In order to keep myself drawing (and coloring) I'm going to start doing sketches of some of my favorite characters from movies, cartoons, videogames, books, etc. The first, being Guybrush Threepwood:



Guybrush Threepwood is the main character from the Monkey Island series of computer games that started in 1990 and ended in 2000.

The first one that I ever played was actually the third installment The Curse of Monkey Island, and this is a take on Guybrush from the opening scene. I can still remember sitting in the home office, lights out, watching this opening cutscene and being blown away by it. The humor of the game really resonated with me and has greatly influenced me from that point on *cough* Chronicles of the Wavecutter *cough*.

In other, awesome, news, Joss Whedon has deemed fit for us to behold his genius in the form of an internet mini-musical! Behold!




I think Niel Patrick Harris would make an excellent Guybrush Threepwood, by the way.

There's a gallery show starting this thursday called imPOSTERs. I submitted a couple pieces so you should definitely go check them (and all of the other stuff) out! The theme of the show is fictional band posters. Here are my submissions:





show info:
July 17 - August 21, 2008
imPOSTERs: Real Posters for Fake Bands
International Group Exhibition
Welcome to the best exhibition of fake advertising this side of the Mississippi. View original posters by local and national artists created exclusively for fictional bands.

Opening Reception July 17, 4-9pm

...but, rest assured, i WILL find you.

You are just another victim of the Phantom Blogger... hahahaha!

If you don't play HALO and you don't like videogames, then you probably don't want to waste your time with the rest of this post.

If you're still with me, check this out: HALO kid


Sadly, this kid is gonna get made fun of, but one has to admit his cardboard reproductions of HALO weaponry are pretty damn good. I often tried this kind of stuff as a kid and failed miserably. My attempts at homemade toys more often resembled mangled, malformed installation art rather than anything one would recognize from the physical world. My only saving grace was my ability to draw a mean control panel onto a flat piece of cardboard. Thus my cardboard/bedsheet forts were pretty elaborate.

Anyway, back to this kid. What really strikes about the video is the quiet awkwardness of it. So unlike the flashy, brazenness of the Star Wars Kid. A level of nerddom for the more sophisticated internet meme viewer.

However, I totally give props to this kid for his....er...props.

IF we ever discover that there are parellel dimensions and IF we decide to hold a contest to decide which universe is the best and IF our universe gets some sort of special award THEN I hope that the headline in the next day's newspaper reads:

Our Dimension Gets Da Mention

The company I work for (XPLANE) has just released an infographic about Obama being the first major candidate to decline participation in the public financing system for presidential campaigns. Go check it out!

No Small Change

Big thanks go out to Rob Clough for his review of Chronicles of the Wavecutter. Go check it out!

Also, the book can now be found at Star Clipper Comics, right here in St. Louis.

In other news, I submitted a tshirt design to threadless.com and it is now in the running to become a shirt. But I need your help. Go here now and vote:


(You have to sign up in order to vote, but hey it's free!)

Haven't updated the site in a while. Here's a sketch I did recently when trying to come up with the main character from a story idea that I have. He's just been in a fight!