Larfleeze Wants A MetroCard
So I was riding the subway the other day, musing, as I often do, about how totally awesome comics are. And my attention sort of drifted to the subway map on the wall and I was looking at all the lines and the fairly obvious hit me. So I made all these Lantern symbols into New York City Subway signs, naturally.
Whoops, almost forgot one!
The Bureau Chiefs Are Live
Your favorite bon vivants behind the brilliant and book-deal-garnering @FakeAPStylebook have hit the web with an all new site devoted to witty and bon vivantian pop culture commentary. Ladies and gentlemen, The Bureau Chiefs.
(With a lot of visual/brand design by yours truly, by the way.)
Vinyl Canvas: Elliott Smith’s ‘Figure 8′
The great Rusty Shackles came up with the fantastic Vinyl Canvas project on his Twitter account.
I decided to do Elliott Smith’s Figure 8
It’s That Time Again!
HE’S ALWAYS WATCHING, GANG!
WorkSnapz #04
Sometimes I find the most incredibly dumb shit hilarious.
See my handwriting in action in the latest installment of The Rack
WorkSnapz #03
A look, en media res as it were, at me inking the latest installment of The Rack.
That’s a Pentel Brush Pen, by the way. It’s got some Kanji on the cap. I forget its exact model name or number, but it rules the school.
Faces Of Newbridge Week 02: Vince
This week’s new addition to the Newbridge Mythos is screenwriter Vince. Always handy with the Gift Box and totally gross screenplay.
As always, learn more about Vince in the latest Best Show podcast and learn more about the Best Show at Friends Of Tom.
Two Thousand And Ben
So, it’s a new year and while outside my particular little world of whatever things haven’t gotten off the to the best of starts, but personally speaking, things are looking pretty great so far. Me and my pals The Bureau Chiefs of @FakeAPStylebook have officially signed a book deal with Three Rivers Press for a book scheduled to come out Spring 2011. This would be awesome enough, of course, but I’m also signed up to do a whole crudload of illustrations for it. So it’s kind of a big deal.
On top of that, I’m hoping to do a lot more posting here (as seen in exciting new features like WorkSnapz and Faces Of Newbridge) and do a lot more work on personal projects, all while making The Rack the best damn comic book about a comic shop you’ve ever read.
So Mazel Tov, 2010.
(Apologies to Best Show caller Ben Karach [sp?] for totally ganking this term but whatevs)
WorkSnapz #02
Here’s a little peek at the pretty-much-all-rote-memorization-except-the-typing lettering process. And yes, eagle eyed The Rack fans will recognize that last word balloon, which is the template I use for literally every piece of dialogue ever uttered in the strip’s storied history, from the very first installment.
Check out the strip with Kevin’s real words right here!
Faces Of Newbridge Week 01: Chip
So, one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to draw more. And one of the things I’m always concerned with, drawing the same five characters more or less all year, that my overall flexibility and creativity when it comes to design might stagnate a bit. And I got to thinking, one thing that never stagnates is the constantly hilarious and amazing cast of characters that Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster cultivate and add to nearly every week on The Best Show With Tom Scharpling On WFMU.
So I figured it might be a fun project to take whatever bizarre misanthrope that checks in with Tom any given week and draw him.
I’m calling it Faces Of Newbridge.
This week’s installment features Chip, a deliveryman for the JC Bites franchise who also runs the grotesque website, www.yousuckdealwithit.com. Feel free to subscribe to the podcast to hear more about Chip’s frightening proclivities towards humiliating the tragic and sad.
If you’re unfamiliar with the show, those links are a great place to start, as is the delightful repository for all things Scharpling: Friends Of Tom.
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Benjamin Birdie
Suddenly kind of aged, Benjamin lives in Queens with a wife and cat. His Master's Degree in Creative Writing has helped him immensely with his primary responsibilities of drawing things.
He can be reached at benjaminbirdie (at) gmail (dot) com.
And do feel free to follow him on Twitter.
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His Comics
Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, this charming comic strip by myself and Kevin Church receives a sparkling new installment. A Comic Strip About A Comic Shop.