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March 20, 2011
Cartoonists On Radio 7
Since we had so much fun last time, I'll be dropping by Matt Clark's show The Monday Sampler on KBOO-FM again this Monday, March 21st between 2 and 4pm PDT. I'll be discussing my comics projects a bit, but mostly I'll be there to spin some records from my collection, postwar jazz vocal groups of the LP era (roughly 1950-1985) among them such groups as The Metronomes, The Invitations, The Anita Kerr Quartet and Rex Middleton's Hi-Fi's, many on the original vinyl. The show will also include a live performance by the band Sexy Water Spiders, and a possible phone appearance by folk legend Michelle Shocked.
Portland listeners can tune in on 90.7 FM, and the rest of you can listen online at the KBOO website.
The Monday Sampler
Monday March 21st 2-4 PM Pacific Daylight Time
KBOO 90.7 FM, Portland, OR
March 19, 2011
At The Two-Thirds Mark On The Girl With The Keyhole Eyes
I just finished up the second of three installments of The Girl With The Keyhole Eyes, an upcoming story for the anthology Dark Horse Presents. Here are two preview frames from page 16:
March 11, 2011
Another Chance To Be Heard
In case you missed it live, Thursday's Words And Pictures program on KBOO-FM, in which I discuss my new book Extreme Perspective! with host SW Conser, is now archived at the KBOO website. In other audio news, I just recorded a podcast interview with Chronic Rift host Andrea Lipinski. The audio will be available March 29th.
March 9, 2011
Cartoonists On Radio 6
Continuing the media juggernaut for my new book Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page, I'll be making my second appearance of the week on local radio station KBOO-FM 90.7, chatting with Words And Pictures host SW Conser. I'll let Conch tell it:
Comics artist, illustrator, voice actor, and bon vivant David Chelsea pays a return visit to Words & Pictures this Thursday morning (March 10th) from 11:30am to noon PST on KBOO. Tune in as we tour David's Portland studio and follow the twists and turns of a thirty-year career in the lively arts.
David's new book and DVD set Extreme Perspective! For Artists has just been published by Watson-Guptill. Years in the making, the book features surprising tips and entertaining background history about the role of perspective in art, and the DVD includes resources useful to both mainstream and experimental cartoonists.
Words & Pictures airs the second Thursday of each month on KBOO Community Radio, 90.7fm. KBOO's real-time webstream is available at http://kboo.fm/listen via iTunes or Abacast. More info and links to recent webcasts can be found at http://www.tooningin.com
Special thanks to Emily Young for editing this month's show!
Cheers,
– Conch
March 8, 2011
Signing at Cosmic Monkey
I'll be doing a signing for my new book my new book Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page (whew!) this Saturday, March 12th from 2-4 PM at Cosmic Monkey, the fine comics store on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. I'm very much at home in the place, having drawn a number of my 24 Hour Comics there. Stop by if you're in town- I haven't seen you in AGES.
Cosmic Monkey
This Saturday, March 12! 2PM to 4PM!
Local favorite & 24 Hour Comic Legend David Chelsea signing his new book!
Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric and Other Amazing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page!
Cosmic Monkey Comics Hollywood
5335 NE Sandy Blvd. - Next to the Bike Gallery
Phone: 503-517-9050
Me at Cosmic Monkey
March 6, 2011
Joe the Tax Guy is now blogging on his new website
I'd like to give a quick shout-out to my accountant and neighbor, Joe Anthony, who has is now blogging on his new website. Recent post talk about how the Oregon legislature is still tinkering with this year's tax laws and how Republican "spending cuts" are really stealth tax hikes for many Americans. Not only is Joe a fine accountant and good neighbor, but he had the excellent taste to hire me to draw the caricature on his website.
JOSEPH ANTHONY & ASSOCIATES, INC.
Tax Preparation & Planning Services
606 NE 20th Avenue, Suite "B"
Portland, OR 97232
Phone 503-281-4401
Fax 503-961-7676
Email: joe [at] joethetaxguy [dot] com
March 5, 2011
Cartoonists On Radio 5
I'll be dropping by Matt Clark's show The Monday Sampler on KBOO-FM this Monday, March 7th between 3 and 4pm PST to discuss my new book Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page, and also to spin some records from my collection. I'll be featuring postwar jazz vocal groups of the LP era (roughly 1950-1985) and the selections will likely include but possibly not be confined to such groups as The Metronomes, The Invitations, Lambert Hendricks and Bavan and The Suntones, many on the original vinyl.
Because of awkwardness over online music licensing, the program will most likely not be archived; Portland listeners can tune in on 90.7 FM, and the rest of you can listen online at the KBOO website.
The Monday Sampler
Monday March 7th 2-4 PM Pacific Standard Time
KBOO 90.7 FM, Portland, OR
March 4, 2011
Bingo The Cat
Following on the heels of my recent post about illustrations and comics featuring members of my family, here is a blog post devoted to Bingo, the fifth member.
Bingo
I wasn't able to find any illustrations featuring Bingo, but he frequently pops up in my comics, including this Palm Pilot strip, the Dark Horse Presents story Snow Angel, and my latest 24 Hour Comic, I Like To Riff. Bingo starred in his own 24 Hour Comic (creatively titled "Bingo the Cat'), which is a loose wordless remake of Alice In Wonderland. In the sequence below, Bingo meets The Cheshire Girl.
Frame from Snow Angel
Frame from Snow Angel
Frame from Snow Angel
Frames from I Like To Riff
Page from Bingo The Cat
Page from Bingo The Cat
March 2, 2011
A Model Family 2
Following up on my blog post of a few months ago, here are more examples of illustrations in which I used my wife Eve, son Benjamin and daughter Rebecca as models, (not always with their consent).
Illustration for Portland Tribune, 2001
The earliest is a Portland Tribune piece from 2001 when Rebecca was still a babe in arms. To make single mom Eve seem even more burdened, I augmented the family with a couple of extras- a middle daughter and one on the way.
Illustration for New York Observer
Illustration for Modern Love column, 2008
I made frequent use of the family as models for the Modern Love columns I illustrated in the New York Times. The piece with the jilted suitor is a true family production; those are my fingers being slammed in the door, the hands slamming it belong to Eve and Rebecca, and it can only have been Ben snapping the reference photo.
Illustration for Modern Love column, 2007
In another Modern Love piece Rebecca switches sexes to portray a boy obsessed with penguins.
Illustration for Modern Love column, 2007
For the last piece, done in 2007, Ben and Rebecca were too old to model for the toddlers in the story about a military wife who tries to make do with "Flat Daddy", a cardboard cutout of her absent husband; but photographs pulled from a family album enabled them to appear anyway.
Storyboard, 2007
The entire family appears in this storyboard for a car ad. You can tell it's a few years old; Ben is now taller than me.
Page from 24 Hour Comic, 2005
Ben and Rebecca make occasional appearances in my comics as well. In the 24 hour comic we are playing a family game where one member thinks of a name and the others have to guess it; "before" and "after" refers to where the guess falls alphabetically.
Panels from "Snow Angel", story for Dark Horse Presents
"Snow Angel" is a story I first drew as a 24 hour comic in 2007 and since reworked in color for the anthology Dark Horse Presents. The heroine is not named, but she is pretty clearly based on Rebecca, so much so that when I drew the character again in a 24 hour comic last year, I found that she had grown taller along with Rebecca. Her annoying older brother is pretty clearly Ben as well, but for some reason I did give them different parents.
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