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Come and get it! You can order and purchase my new comic book at http://matamoroscomic.com/. Here's hoping you have a couple of bucks left in the ol' Christmas fund. ENJOY!
For direct access to the ordering site, http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=726
Martin Lindeskog hired me to do his blog banner for his site,http://egoist.blogspot.com/. I thought it might be interesting to show the steps in its production.
This is the sketch I came up with after having read his suggestions.
24" x24"
oil on masonite
I establish where the black tones (cityscape and other details) are in relation to the "finished" color pencil outline of the figures.
24" x24"
oil on masonite
It says: "High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything I can think of."
KURT VONNEGUT
A few recent doodles from the ol' sketch book....
Done. Added Martin Lindeskog's blog name for a touch of pizzaz. Me likey.
SAYS MIKE HUCKABEE.....
"There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people. And that's the only way that our campaign could be doing what it's doing".
There you have it, ladies and gentiles. This shmuck has the audacity to compare a Jesus miracle with a pointless vanity project in Iowa.
If he wins in New Hampshire, atheism here I come.
36" x 24"
oil on canvas
This is the 8" x 8" color rough for a cover of a book about Esther, the Old Testament queen who saved the Jews from extermination in ancient Persia. I'll show the finished piece later on.
NOTE: You may recognize the "Esther" from an earliler piece.
This blog would feature three sorority sisters with contrasting view points on campus life. There's Yvette, the darkly-clad pessimist in her third year of Icelandic poetry studies. There's Claire, the dance major who wants to treat the sick in Rowanda. And there's Jane, the 5-year arts grad student who is world-weary, yet passionate.
Each Thursday they tackle a local issue that MUST BE ADDRESSED. Or maybe they swap cookie recipes.....
1. A bowl of glass shards in the morning is a real eye-opener,
2. Jack Bauer can kiss my ass.
3. It's better to pull your own wisdom teeth. And your tonsils....as long as
you're back there.
4. Women love it when use cologne in your jockeys.
I was alerted by my Florida friend and fellow artist, Steve Mcafee, that he MAY have seen a snatch of my work on......wait for it.....the COLBERT REPORT. I was told I could catch the re-run and try to verify what he saw.
I was unable to be near a t.v at the Jan. 11 8:30 showing, so I called Allen Forkum to see if he could either watch the re-run and tell me what he saw (he could recognize the work) or maybe tape it and send me an image.
Well, here it is. Neat, huh?
Three questions....
1. Which Mid-Eastern paper ripped me off and (2) does Comedy Central know THEY didn't do the art?
3. Am I disturbed that the drawing possibly helped the enemy?
Kinda of weird....
Check the Cox and Forkum "Newsmaker Caricatures" archive and you can see the Clinton and Obama caricatures the newspaper stole.
7" x 5"
oil on masonite
24" x 24"
oil on canvas
24" x 24"
oil on masonite
Goofing around with black Prisma and vine charcoal.
This is a cover I did for Allen Forkum's Automotive Report newspaper in Nashville. The news item was about how mechanics must deal with future technological developments in the automotive industry.
This is a ball-point pen sketch I did at a train station today. I'm starting the canvas tonight. I love it when this happens....
8" x 8"
mixed media on illustration board
24" x36"
oil on canvas
In return for Gary Coombs generous Valour IT auction bid, he's receiving this original piece. He'll be getting a signed Cox and Forkum Vol. IV book, too.
This could a compilation of cutting-edge ring tones.
I thought it would be fun to illustrate a King cover. This story would be about a mute Holiday Inn housekeeper whose psychic abilities help the local police track down a demon-possessed '78 AMC Pacer.
This is my second shot at trying to nail our team logo.
24" x 12"
oil on canvas
This is a piece I finished last week. Part of a larger body of work I've been obsessed with.
This is artwork for Mitchell Halvorsen's boat and his crew. It happens to be based on another design of mine.
John Cox is a painter, cartoonist, and illustrator for hire. For information about purchasing existing work or commissioning new work, contact him by e-mail at john555cox [at] hotmail.com.
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