Showing posts with label aliens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aliens. Show all posts

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Alternative Comics Weird Interior #1

HEY APATHY! Surreal Comics

A handsome sum was paid in advance not for the tickets themselves but for information regarding whereabouts of the ticket agent . The amount paid by the ticket holder is somewhat open to speculation though it can be ascertained that if you aren’t aware of the price for such things, you simply do not have that kind of money. Having said all that, the stubs are checked and a small unassuming door opens. Behind the façade lies a room of the most peculiar sterility. Metallic panelling and the large overhead structure of lights and wires from an operating room are only embellished by a festive curtain covering the unseen subject. No one knows for sure upon entering , and absolutely no one breathes a word after exiting, about those unusual items which entertain the most elite. Beyond power, beyond violence, beyond carnal, cruelty and beyond reason, lies the horrific atrocities which have no function but to combat cases of multibillion dollar ennui. Pen & Ink 4x 4 inch detail  This is one of the panels from the Surreal Webcomics cover I finished this week. Thought I'd take some time to do  write ups for all the little panels in the drawing over the next few days while I get to lettering the story which I will start posting next week.


Monday, August 9, 2010

Alternative Comics SURREAL PULP

HEY APATHY! Surreal Comics

A little surreal love story... a forbidden passion leads to a black magic double suicide and though the bodies are gone, their love will live on. Just added the old style headline for fun. more at HEY APATHY! ALTERNATIVE COMICS.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

ALTERNATIVE COMICS ALIEN INVASION

HEY APATHY ! ALTERNATIVE COMICS

AFTER THE HARVEST...The communications came like none any of us ever imagined. There were no vocal sounds, no translators, no telepathy, not even in dreams. It was like everyone, everyone still alive that is, had known it as common knowledge since generations past. We all knew how easy it had been for the extraterrestrials to over take us and we all knew of their mocking narration.

With sciences far advanced from those here on earth, the aliens had spotted our third rock telescopically approximately 200,000 years ago. Despite their superior equipment the images took longer to return than initially expected. However, by extraordinary marvels of deduction the beings were accurately able to predict man's evolutionary coarse. Although the flight to planet earth would last millennia by our calendar, our attackers had planned to face man as you see us today, a fully evolved, intelligent, organized and potentially destructive creature.

Their method of assimilation would require much subtlety for a radioactive planet would prove of little use to these sentient vegetations. The strategy was as follows, first they would hide under the earth’s surface and infect our crops. A chemical agent was produced capable of removing all nutrients from our menu. The affected supplies would look brighter or bigger, and prove highly addictive. These cosmic intruders would also introduce new habit forming potions and rituals. These vices would provide vast and extraordinarily pleasurable experiences upon consumption while secretly proving depressive and fatal.

Once the masses were physically diminished, the populace was to under go a widespread mesmeric plague. The second stage of the invasion involved the transmitting of singular and reductive reasoning in all modes of our media. Through excessive exposure to repetitious sounds, light sources and demeaned typeface, the human mind could be reduced to incompetence. The final initiation before conquest was to then turn all men against each other for divided planets fall. This they planned on accomplishing by allocating our wealth inappropriately, depleting our resources, and inciting racism through propaganda.

Once all this was achieved, our visitors could grow unstoppably enormous, sprout from the grounds and settle right in. While their predictions were amazingly accurate in regards to our physical progress, even these humourless creatures laughed when they arrived. There was no need for caution nor extenuative plans! The beings were not required to brood underground whilst painstakingly softening and poisoning our health. Nor were they inclined to subversively infiltrate landside to fret with our minds. No, in one single movement, extraterrestrial vines the size of New York fell from the sky. These terrible monstrosities simply took over the globe and there was nothing to be done! We had already well prepared ourselves for the almighty harvest!.

Monday, April 12, 2010

ALTERNATIVE COMICS A Business Demi-God and the SNEAK

HEY APATHY! Alternative Comics

As the monstrous metropolis spins infinitely around the cenrtifugal eyeball of thoughts and consciousness, a diabolic business Demi-God perpetually attempts to corrupt the routines for reasons we could never understand. Seeping technological tentacles from his mechanically exposed cranium the villain aggressively annihilates, assimilates, and hypnotically intervenes with the lives of the citizens. His powerful influence knows no bounds. Terrorizing the young and old alike, the mass homogenization threatens even those apparently unaware. One such unsuspecting individual resides within a large billboard advertisement. Losing his head for a moment, the individual quickly grasps the top half and returns it to it's proper place. Unfortunetly, during that brief euphoric and headless state, a dripping mechanized eel-type creature quickly made it's way into the victims psyche. The SNEAK, a vicious minion of the Corporate Deity, has infiltrated yet another mind!

This 20 x 30 inch HEY APATHY! Pen and ink drawing was made out on Queen Street West during my street art performances. Throughout the busy summer seasons I would do all sorts of crazy rapid live monster paintings. The character of the business demi-god first appeared in one of these spontaneous creations. Inspired by the rapidly increasing appearance of hand held devices, ear phones, head sets, and the corresponding zombie walk, I developed the villainous figure as an embodiment of the technological terrors. At the end of the tourist season, I would usually stop doing live drawings and sit back in the beautiful early fall sunshine to work on more sustained versions of the performance based ideations splattered across the sidewalk throughout the hot summer days. This ink drawing took about three days to complete and was the first detailed depiction of this mass mediator and evil assimilator. lots more unusual art at http://www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Alternative Comics The Samurai Vs the Technological Eyeballs!

HEY APATHY! Alternative Comics Samurai

As the technological monstrosities continue to assimilate the city streets, the appearance of unique individuals becomes extraordinarily obvious. Similar to the ill-gotten hero, StudaBaker Hawk, a trained and determined wandering Ronin rises up to take arms against the horrific homogenization. through many years of meditative focus, the lone swordsman reaches a heightened state of awareness. He alone is able to instantly determine the difference between the mechanically corrupted eyeballs and those of the true metropolis consciousness. Drawing his weapon the Ronin attacks the impersonating eyeballs in an attempt to maintain balance in the void. The diabolical business demi-god becomes irritated as he over looks the destruction of his hypnotic minions and questions whether or not it is time to face the warrior himself.

The Samurai Vs. The Technological Eyeballs illustration was the first appearance of my wandering Ronin character in the HEY APATHY mythology. I introduced the figure as a symbolic representation of old world traditions and Taoist values. In the drawing the Samurai can be seen in battle with a giant eyeball. The Giant Eye is the centrifugal element in the city of gears. The eyeball of our thoughts and consciousness lies in chaos center of the metropolis as an axis for the infinite spiralling of the denizens routines. However a diabolic over lord has developed technologically enhance eyeballs determined to manipulate the urban rhythms for his own personnel gain. The Samurai has detected one of these corrupted Eyeballs and decidedly taken action. The 20 x 30 inch ink drawing is an action packed allegorical narration regarding the balance of Zen and humanist philosophies and modern day commercial ideologies.

The Samurai figure has since become an important player in the HEY APATHY! mythology as he returned to signify the nature of humanity throughout many of the large street murals and illustrations. The character is also featured in HEY APATHY! BOOK TWO, in which a traditional type Japanese Western becomes a vessel for my subliminal stories from the City of Gears. In the comics I explain the Ronin’s quest, lineage and association with the Evil Eyeballs, thus expanding on both historical and future occurrences from of the City of Gears. The whole book is told from my vantage point as a professional street performer in which the images that I document on the streets become actual events within the comic (or maybe it s the other way around?)

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Alternative Comics The Centrifugal Eye!

HEY APATHY! Alternative Comics from the City of Gears

Caught in the vortex of routine, the city spirals inwards blending billboards with reality and mixing method with madness. The faces blur together as each individual's actions exert macrocosmic ramifications. Made up of all the diverse, unusual and unique experiences the monstrous metropolis collides as a unified entity contradictory to the apparent divisions. The shoppers affect the commuters, the business people are related to the homeless, the young to the old, and this metropolis to all metropolis‘. No event, no matter how deceptively insignificant, is unto itself in the City of Gears.

 In the center of the order of chaos lies the centrifugal eyeball of consciousness. Surrounded by an obscured truth, the giant eyeball represents our collective hopes, dreams, goals, and unconscious. A this deep epoch of the gyre the solitary and the uniform become equally important and exemplified.

 But beware the technological tentacles have attempted and succeeded in many instances to attach themselves to the symbolic oracle. The technological tentacles have corrupted many of these giant eyes leading the spiral into oblivion instead of insight. 20 x 30 inch pen and ink drawing made on location at Queen Street West and Soho during my street art and performance exhibitions. The “eyeball of consciousness” has become a major symbolic character in the HEY APATHY! Mythology.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Alternative Comics MORE MONSTERS!


Working on more MONSTER COMICS! today. This panel is part of a series of portrait-style stories for the monster comics. Some of the fable is shared through traditional panel to panel sequencing, while other parts are going to utilize the web page and click to terrify the viewer. I've done a number of these short two - three panel vignettes which while run like a montage accompanied with text accounts of the documented occurrences. I'm excited to post these but still have a number of panels and stories tyo produce so I'm not going to rush anything. check out the first page at http://www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/Monster-Comics.html

I am also working on a sort of all purpose proposal essay because I found a few interesting and interested parties in which I hope to exhibit my original artworks. I must have written this sort of thing a thousand and one times but am as of yet satisfied with the results. The trick for me is to explain both the continuing story arc running throughout all my artworks, how the development of the drawings is reflective of my personal life how the ordeal led me to the use of multi-media installations , comic books , and street performances as well as how all of these things have proven beneficial and of social significance in about 500 ( hopefully cohesive) words. I always get convoluted in my written reductions of the past seven years as my practice has been unbelievable progressive, intricate, and extensive. No worries, blabbing some of it out here first helps put things into perspective a little, now back to the drawing table, and word processor!!!



Sunday, February 28, 2010

HEY APATHY! Alternative Comics


MONSTER COMICS! title panel from the new online narrative. The story follows a freelance illustrator ( played by me) as he follows his mysterious vagabond patron on a mission to complete a series of commissioned portraits of some unusual subjects. I finished posting the first page a couple of days ago and had a bit of time to think about it and view it on screen. For the most part I am happy with the opening, however I felt the animated sequencing of the panels needed a little work.

It's really wild and very unique working online instead of in published form. Many new possibilities and opportunities arise. For example, I decided that the first panel of the story required a small addition and spent the day drawing it. Once I publish a printed magazine I'm stuck with it. Not so when publishing on-line, I'll add the revisions tomorrowand no one will be the wiser. The layout is also entirely different on the computer. I'm using a scroll page and it works amazingly well with sequential art. When scrolling down, the images mock animate themselves. This had resulted in my desire to extend the credit sequence. In a publication I would certainly limit such a sequence (see www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/Monster-Comics.html ) to 3 panels. On the website I am going to extend the sequence to include 4 or more panels in order to maximize the scroll page effects.

So basically the day was spent revisiting, editing ,and adding some new panels to MONSTER COMICS. I'll post them all tomorrow so you can see the page improvements and so no one else can see what it looked like before.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

ALTERNATIVE MONSTER COMICS



MONSTER COMICS! Here's a couple of panels from my new online story about creepy creatures and of things best left unsaid. These sequential images are kind of fun and how the whole online comic started. I had set aside a little time each day to make a collection of drawings based on strange and monstrous characters, really I was just catering to a selfish desire to make creepy pictures,, and then my brain took over. It came up with names and background, locations, and motivations for these simple characters. Then I started mixing in a whole bunch of alternative thoughts and pushed my self to discover justification of the deviations, why are these drawings important? I mean a monster is a monster right? Wrong
I skimmed a bunch of my favourite books and movies and quickly realized that a great monster is a metaphorical one and started to make some connections. I devised an over all script, and resolution regarding the production of the strange portraits and before I knew it, a few little sketchy details had become an entire adventure...MONSTER COMICS! The first page is up at www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/Monster-Comics.html with lots more to come. This online comic book should get interesting as I plan to incorporate some animations, traditional comics, single-panels with text and multi-directional pages in order to tell you a story about how we a are kind of like monsters in our own petty ways.

Monday, February 22, 2010

MAKING MONSTER COMICS

MAKING MONSTER COMICS raw scan panel 1

MAKING MONSTER COMICS finshed panel 1


I spent the weekend doing the lettering for the opening sequences from "MONSTER COMICS". I've been approaching these online strips with a particular gorilla warfare style process. Like my ink drawings, and performances , I pretty much just make everything up as I go along and hope for the best. The drawing and inking techniques that I use for the on-line stories however, differs drastically from those used in my fine art creations. When creating large scale canvas or performance artworks, extensive attention is given to the technical rendering. This is often achieved through the meticulous layering of inks and obsessively detailed line-work accomplished with fine point calligraphy pens. In contrast the online panels are drawn exclusively with technical pens and worked up on the computer. In fact these new online drawings don't even exist.



The samples above show you how I just take a quick sketch will some rough black fills and do all the inking, borders and text inside the computer. Now I don't get the same results as I do when I complete the entire drawing on the board (which is how I do the "HEY APATHY!" published comic book.) but the time it saves on production is more than worth the sacrifice. I am still having troubles with pixels and keeping the text legible during resizing, however I am certain that these issues are entirely due to my inexperience with image processing technology. I have only been working inside the machine for a year and am most certainly a novice. (I just started sizing images in pixels, I used to have pencil lines drawn all over my computer screen and did all my editing in percentages with guess work!)



When comparing the two panels, it is also of interest to note the messy and unedited text you see scattered all over the raw scan. I always do this for the first panel of any comic I am lettering. Then I realize that I am making a huge mess and wasting a lot of time. Once I get over the initial excitement of telling the story, I then turn to the word processor and actually write all the dialogue out . It is much easier to edit inside the flicker-box than it is to keep re-writing the text all over the page. Following the completion of the script I set some nice lined writing paper on the light table and get down to some serious calligraphy. I had one of those pen sets when I was young and got addicted to lettering for quite some time. Now I can use all those hours practicing classical lettering to tell strange and inconceivable stories about children eating witches, the Stone Troll Statue and a condo in Williamsburg.

Friday, February 19, 2010

MAKING MONSTER COMICS

ESTABLISHING SHOT from MONSTER COMICS


As I have mentioned before, February is one of the most tedious months in my life as an artist. This is a very busy time of year for filling out forms, mailing applications, and booking my public performances and comic convention appearances for the upcoming season. This leaves little time for production and my days generally get divided as follows; morning research, afternoon essays, and night time scribbles. As a result I tend to produce a lot of single panel artworks and take a brief hiatus from my full time comics schedule. Such is the curse of the Ronin illustrator, you've got to push all the papers yourself (if anyone is serious, willing and capable of representation contact me).


Today, however, is a slightly exceptional day as far as February's go. The sun is shining the wind is asleep and I have completed all my urgent application's early, so the whole day has been set aside to draw. Well, that's not entirely true, actually what I really have to do is the lettering for my online MONSTER COMICS. I only had one panel (the opening shot of Williamsburg above) to complete in the first set of drawings. I'll finish all the lettering throughout the day and hopefully post the introduction at http://www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/ by Monday. I've drawn most of the story and creature features for the on-line comic but as one often does, I left the chore of lettering a little to long. I usually like to knock off the text one page at a time,as I go so as to the avoid horrendous hours of perpetual calligraphy. Don't misinterpret this as entirely pessimistic though, I actually derive a great pleasure from the task except that I find better results when I work on the word bubbles in smaller sessions. I have also found it a real pain to transfer the letters clearly to a format suitable for online presentation. When resizing the scans the letters seem to require singular attention in order to retain visibility. No worries though, I'll figure it all out and the MONSTER COMICS will creep and seep through your screens soon...

SLASH PAGE from MONSTER COMIC

just got to fix the lettering...coming soon