Beth bought a Brushpen Breakfast Sketchbook and asked to be drawn as an alien...I went Mamie Van Doren style. When I put her in the warhead brazier, she cackled with delight.

Phew. You never know how that's gonna go over.

OK, so I'm trying to follow the lead of those more tech-savvy than me and post these on the vaunted tumblr.

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And Ranjo has been inveighing me to get on Instagram.

But these new image outlets leaves me feeling nostalgic about my Blogger platform. So I want to keep this one going. This format better lends itself to a "curated" scroll, I think. With that in mind, I think I will back fill a few days to show what I did over the weekend at the 2nd Annual San Diego Comic Fest.

So sue me!

Here's Scott Benefiel's copy of the Brushpen Breakfast Book. An Ellis pop-up book "surprize."

There's only ONE copy left of the initial print run--so order yours today!

I just had to include this one. Crayola of my buddy, Jimmy "Maurice" Gorham.

 Had a great time drawing this for Tyler. Had no idea who Adam Strange was, but he filled me in. Tyler's homemade costume was great--and he got a real kick out of the drawing. Thanks, dude!

My shingle at the San Diego Comic Fest. Heading is nonsensical, but I liked the caricatures too much to redo it.

Guy on the right was seated to my right at San Diego Comic Fest: Dennis Neal Smith. A nice guy who really dug my Paris ink of the Closerie des Lilas. Thanks, Dennis!

Drew this with a bright pink Pentel brushpen. Put it in Pho-Sho and hit "AUTO TONE" and it came out like this. Looks like I did a blue-line underdrawing (I di'n't!).

Inktober ink of the Gorgon "painting." Using an old Pentel brushpen.

 Sadly, I think there's more life and action in this little ink than the whole elaborate Gorgon final!

The felt-tip marker "painting" redo of this year's "Monsters & Dames" entry.

Yes, felt-tip marker...with a lot of Photo Shop enhancement. But none of that "digital drawing." I'm doing all this on a laptop!

A prelim study for a comic project. Notice the skater sneakers done up as a "saddle shoe" tribute.

Drawing with...Joe Sanabria! (Check him out--he's good!)

Taking the brushpens on the road again (from the run down to San Diego to deliver the Yogi busts).

Drawn at LACMA in the dark on a fine Friday night. They were doing this summer evening live jazz thing every Friday...don't know if it's still on.

The dancing fella at right was a giant. The only people dancing. The band was a quintet I think; Luther Hughes & The Cannonball/Coltrane Project. A ton of people. Shocking to see an actual outdoor cultural thing in LA come off. Well, it was free!

Delivered two portrait busts to San Diego yesterday. On the way down I snuck into the Carlsbad Outlets and grabbed a photo on their faux Renaissance staircase. (Subject is the guru Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Swami's in Encinitas.)

UPDATE: Posted because, y'know, I sculpted it.