Some Creatures

 

 Katie boasted an impressive pedigree among mythological beasts; her father was a Minotaur, her mother a Satyr. Katie, unfortunately, hit the recessive gene lottery in the pairing.

 

The Gahzurtz

The Bearded Snickelthorpe

casein on paper, various sizes

Tremendous Grunting Issued Forth.

TGIF.

What do Pete Mitchell, Bryan Ballinger, Doug Bell, Adam Gustavson, Roger Cruz, Karen Jones Lee, Jeremy Vanhoozer, Josh Addessi, Janee Trasler, Paul Conrad, Chuck Vollmer, Cole Phillips, Wout Schildermans, Lilian Carmine, Sarah Bodnar, Micah Lanier and Andi Butler all have in common?

I'm glad you asked. Why, they're all featured in the comic anthology Dead Anyway, a charming and virtually bottomless assortment of zombie stories.

And it's available for pre-order HERE.

Cute zombies! Fairy zombies! Carny zombies! Child zombies! Culinary reality show zombies! Zombie stories of love, loss, redemption and even the occasional western.

And, of course, existentialist zombies. Here's page one of my contribution the pantheon.

 13 x 19 inches. Pencil and gouache on paper, 2012.

Ohhhh, Sea Monster.

17" x 22" oil on paper, 2012.

See monster. Sea monster.

I'll explain in a year.

But for now, this is all I have to say on the subject.

Oil on paper, 18" x 30."  2011.

It's World Egg Day!

On approaching the object,
Mable could think of nothing but
omelets, pancakes and cookies;
her every neural impulse
trained on visions of
homecooked vittles,
baked and fried.

This was indeed unfortunate.

Dragons.

For this cycle's "Drawergeeks.com" post on the subject...

Happy Sea Serpent Day!

A few words of caution:

When encountering an aquatic beast of unknown origin, always maintain a safe enough distance to account for the possibility that the object of your attention is in fact a sock puppet.