Belated Supanova report or The day I met DAVE JOHNSON!

I know Sydney Supanova was a while ago now, but I've been supabusy and getting over the flu ... anyhow, this years show was massive! I decided not to get a table for the first time in years, and just cruise around getting the chance to catch up with alot of the local creators and friends, like Gee Hale, Stephen Ford, Doug Holgate, Anthony Calvert, Julie Ditrich, Jozef Szekeres, Tom Bonin and a bunch more talented peeps. 

Dave and me!

Hey, Dave must be a DIABLA fan!

I had my geek on in a big way, as I got the chance to meet and chat with comics/animation/design genius The Reverend Dave "Devil Pig" Johnson! I've been a HUGE fan of Dave's work since "Super Patriot" back in the early 90s, through to his awesome cover designs for Marvel, DC and Vertigo, especially his Batman Detective covers and his 100 Bullets covers (young reader may have heard of BEN 10... well Dave designed all that cool stuff too). 

He gave a very frank and funny talk about all sorts including meeting his comic idols in person... and how disappointing it can be...
Well lucky for me and all his fans - he did not disappoint, and was the one of the funniest chatty artist you could meet. I asked him to sign my copy of "Drink and Draw"... he did ten steps better!

BIG Thanks to good friend Frank Kennedy for taking these snaps!  (I was too giddy at the time to organize anything!)

AT THE MOVIES... with GQ

A small head shot of David Stratton for GQ magazine...

"Grotesque. Disgusting. You’re an animal!"

A cool project for Philadelphia magazine... and no, that's not me posing for the wolfman!

Jason and the Argonauts!

Flat out at the moment with covers, editorial, comics, and editorial comics (confused... you should be!)
Here's a tiny preview of Jason and the Argonauts!!
And Supanova news soon...

Just a little bit of wisdom!
A short interview with me, by my extremely creative friend Jodie!

Photo: Rachael Baez!

Adonis Complex FHM illustration

"The Adonis Complex isn't a multivitamin supplement but a pysch condition describing men's increasing obsession with their bodies and how we're value other traditional measures of self worth such as character and judgement less in preference for looking buff.

It's "A health crisis that is striking men in all ages," according to one Harvard professor, is backed up by experts in Australia and is being attributed to a boom in male body image issues/delusions health issues and messing up social calendars with obsessive trips to the gym."

Can you tell I spent a lot of time in front of the mirror to get the muscles right...

James (Little fish) and me! (Littlehammer)

MCA Zine Fair 2011 report

This is a little late as it's been a busy fortnight fighting deadlines and a cold arggh! Anyhow, this year's MCA Zine fair was another great show, with friendly crowds and a unseasonably warm but welcomed weekend (We usually freeze at these shows in Sydney).

Thanks go to the ever helpful Melinda Garcia at the MCA and a big congrats to my booth buddy James Shackle! He sold out of ALL his zines in less than half a day!! That's got to be a record! Thanks to all the people that stopped by our booth to chat and support the artist struggle.
I didn't get to see many other stalls in much detail but what I did get to see was extremely high quality and very creative stuff. If you get a chance to go to next years show I'm sure it won't disappoint!

Oh and of course BIG THANKS our supportive partners Rachael and Esther!! These photos courtesy of Esther.

My better and prettier half!

Super future part 2!
Super future classroom! I think class would be very entertaining... and educational!

Happy Sketchy Friday!!
Random stuff from my sketchbook this month ... mostly markers... practice, practice, practice!

ASA Comics Masterclass is coming!!
Australian Society of Authors has just announced its upcoming Comics Masterclass featuring the talented and celebrated US comics creator and graphic novelist Colleen Doran. This is gonna be so cool!!!

Super Future dining! part 1
I just love saying "super future"and typing it ...super future..super future super future super future super future...whoa!... glad I got that out of my system... anyhow... here's an educational spot for a US client... I've included the rough to show my process...

Men's Movement ???
This one seems a little strange to me...  I still think they're loony...

MCA Zine fair is coming!!
SUNDAY 22 MAY 2011, 11am – 5pm
As part of the Sydney Writers' Festival the MCA will be hosting the annual Zine Fair!
I'll be there selling my goods and sharing a table with the uber talented James Shackell!
and it's FREE admission!!

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY YOU'RE INVITED!

Kinokuniya Sydney
This Saturday May 7th Kinokuniya has invited me and a bunch of other comic book creators to attend Free comic book day, I'll be selling prints and comics, I hope to see you all there!  Brings your friends!!
(Free comics...I love the sound of that....)
Kinokuniya
500 George Street
Sydney NSW 2000


Check the Free comic book day site for the list of free comics!!

Generation ALPHA

The latest illustration for FHM news page...
"As the children of older, wealthier parents with fewer siblings and more entertainment and technological options, it's likely they'll be the most materially supplied generation ever"

Men's Health illustration

Working on a cool comics project at the moment ... more on that later...
This piece for Men's Health, explains how to keep the love (& lust) alive while spending time away from your lover...

To boldly go where no girl has gone...

Just a bit of fun for my girl's birthday... I'm sure she wouldn't have minded being trapped on an M class planet with these two...

This month's FHM illo ..."Hip Will Eat Itself"

"Hipster too-cool-for-school loose trend is starting to turn on itself. Hipsters are decrying other hipsters and hipsterism. Now that they have been classified, they hate it, despite interests which primarily involve classifying everything else. They are their own punchline." 

Inspired loosely from this very funny music video... 

Art Jumble TOP TEN LIST!!

I made number 2 on Art Jumbles most popular posts! Yaaah for me!!

February's 10 Most popular posts

1. Rockstar
2. Astro Purple Ape
3. Hungry Hungry Galactus
4. Geek Love
5. Girls, Flowers, Love...
6. Kurt Cobain
7. LOVE
8. ♥ Love! ♥
9. Capricorn
10. The Dares

United Nations Super Friends!!
Sort of... I can't show the final piece till the magazine is published....more info then...

Collaborative Consumption illo for FHM

"Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid growth of traditional bartering, renting, lending, sharing, trading and swapping, facilitated by innovations in social networking technologies. Whilst it does not strictly imply an end to personal possessions – for example, swapping is merely an alternative way to ‘own’ new things - it does imagine a more fluid concept of ‘ownership’"

More Kids Publishing
This is the main illo from the previously posted job ... very fun project!

Children's publishing

For a US client... love a slobbering dog with big teeth!! 

Great figure drawing reference site!

My mate Craig alerted me to this great online resource ... I'll be using it!!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!

HAPPY MONDAY!!!
Nothing new to show just yet ... thinking up some new ideas....
Thinking of coconut and berry cake .... and nachos.... mmmmm

Game over man?

This months FHM news illo... " Economics and unimaginative sequels are killing the Australian gaming industry."

Scholastic project

Here's a few educational pieces for a fun Scholastic job...

Happy new year and welcome back!!

The cool news so far is cloud9comix.com has
launched as of the 5 of January!
So visit them and check out the goodness!
Working on a few cool projects right now...
will be posting more very soon...

Holiday cheer!!

All the best to you and your loved ones for Christmas, and I hope you all have a fantastic 2011!!

Thanks to all who supported me!!

Captain America private commission

This commission was a lot of fun, it was for a employee leaving a company, he is a huge comics and Cap fan (obviously) I was going for a silver age marvel feel, not to sure if that totally came through...
I was really impressed at his co workers thoughtfulness, they sent me buckets of reference for everyone, in every panel! 

While I'm on the subject... I'm happy to do private commissions of any kind!

Here's a bit of inspirational talk 

that I really liked from panel 4! 

Has the internet made cheapskates of all of us?

From this months FHM...
“Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting. The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has not made content free.  We intend to charge for all our news websites.”

Rupert Murdoch

Zine fair at the NGA Canberra

Thanks to all who supported us on the day! Great to see and chat to so many new and familiar faces, and the NGA's Gandel hall was very classy and spacious. I have to mention the chairs (what?) yes the chairs! So comfortable!! Unlike most shows the NGA chairs have my backsides stamp of approval!
Tom Bonin "DICKS" comic was a stand out for me, and it turns outs that we both love a lot of the same comics. 
Of course thanks to stickyinstitute.com for making the show happen and the invite, and to Ben Craddock for these pics too...

"trust me..they're all good!!"










(note the chairs... ahhh comfy)

Scum and Villainy

Here's one from the archive, that I found while cleaning up... I was obsessed with feathering at the time and still learning to ink with a brush...

Diabla coming soon on your ipad!!
Thanks to the talented people at Cloud 9 comix!
Check out their site and other cool comics, and watch 
this space for more news...

Fairy studies....

Something random from my latest sketchbook...

Capital Letters: the NGA zine fair!!  All invited!! Facebook link Time Saturday, October 30 · 11:00am - 4:00pm Location National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Parkes Place Canberra, Australia More Info A zine fair of over 30 zinesters from around Australia at the nation's capital, in conjunction with the NGA's mighty launch of their street art exhibition, Space Invaders. I'll have a table selling comics, prints etc!!  Looking forward to sunny Canberra!!

"Why Australia sucks at sport..?"

This Illo appears in this month's FHM news page...

I'm tied up with a bunch of education illos this month as well as more editorial... 

so I'll post more ...later.... much later! 

"The internet forgets nothing!"

I fun job for FHM on how the internet remembers every stupid word you said!! 

Including mine ... d'oh!!

Marvel Super Hero Squad

Super Hero Squad Gambit private commission

Astro & Astrid!

Apes and girls in space suits ... what a genre!! As you can tell I was listening to a lot of Daft Punk too...

Just a little preview of work in progress ...

"Sweet smelling overlords!"

Appearing in this months FHM ... a story about how the girls are taking over the boys in the work place...