Live Portraits Tonight

Tonight I'll be at In God We Trust's Greenpoint location at 70 Greenpoint Ave for this party, drawing people or drawing whatever people with 20 bucks want me to draw. I'm having cards printed as I write this to give out. I'm getting 4 different ones made. Here's one of them:

Come tonight and collect all four PGCs (Promotional Gelgud Cards)! And get your portrait drawn! Or just come to party! There is also going to be swag I think and straight razor shaves and Free Tattos. And also free tequila. Why did I say that last?

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.

Giggles Flyer

Book Covers

Pretty soon you'll be able to buy stuff I've drawn at In God We Trust stores, including my series of Book Covers as Original Art. There will also be affordable portraits of authors and another series of portraits that's still in the works. Prints will eventually be available also.

In the meantime, if you're interested in getting a custom book cover go here.

Lester Bangs in Jamaica

Iconic Headwear of Hip-Hop in the Believer

Pick up the July issue of The Believer to see 13 new drawings. Here's a sample.

Sheed looks good in green

Rasheed Wallace

Middle name: Abdul

NBA record for: Most technical fouls

Former member of: Portland Jailblazers

Carson McCullers

Two Cans of Beer

Drawn at Commodore happy hour about a month ago.

Smoke Signal #5: Bangs in Jamaica

Pick up the new issue of Smoke Signal to read about Lester Bangs' '77 trip to Jamaica. Co-starring Bob Marley and Lee Perry. Get it at Desert Island or various locations around Brooklyn. It's all comics, and it's free. If you don't live in NYC and want one, pretty soon they'll have it up on their web shop, where you can get it for the price of postage.

Group Show of Drawings

I have a drawing in this group show. The party is Friday, aka tomorrow. It's 40+ artists I think, all with one piece. Hopefully most of the pieces will be drawings, but I think they are free to interpret the name of the show, Drawing of the Year, however they like.

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!

Derick, Make Some More Popcorn

Results from last month's B(A)NO{S} meeting have been posted on the B(A)NO{S} blog here.

B(A)NO{S} = Boys Art Night Out Society.
It's a small art club I joined earlier this year.

Giggles Flyer

My second flyer for Don Stahl's comey extravaganza. Giggles!

Alice Cooper

From the Celebrity Fans of the NBA series.

Slinging Brews

From the Celebrity Fans of the NBA series.

Jack Nicholson and Lou Adler

From the Celebrity Fans of the NBA series.

Dick Cavett

Commodore Drink Menu

You can kinda see a new project in this pic I found on Yelp. It's the placemat at the killer new bar, The Commodore in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I did the drink illos, my main man Mike Reddy did the building. Milton and Derick (I think) did the layout. COCKTAILS! Let's do this.

Just Text

All I did for this Des Ark tour poster was the cursive text. Looks pretty good though. Poster by Janelle Pietrzak.