Oh, Sexy Mechanical Voting Machine…
So much better than those hinky ‘lectronic thangs.
Your turgid red lever goes from left to right
Then back again.
CLANK! CLUNK!
Gonna vote in a new Funky President
Might not fix our stank economy
But he’ll look smooth trying.
I love this holiday, especially in NYC. You get to see how creative and/or slutty New Yorkers can be (“Hey look, it’s Sexy Werewolf!!?).
Since Mikhaela and I missed Halloween ‘07 (we were at ‘Day of the Dead’ in Mexico), we really want to do it up this year. As a special Election ’08 bonus, I’m going to keep a tally of how many Obamas, McCains, Bidens and Palins I see…until I get drunk or bored. My money is on a plethora of porn-y Palins and zombie McCains.
Oh yeah: for all you basic cable fans, I’m going as this guy.
-Masheka
P.S. If you’re going to a Halloween party, wear a freakin’ costume or keep your lame ass at home. Besides, if you’re single, you have a better chance of getting costumed booty if you get into the inherently hedonistic spirit of the holiday with your own outfit.
Haven’t seen the ads for OUT OF SEQUENCE in THE COMIC JOURNAL and ARTFORUM because your eyes are blurry with recession tears? Then you don’t know that Mikhaela Reid and I (and a slew of other artists) have pieces in this very cool exhibit in Illinois’ Krannert Art Museum. Our friends John Jennings and Damian Duffy are the curators. The best part is that some of the pieces (like my ‘Killing Brain Cells’) will be digitally projected on the museum’s walls. Here are the details:
Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics opening reception, this Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 6-8pm!
WHERE: Krannert Art Museum
500 East Peabody Dr
Champaign IL 61820
WHAT: The opening reception for the Out of Sequence comics art exhibition. It is an exploration of the question ‘What is Comics?’ It is a declaration of the diversity of sequential art in the United States, diversity not just of creators, but also of content and form. Out of Sequence is a broad survey of women, small press, minority, independent, gay & lesbian, self-published, mini, underground, web and/or gallery comics creators.
The opening reception will feature a talk by exhibition comics artist Mark Staff Brandl at 6pm and music by DJ Delayney.
WHY: Because comics are awesome, and the gallery has been made into a 3D comic. Comics are on the wall in prints and original art, and off the wall, projected on screens, floating in virtual reality.
WHAT ELSE: The Next Panel Illinois Small Press Comics Expo. Guest artists include Jerry Craft, Leilani Hickerson, Dann Tincher, and Ashley A. Woods. Special guest letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
On Saturday at 1:30 Jerry Craft will be offering a cartooning workshop, FREE to the public. To register contact Chris Schaede at the Krannert Museum: 217-333-1861, schaede@illinois.edu.
For more information contact:
The curators- Damian Duffy (duff@eyetrauma.net) or John Jennings (jayjay@illinois.edu)
The Krannert Art Museum- (217) 244-0516
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That BBC Radio interview from July, originally only up for a week, is now on the BBC’s site indefinitely!! Phill Jupitus’ Comic Love was so popular that the BBC extended the cartoonists’ interviews into four longer 15 minute programs.
The new series is called Phill Jupitus’ Strips. Our segment (Programme 2), is an extended version of that afternoon in our Brooklyn apartment with Phil, Jen Sorensen, Brian McFadden, Mikhaela and little ol’ me. It aired live on BBC Radio October 14th, but you can listen to it here.
The BBC (!!) came to our apt. last month and had a chat with Mikhaela, Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen and yours truly about alternative political cartooning. The documentary for BBC Radio 4 is hosted by the esteemed Phill Jupitus for his show “Phill Jupitus’ Comic Love’. He also talks with cartoonist superstars like Gary Trudeau, Lynn Johnston, Bill Griffith and Steve Bell so we’re in very good company.
The doc premiered this weekend and will be up until 6/25 so listen to it here as soon as possible if you’ve always wanted to hear my voice (mumbled and slurry). The Cartoonist With Attitude segment is at the 22:20 mark.
On Saturday June 7th and Sunday June 8th, my new mini-comic “So, You’ve Been Laid Off?!” will be at the 2008 MoCCA Art Festival at NYC’s Puck Building from 11am-6pm. If this is your first time getting the shaft from your “day job” (a.k.a. outsourced, downsized, made redundant), it’s a handy little booklet created to guide and comfort you in these troubling times. For everyone else, it is a grim soulless reminder of the vicious circle of employment purgatory.
Have a super weekend!!
-Me
Tonight, from 7pm to 7:51pm (Eastern standard time), I’ll be checking out the last lunar eclipse until 2010. Hopefully it will take my mind off the final root canal appointment I have in a few hours.
Check it out during your local time zone tonight and watch out for werewolves.
UPDATE: Hmm, when I said “7pm to 7:51 pm” I must have been on crack because I didn’t see anything then (and I was looking reeeeeally hard). Luckily a friend informed me of the real viewing time and we all got to see the eclipse around 9pm. Sadly, after staring at the creepy bloody moon for ten minutes, I failed to develop any enhanced superhuman powers. Pity…
Introducing the latest in obnoxious technology and ubiquitous marketing: The Wearable Video Vest.
Notice that the models for the ‘Video Vest’ website are all women wearing outfits that vary from “friendly Gap employee” to teeny weeny bikini. Only one of the leering spectators appears to be making eye contact, probably practicing a ‘boob tube’ joke in his head.
I know what you’re thinking: “For Pete’s sake, that thing looks too “Videodrome meets Teletubbies” for my taste! Isn’t there a slimmer, more fashionable version for everyday douchebags like myself?”
As a fan of all things Hulk, I was extremely happy to come across this list, via Fark.com, detailing every fight/calamity/petty annoyance that triggered a Hulk transformation in the ‘78-’82 t.v. show ‘The Incredible Hulk’.
I can relate to #47, but my favorite, in terms of sheer slapstick lunacy, is #108.
BONUS VIDEO! The Hulk trips on LSD!
What better way to start off the new year than to by reminiscing about some of the cinematic monstrosities of last year?
Behold my latest cartoon in the latest issue of UVC Magazine, The Urban Voice in Comics. It’s all flipped because, I dunno, sometimes I like to make ya work for it.
