A friend of mine helps represent John Watkiss and has just finished putting together his newest collection, Life Drawing Life Drawing. These are life drawings of life drawing classes, captured through John’s unique eye. I’ve seen the originals of this work and they are absolutely gorgeous, beautifully rendered, with a strange attention to detail. Likewise, the layout and presentation of the book is top notch!

They are trying out a print on demand model for this edition, though I would imagine a limited edition is in the works at some point.

Life Drawing Life Drawing can be purchased through Lulu.

A good friend of mine has been given permission from Barron Storey to put his 30 years of journaling online. The journals are absolutely amazing. Honest and beautiful.

I have had the weird twist in my life to get to know Barron fairly well since moving to California and have been able to view the work first hand. These are artifacts of humanity and Barron is the most ‘human’ person I think I’ve ever met, if that makes sense. Anyway, enjoy!

The Journals of Barron Storey

In the coming months I’ll be part of a small team that will be filming a documentary about Barron. As things get further along, there will be clips posted here as well as on the journaling blog.

So far we have done one day of filming Barron as he took down the work from his last show “Victims“. More to follow.

So for the last few years I have been collecting monsters from some of my favorite comic artists. I get the vast majority at comic conventions. Some times they are free, some times I pay money for them and some times I wish that the artist would let me give them money. Most of the time the artists are far easier to talk to than I ever would have thought. A few of these people I would now consider to be my friends. Its amazing some times how friendly these people are considering what total choads we comic book fans can be.

I try not to be pushy with people, and have developed a weird patience in collecting these drawings. With most other things that I collect, I usually can’t stand to let one little thing wait. I’m especially bad about this when it comes to music. Anyway, there was a point to this story, but I’m not sure what it is now.

Here are some of the monsters that I have in my collection.

Dan Brereton
Jim Mahfood
David Mack
Ben Templesmith
Barron Storey
Geof Darrow
Jason Shawn Alexander
Jason Felix
Kent Williams
Joe Linsner
Mark Pennington
Reuben Martinez
Ted McKeever
Tony Guaraldi Brown

So before the infamous crash of the Noiseusse server, I had a post on here that pointed to an artist guy that I know, Tony Guaraldi-Brown.

He did me a freakin sweet monster at Comic Con this year (featured on left), and now it looks like he’s selling some of his other originals at very reasonable prices. Peep it!