ENTER 3 part1 (časopis o súčasnom umení a literatúre)

For all you out there who speak Slovak, I have a translated interview in the issue of ENTER (edited by Riso Kitta). They also translated my strip Duhy Science Network. Martin Groch has posted some excerpts here.

GIANT BOTTLE OF LIQUID PAPER

I am in a two person show with Jim Woodring right now at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas called Walpurgis Afternoon (curated by Robert Boyd). Jim Woodring demonstrated his GIANT PEN as part of the opening festivities. I was asked to partake and so I drew a GIANT BOTTLE of LIQUID PAPER.

This drawing (see above) is being auctioned off (along with many other works of art, including Jim's giant pen drawing) to benefit SKYDIVE, a local artist run center.

IGNORE THAT UGLY OL' THING ON AMAZON

This is the real cover for PURE PAJAMAS.


Until I change the colour scheme again.

TING's LUKE WORM

A papier mache sculpture of TING's Luke Worm as seen at the London City Press Club. I happened upon this place a couple months ago when a friend played a music show there. I'd ne'er heard of it. It's in a funny location, on the bottom floor of an apartment building, next to a convenience store (it relocated here in the 90's from it's original location). The door handle is a pencil, the logo on the door is a pen nib and the walls are filled with framed originals (bolted to the wall) by Merle "Ting" Tingley and other cartoonists from "back in the day", including Chester Gould, Ferd Johnson, Al Capp, Doug Wright and others. Some of them musta been visting or somethin' because a couple suggest they shared drinks there ( "They wouldn't let ya pay for a drink, huh, Moon?" -Ferd Johnson). Maybe some of them were buds with Ting(?). When I was a boy (spoken in stupid voice), I used to check out Ting's cartoons all the time in the London Free Press, not really for the politics but for the worm he hid in each drawing. I had not seen this earlier style but I love it:




Will It Come To This? from Ting Cartoons

Dated 1954 (This must be "pre-worm"...or at least I cannot see one in there...)




Ferd Johnson at London City Press Club




Chester Gould at London City Press Club

MY NEW PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

Irish Spring in London, Ontario



Scooter with Dirty, Narrow Pilon



Giant Tiger Bag and Thawing Box and Pizza Hut Box

(BTW: I received an e-mail from Pizza Pizza today offering me a free Large Pizza Hut Pizza.)



Broken Shovel



Wonderful Red Tractor on High Street

SWED

I will be showing these drawings and some other ones as part of the exhibition FAMILY SHIRT curated by Matthew Feyld at KRETS in Sweden.


Opening: 09 April at 19:00
Closing: 08 May at 15:00

K R E T S
Kristianstadsgatan 16
Malmö, Sweden

THAT OL' 80's MONSTER

NOW AVAILABLE!

DIZZ NEEDS SOME MORE DOLLARS

Amy Lockhart's Dizzler project is almost there but needs that final push. Check out the Trailer here and donate money to win fabulous Dizzler prizes.

No, I am Not the Drummer From the Ramones

But I am pleased to be taking part in:

“LA MIGRA!”
A Group Show curated by Devendra Banhart

VICE GALLERY, Mérida 109, esq. Alvaro Obregón Col. Roma, Mexico City.
Opening February 23rd!

Zach Hill
Marc Bell
Eric Wareheim
Jerry Hsu
Beck
Melissa Shimkovitz
Kevin Long
Adam Green
David Tibet
Marilyn Manson
Fabrizio Moretti
Alia Shawkat
Nat Russell
Thomas Campbell
Travis Keller
Angeline Rivas
Keegan McHargue
Adam Tullie

NOTE: The image above was chosen somwhat arbitrarily from Google Image Search

Opening at Rodman Hall on Thursday January the 20th, 2011

He Oughta Know

An update to a pre-Christmas post: young Graham Cherwaty of London, Ontario has received his Potatoe. And look at the look on that boy's face! Priceless!

ALFE FAN ART

ALFE fan art created by Amy Lockhart and I.

You can watch PROBLEM SOLVERZ here.

Hot Potatoes for Christmas

My friend Graham Cherwaty threw this together after reading this.

ETSY SHOP

The sidebar of this blog was getting a little cluttered and so I decided to move my macrame owls and tin foil clipper ships over to a new Etsy shop (I'm website challenged so this makes it a little easier). I'll be adding more but right now you can find some new items including limited edition prints and some unearthed oldies.

SIDEWINDER limited edition print

Limited edition print of SIDEWINDER on heavy German paper (archival).
Edition of 15 (numbered and signed).
Paper size is 24" high by 18" wide.
Price may go up as edition runs out.
Shipped flat.

Shipping

Postpaid in US $75.00 Postpaid in Canada $75.00 Postpaid Everwhere Else $85.00

Details:

HE'S INTO CB

I was never happy with the way I coloured this for VICE and so I decided to fix it up a bit. Even though blogspot does something weird to the colours and lines anyway.

PROG 8: IN PROGRESS

The remainder.



Almost all that stuff above has been integrated into this one (unfinished).

And so, that's all to do with this and that for now. Though, I am realizing just now that I did make a tiny error in all this. If you can spot it than you might win a prize (I have probably made several errors here but I mean the one I am thinking of!)

Thank you for your undivided attention.

PROG 7: REMOVE

Well, would you look at that. If this were a cookie you were eating, this thing would almost be gone.




Remove uses these pieces (indicated in red).




Yeah, so that's it. Remove also incorporates part of another work that I dismantled (title: Mike's Plastic Turd). It's the vaguely head-shaped part at the top left. It was reworked here to fit better.




And then I added that 3-d thing.

PROG 6: SCHLUMBERGER

To recap: I chopped up an artwork to make several smaller works. The one we are focusing on here uses only a small portion of the original. It is the area indicated, circled in red (NOTHING IS WASTED IN THE WAR WITH PAPER).


Now, can you see where I placed it on this one? In the top left section...

Anyway, this one is called SCHLUMBERGER. Schlumberger is a large company that has something to do with oil production. This artwork has little or nothing to do with oil production nor is it endorsed by Schlumberger.





A red roof was added so that it might appear as though the work was built in Sweden (or something like that). Seeing the work in real life might make this more clear. The red is a little dull here.

PROG 5: HONK IF YOO PAY THROO THE SCHNOZZ

Ok, now on to this one.




This one was a real pain in the neck. It made me question my vocation, if you know what I mean.





The real story would have been ridiculous to show here. Parts of this thing kept getting painted over and over again...it's not really clear here how much it was fussed with.





So, this is it, HONK IF YOO PAY THROO THE SCHNOZZ, and I am done with it (I hope). I decided to name my next show after this work, a show at Rodman Hall in St. Catherines, Ontario (I think I decided this before I had so much trouble with it, haw).