Dan Henk's Blog, page 55

Awesome new stand up Banner

By the talented Al Liptak.
He designed my previous free-standing convention banner, but with a new novel out, I decided to update.

The Joker

I’m going to go out on a limb here with an unpopular opinion. I didn’t think The Joker was that good.
As a movie about mental illness? Sure, it works. I mean, it’s no “One Flew Over the Cuckoo”s Nest”, but it’s pretty good.
But as a Joker movie?
Aside from the gaping logical inconsistencies, like that Joker is in his 40s when the future Batman is only a child, or that Howard Wayne is a plump, obnoxious politician, the real issue I have is that hollywood feels the need to re-invent characters that already had a great backstory, and this job is a pale shadow of Alan Moore’s brilliant Killing Joke.

I’ll be attending

The Philadelphia Tattoo Convention next year

I’ll be attending

the 25th annual Motor City Tattoo Expo February 28-March 1st

I’ll be attending Hell City in Ohio

Again this year for the 10th time! This time I’ll have my business partner Paul Tochluk as well as my friend Ron Russo working the booth with me.
It all kicks off April 24th-26th

The initial illustration

I drew for my first book, The Black Seas of Infinity.
The image on the left was the initial version and illustrates one of the early scenes in the work.
When the book was re-issued by Permuted Press, this was one of the two illustrations that I had the most problem with. I darkened it up a bit, was still not satisfied with the result, and omitted it from the book.

Some of the images I’ve done over the years for my Muay Thai Gyms

The first design I ever illustrated

for a line of tattoo t-shirts. Unfortunately, I was unaware this was similar to an Avenged Sevenfold design, but of course way too many people mentioned it.

Interviewed the talented Vincent Castiglia today

for Skin Art Magazine. He paints in his own blood, has had shows at HR Giger’s home in Zurich, Switzerland, Slayer used his art for their farewell tour, him and Giger collaborated on album art for Triptykon, he designed the latest art for the Allman Brothers, and much more. The Feature on him will be out in the December issue of Skin Art .

I’ll be coming back to Europe

I’ll be in the Netherlands Needle Art Convention May 29th-31st