ACE Hotel preview

This is something I've been working on for ACE Hotel in NYC. I'll take a proper picture of it once the canvas is installed in the hotel.

PSH calendar.

PSH calendar for march.
download.
previously: february.

i could've stopped typing but i haven't talked in days.

in the beginning of every february i get vague, soul-crushing depression, usually followed by the flu. seeing as this has happened for at least the past 20 years in the same exact way, you would think that i would have discovered a way to avoid at least one of these things. but, last week as i sat in my isolation room, wearing my chem hazard suit and eating spoonfuls of prozac, i began sniffling and realized; the february depression/flu is my destiny and there is nothing i can do to break the cycle.

while i was concentrating on attempting to breath, i also realized i should probably put up some of the half written blog posts i have sitting on my hard drive. i will most likely die unloved, but i won't die unblogged. at least that's what my tattoo says. this file was called 'recently found books' though now it's not so recent. unless you're sort of old, i guess. i mean, my mom says things like 'they just opened that dunkin donuts in...uh, 1996.'

in an old box of comics i found this 'return of the jedi production sketchbook'. i had a bunch of books like this as a kid, mostly star wars and indiana jones, but this one has like 20 pages of ewoks.



i really like p. craig russell's art, especially during the early 80s and i am finally willing to admit my absolute love for michael moorcock's elric, so i had been looking for this book for a while. it's called 'elric: the dreaming city' it was published as a marvel graphic novel in 1981-ish and has a script by roy thomas. i found it in back of the frightening hell that is my local comic store. the art in it is fucking unbelievable. it's this mixture of 70s fantasy/heavy metal/psychedelic/comic art, with possibly the best coloring ever.





every few months aleks and i go to the amazing store 'time machine' in the city. last time i was there i got a few issues of 'marvel fanfare'. one of them contained a bill sienkiewicz 'portfolio' as well as a comic apologizing for the $1.25 price (glossy paper) and a message from ralph macchio explaining he doesn't have any resolutions for the new year because he has made marvel so awesome in his time as editor, it really has no where else to go.


besides the portfolio, the best part about this comic is there's an 'out of continuity' dr. strange story that the editor decided to make 'in continuity' by negating everything that happens with editorial boxes that say things like 'not really, see dr. strange #251'. including the conclusion and entire theme of the thing. strange realizes at the end that you can't make snap judgments of people because all humans have the ability to be heroes. and underneath this realization is a box that says 'but the doctor was actually right in his original judgment see dr. strange...'

aleks, as usual, got a bunch of old sci fi movie magazines which have stills from movies that are probably horrible but look like the best things ever made (dr. phibes is awesome though).

webcomics 4ever.

for valentine's day aleks sent me the long awaited (by me) next page of harmonium.
here: http://www.ifeelawesome.net/harmonium2.html

i have at least 75 unfinished and never updated webcomics yet i'm still thinking of starting another one.

i also updated my website: http://ifeelawesome.net

happy birthday aleks.

my only regret is that the butter isn't painted gold.

I've only got hasty, badly drawn comics in me.

train.

maybe i do have too many blogs.

my new album
zip file
aleks drew the cover.
a lot of talk about the songs on livejournal
and i also put it on cllct

the internet is vast. and looks down on us like bugs. bugs that are its children though. and possibly its gods.

interview.

there's a short interview with aleks up on the chalkboard blog. i don't want to spoil anything, but the twist ending took me by surprise.