funny cuz it’s true my friends.

funny cuz it’s true my friends.

Jim built this amazing cardboard robot (I helped) for the comic book themed cabaret show put on by Atomic Vaudeville last week. It is a fully functioning puppet with fingers that could close around a whole person, in this case, me and Jimbo, but during the show, Wolverine.

Excelsior! This one is purely for the geeks.

Made with Max Licht at maxlicht.com.

I heard a song off this album on the radio today, and remembered how hard we worked on it; a 30-person choir, a string section, horns! There are no songs off of North America on this website, but if you check out the
www.hankandlily.com
page you can access the songs and some of the art.

This is one page from the Late Night Comic. The tone of the whole thing was so slow and hypnotic, to match the album, that I felt it needed a shot of ridiculousness and adrenaline somewhere. But how?

Flashback with giant scorpions!

(If you are having trouble reading the type, you can hold control on press ‘+’ on your keyboard three times, …makes it bigger. Fun wit computers!)

Have you ever known anyone that’s died?
Or is hopelessly, terminally ill?
Are YOU going to die?

Then this book is for YOU.
These here are some black and white samples of the Lil book of Dyin’, available for purchase on the store page. There are more charming couplets found in the book! It was written after I had three important people in my life die. We all grieve in our own ways I guess. Grossly inappropriate, ill-timed and awkward, just like death!

Here are some black and white illustrations I did for a children’s book with writer Jacob Richmond. I say children’s book, but truly, a moral tale for all of us; Your comeuppance is hinged tightly to your fallibility as a farting creature.

You can purchase the book here:

http://www.livrescanadabooks.com/en/canadian-books/details/polly-perfect-and-the-tragic-fart

This guitar was a commission piece for the one and only Cameron Noyes.

A commission for Hank and Lily-themed tattoo flash art for Todd Lacharite’s tattoo show in Lethbridge

Here is some album artwork I recently did for the band Ball Gag n Chain Gang. Trying saying that five times fast.
A definite nod to Al Columbia, if you haven’t seen his stuff, check it out. I toned down the creepier aspects at the behest of the band.

Made with Max Licht at maxlicht.com.

I heard a song off this album on the radio today, and remembered how hard we worked on it; a 30-person choir, a string section, horns! There are no songs off of North America on this website, but if you check out the
www.hankandlily.com
page you can access the songs and some of the art.

Recently, I completed work on a big job for the Royal British Columbia Museum, doing design and illustration for the children’s section of the museum. A really great job, and nice folk to work for.

First off was the mascot, a pika named Piper. What’s a pika? A small rodent that lives in the foothills. He sometimes whistles to communicate with other pikas. So how to make this look like a pika and not just a nondescript rodent? Here is the winner, and after, just one of the many hapless pika rejects.

Here are some black and white versions of different BC animals done in the same style as the pika. The end results were painted, then printed huge and wall-sized as part of an interactive scale-thing. As in, ‘I weigh as much as a killer whale!’

The next part I was really proud of. They wanted me to do a board game about bugs, obviously right up my alley. I proposed to them the idea of making a 3D BOARD GAME! I have been working on 3D comic about the hadron super-collider for a while now, and thought this would be a good opportunity to flex my 3D muscles. Turns out that if you don’t get it right, the anaglyph images can make you want to puke into your cornflakes. I did eventually get it though, so if you got some red and blue glasses, put them on now.

To make this, Jimbo and I built a giant physical diorama of the web and forest scene, then took two pictures of it, one eye-width apart, and then turned one blue and one red, and voi-frickin-la, 3D!

Thank you Royal BC Museum!

(Coming soon, a game of my own creation in 3D! Look for it in finer gaming stores. I love that word, don’t you? gaming. “I can’t tonight Beatrice, I am off to go gaming”)

I did this one for the Halloween tour. It was Hank and Lily vs. Zombie Michael Jackson and his horde of the Undead. What an amazing tour, every night the folks would show up dressed to kill like it was the night. We had halloween for weeks.

The only downside was Jimbo’s commitment to not breaking character. He was relentless as Michael Jackson. And, unfortunately, did such a good job at singing like the King o’ Pop, that during the ‘versus’ part, the crowd always sided with Michael.

Live n learn. Next time Hank and Lily vs. Michael Bolton.

This is an illustration for a proposed book about dinosaurs.

I am definitely going through a hardcore dinosaur phase after my visit to the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta a few weeks ago. The best museum I have ever been to. It got me so fired up that I accidentally spent the admission price to ‘Fossil World’ down the road just to see the animatronic T Rex. Still, Drumheller is amazing for both those levels of entertainment, the actually awesome, and the awesomely crappy..I recommend it.

Here is the trailer for the movie directed by Panos Cosmatos that I did the storyboards for.
You can check them out on the storyboard page.

In 2009 I did the storyboards for a feature film by director Panos Cosmatos. It involved literally thousands of drawings, making for a very rewarding, but very involved job. The movie is about…well, it’s best if you just go see it whenever it plays in your town. Panos said he was very pleased with the results, and that my storyboards were invaluable, and that is all that matters.

Featured here is a fairly simple scene where the main character, Elena, awakens the sentionaut. What is a sentionaut? Go see the movie!

TAKE YOU APART

This storyboard was for the animated video for ‘We Can Take You Apart’ currently still in production. As I well know from my animated works, animation takes a really, really really long time.