Goodbye 2009! 2010 Here I come!

This is my final post of 2009. Weird. 2009 was kind of a fucked up year in many ways for me. I will spare you all the gory details but I will share a few “standout moments” in bullet format.

• Mom diagnosed with Cancer
• Mom survives Cancer
• Landed a teaching gig at the Charlotte Art League
• Landed a gig doing sketchcards for Marvel
• Setup a music studio for my lovely wife
• Wrecked on the freeway and was unharmed
• Evaded police yet again….ahem… I mean “had fun”
• Still unable to convice Scarlett Johansson that she loves me

I was going to do a best of 2009 list but fuck that, everyone and their mother is doing one of those so I’m sure you don’t need another from me. So instead I present my open letter to 2009 and 2010. Enjoy.

So 2009…you were bittersweet but mostly bitter because things didn’t quite work out the way we had orginally planned. Now I’ll admit some of it was my fault and some were simply circumstances beyond our control. But in the end I still blame you 2009. I know it’s not fair but it’s all part of being a year. You know? I mean you have to take the good with the bad and remember, its not personal, but it’s still your fault.

Anyway, 2009 I apologize if I come across as being harsh considering that I’m telling you this on your death bed and all but I just had to get this off my chest. I hope you understand.

Now 2010 I have to warn you; I have pretty high expectations. But I feel that you and I can work together and with just a little luck you could be the best year yet. Oh and before I forget I do have a couple of other things to ask of you. First, could you also be a good year for all my friends, fans and stalkers? And finally could you really suck a big one for everyone I don’t like?

Thanks 2010 now lets make this happen!

Seriously folks lets have a great 2010 and I will see you on the otherside…whatever that means.

Merry Christmas from Harley Quinn

Merry Christmas everyone! Above is a piece I did for a forum I frequent and I thought it would also make a good holiday piece to ring in Christmas.  I have never drawn Harley Quinn before and overall I’m happy with this piece. There is still a lot of rendering to go but I’m calling it done for now because I have a few other projects on the horizon that I need to complete.

Just to let everyone know I’ll be kicking off the new year with a contest and there are two commissions that I’m sending out very soon to two very special fans. I appreciate your patience and I’m sure you will find it worth your wait.

I guess that does it for this post. Until next time loyal readers.

Kick Ass Trailer sorta Kicks Ass

Below I have posted the new Red Band trailer for the upcoming Kick Ass movie due out in April 2010. Hey good thing I added the “2010″ right? Anyway I can’t make up my mind on whether this will be any good or not. I mean sure it looks like a fun movie with a ton of “kickass” scenes. But it’s also an eleven year old girl doing it. She has no powers (cleverly stated in the trailer) yet she goes through henchmen quicker than 3 day old Taco Bell goes through a fat kid named Ralph. Plus let’s not forget the Nic Cage factor. How does forehead boy keep getting roles? Seriously? Anyway check the out the trailer and let me know what you think.

Iron Man 2 Trailer = Nerd Boner time

Well I may say nerd boner time but it’s also “Holy Shit! Scarlett Johansson is Black Widow!” boner time. I just had to post this because it’s a culmination of my some of my favorite things. Those things of course being comic book characters (namely Iron Man and my fav Marvel Fem Fatale Black Widow), Mickey Rourke, and of course Scarlett Johansson.

Just to give everyone a heads up when this movie opens May 7th 2010, there is a very good chance I could be dead from a heart attack/nerdgasm on May 8th. If you don’t believe just watch the trailer below, just make sure that your sitting down.

A little help for a guy who needs a lot of help

Hey everyone look it’s the lovely Scarlett Johansson! That can only mean one thing…ok you got me…two things. Jason has news! And well, ahem… you can figure out the other.

So onto the news!

I’m just going to level with everyone. The following will be nothing more than a shameless borderline pathetic promotion for a buddy of mine. And by buddy I mean charity case, and by charity case I mean he has a bad haircut, like really bad.

So the name of this charity case with a bad haircut is Henry Eudy.  I have know Henry since I was like 12 or 13. I remember we would draw Bill the Cat and Garfield battles in …English?…Math? Fuck I don’t really remember what class it was because we were drawing the whole time.  Anyway point is I have known him forever and although I hadn’t seen him in years he contacted me last year after finding my website while Googling the word “awesome” and as a result we started sharing ideas again etc.

Which brings me to my point (finally).

Henry is looking to self-publish a book and he wants you to be a part of it! Now remember I have nothing to do with this aside from this shameless promotion so please…please direct all you questions to Henry, via his Deviantart page or email.

Below are all the sorrid details taken from his Deviantart page.

THEME: The anthology will be called “FUGLY ANIMALS” as a playful tribute/mockery of the children’s comics of the Fifties (FUNNY ANIMALS) and will feature all animal based comics. I’m primarily interested in humorous comics but I certainly won’t turn away submissions that are adventure, fantasy or fact based or anything else based for that matter. They just have to be about animals, the characters should be animals. If a few humans show up in supporting roles that’s OK but the primary players should be bestial.

PAGES: I’m intending for the book to be between 24-28 pages long and I’m limiting submissions to a 4 page maximum per story. You may feel free to submit as many stories, gags or strips as you like as long as no individual submission is longer than 4 pages in length.

I’m not setting a particular size requirement or restriction but please be aware that the final book will probably be standard comic book size (about 6.5 inches wide by 10 inches tall) so if your submission can be easily manipulated to fit such a page, then all the better.

SCANS: Submissions should be made through emailing me the pages in TIFF format at at least 300 dpi resolution and in grayscale. Sorry, no color on the interior pages.

The cover, however, will be in color and I will accept submissions in the same format and resolution for the cover and back cover illustrations if you feel you must work with a rainbow of fruit flavor.

WHAT DO YOU GET?: Well as I’ve already said, there is no money to be made here by submitting comics to my anthology. At best you’ll just get to see your work in print and have something to show your stoner friends who, I promise, will not care a bit. Even so, my heart is not so cold as to not offer contributors some small payment for their time behind the pencil. And so, every person who makes the book will receive 3 (count ‘em 3) free copies of the anthology upon its debut. Also if you want to buy more copies later on, I’ll give you a discount.

DEADLINE: The deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 28, 2010. I’ll be happy to receive anything you want to send me before that date but, really and truly, nothing after it. I’m hoping to get the book assembled and printed by the end of April 2010.

So that’s it folks, FUGLY ANIMALS, comics about animals, TIFF files, 300 dpi, grayscale, no more than 4 pages, by the end of February. Got it? Send your stuff to me at; jevacat23@gmail.com and let’s rock this sucker!

 So there you have it! All kidding aside Henry is a great guy (minus the haircut) and anyone who signs up for this project will receive 20 cool points from me.