As we near the end of 2013...

Health, wealth, and happiness to all my friends and family. Today, tomorrow, and for as long as it can last.

More rare Dr. Strange foreign editions

Love the painted covers! This one reprints Marvel Team Up #50 and 51:

Interior page with a pin-up:

Also got this one from Barcelona, which ironically DOES NOT reprint the comic that is on its cover (Fantastic Four #27). Still, this is one of the only times Doc was drawn by the immortal Jack Kirby:

 

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Cthulhu costume at Burning Man 2002

This costume was on display at Nova Express Cafe for many years. It was made by Jennifer Cho and Cary Long and nearly didn't survive a future Burning Man experience when it was run over by a truck. Here it is back in the day in all its glory. Sorry for the blurry photo but it was taken with my Watch Camera. (Back then Watch Cameras were the forefront of technology since no one had the ability to take pictures with their phone just yet.)

Large downloads of The Picture of Everything available again

The Hallis.biz site is back online, offering large sized downloads of The Picture of Everything in PDF, TIFF and JPEG files!

Custom Dr. Strange cover in Spanish

I recently tracked down a copy of the first appearance of Dr. Strange in Spanish: Los Fantasticos #35. The copy I got was complete, but the staples were removed. Since I already designed and attached custom covers for all the Ditko issues of Strange Tales in English, I figured that I should make one for the Spanish version. Here's the results:

Last chance to see the 3D Blacklight Lenticulars at Irisphere

Closing party for the show is tomorrow, Saturday September 28th, 2013. I'll be there from 8pm to 9:30ish. Come on by! Address is 4650 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90016.

New music

Not all new music sucks. I have some talented friends making great stuff right now...

Red Pony Clock

The Dagons

The Warlocks

Native Fauna

Cathulhu 3D Beer Coaster series

For the upcoming La Luz De Jesus Gallery "Beer Is Art" Coaster show (opening this Friday, September 6th) I put together four 3D lenticular coasters based on the famous cat paintings by Louis Wain. As far as the psychology textbooks say, Wain had schizophrenia and loved to paint cats. As his disease worsened he was eventually institutionalized, but continued to make art. His cats became more and more surreal as his insanity grew. Because of this I thought it would be a great match to mix the Wain cats with HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu, a monster who is known to drive people crazy. These lenticular beer coasters are a homage to both men's work. Here's the results:

The 4 "Cathulhu" coasters

The original Louis Wain cat paintings

Cathulhu #1

#1 in my series of lenticular beer coasters made as a homage to Louis Wain and HP Lovecraft:

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Cathulhu #2

#2 in my series of lenticular beer coasters made as a homage to Louis Wain and HP Lovecraft:

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