jumbly junkery

benchilada has set up the Big Shill again this year for people to promote their art for sale. Go check it out! Go pimp out your own stuff if you can!

For your own purchasing pleasure here, this is a reminder that I have comics for sale, as well as original art and prints at my etsy store. Prices range from $5 to $50. $5 for comics. $50 for an 11"x14" original.

For example, there are some awesome He-Man and She-Ra linocut block prints that can be had there!


I also have Sky Cat Battle and Sky Cat's Kingdom posters as well as two other prints from my sketchbooks available over at my imagekind store. They are print on demand giclee prints. I can personally vouch for the high quality of the prints. Even the cheapest paper they have is super thick and nice. Luxurious, even!

You should really consider getting a Sky Cat print for practically everyone you know.

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Sky Cat lives in a magical land of floating islands. The inhabitants get around on flying turtles and occasionally on flying eels. Schools of winged fish and butterflies flitter and fly around the city.

In other words, I just finished this drawing, which I think was possibly more grueling than the last Sky Cat one. I'm excited about how it came out, though I'm pretty exhausted from making it.

YOU ALL SHOULD CLICK HERE AND GO BUY A PRINT OF IT.

Oh, you thought that last Sky Cat poster was the last of these ridiculous things I've been drawing lately. But, NO!! I decided to draw another one of these things... Sky Cat's Magical Kingdom.



I'm busy coloring it now.

I figure one/week of these on top of the 5 pages/week of Angel and the weekly church bulletin illustrations plus any other things like laundry and drawing group and cooking dinner so it's ready for when my wife gets home and taking the dog out and doing other freelance jobs is a good pace to keep. So I'm going for it. Another poster, another week.

Oh man. You guys I'm totally excited about this. I'm going to print up some posters ASAP so I can have one to hang on my wall. I opened an Imagekind account, so you can get a poster printed on demand. Maybe you all will want one to hang on your wall?

As a side note, Angel already has a poster of the Sky Cat movie. And as you all know, Angel is bad ass.

So I was hanging out with Ulises yesterday and I asked him if he could give me a challenge. He asked what I thought was difficult, and I was like... oh, I don't know... lots of detail, particularly having lots of characters on a page. So he was like... do that, then. 100 bodies on a page. Try to make them all different. Later on when I still couldn't figure out what I wanted to do, he said try picking a theme. How about a sky ecosystem?

SO... my friend DarrylAyo always calls one of my cats "Sky Cat" because he's hanging out up on the balcony, hiding in the plants all the time. So I was like... what about a Sky Cat drawing. And then I was like, and of course Sky Cat would have sky fish to eat. And I'm sure Sky Cat would be fighting something awesome like dinosaurs.

I stayed up til 5 am penciling this. Inked it all today. I'm going to color it digitally, and then I was thinking of making it into a poster. What do you think?

Ok Ok... I know I've talked about Jumbly Junkery 8 for a while now (on my website, at least), but I've still not gotten around to actually posting things online for people to buy. Nor for Jumbly Junkery 7, either, I don't think...

So, tonight I amended that! For your consumption purposes, Jumbly Junkery 4, 5, 6, 7, AND 8 are all for sale on my Etsy store. I'm sure most of you already have 4, 5, and 6, so there's only one in the store (to save on listing fees), but I put 3 each of 7 and 8 for sale right now. You should buy them. ALSO... if you want all 5, I have a special buy 4 get 1 free offer. All 5 for $20! Just email me and ask about it to wormulus [at] gmail [dot] com. Or just PayPal the money there, too. That would work. These comics are too hot to stay! I also have some prints and original artwork for sale! Get 'em while they last!




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In other news, I've been chugging away at this "Angel" story for the past several weeks. If you haven't seen it already the first page is here. A new page every single day Monday through Friday until it's done. So much excitement planned for this week! That there above is the ad I made for it for Project Wonderful. You could probably also steal it from my flickr site and put it places and tell all your friends about it if you were so inclined. I'd hope you might be so inclined.

And in case any of you were wondering what I've been feeding my brain to churn out such a ridiculous story, well, here's some of my current brain fodder, happily shared with all of you.

First and foremost... Moebius (aka Jean Giraud). If you haven't heard of this guy or aren't able to recognize his work (even if you can't remember his name), you need to check it out. Seriously. His linework is incredible, his details wonderful. Also, he designed the costumes/set for Tron. AND he also inspired the opening scene for Blade Runner. He's a definite must-read. The guy could churn out work like crazy!



Whenever I go to a comic store, I always scour them, trying desperately to find some hidden gem. Generally this involves European comics from the 70s and 80s... preferably in color. Those dudes made some awesome shit back then! Both of my favorites of this area have come from Jim Hanley's Universe in Manhattan. First off, the main inspiration for this "Angel" story I've been doing... "Rebel", by Pepe Moreno (a Spanish comic artist). This comic is the quintessential action comic. Car chases galore! Women! Evil guys! GUNS! And more car chases! The plot is... forgettable. Hell, I've read it cover to cover at least 5 times and I still am not 100% sure what happens. But it doesn't matter! Because it's just. that. awesome.





The other book that I absolutely adore is "The Age of Darkness" by Caza. Also Spanish, I think. Another French guy like our good man Moebius. It's more on the fantasy, less on the action. But the stories are actually quite good. And as you can see, the art is heavily Moebius inspired.



Other than the European comics, I've been stealing inspiration from the second collected book of "The Savage Sword of Conan". I highly recommend checking it out if you want some panel layout inspiration as well as some references for a) horses, b) shirtless guys, c) scantily clad women, and d) fights. For the price, it's totally worth it. Even if you don't read it.


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Now go read some comics!

So I started a comic the other day called "Angel" which is sort of a tribute to 70s/80s action comics and movies. A little Heavy Metal influenced, and various other influences tossed in, too. It's kind of a retrofuturistic story postapocalptic-style. I'm posting a page per day M-F. If you click the above image, it will take you to where you can read the comic on my website.

In other news, I will be at SPX this weekend. I'll be leaving to drive down in a couple of hours with my friend nervousystem. I'll be at table C4 with my friend radrobot, so be sure to stop by and say hi!

Hi guys. Just thought I'd let you know that the Katrina comic finished yesterday on my website. It's 11 in total. Here is the first page, which you can click on to take you to my site to a) see it larger and b) read the rest of it.



Also, I started a shorter two-page comic today, so that will be done tomorrow. And then, well, I guess I'll see what excitement I come up with today! I don't know where I'm going after that. All I can guarantee, though, is that there will be comics every single day of the week and drawings interspersed with comics on the weekend. 7 days of fun! Or something like that.

(also, if you are so inclined, there's an RSS feed of my site here)

So I joined this Sequential Endurance Competition thing and I think today is the first day, yeah? Maybe? I don't know.

Long story short, though, I will be drawing at least 5 pages of comics/week for the next year and a half. This means fewer straight up illustrations/drawings/whatever, but more comics for you. So I hope you take advantage of this and go over to my website and subscribe to the RSS somehow. Or just bookmark it. Whatever. Just read it, ok?

In similar and related news, today is page 6 of a comic about Hurricane Katrina. The comic starts here if you want to read it now. I will probably post the first page of it here when it's done and send a link to the whole thing if you prefer waiting. Though... I know I never seem to want to wait.

In art news, I'm in the Everybody Get Up show that's opening on Sept. 11 in Alameda, CA. I have three pieces there! More info below (and by clicking through to their website). If you're around that area, be sure to go check it out!

Here's the 2nd page of the Guard Cat comic. Click it to see it larger (on my website)