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Some of these aren’t translating very well to small photos, but I’m posting anyway. I’m also strangely missing a photo of the most important part – the hand applied wax seal after the card is folded! Use your imagination I guess 
Card and Envelope.
Stack of cards, pre-folds
Love this photo!
This one is great too. Makes me think I’m working in a sweat shop…but it’s not that bad, really.
Need help with a creative and unique present for the holidays? Check out my great friend and amazing artist Rebecca Hahn’s Rotobee Shop, she has some really beautiful amazing stuff.
My favorite currently are her horoscope girl prints, a perfect gift for any girl that likes to know about her horoscope, even if she won’t admit it (me!).
My personal favorite (of course) is her Cancer print (pictured above), since that’s my sign, and since the beautiful Rebecca got my very Cancer perspective when designing it. Courtesy of Rebecca I have one of these beautiful prints at my house and can’t wait to get it framed and hung.
I urge you to check out her shop before all the best stuff has been discovered and purchased!
I’ve spent a lot of time on this site talking about comic book artists and cartoonists that I admire and adore, but let us take a moment to talk about one of the (if not THE) most hated comic book artists in all of history, Rob Liefield. I am hesitant to talk about terrible artists, because I consider myself a pretty terrible artist and somehow it just seems a bit mean, however, I currently make $0 on my terrible art and comics while Liefeld has made millions, MILLIONS, which I’m sorry to say, opens him up for some serious criticism. Criticism which has finally found a brilliant and hilarious voice with this “Liefeld Expose” on Progressive Boink.
I, like legions of others, have always hated his art – and let’s not forget that on top of the digusting ridiculous art he also can’t write or plot his way out of a paper bag. Most of us still ended up with a surprising amount of his work in our comic boxes (for me it was X-Force…poor poor X-Force…*sigh*). This is eternally frustrating, especially since I continue to lack the ability to go back in time and correct past mistakes. Anyway, for those who don’t know, not only is Liefeld a complete hack, but he’s also, by all reports, an arrogant ass, and again, he made MILLIONS off us…and is somehow STILL getting work…how is this possible? Check out Progressive Boink, and have some brilliant laughs (my favorite is the bit about the “billions of teeth” on #16 – HA!) and maybe it will help you feel a little better, if you like me, EVER purchased a Liefeld book.
As I’ve mentioned before, Adam is a far superior cartoonist and artist than I am, and he’s been proving it in spades lately as he’s been sketching a lot more these days (I’m not sure who is influencing who at this point, but as long as we’re both more productive, who cares). Below is a little sketch he did of me called Kelly Bunny. It’s a great little drawing (and he was very nice to me, representationally speaking) and he agreed to let me put it up. I’ve been begging for weeks months for him to add comic strip or cartoon content to my blog…so I’ll take what I can get, which in this case, was great.
I’ve been trying to read a lot of daily (or frequently updated) journal web comics produced by some of the great comic artists out there working on the web and I’ve seen a lot of really great stuff over the last couple months – and most importantly really inspiring stuff (Everyday Comics, My Life Comics, to name two of my favorites). However, one has really impressed me, especially lately and it’s a journal comic by Matthew Reidsma called Drawerings. It is a little inconsistent in timing, e.g. it won’t go up daily and then three will go up in one day, but the content (and drawing) is so good that it’s worth checking in daily.
I highly recommend putting it on your daily comic reads.
Here’s a little taste, one of my recent favorites…mostly because it’s so true:
one of my all-time favorite artists (if not my absolute favorite) is James Jean. i just received this week (finally) his book Process Recess 2. it is stunning. Jean does a lot of comic book cover work for fables and many other publications…
…look familiar? but he also does a lot of ad work for places from Target to Playboy to Men’s Health and it all has one thing in common…it’s all insanely beautiful. there is something somehow haunting and creepy yet beautifully rendered about everything Jean does. i cannot recommend his work or his book enough. go here to read more about Process Recess and to buy one now! below are some other favorite images of mine by Jean…
