Estrus uber alles!

 

Wanted to put the preorder link for this sure-to-be-amazing forthcoming book, the glory and the story of Estrus Records told for the first time in a deluxe, full color art book from well-known publisher Korero Books in the UK. The bands, the art, the festivals, it's all here! Lots of work by legendary artists like Art Chantry and Coop, plus I'm in there too, sneaky little weasel that I am. If you like lowbrow trash in all its many and wondrous forms, you should nab a copy of this book! Still up for preorder as I pen these deathless words, you can reserve your copy here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/estrus/estrus-shovelin-the-shit-since-87?fbclid=IwAR1JBdxFRdi9uh2hhCHod4illOjP3NgjOwVwOh2N1EZf-3CX1HLCwabW1oU Stay tuned more MORE HIGH-FALUTIN' LITERARY TYPE ACTION!

Stuff

Sorry for the lack of updates. Here's some new stuff and a coupla newly scanned oldies. You figger it out. Stay tuned for  MORE INCREASINGLY INTERMITTENT ACTION!

Season's Beatings

Happy Xmas, ya hooligans! Stay tuned for MORE SEASONAL ACTION!

Thrill thrill thrill, Kill kill kill

Here's a drawing I made 10 years ago and decided to scan and finish up yesterday. Stay tuned for MORE MIND-CONTROL ACTION!

That Cat's Something I Can't Explain

Recently finished this illustration based on a classic song. Dedicated to Big Joe Turner. Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!

Your Next Stop... The Alacakaranlık Zone

Pretty stoked about this one. It's the cover for the new issue of Turkish horror movie magazine  Alacakaranlık which is on sale now (ordering info here). This is my first contribution to a monster magazine after a misspent lifetime of reading 'em, so that's a longtime ambition fulfilled, and I'm even pretty happy with how the drawing came out which ain't always the case. Getting to draw the Creature From The Black Lagoon is an extra bonus as he's my favorite monster (after all-time fave the Frankenstein monster which I've drawn a zillion times). So big time monster nerd thrills all the way around. If you're wondering about the title of this post, maybe my telling you that  Alacakaranlık is Turkish for "twilight" will clear things up. Or maybe not. Anyway... Stay tuned for MORE ALACAKARANLIK ACTION!

Medicated Follower Of Fashion

New logo design for a brand new record label outta Warsaw, Poland. Sounds like they have some good stuff in the works.You can keep up with the latest news here. Stay tuned for MORE MEDICATED ACTION!

Sauvage!

New art for hip Spanish comix zine Palmeras y Puros. The upcoming issue features a load of guest artists with drawings on the theme of tropical island rock'n'roll, from which the above drawing is my contribution. There's new work by the regular P&P artists plus an exclusive tell-all interview with yours truly featuring 2 previously unseen drawings of a rather scandalous nature. Should be a pretty fun package of scribbling so you may wanna grab yerself a copy. Check in with P&P at their Facebook page and... Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!     

Forgotten Horrors

Coupla things I finished 6 months or so ago and forgot to post here. These were both half-penciled drawings that were hanging around for at least 10 years before I got around to polishing them off, Nice to finally have 'em finished, only about 800 more such half-penciled projects to go now. Stay tuned for MORE ANTIQUATED ACTION!

All Outta Bubblegum

New T-shirt art for Winnipeg's art/indie/cult movie palace Cinematheque. Nice thing about this one is that it features my usual monstrous style but came out looking kinda different from my other work. Thanx to Jaimz and the Cinematheque crew for throwing this fun gig my way. Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!

Wednesday On a Thursday...

New T-shirt art for Strychknine Recordz from France, incorporating a tribute/ripoff to the late great Chas. Addams. Stay tuned for MORE CREEPY AND KOOKY ACTION!

Gone Ape

New art for hip Alberta combo Thee Primitive Sound, soon to be emblazoned on T-shirts, stickers and what have ya. Got a few more new things finished recently, just waiting for official approval to post 'em so... Stay tuned for MORE ANTHROPOID ACTION!

SCUM!

Here's another moldy oldie from my early fanzine/minicomic days. Pretty sure this was printed in my  zine Hip Teen but I haven't looked at those recently enough to say for sure. Looking at this old stuff is pretty annoying these days; a lot of it is close to being actually good but just doesn't quite make it. It's good for a laugh anyway, which I guess was the original point so what the heck? Stay tuned for MORE ARCHAIC ACTION!

Swamped!

Here be a recent cover I did for Regina's #1 indie paper, Prairie Dog. It came out a few weeks ago so you probably missed it. Anyway this drawing was inspired by a bunch of comics that I read as a kid, including Swamp Thing, Man-Thing and all of those weird 1950s horror comic reprints that Marvel was doing in the early '70s, some of which messed up my mind real good. Above is the final art as I submitted it, below the finished cover after the PD design staff had worked their magic on it. Should have some more new stuff to post soon so... Stay tuned for MORE SWAMP O'LOVE ACTION!

Surfer Ghoul

New surf monster art for hip New Joisey monster/rock'n'roll store Groovy Graveyard. They have T-shirts of this art available now! Sorry for the lack of recent posts; mo' new stuff coming soon. STAY TUNED FOR MORE ACTION!

Retro Roundup

 Here'a a selection of prehistoric crud unearthed from my moldering archives, all newly scanned from the original art. Not gonna try to explain any of this stuff, you figure it out and let me know. Got a couple new things in the works and a few finished projects that I'm waiting for the go-ahead from my clients before posting so... Stay tuned for MORE (EVENTUAL) ACTION!

Freaky Flashback

Here's a drawing I did back in 1993 for Spanish zine De Plastico Guay. It's pretty badly drawn but has a sort of primitive charm, I suppose. Stay tuned for MORE FREAKY ACTION!

Miscellaneous Esoterica

 Coupla items from the archives for ya today. Above is some art I did for a benefit show poster back in 2003. The poster version had a head pasted onto the golfer but I kinda like this version better because it's more arcane. Below are a couple of logos I did for my late pal Alan Wright's rock'n'roll zine Cryptic Tymes in 1993. CT was one of the Big 3 Canadian garage rock zines at the time, along with What Wave and Feline Frenzy. Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!

Profiles In Protuberancy #153

Another new/old drawing, penciled in 2007 and inked/colored in February, 2017. "What a repugnant protuberance!" was a slogan I used to randomly toss into conversations when things got dull and the expression eventually inspired this drawing. Your guess is as good as mine as far as the meaning of this piece (if any) is concerned but I think an old favorite quotation of mine probably has some relevance: "How glorious it is, and also how painful, to be an exception."- Alfred de Musset.

B.I.G. Time

Here's a most ancient illustration I did way back in 1994 for a planned monster magazine that never came out. It's based on the wacky '50s movies of Bert I. Gordon, master of cheapo B&W spectacle and cheesy special FX. Featuring famed actor and drunkard Lon Chaney, Jr and mostly inspired by "The Cyclops" from 1957 (but if you look close there's lots of other B.I.G. references crammed in). I was happily picturing a Jack Davis-style career drawing for monster mags for myself while working on this but it wasn't to be. Thanks to David Lindsay for finding and returning the original art recently and commissioning this furshlugginer thing in the first place. I think there's already a scan of this somewhere in the archives of this blog but that one was scanned from a mediocre photocopy; here it is scanned from the original art for the first time. Stay tuned for MORE CYCLOPIAN ACTION!