"...working like a dog!"

Where I talk about scribbling on Christmas cards and my next art magazine "story."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/849920.html

"If she's gone I can't go on..."

Where I wonder WHY I din't include EMILY DICKINSON in my latest self-published art magazine Frankenstein meets Sister Mary Shelley http://slatts.livejournal.com/842458.html

"Two of us writing postcards..."

The story behind those two postcards to slatts shows you just got in the mail at slatt's Live-Journal blog: http://slatts.livejournal.com/835371.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB!

"Your MOTHER should know..."

"Most days, Mom's June Cleaver..." is the opening line of the last spread of my WIP graphic-poem, FRANKENSTEIN meets SISTER MARY SHELLEY. MOM plays a BIG role in the climactic ending of this piece. This is a scribble-sketch lifted from my mock-up.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

"Sunday morning creeping like a nun..."

A sampling from the latest round of sketches...

"FRANKENSTEIN meets SISTER MARY SHELLEY
The young ARTIST discovers CREATIVITY aimed at AUTHORITY can have MONSTROUS results."

"When are you free to take some tea with me?"

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Here's a bit o' trivia for ya as you're suckin' down green beer today: in 1905, on Saint Patrick's Day, Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin Roosevelt. And though you can't go there today (because it's closed on Sundays), Northfield Coffee and Books has this portrait I did of Eleanor hanging on their wall.
(It's all part of this show that will be up for another couple weeks).

So, tomorrow when you're nursing that green-beer hangover, head over to Northfield Coffee and Books for a great cup of coffee and check out "Eleanor." It's a rather unique portrait in my collection as it's one of the very few that were rendered with colored pencil and ball-point pen (though I am thinking of reviving that combination for finish illustrations of my next graphic-novel magazine).

ENJOY!

"His sister Pam works in a shop..."

I'm here today...

As I said the other day, I'll be minding the store from 10:30 to 2 today.

Why don't you come visit?

"I read the news today, oh boy!"

So, I was reading the paper this morning...
an article on the show at Nina's Nook.

...and I happened upon this image
on the very next page!

It's page 8 from "Ain't gonna hang no pixel" -- my first self-published graphic novel magazine. It was used as an image for a piece announcing the extension of the DVAA WINTER show by another week.

Instead of ending on March 9th, it will end on the 16th. Good news! And speaking of which... THIS SATURDAY on March 9th, I will be 'watching the shop' of the DVAA WINTER Show from 10:30 am til 2 pm. So, drop by! Check out the show. Maybe take advantage of the great sale on my magazines I'm running. All three titles: "Ain't gonna hang no pixel," "Emily comes to my house" and "A Place I Don't Belong" for only $12.
(That's $4. each -- you save a $3!)

Maybe I'll see YOU Saturday?

"All the world is BIRTHDAY Cake..."

EAT PIE!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE!

"Many more of them live next door..."

A CAST OF CHARACTERS
(So, far...in order of appearance)
Steve McQueen
Ali McGraw
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Mary Martin
Lucille Ball
Mary Shelley
Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink
Vincent Price
Margaret Hamilton as
The Wicked Witch of the West
Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell
Ringo Starr
Felix the Cat
David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin
Moe Howard
Robert Mitchum
Andy Warhol
Walt Disney
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster
Peter Lorre
Bette Davis
Charles Laughton as Quasimodo
Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams

Frankenstein meets Sister Mary Shelley

"Do you wanna know a secret?..."

Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Christina Ricci were all born on February 12th.

I know this because I once put them all together in this image celebrating their birthday. I really would have liked to put this image in my Winter Show but I couldn't find it it! It may still be hidden in one of the layers of my flat files.

OR...

Sometimes I have a bad habit of re-using frames for shows that come up quickly and I'm never quite ready for. I could have slid a piece of artwork "on top of" this image of Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Christina Ricci--re-using its frame. Like when I displayed Paul McCartney at the Library Show.

Now, if you happened to buy And McCartney at the Library Show and one day you went to reframe it and found the Lincoln, Darwin, Ricci piece underneath...would you be an honest Abe and return it?

Wait!...

A QUICKIE!
I had just made the deadline for submissions. Sent off my jpgs and my entry fee. Everything just in a nick of time. But then silence. No news? -- good news or bad? I dashed off an email yesterday. Oops! "Thought I got back to you." GOOD NEWS! The pieces have been accepted but the drop-off date was last Saturday. So, I rushed them over last night.

And you can see them this Saturday...

"Lying here and staring at the ceiling..."

ONCE UPON A TIME
Before technology caught up in the way of laptops and required us to work between approvals of print forms at a press check, I didn't spend this down time reading the many magazines in the customer lounge but rather doing ink sketches like this one of EDITH WHARTON. One of my early Live-Journal blog writer-friends like Jo or Cindy or Anne Marie or Debbi or Kelly may have mentioned Edith in one of their posts. Maybe they quoted her. Or maybe not. Maybe I just found a picture source and drew from that. And as I often do, I Googled her and looked up her bio to see what interesting stuff might lie there. And even though I'm unfamiliar with her work. Never read anything she's written. I found out she liked to "write in bed." I thought that was kinda interesting and figured if I ever did a more complete portrait, I would do one where she was "writing in bed." Today is Edith Wharton's 151st birthday anniversary.

Happy Birthday, Edith!

"edgar allan funk..."

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Today's Edgar Allan Poe's 204th birthday anniversary. He has been a subject of my portrait caricatures for some time. And most recently, showed up with a character-role in my latest graphic-novel magazine.

Happy Birthday, Edgar!