Once again it is March, and it’s time for #MarchMODOKMadness. (MarchMODOKMad on Twitter) MODOK is for Masking or Distancing or Killing! MODOK WILL KILL YOU IN DUE TIME, WHELP! #MODOK
Jesus Arthur Silva—“Art”—was born on this day 100 years ago, February 6, 1921. I remember visiting him at grocery stores in San Diego like Big Bear or Food Basket, where he got assigned to whip their produce departments into shape. I wish I could ask him about working in a town that went from 80 thousand people to over 2 million in his lifetime. I want to ask him if it’s true he sold tamales on the streets of downtown. I want to ask him what kept him going when times were hard, working multiple jobs. How did he and Nanie raise 7 great kids? I was 17 when he died. I don’t have a photograph of him working. I’ve drawn him how I imagine he would have looked. Sharp, kind, diligent. After he passed, my mother missed him terribly. A great man. 100 years ago today.
Beat the heat
Rotsy
On the phone with @chrisgreazel takin’ notes
In the 1980s I loved to make Christmas/New Years/Holiday cards. I drew this Technocratic, nearly cyberpunk Santa with a Micron Pigma pen in size 005. That’s still an excellent pen. 32 years later I’ve refined and colored him digitally. I didn’t do paper greeting cards this year. Maybe next year. It’s been an impossibly hard year, and my drawings have comforted me. Be well, take care.
Do You Want To Art Trade?! “Cube Cat’s Drink” is Riso printed by the amazing @burn_all_books at 8-1/2″x11″. Do you have a physical zine you’re proud of? Or an original drawing? Or a killer sticker? This is an experiment in art-trading. I love mail and I love physical art. I’ve got 23 ready to go. DM me and let’s do a deal!
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My grandmother told me in 1987 that this jack-o’-lantern design looks like “he doesn’t have good sense”—which is of course the point. Happy Halloween!
stop and smell the roses 🛑🌹 #webcomic #nailedit
Anita doesn’t like her picture taken. #webcomic #robomerman #california #anitagaribaldi #garibaldifish
Experimental Sunday doodling.
T-Deb says “Hiya!” #cube-cat-extended-universe
The Romantic Slug “On Vacation” ©1993 JOE CRAWFORD
I don’t know how it ends. #comic #cubecat
Very inspiring talk by Keith Knight for @cm_rdu! Quickie doodle. Looking forward to his new Hulu show in September! #cmunderdog
Redrawing a Ray Bradbury doodle from 2002 for #ComicConAtHome #ComicCon2020
I felt moved to add an image to the #JTLArtChallenge — art against the Duterte #JunkTerrorBill which can mark critics of the Philippine government as “terrorists.” I am not Filipino but have great love of both freedom and Filipino culture, especially #VoltesV who would definitely be against this bill!
I thought I’d take a shot at explaining what ANTIFA is all about.
What to a Slave is “Independence Day?” Thank you Frederick Douglass for the words.
“Force does not work the way its advocates seem to think it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of his adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of his adversary, and this revelation invests the victim with patience. Furthermore, it is ultimately fatal to create too many victims. The victor can do nothing with these victims, for they do not belong to him, but—to the victims. They belong to the people he is fighting. The people know this, and as inexorably as the roll call—the honor roll—of victims expands, so does their will become inexorable: they resolve that these dead, their brethren, shall not have died in vain. When this point is reached, however long the battle may go on, the victor can never be the victor: on the contrary, all his energies, his entire life, are bound up in a terror he cannot articulate, a mystery he cannot read, a battle he cannot win—he has simply become the prisoner of the people he thought to cow, chain, or murder into submission.” ― James Baldwin
Looking at old drawrings this morning. And space launches. And news of unrest. Life’s complicated. Be safe. Fight for justice.
Drawing! Today: untoyed robots. I’d like to have toys of these three. But they don’t really exist. Who are they? Chappie (2015) is a film about a police bot who gets a conscience, sort of. 7-Zark-7 was a character added to Gatchaman (1972) to adapt it into the tv show Battle of the Planets (1978). And Irona is from the 1950s sometime. She’s Richie Rich’s robot maid and bodyguard from the comics and tv. #chappie #battleoftheplanets #7zark7 #irona
Me and some cool cats in my contribution to Sundays Quarterly zine. Published by @burn_all_books. Get one for yourself! If you become a BAB supporter you can get art monthly! #risograph #risoprinting #risocomic
Cont’d: “LAY DOWN ALL THOUGHT / SURRENDER TO THE VOID”
For about 6 months I’ve had a 4 panel Cube Cat comic about Cube waking up after a drunken night and drinking toxic coffee and it just doesn’t work. Much respect to those who make gag cartoons, it is NOT EASY. Oh, also all the panels were song lyrics, a weird constraint I imposed on myself that made it even harder to make the thing work considering not everyone knows as many lyrics as a music hound like me. #writingishard #butilikethisdrawing #cubecat
Drawing feels good. A&W mug sketch bleeding through from behind.
Listen to Gritty.
Really weird but kind of cool to run across this doodle from work notes on a slow 12 hour night shift in 1993.
“CUBE CAT at BEAR LODGE (aka Devil’s Tower)” – from last night at Long Beach Ink & Drink #drawing @ink_and_drink_lb #longbeach #cubecat #closeencounters
My first printed linocut: Shirley Chisholm: UNBOUGHT / UNBOSSED. #linksoul #oceanside #shirleychisholm #linocut #blackhistorymonth thanks @klart760 for the great instruction.
submitted a comic to a literary journal today. comics are malleable and I am a cartoonist. I think of the terrible gag strips I sent to The New Yorker in 1989 and the very nice, very deserved rejection they got. and I plot my next comic.
zappa. #comic
New iPad hang ten. Drawn w/@procreate
Ok then #toonme #toonmechallenge #drawing
Yesterday I drew Gritty at #UXCampDC for… not really good reasons.
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Detail of panel from my latest submission to @burn_all_books art anthology zine “Sundays Quarterly”—I’m working on a way to make it easy for folx to get ahold of the comics I’ve done. Possibly Gumroad. Maybe web. In the meantime get down to the @burn_all_books shop behind @verbatim.books and buy SQ! Also playing with purely web-based formats but I like them less.
Merry Facehuggermas! #facehugger #alien
Free old markers from @susanmyrland, tested. 35% usable.
Uh. Wut. #inkanddrinklb #cubecat
Cube Cat Christmas Resistance! @ink_and_drink_lb #cubecat #inkanddrink #inkanddrinklb
Thanks for watching! #inktober2019 #inktober — look for more comics in the coming months.
Jumpsuited. #inktober #inktober2019
More from #sketchpartysd
Happy Sketchpartyoween! #inktober #inktober2019 #sketchpartysd #sandiego
I don’t think I’ll get tired of drawing Super Gato! #inktober #inktober2019
From a 2015 Dr Sketchy’s pencil sketch. #inktober #inktober2019
Today’s #inktober is a collaboration with my late Tata. My Mom told me he would draw this little dog whenever he was idle. I surely wish I could talk to him about it. Maybe my aunties know more about this little guy though. #inktober2019. Made with @Procreate
25 up/25 down
SuperGato! … from the Cube Cat Conceptual Continuity. #inktober #inktober2019 drawn at #spillSantaAna and enhanced in @procreate
Rorschach. #spillSantaAna #spillSA #Watchmen #penAndInk
At Spill Santa Ana. #inktober #inktober2019 #spillsantaana #spillsa #inkanddrink #drinkanddraw #santaana
White ink on brown paper experimental #inktober2019 #inktober
Of course I included a @burn_all_books badge on my punk cat tonight. Zines are punk. #sketchpartysd
Punk Drunk Cat #sketchpartysd #inktober #inktober2019 #cubecat #punkcat #drunkcat
Lunchtime XO BOT & hummingbird #inktober #inktober2019
“Stu”—an #inktober on #Starbucks cup. #inktober2019 #theyreallgooddogs
I sent a few copies of the latest @burn_all_books Sundays Quarterly to friends and I love the way my comic printed on risograph. Check them out behind @verbatim.books.
20 minute pose. #inktober #inktober2019 #drsketchyssandiego
Eighties guitarist/#inktober/#inktober2019
#INKTOBER IS MAGIC 🎩 🐰 #inktober2019
Sing! (16) #inktober #inktober2019
“PEEL.” — Carrie Kelley. #inktober #inktober2019 #carriekelley
Bouffant Swimmer #inktober #inktober2019
To whom shall I give my rose? #inktober #inktober2019
Battle Damage Cap #inktober #inktober2019 #captainamerica
When in doubt, Kirby dots. #inktober #inktober2019
Hulk out. #inktober #inktober2019 #watercolor
#Inktober can stress you out in a world where most artists have dayjobs. But sometimes it’s as simple as drawing during a work meeting. Just a mess of sharpie on coffee-stained workpad. #inktober2019
“HI LIL’ FELLA!” #sketchpartysd @sketchpartysd #notInktober #notInktober2019
Spacewoman. Pen liner, brush fill, @procreate finishing, @instagram filter finalizing. #inktober #inktober2019
ROBIN (carrie) #inktober #inktober2019
Drácula de tinta #inktober #inktober2019 #markerart #vampire
Pink/gray/black/experimental #inktober #inktober2019
More #INKTOBER. #inktober2019.
Partial self-portrait in watercolor and exploded brush ink and paper towel for pattern. #inktober #inktober2019 #watercolor
Angry ink for #Inktober #inktober2019
Expression time for #inktober2019 — happy to see how people interpret #INKTOBER. The thing should be fun not a soul-crushing grind. If it’s a grind put the darn pen down, rent Booksmart, get a treat, and chill. Malala.
Latest comic for @burn_all_books Sundays Quarterly is in the pipeline. Available in October.
Inky blue
Sketch Party San Diego turned four years old. It was a packed session. It’s a beautiful event with amazing people. It’s an explosion of non-commercial community. Tonight I talked (uh… ranted) with my seatmate about drawing: drawing is communication. Drawing is for everyone. You may be ashamed of what you draw. The real shame is that our culture divides us into groups, one group is creative and is allowed to draw, the other is uncreative. No. Don’t believe that lie. Draw. Draw together. It’s beautiful. I❤️U @sketchpartysd!!! #sketchpartysd
Drinking and drawing at #xoxofest at Nucleus Portland and look, here’s Cube Cat! This the #visual-art social!
More art framing! This was a test print through Burn All Books’ Riso printer for Sundays Quarterly 2019.1. It’s an inadvertent exquisite corpse as it includes test runs of layers by me, @unradmotions & @casual_vaper. Follow @burn_all_books for more awesome art. #risoprint #sandiego #zines
Inkplay
The carrots descending in the windy void were the most fun last night. I made 6 panels and put 1, then 2, then 4… last 32 marks in each panel. The orange marks turned into carrots. #spillsantaana #carrots
1-2-4-8-16-32. #spillsantaana #spillsa #drinkanddraw #orangecounty #santaana
Calling this #Batman done. #mixedMedia #drawings
My father told me when I was in my teens: “you take in a lot of media, son, you should try to put some out there” and I think about that every day. Contributing to the latest @burn_all_books Sundays Quarterly was been an honor. This is my proud of my work face. More is coming.
Mise-en-scène — Thursday in Santa Ana #SpillSA #SPILLSA with @chrisgreazel
New pens. New drawing. #sdcc #sdcc2019 #byebye
Drawing Batman in the Batman panel is my jam. #sdcc #drawing #batman
When Sundays Quarterly: Gemini comes out from @burn_all_books you oughta get one. Everyone’s pieces I’ve seen pieces of on Instagram have made me happy.
“LOWES ANGLE-EASE”
Initial test prints for my latest page for @burn_all_books’ Sundays Quarterly. Nick took good care of me and it turned out well. And the new @verbatim.books space—I got a preview—it’s awesome.
For #sketchpartysd tonight I wanted to honor San Diego’s Bean Bandits, my late, great Uncle Joaquin was in ‘em! #beanbandits #hotrod #drawing #penandink
