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i totally forgot about this. project rooftop- a site i occasionally submit stuff too- was running a contest to redesign superman. here was my take:
kinda goofy, but i still kinda dig it. i just couldn’t part with the outside red undies though. i just know that’s going to be my downfall come voting time. but to me, superman just isn’t superman without his outside red undies.
i can go into more detail about my other changes, but really- who has the time to read that? oh, you do? okay then…
can’t wait to draw this thing flying…
i might put a pause on these cleo posts for a little while until i can catch up on some pages. hopefully it won’t be too long of a break- there are some fun scenes coming up!
also- saw the incredible hulk last weekend and thought it was great. a really fun action flick with some essential comic geek out moments. it’s not perfect but who cares. HULK SMASH! plus, i love this whole marvel universe that’s being built on the screen right now. talk about early avengers movie hype!
my summer movie ranking thus far:
one day i’m going to collect a book of superheroes/villains playing ridiculous tacky instruments with giant pink hearts behind them.
drawergeeks topic this week was the joker, and i thought i’d draw somewhat of a companion piece to my batman/catwoman that i drew way back in 2006. by 2016 i hope to have an entire bat-band!
has everyone seen kung fu panda yet? what an awesome movie. it’s right behind surfs up as my favorite non-pixar cgi animated film, and definitely one of the best blends of action and comedy i’ve seen in a while. anytime po came on screen and did anything i was cracking up. everything from the character designs to the animation to the backgrounds to the music was all top notch in this film. this is really shaping up to be one of the best movie summers ever!
for those keeping track at home, here’s my current order list of summer movies i’ve seen so far, from awesome to not-so-awesome:
sorry- i skipped sex and the city that week. saw speed racer again instead. :) looking forward to wall-e now!
you know what this story’s been missing? some heavier exposition…
mocca, as always, was awesome. it was great seeing friends and colleagues i only get to see once or twice a year- or every two years- or every once in a turquoise, polka dotted, square moon. ryan and trade were great table mates and we couldn’t have asked for a better section right underneath the air conditioner units. especially right after all the doors in the place were swung open for a half hour while we all waited outside for the firemen to do their jobs.
met and hung out with a lot of old and new friends- and i hate naming names because i’m bound to forget somebody- but you all know who you were (and all of you can also confirm to how “elephant like” my memory can be). but hanging out saturday was fun. and dinner sunday night was a blast (kean and andy make a cute couple). i wish i could have walked around the floors more (i was pretty much confined to my table) so it was nice to be able to chat and stuff after show hours. how else was i going to enthusiastically promote speed racer? :)
i didn’t really realize it until i got back and tallied up everything, but it was also my most profitable con ever (thanks mostly in part to the art prints i decided to bring with me this year- i’ll need to get a shop set up for those soon). reason enough to head back up again next year, but i would be planning to anyhow just because of the amount of fun i had. mocca is easily my favorite convention. the people there are the best, the amount of quality work the exhibitors are selling is astounding and no one really has to tug at my arm very hard for me to have a reason to visit NY. even if it is for a quick, kinda stressful couple of days.
so yeah- see you all next year!
this is for a card set coming out sometime later this year.
i actually drew this little mermaid earlier in the year- but just recently got the okay to blog it.
i’ll be at the mocca art fest this weekend! me, ryan and trade all have our own little lunchbox funnies section in the back, tables A17-A19. i’ll have copies of adventures in sandwich making, it’s prequel/sequel mini, ash: the time traveling kitty, postcards, buttons, window clings, magnets… all sorts of stuff. i’ll also have a limited number of art prints on me from stuff i’ve posted on this blog, including the mermaid above, as well as a free promotional parable poster for the first 90 people that walk by.
should be a really fun festival this year. hope to see a bunch of you there!
i’m afraid i’m not as caught up on these as i would like- and i have a lot of other work i need to focus on in the coming months. hopefully i’ll be able to catch up, but realistically i should warn any cleo fans out there that i’m not sure how much longer this weeklyish schedule is going to last.
still- yesterday i went to go see speed racer again (i know- i should be drawing cleo instead…), this time on imax, and loved it just as much the second time as i did the first. maybe even more. i can honestly see this movie becoming one of my all time faves, which is crazy since i almost didn’t even go see it at all. folks- don’t miss it on the big screen while you have the chance! especially the big, big screen. man, imax is cool.
