So first off I'm doing a signing in NYC with my pals BECKY CLOONAN,(East coast rising) VASILY LOLOS (Pirates of Coney Island), RICK SPEARS (Pirates of Coney Island), ROB G (Teenagers From Mars) on JUNE 6th
Jim Hanley's Universe - MANHATTAN:
4 West 33rd St.
New York, NY 10001
(off 5th Ave. - opposite the Empire State Building)
[link]Tel: (212) 268-7088
It should be fun I haven't been back to NYC since I lived there.
like 3 years ago. show up pleeze.
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This week I've been drawing in coffee shops.
Justin "moritat" Norman always talks about how much work you can do if you put yourself in a place that there is nothing else to do but work. Apparently that shit works. The coffee shop I was at yesterday was lined with encyclopedias so my only distraction was to read about things witch just got me more hyped to draw.
I read about the history of the refrigerator --Ice houses!
annd short hand witch is crazy alien language shit.
Today I went to a comic store far from civilization to got a bunch of Conan magazines for a dollar. when I was paying for them a dude asked me what conan was about? All I had for him was "it's about Conan" I don't even know if it's something that would require too much explanation or if it's just something so basic to the fabric of humanity that it would be like explaining the concept of sight to a rock. I dunno. That's all I could give him.
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comix:
Multiple Warhedz:
I'm on page 30 and I layed out lots of it.
I have a lot of spaceships crashing into city pages to draw still.
SOS meathaus anthology:
page 6 of 11
dude meets god comic.
I just figured out the ending.
King city 2:
I sent the final story plan off to Tokyo pop.
This time i'm not doing layouts fuck laying out a 186 page
book before I draw it. I just figured out what happens in every chapter and how many pages there will be.
It will be better than #1 I still might cut down on the fight scenes cause they really cut into all the all important eating and talking about nothing. But there's more xombie flashbacks and kitten grenades and shit.
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then there's this:
[link]nothing in this is true. Behind Justins deep dark lies Marian and Claire can be seen. Justin in a genius and I love Marian and Claire. It's not even ok.
That's all I got tonight.
"it's about conan"
I should have king city there.
"Is that anime?"
Yeah it's important to find a coffee shop full of people who don't care about what you're drawing.
you should pick up the new issue of heavy metal. it's got a long ass robert valley comic in it that's pretty snazz. i've been reading the marvel annihilation series that is pretty good too... it's full of drax the destroyer riddicking alien bug things in the face.
new york is so kinda close to us!! you need to take a bus to b-more for tea and tiny cakes.
Plus it was just good for your mind body and spirit.
you are welcome.
also finish your oni book.
2 quick questions though
1) if i bring some art that i can't scan will you chekc it out?
and
2) will you being doing any sketches or anything.