Coming soon to Noiseusse Recordings.

Still working on that cover. Soon though. SOOOOOON!!!

30 discs are burned, CD print tests are done. Final package designs are in the works. (Final CD art is the one on the bottom)

Tomorrow I print the art on the rest of the discs and finish the package design.

The Drawing of the Three: The Doors

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They still need tweaking. I might have to use different doors for all of them, and the text needs to show through more, but they’re in a place now that I don’t mind showing them to other people.

More to follow.

Rhet is coming…

There is still a lot of fine tuning and writing that need to be done before Comic Con. It looks like now if we do show anything to anyone at Con it will be just concept and some writing. My feeling is that we should self publish it or put it online for free.

Rhet is coming…

I had a couple of minor suggestions, but overall I think they look amazing!

Rhet is coming…

The two of us are putting together a little promo book for San Diego Comic Con this year. It will contain some of Tony’s art and some of my writing about Rhet. If we have the time it will also have the first sequential Rhet story ever!!!

Rhet is coming…

Disclaimer: I have no good concept of time. So this whole thing might not add up as for as years go. I might be a few years older than I thought when all of this was happening.

The first memory of music that I have is my parents singing to me, but I don’t remember what songs. The first memory I have of recorded music is The Beatles “Good Night” from The White Album. My dad has it on vinyl and I was obsessed with it when I was young, especially the tracks Rocky Racoon, Bungalow Bill, and Good Night. We used to sing it along with the record before I would go to bed. My upbringing was pretty Rockwellian.

Beyond that there was a lot of Sesame Street records and my Mom listened to a lot of Top 40 Adult contemporary, which at the time, I used to like singing it in the car with her. Songs like “Islands in the Stream”, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and “Break My Stride” are three that really stand out from that time. This would have been close to 1986, which was when I started going to Elemmentary School.

For most of my Elementary years I listened to aweful Top 40, Everything But the Girl, Haddaway (?), etc. (KS 104 in Denver was my FAVORTIE radio station). I vaguely remember hearing 2 Live Crew. I really had no clue who any of these people were at the time, I just knew the words to their songs. I liked Michael Jackson A LOT, and one of the first tapes I ever bought was the single for Smooth Criminal (1988) (which also had the first instrumental version of a song that I had ever heard, and of course I would Karaoke to it in my bedroom while playing with He-Man toys). After Jackson there was the Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer and Young MC. And I listened to that sort of thing up until about 6th grade. My group of friends all liked to dance to MC Hammer back in those days, at one point we had a dance contest. It was bad.

In 6th grade two things happened: I became interested in girls and I got my first CD player and three CDs (my parents must have spent a fortune on that thing), which were Red Hot Chili Peppers “What Hits!?”, U2 “War”, and Michael Jackson “Dangerous”. This was exactly what I had asked for that Xmas, but mind you I had never actually heard a U2 or red Hot Chili Peppers song. However, two girls that I liked both had U2 and Chili Peppers CDs and at the time that was enough for me to want them. The girls both had copies of Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik, which was what I asked for, but my parents said they wouldn’t buy me something with a PA label on it. I still have all three of the discs to this day, and I still listen to War from time to time. I couldn’t actually afford CDs then either, so they were the only threee CDs I had for a long while. Also around this time, I became aware of Guns ‘n Roses, Motley Crue, and Paula Abdul. I wasn’t really a music nut at this point in my life. I had never heard a GnR or Crue song, I just knew who they were and that a couple of my friends liked them. We didn’t have MTV at home when all of this was going on, so I had no clue how people found out about these sorts of bands. At that point in my life the only music video I had ever seen was “Opposites Attract”. Also one day in the cafeteria someone mentioned to me the band Nine Inch Nails and asked me if I had heard of them, of course I hadn’t. That must have been 1989 or 1991.

Important music from this time (for me) that I can still remember:

U2 – War
Red Hot Chili Peppers – What Hits
Michael Jackson – Pretty much everything up til Dangerous
The Beatles – The White Album
More to follow…

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

Found here
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I can see a one off story about an old nomad dying for his sheep in Rhet’s future.

Rhet is coming…

I started filling up a notebook of ideas for Rhet stories, timelines, character descriptions, small doodles of ideas barely visible in my brain. The notebook is almost full and I’ve emptied out everything that I had immediately in my head into the book. So I guess it is time to start writing the actual stories now.

I’ve been having a little trouble actually starting. Every time I try to script something I get this burning sensation in my stomach. Its a little strange. I got the sensation when I first started writing out ideas for Rhet. It was like the heat finally burst out, and I was finally able to write down everything, and everything came out all at once.

So for now, I’m waiting for this new warm bubble to burst.

Rhet is coming…

Dry Valleys of Antarctica.

Rhet is coming… slowly…

Sure would be a great image to adapt into one of the later covers.

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Livescribe – SUPERPEN I’m totally gonna get one of these

Promachoteuthis suclus (Creature)

Marine Invertebrates (Creature)

Gary, Indiana – Dead Place

Some really funny movie posters

Architecture

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Making gall ink

nati-art

Dore Bible Gallery

Rhet is coming… slowly…

Found here and here.

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TOKYO (AP) – A man who went missing in western Japan survived in near-freezing weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a state similar to hibernation, doctors said.

Mitsutaka Uchikoshi had almost no pulse, his organs had all but shut down and his body temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit or about 21.6 Celsius when he was discovered on Rokko mountain in late October, said doctors who treated him at the nearby Kobe City General Hospital. He had been missing for 24 days.

“On the second day, the sun was out, I was in a field, and I felt very comfortable. That’s my last memory,” Uchikoshi, 35, told reporters Tuesday before returning home from hospital. “I must have fallen asleep after that.”

Doctors believe Uchikoshi, a city official from neighbouring Nishinomiya who was visiting the mountain for a barbecue party, tripped and later lost consciousness in a remote mountainous area.

His body temperature soon plunged as he lay in 10-degree Celsius weather, greatly slowing down his metabolism.

“(Uchikoshi) fell into a state similar to hibernation and many of his organs slowed, but his brain was protected,” said Dr. Shinichi Sato, head of the hospital’s emergency unit. “I believe his brain capacity has recovered 100 per cent. ”

Uchikoshi was treated for severe hypothermia, multiple organ failure and blood loss from his fall, but was unlikely to experience any lasting ill effects, Sato said.

Doctors were still uncertain how exactly Uchikoshi survived for weeks with his metabolism almost at a standstill.

In animals like squirrels or bears, hibernation reduces the amount of oxygen that cells need to survive, protecting the brain and other organs from damage.

© The Canadian Press, 2006

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Think I’ll make the image a little bigger on the next one.

Ice Cave

Originally uploaded by masaaidhs

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I think I might turn this into something a but more finished later on.

Need to figure out how to work something like this in. Extreme weather at every turn.

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I did a handful of variations for this one that I’ll put up tomorrow, but now I must sleeeeeep….

Possible creature idea for The Oasis after Rhet leaves the Wasteland.

Just wait til you see the 6 legged deer.

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Rhet is coming…

I recently read (listened to on audiobook) The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, and have been sketching out some DT characters and locations. We’ll see where it goes…

The following are two versions of Topeka.

Anyway I know I can’t draw all that well, but I’m enjoying doing it for the first time in a long time. In the last year I’ve had the pleasure of bumping into Barron Storey a couple of times, and some of the things he’s said made a big impression on me, and kind of got me thinking that maybe I should start drawing again. Sooo, here we go. Whee!

Rhet is coming…

It is shaping up… the story so far.

These are the initial mixes for the first quarter of completed tracks. I have a bad tendency to call something done before it really is (my attention span is really short about things like that, and sometimes I move on to “B” before completing “A”), and I’m trying to hold off on these (hence draft 1).

Aphrodisia-Will in the Tower-Statue of Bodies-Voyeur

Carnivora-The Doc-Monsters on the ship-Druuna sleeps

Carnivora-Her Mind

Creatura-Druuna Led Through the Wasteland

I need to remember to update my to do list. More to follow…

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