Cool Stuff!
Me and 2 commissions.
Oil paintings of Donna Edmondson and Penny Baker. Both playmates, both commissions.
My First Glamourcon attendance
Me with Scotty Schwartz (Flick from A Christmas Story) at Glamourcon in LA. I think it was around 1998. We shared a booth at the con (we were both guests of Golden Apple Comics in LA.) and became great friends. We still keep in touch. Especially around the holliday season.
Jammin with my new band, Audiophile!
Back on stage with my new band. The best way to take a break from drawing and painting.
I'm back! Glamourcon 2012!
Had a great time. Sold some art and connected with old friends.
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My Adventures At GLAMOURCON
Enjoy some great footage I took at a few GLAMOURCONS I attended. Part 1 is LA and Chicago. This is when I met Scotty Schwartz and we shared a table at the Golden Apple booth. That's Scotty manning the camera capturing the first time I met HUGH HEFNER. The 2 guys to Hefner's right are animators and work for Film Roman on the SIMPSONS. THEY wanted to meet ME!!! Part 2 is all LA. Comic artist and friend Steve Rude walked around the room with my camera while I manned my booth. Great footage here including me behind my booth. And more Hefner. ENJOY!
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At Spumco Studios in Hollywood With John Kricfalusi,
The Creator Of Ren & Stimpy
During one of my treks to LA, Steve took me to meet the creator of Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. I showed him my portfolio, but I don't think I was "Out There" enough for his tastes.
A visit with Forrest J Ackerman
During one of my visits to Hollywood, I dropped in on Forrest J Ackerman at his home, the Ackermansion in the hills. What a collection of stuff. I spent the day there and even had lunch with Forry in his kitchen.
At Glamourcon with Playmate Barbara Moore.
Me with Playboy Playmate Barbara Moore at a Glamourcon show in Chicago. (Good god I look drugged out in this picture. Trying to act cool I guess).
The late, great Dave Stevens
I visited my good friend Dave's booth at the San Diego ComicCon. I think this was 2002?
RIP Dave.
RIP Dave.
Between tall "Dudes"
My friend, comic book artist and illustrator Steve "The Dude" Rude and the owner of Dark Horse comics and motion pictures, Mike Richardson. This was taken in a comic book shop in crazy Hollywood.
Posing for sci-fi novel cover artist Richard Hescox
Steve (the Dude) Rude took me to meet fantasy artist Richard Hescox during an annual visit to his pad in Los Angels. Richard was starting a new painting and asked me if I would pose in costume for it. Steve took this picture of me posing in Richards backyard. I've never seen the finished painting or the published book cover. It would be fun to see it though.
Hangin with The Fonz
I loved going out to LA to visit Steve. We would always run into cool "Stars". We had just left the Disney studios and decided to stop for lunch at a deli next to Paramount. Who was enjoying a ham on rye?...Henry Winkler aka The Fonz!
Badger #1 from Image Comics
Back in 1997, Mike Baron asked if I would oversee the art direction for his reboot of The Badger comic series for Image comics.
My First serigraphs for sale
That's me posing with 3 of my first serigraphs in the front window of the U-Frame-It Gallery in Madison Wisconsin. I believe this was 1989 or there abouts.
First time in print
I know, it's just an ad for the gallery, but hey, I was excited to see my work in print for the first time. The image is one of 3 serigraphs for sale at the gallery. It was kinda my Nagel stage.
My interview in Screen Queens Illustrated magazine
The publishers of this magazine saw me and my work at a Glamourcon convention in Chicago 1998. They asked me if I would like to be interviewed for an upcoming issue of "Scream Queens" magazine. Of course, I did it. It was great exposure. Just look, Julie Strain is on the cover. The only thing they didn't tell me was they were changing the name of the magazine to "SCREEN Queens" with my interview in issue #1. Scream Queens sold very well. Screen Queens, not so much. No one ever heard of Screen Queens. The magazine folded after my issue came out. People tease me, it was because I was in it.
Anyway, here is the interview...
Anyway, here is the interview...
Playboy.com
Here are a few editorial Illustrations I did for Playboy.com. They were for a story about women using the internet for something or other. I really don't remember. I had a good experience with the art directors in Chicago. They gave me a tour of the offices and took me out to lunch when I visited them a few years back. There was one illustration I did for them that I wish I could get my hands on and post it here for you guys. It was of a sexy woman dancing in front of a bunch of students in a lecture hall. They even animated it for the site. Crazy!
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The Art Of Curves complete trading card set.
The limited edition hard bound book featuring all 100 of the images from "The Art Of Curves" trading card set. This came out in 1994. I don't own one of these, I grabbed this image off of ebay.
The "ART OF CURVES" trading card set press release.
This Lime Rock publishing promotional piece was in all the distributors catalogs. Diamond, Capitol, etc.
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Trading card posters
Here are the 3 bonus images you get when you collect all the cards.
Card poster 2
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Card Poster 3
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The "CURVES" Hologram Cards press release.
This is the press release distributed to trading card and comic book shops promoting the 3 card hologram set.
A full case of foil packs
This is how the cards were displayed for sale at comic shops. I come across these once in a while on ebay. They contained 38 foil pacs of 9 cards each.
Foil Packs
A foil pack of my "Art Of Curves" Trading Cards. I guess there were 9 cards per pack. If you were lucky, you got a lame "prism card" in the pack. One thing I hated about this set, the backs were puzzle pieces that when you collect all the cards, you can put together 4 more mini posters. Lame idea, not mine.
Carnal Comics "Letha Weapons" comic book
No sex comics for me. I just did the cover painting for this book.
Carnal Comics "Christi Lake" comic book
Here' another one.
Cleopatra Of The Nile Comic Book
I did the pencils, inks and cover art for this mess of a comic book. It was about the actual Cleopatra, traveling time to present day and fighting crime. Yeesh! There's a few thousand floating around out there somewhere. The model that commissioned me to do this crap sold them at Comic Con and various conventions. Pretty rare item.
Visions Of Curves no.1
The 1st. issue of Visions Of Curves. 64 pages of sketches, drawings and comics. This is the one that started it all for me. It was a financial and critical success. Fantagraphics "Eros" label did a great job with quality and production. It was easy to talk them into a 2nd and 3rd book.
Visions Of Curves no.2
The 2nd issue of Visions Of Curves. 64 pages of sketches, drawings and comics. More of the same, but different. I introduced a few comic characters and tons of pinup drawings and sketches. It did well, but not quite as well as #1.
Visions Of Curves no.3
The 3rd. issue of Visions Of Curves. 64 pages of sketches, drawings and comics. The last one for Fantagraphics. I had a great painting I did in oil on canvas for the cover. For some reason, I decided to scrap it and replace it with this crappy acrylic one. After this came out, I took a bit of a break and just painted. Then, I came back to the publisher with the idea for Eye Candy. It was half the pages (32 instead of 64) and by-monthly.
Visions Of Curves no. 4
The hands down biggest mistake in my life, was signing my name to a publishing business with Tom Baron. But, out of it came a few books of interest.
One being an "art of" book for comic illustrator and fine artist, Mark A Nelson. And this book for me, Visions Of Curves Number Four. This is probably the finest pinup work I've ever done to date. A collection of 64 finished drawings, great cover painting and top notch production values. Only problem was Baron was a back stabbing thief who pissed off my distributors, and one of the drawings caused a ridiculously frivolous law suit by a "fan" that I should have won. The book was banned from being sold for 5 years. That was 2004. I'm now free to sell them in my store for $10 + shipping.
One being an "art of" book for comic illustrator and fine artist, Mark A Nelson. And this book for me, Visions Of Curves Number Four. This is probably the finest pinup work I've ever done to date. A collection of 64 finished drawings, great cover painting and top notch production values. Only problem was Baron was a back stabbing thief who pissed off my distributors, and one of the drawings caused a ridiculously frivolous law suit by a "fan" that I should have won. The book was banned from being sold for 5 years. That was 2004. I'm now free to sell them in my store for $10 + shipping.
Eye Candy no.3
Like Visions Of Curves, Eye Candy was a collection of sketches, drawings, short comic stories and pinups. There were 6 issues as it came out bi-monthly from Eros Comics.
Saucer People trading cards
Kitchen Sink Press was putting together this card set called "Saucer People". Each card was illustrated by a different popular science fiction artist. They depicted scenes from famous UFO stories through the ages. My card depicted an airplane seeing a UFO with a piece broken off, falling to the ground. Steve Rude did the box cover art. I think this set came out in 1991 or 92.
Official Glamourcon 10th anniversary poster
Poster for Glamourcon's 10 year anniversary shows in Chicago and Los Angeles. I think these are still for sale at the Glamourcon store HERE
Random pics at GLAMOURCON
Chicago and Los Angeles
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"Spellbound" statue/model
This was cool. A company out of Chicago called Reznhedz saw my work at a Glamourcon show and asked me if they could make one of my drawings into a statue/model kit. This is how it was sold. There's still a few of these floating around. Check e-bay.
The Art Of Curves Phone Cards (Prototype 3)
These are the prototype phone cards published by World Marketing. They were cool. Thick plastic cards with an image of one of my paintings on the front. These prototypes had a zero balance on them and were for promotional use only. I think there are 3000 of each of the 3 versions floating around in the world somewhere. Alas, they were never released with a dollar amount on them as World Marketing went belly up before that could happen.
Prototype 1
Thank you Trading Card Museum for the images
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Prototype 2
Thank you Trading Card Museum for the images
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CURVES 2, "Art Of Body, Body Of Art" Portfolio
This was the second portfolio of prints I self published to sell and promote my work when I was just starting out. 10, 11x17 black and white ink drawings suitable for framing. I hooked it up with Diamond Dist. and it really took off and got me noticed. I highly recommend to anyone trying to break into this business we call fine art, to self publish at first and get established. Then approach publishers. It shows them your work sells and you believe in it enough to put up your own bread. It worked for me.
"Ruby Noir" comic book pages
This is a character I created for my Comic/sketchbook published by Eros Comix called "Eye Candy". It ran for 6 issues and was alot of fun to do. The people at Eros were great to let me do whatever I wanted to do in this book. And I did.
Thanks to www.tydirium.net for these images.
Thanks to www.tydirium.net for these images.
My First Book
Visions Of Curves #1 is published by Fantagraphics/Eros Comix. I'm doing a signing at the SanDiego ComicCon in 1994 or 95 at the Fantagraphics booth.
My first gallery show
Forgot the name of the gallery. I think it was 1992. It was here in Madison though. Sold a few that night.
My first Portrait Business 1985
This appeared in Madison Wisconsin's "In Business" Magazine in 1985. So young and stupid.
