy

Paul M_____

A 4 Panel Project strip for Carousel.

Birthday

My niece's birthday is this weekend which means, apart from presents, doing a card for her and a nice family dinner. She always does great cards for me and this year's was a favorite (tho she did vainly choose a younger picture of herself). Her mum is indeed a dark overlord and a fairly accurate description of me taking her too school.

Sound

I really like these two books a lot. Especially NO MORE HEROES which is a real nice reference// biography/discography volume. I'm sometimes surprised by omissions tho. In NO MORE HEROES there is no entry for the Outsiders, a really great band that put out what is I believe the first UK punk band self released lp, Calling On Youth. Both that and second record a year later are great albums and not just obscure singles (both of which I only have vinyl reissues of sadly), What happened? Its more curious since the singer /songwriter of the band went on to form a great post punk band called The Sound mining territory between Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen uniquely with amazing songwriting and guitar playing by leader Adrian Borland. Critically acclaimed but not commercially which would be ok except The Sound are not even mentioned in RIP IT UP which I find pretty bizzare since they're better then a lot of the bands that get mentioned here.  I have a small connection with Borland in that my brother in law formed a band with him and worked with  him for about a year and half post Sound before breaking up so I've heard stories of how brilliant and difficult he could be to work with.

from the first Lp released '79

Gym people scribbles

Tombstones

Do You Remember...

morning sketch..

Bunny and Baby

Incredible score from the thrift store last week. Not only do I love the painting but the frame is incredible.

Ghost Cat

another tattoo

Bad Blood

New seven inch for the Grim County Coroners coming soon this is what I'm calling this piece.

Shadows

Back from a road trip to the Finger Lakes, an area I really love. I'll post photos and sketches soon but

here is some nice finds from the trip. The Wintertime book has beautiful art by Tom Oreb who did lots of amazing animation design work in the 50's and 60's. The Yogi is illustrated by the great Mel Crawford. I came across the Dark Shadows game in Rochester and they wanted 75 dollars for it so that was not going to happen but then I found it Ithaca for 15 which was perfect. Complete with a fairly tattered paper board game but still all there and such great illustrations.

Frizzi

Looking forward to this tonight.

Haunted Horror

Steve Banes, editor,  posted this great pic of Danzig with a copy of HAUNTED HORROR number 18. I designed one of the 3 horror hosts, Clizia who is in this issue so its cool to see.

Walk

Wish I had brought my good camera on yesterdays stroll.

Battle

The age old rivalry.. as a youngster  I would have  firmly thrown my lot in with the chipmunk gang but I've mellowed over the years and can appreciate the value of Disco Rubber Duckie. And a good gatefold sleeve. I'm not sure what the first punk gatefold would have been. If I had to guess it would have been Sham 69's Thats Life which I'm not that big fan of or The Ramones It's Alive, which is one of my favorite live albums ever.

Wyeth

About to drive my niece to an audition this morning. Picked up this Wyeth print at a thrift store, I find this kind of stuff to leave behind, and listening to this great comp which has all there early singles  a and b sides.. the later stuff I'm not so crazy about.

Christy

Sleepy Hollow

MOtorcoffee

Tho I've seen them a number of times its a drag Motorhead are playing Riot Fest today. Apart from the fact I don't want to sit around watching a bunch of bands I have no interest in for the ticket price its farther away. New album is great too as usual and who knows this might be Lemmy's last stand.

some gear

I was super happy when I got this old bowling shoe bag since its perfect for carrying around most of the art supplies I use for sketching when out and about. Luckily I was able to pass on the super cute bowling shoes that came with it to a niece. Plus I like looking at  it.