TCAFfeinated

This weekend I'll be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, headquartered with the rest of the Topatoco-affiliated people (I think my specific table is #228). The event is FREE but if you feel guilty about not spending any money I will have a portfolio of small and medium prints for sale as well as some Nic Cage sets and one or two or three Topatoco shirt designs.

Oh also a million other cool people will be there.

I'm getting really into this "Doctor Who" show.

Saint Victims Unit

Brand-new SVU Valentines. Click on the above images for high-res versions that you can print out and enjoy. The cost to you: FREE.

But, if you are in a buying mood, I have made some older SVU designs into sweet girls' T-shirts.

"Isn't there music within you?"

If you need me I'll be on Holodeck Four.

Earlier this week I contributed a guest Riker to the best website ever, which I would have posted about in a timelier manner if I wasn't swamped manning the Nicolas Cage Colorform apparatus. It's actually a ten year old acrylic painting I had completely forgotten I ever did.

Also in news I should have mentioned a good long while ago, I have some prints for sale in the Giant Robot print show in San Francisco this weekend.

If Adventure Has a Name

It must be Nicolas Cage. All I can say about this one is, I hope enough people buy it because I can't wait to start on the sequel.

The Norton Itch

I put up a new painting, Fortean Norton. And by "new" I mean I started it 2006, had it in a storage tub for two and half years, showed it in an unfinished too-green state at the Gallery 1988 show this summer, and now after a bit more tinkering it's maybe possibly completed (there's another painting from that show I have yet to put online; it's also being reworked). The inspiration is a tremendous drawing of Edward Norton my brother Darrin did many years ago:


I wanted to see if I could give that sketch dimensionality, and also get out of 'gluing celebrity heads onto funny bodies' mode and try out an outsider art/horrible-drippy-people style. Parts of it were really fun to paint but I'm not sure if those parts ever came together into a confident and resolved painting.


The fox mask is something my friend Alexa made in real life, and the little gremlin faces--representing trophies from Norton's globe-spanning travels--are knickknacks from her parents' house. The picture of Mothman, well, that's just a picture of Mothman.