PROOF OF HEROES Art Exhibit at TATES in Florida

Right now, at the BEAR and BIRD Boutique and Gallery, they're having a Comic Book Art Exhibit titled "PROOF OF HEROES, The Julius Schwartz Printer’s Proof Cover Collection". The Art Gallery is located upstairs at TATES COMICS in Lauderhill, Florida. The show runs from January 20th to March 3rd, 2012.

The basic concept: It's an art exhibition featuring nearly 300 comic book cover printer’s proofs, spanning a decade (1964-1974) of Julius Schwartz’ 42 year run as Editor at DC Comics.

Julius Schwartz began working as an editor at DC Comics in 1944! During the 1950's and 60's, he oversaw the revival of superheroes such as the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, the Batman, and the Atom, which led to the Silver Age of comic books.

These one-of-a-kind Printer’s Proof’s were originally sent to Schwartz for his final approval, before their commercial print run. The covers feature artwork from such icons as Nick Cardy, Murphy Anderson, Neal Adams, Carmine Infantino, Mike Kaluta and many, many more!

The proofs are being sold to benefit "The Hero Initiative", a great charity. For more information, CLICK HERE!

NQNS Show, Round II

Here's another upload of photos from the NQNS show.
I'v also collected some of the best ones on Meryl's Flickr page,
which you can see here.
There might be more coming soon,
since we haven't gotten Amy and Jaime's photos yet.


One of the big heads peeking out from the dark forest corner.















Playing with fire.






















Jackie of Brute Heart, and Marshall of Dark Dark Dark,
playing Saturday the 12th.















Another big hed, this one in the staircase going downstairs.















Close up of the book-shingled roof of the big birdhouse.















And then,
the very next day,
it all went away.
Albie flew home to New Hampshire,
Amy and Jaime flew home to Massachusetts,
the Cucch flew to Canada,
and Rebecca, Adam, Ryan and I took down the whole show.
Here's Rebecca getting busy with a paint roller.

Never Quiet, Never Soft

Damn, kids.
I'm one tired, happy little dude.
The show went so well.
Why?
Cause my peoples came out and brought the thunder.
Albie Rock and the Cucch flew in from New Hampshire,
Amy and Jaime came from Northampton, MA,
and there was introductions and high fives with my Minnesota folks.
Ryan, Rebecca, Casey, Adam, and Meryl showed up and got busy
with paint, cardboard, duct tape, and power tools.
A billion thanks to them,
without whom there would be no art show.
Especially Ryan.
No kidding.

Thanks to everyone who came to the two days of gallery hours,
and to Adam Hough for the photo taking the first night.
I also stole a photo or two from Molly's blog.

outside the gallery





















amy and jaime in front of the nqns






















the sexy intro/info table,
with so many good cookies made by amy.
(some of them were acorn shaped, of course)






















the big book-shingled birdhouse downstairs





















excuse, guys?
excuse me?
this is the Cucch.
he's EXPERT







this birdhouse-faced guy rocked the southeast corner pretty hard






















dolls and birdhouses














dead bird oil paintings














to the right of the dead birds,
more dolls (89 displayed in total)
and the foresty corner














Rachel the harper.
so good





















burnt up birdhouse
from the spat hot fire





























trumpet-playing donkey



















































































Friday night had an awesome turnout,
where as Saturday was slower, but still steady.
I am going to try and get all the best photos collected,
and I'll do up a little flickr page or something.
(i still haven't seen any photos from saturday)
I will also get real photos of the oil paintings I did.
There's two other animals playing instruments that I didn't get photos of
(not even funky-angled arty shots).
So much fun,
from the set up art-making
to the closing time vegan cheesecake eating.
I don't think I've ever laughed more in a week,
or cut so much cardboard.
Or stuffed my face so hard with food.
I'm not sure how it all really happened,
but it did.

It's all over, now.
The show is taken down,
spackled and painted over,
people are back to their respective time zones,
and it's back to work tomorrow.
Hope everyone had fun.
Stay loud and hard, folks.

never quiet, never soft

7 days till.

So the art show is less than a week away.
Why haven't I been posted all about it for the last week?
I got hammered by some evil plague,
and I was too wiped out to paint.
Or do anything other than sleep,
and try to outlast my fever.
All I know is that I rarely get sick.
So rarely, in fact,
that I believe that when I called out sick Tuesday,
it was my first sick day, ever.
I mean, I've called out before.
Just never from being too ill to work.
I'm hopefully almost better now.
(i certainly don't have time to not be better)

I'm way behind with this art show stuff,
so instead of showing hints and teasers of my stuff today,
I'll show the 5 boxes that arrived at Identity Tattoo from Albie Rock.
Yeah, they are taller than me.
6 feet of boxed up art.
awesome.























You know those sexy art dolls Albie makes?
(like the one on the front of the flier)
Well, we got tons more of those for the show.
And these are so dope.
I've never seen any of these before,
(almost nobody has)
so i'm glad they made the trip out to MPLS.
Bring your wallets, kids,
so that they don't have the make the return trip.
Traveling is a bitch.