Another day, another dollar...
50 cents after taxes.FEMALE Ghost Rider concept I did on the live stream the other day! Maybe a print?
Hello from Miami, where the temperature dropped to almost OH SHIT conditions during this MLK weekend, which was also a mess of traffic jams, Wheels Up bullshit, and shots fired. WTF.
Working like mad this week to keep up all projects and keep working towards the goal of artistic independence. That is the dream to be able to wake up and make every day without needing to appeal or scratch for corporate profits, ill-gotten by an asshole system, but by people who genuinely like my work and want to see more of it. This is long-standing but it's happening. Some old reinforcements might arrive soon but I won't know till Monday so more on that later. You help contribute to the cause and help make it happen. Thank you.
So every Weekday at 12 I'm on WHATNOT drawing on a live stream while drumming up business; Sketchcovers, Sketchcards, Art Commissions, and more on there. I call it LUNCHBOX as you can watch me draw during your lunch break and have met some cool people through there and also got to some great projects like so:
Here is the initial sketch (Patreon exclusive):
Here is also a micro version via sketchcard:
SKETCHCARD I did to test some markers, it's available for $20!
I've also been able to get some copies of FWACATA #1 sold through here and find a new audience. I pretty much see it as running a daily virtual ARTIST ALLEY table there, talking to folds about my work, and getting more out there. I have plans to expand and maybe use OBS to broadcast and get it to cut nicer but that will be about time and experimentation later. This leads me to...
I got into a crazy project mind that will run across MEATHOOK and VIGIL into MAGIC CITY as an ongoing underpinned comic. I swear I said it once I said it a million times if I lived 100 years more I won't get all the comics I want to do DONE. I will show a little on PATREON if you want to see more, but here are pages from the notebooks I have going showing the story about two guys hustling for a Supervillain Mafia
THE POWERS THAT BE is a sort of Stream of Conscious superhero book, where I just dish out panels and see where I go.
This tells the story of how two of these guys go about making business and getting things done in such a world. We slowly get to peer behind the curtain and see what they see and how it works. It's Sopranos at an Avengers-level threat. it also shows not all heroes are good and not all villains are bad.
Concepts done on the LIVESTREAM
Alongside this, or soon to be incorporated, would be another set of characters in the vain of SILICON VALLEY meets ARMOR WARS:
Ferro ocelot
Supervillain’s story is told by his girlfriend who becomes his bride his nemesis and more and her point of view which brings everything into perspective of the supervillain and that world.
“I met him at a party”
Story of Madeline “Maddie” As she tells us about falling in love with not just any guy but a legit supervillain
For Maddie, I was thinking of her
She was visiting friends in Los Angeles and was swept away by the glam and fun her best friend being a hot actress. She meets Gil or Gilbert, this charming worldly traveled person, smart, clever, and smoldering. But still wanted at heart and a supervillain to the balls
GIL aka FERRO OCELOT
He sweeps her off her feet or tries because she woos him too. “I didn’t know if it was the champagne, or the dancing or the drugs, or him just reciting lyrics and poetry to me, but I was fucking smitten, girls. So I fucked him. And good too”
I did the two-day don’t text him thing but he was not waiting. Series of crazy surprises. Takes her to Silicon Valley and meets his friends she fits right in they love her she loves her more. She fucks him.
AGAIN. The hard animal style he got some punches in too.
I was still remiss about it. I was heading back but there were delays to the plane, and some other stupid shit (all supervillain stuff that made me stay) so I did and after 6 weeks of just incredible ness I had to get back home to dreadfulness or having eggs like this (show the beach cafe) with a man like this (doing something dorky) and it’s kind of hard to do it.
In that, he bumps into a problem in the parking lot and its two huge dudes (Gil is happy it’s not Fugly) and they tell him in no uncertain terms to come with them. He tells them they will have to wait and they push him. He flies across the parking lot and she stands there looking at them. As one lurch towards her she sprays him with pepper spray which works and kicks him in the balls she turns to tell Gil to run and the he’s not there. She turns and the other goons are on her, but being nice tells her sorry about this lady but we got a job to do” and she screams. Next thing to know it both of them are making full retard faces as they are near ally being shocked from behind by a cloak and masked stranger. He beats them when they show off more power cars being thrown but doesn’t kill them telling them he told their boss he had till Friday and then takes her and shocks her off she is impressed again but tells him she needs to find her boyfriend to make sure he a-okay. She goads here as he is the FERRO OCELOT super-villain extraordinaire and she is a hostage and she’s like pissed she needs to find Gil! SUPERVILLAIN EXTREME! She tells him to go Fuck himself
He lets her down on a mountain top and she is screaming how he might be hurt he might be dead and she can’t stand it if he is and she’s not there for him and cries and is furious. She then hears Gil’s voice “Maddie?”
Gil is standing there with his helmet off he is FERRO OCELOT
HE BOYFRIEND IS A SUPERVILLAIN
She’s in love with a supervillain
She kicks him hard this time.
FERRO OCELOT fights the tech guy in the series.
Supervillains of them were like the tech geeks, Steve Jobs, Elon Amish, and Bill Gates they were titans who just fell short of godhood because they lacked cojones
They argue over logos and fonts for themselves
Real American psycho shit when compared to each other
Maddie is a hit with the other villains they love her, but he sees them as competition
Gil comes from a world of genius but is and was hurt and lonely for a long time and Maddie is bringing his fire and humanity back to him.
And a slew of ideas from there.
It'll be running next year on WEBTOONS I think or with FUGLY, once I get them down. For now, it's being done fast and loose on my IPAD, while I finish MEATHOOK for FWACATA #2.
The other day I posted all the podcasts plus extras here if you want to see them, for now, I will post this week's main podcast, Get the t-shirt while you at it!
So this is a taste of things to come, on the current comic project while the making of the FWACATA anthology ( issue 2 should be out soon) will be posted on Subtack! Subscribe to either and get all the JUICE!
All of this in the first week of the year for me back at work. I feel like it's both ridiculous and enchanting how fast things evolve and move, but in the end, I wouldn't have it any other way. There is part of me who want to get off the ride already, but most of me like being at the wheels of this.. this... THING I made rolling down the hill, figuring out the brakes before we crash.
Because if anything that is life right? If you enjoy it, let me know!
Till then, remember to take care of yourself and others, it's not about seeing if you have enough, sometimes it's about making sure everyone has something too. You are not here for yourself, but for everyone else.