"Eight Days A Week!"

"Welcome to slattsville" posts April 21 to April 30.

DAY ONE: "Say the word and be like me..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/867240.html

DAY TWO: "Here's another clue for you all..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/867793.html

DAY THREE: "...but I found out!"
http://slatts.livejournal.com/868071.html

DAY FOUR: "Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/868341.html

DAY FIVE: "Baby's in BLACK...what can I do?"
http://slatts.livejournal.com/868524.html

DAY SIX: "As I write this letter..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/869096.html

DAY SEVEN: "...and in the end..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/869310.html

DAY EIGHT: ""Tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/869573.html

"Eight Days A Week!"

"Welcome to slattsville" posts April 13 - 21

DAY ONE: "It's a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/864682.html

DAY TWO: "You say it's YOUR BIRTHDAY!"
http://slatts.livejournal.com/864940.html

DAY THREE: "I want you so bad it's driving me MAD..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/865228.html

DAY FOUR: "When you are free to take some tea with me..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/865290.html

DAY FIVE: "...I had to laugh. I saw the photograph"
http://slatts.livejournal.com/865837.html

DAY SIX: "...and the band begins to play."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/866190.html

DAY SEVEN: "...I'll have another cigarette and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/866597.html

DAY EIGHT: "I went upstairs and had a smoke. Somebody spoke and I went into a dream..."
http://slatts.livejournal.com/866955.html

"I've been away, now. Oh, how..."

HAVING A LOST WEEKEND
Like I did back in January 2013 was bad enough. But I just had me a "lost week." THAT really sucks! A LOT of catching up to do -- what, with a show coming up this weekend.

Well, first things first. Like a calendar that hasn't been flipped to the new month, my website needed its MARCH face. DONE!

"I read the news today, oh boy!"

My interview with Trish Crapo about my latest self-published art magazine, "Frankenstein Meets Sister Mary Shelley," my process for writing, layout and art creation was published today. You can read it online:
RECORDER article

"Dear Sir or Madame, Would you read my book?"

FEBRUARY 27, 2014
COFFEE and POETRY NIGHT
at Northfield Coffee and Books
Northfield artist and poet, Kevin Slattery will be the featured reader at COFFEE and POETRY NIGHT on Thursday, February 27, 2014. Starting at 7:30 pm. Slattery will read from his latest "graphic-poem" art magazine, "Frankenstein Meets Sister Mary Shelley," the autobiographical tale of a young artist who discovers that creativity aimed at authority can have monstrous results.

Northfield Coffee and Books, 105 Main Street, Northfield, MA (413) 642-7119. 7:30 (open mic begins at 8).

"Everywhere I go I hear it said..."

SO, I SAID, YES! when David of Northfield Coffee and Books asked me if I'd be interested in reading FRANKENSTEIN Meets SISTER MARY SHELLEY at the POETRY NIGHT on February 27th.

"There will be a show tonight..."

NEXT SATURDAY the two drawings that never seem to go anywhere that my other art gets to go, will be in a show. NINA'S NOOK Annual TRIPLE-S Show. Yes, those two drawings of mine are never allowed anywhere cuz they just don't know what to wear. So, Uma and Joyce wear nothing. NAKED!

Well, there's one place where naked is OK. In fact, it's encouraged. Read on:

Third Annual erotic art exhibit in a uniquely intimate space in downtown Turners Falls. Local artists turn up the heat in readiness for Valentine's Day--sculpture, cards, naughty puzzles, fine art dolls. Nudity, nakedness, and the full monty on view.

Meet the artists at the opening reception at nearby totally funky (and more spacious) Madison on the Ave. The gallery will open at 1pm and closes at 7pm on opening day. The reception starts at 5.

Here's GALLERY information

"Tell me what you see..."

Here's where I discuss what to do about naked art.
slatts.livejournal.com/850863.html

"...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?