Comics about Brooklyn Movies

The BAM blog asked me to contribute a blog post about movies that have some Brooklyn significance to accompany a poster I created for them illustrating the same theme. It features John Cassavetes, The Little Fugitive, Jean Renoir, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Michael Winner, Vigilante, Chewbacca, Sam Fuller, all kinds of stuff. Check it out in its entirety here.

One segment of it:

Giggles Flyer September 2011

Pet Portrait

Commission a pet portrait now and pick it up
at the next Greenpoint Backyard Bazaar.

I'm running a serious discount on this so get in touch directly for prices.

gelgud[at]gmail[dot]com

In God We Trust

Saturday

June 25

70 Greenpoint Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11222

12 to 6

Great vendors, free beer, and cheap eats via Grill Bike.

Connie Hawkins in Smoke Signal at Desert Island

The new Smoke Signal is available at Desert Island. I have a one-pager in there about Connie Hawkins, the basketball great who caught a raw deal.

Get a copy at Desert Island.

If you're not nearby, you can order one.

It looks like this:

Drawings at 4 (I think) locations

In God We Trust has author portraits, drawings of fashion designers, and custom book covers at their Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Manhattan locations. You can buy them there, you can commission work through the store, or you can just look at the drawings and then buy some tights or a winter coat or something. Location links below. 

In God We Trust

SOHO

265 Lafayette Street

New York, NY 10012

(212) 966-9010

Lower East Side

153 Ludlow St # 1

New York, NY 10002-2241

(212) 228-1055

Greenpoint

70 Greenpoint Avenue

NY 11222-3889

(718) 389-3545

Williamsburg

135 Wythe Avenue

NY 11211

(718) 388-2012

Roger Ebert Meets Charles Bukowski

The new Smoke Signal all-comics newspaper is out. You can pick one up in Brooklyn at Desert Island on 540 Metropolitan (and a few other places, like Daddy's) for free. You can also mail order one. Here are the first few panels of my contribution to this great publication:

P.S.
Gabe Fowler of Desert Island is unstoppable. When I first met him he was all "I'm gonna open a comics shop." Yeah, right. Five months later a mutual friend was asking me "Have you been to Gabe's store yet? It opened last week." A few months after that he was all "I'm gonna publish a free, all-comics newspaper with both unknown talent and established comics masters." Okay, Gabe, sure. Three months later the first issue was out. Around that time he was all "I wanna have a comics festival in Brooklyn." I thought he was thinking out loud, fantasizing. Three months later the first installment of this happened, and the next one is happening in December, with special guests already lined up. If Gabe wasn't playing for the good guys, we'd all be in serious trouble.

Sheed looks good in green

Rasheed Wallace

Middle name: Abdul

NBA record for: Most technical fouls

Former member of: Portland Jailblazers

Carson McCullers

Landmarks T-Shirt Drawn by Yours Truly

I drew the Cyclone, the Bank Building at One Hanson, Grand Army Plaza, Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Domino building for this t-shirt by Brooklyn Novelty. (They did that Williamsburg tote you've seen.)
You can buy one here. Men's and women's!

Draw Dogs Directed by Sam Barkinpah

This right here is a page of famous dogs I did for a friend to give to his wife. I will do a portrait of your pets, or whatever you want.

To get one of these, you can use the Paypal link below (base price $40, we'll work out the details based on what you want). Or Email me or go here.

Go and Get It

Go to Desert Island to get a copy of Simon's Soup 2. It's $4. Or you can email me for a copy. But really, go get it at the store. That's more fun for everybody. Then after you get it and read it you can still email me to tell me how hard you laughed. This one's good, I'm telling you.

Get You One

This weekend I finished another page of portraits of people with the same intials, which you can get here. Do like my man Fred is doing and save your allowance.