Hey it's the thing that was last post now in color in this post

Yorgon (Giant Monster#2) 2007
Send it to your favorite Giant Monster fan(Kaiju if you want to get technical).
Enjoy

ART SHOW-Paintings

I will be part of a show featuring the paintings of Dave Cintron, John Howitt, and Scott Pickering, at the True Art Gallery 410 East 156th Collinwood OH. 216-383-0230. Opening is Saturday July 14th 6-11pm(show will run until August 4th) live music provided by the above named gentlemen. On my end, one painting brings a series to an end and three paintings begin a new series, featuring Giant Monsters(which seem to be making a comeback-The Host, D-War, and a new secret one from the guy that did Alias and does Lost.), so if you wanna see the guy below in full color Come on down.

mini rant-I should watch the Dvd extras or do some reasearch-plus Mystery Issue

I've been trying to reconfigure this thing so that when you click on the image it doesn't fill up the whole screen and you have to shrink it-something I can't figure out if it's on my end or bloggers end, as this only began after switching to the new version and for some reason I find it very very verryyy annoying.

In regards to Children of Men and the scene I talked about last post, I have since found out that it was culled from six takes of the shot and seamlessly put together into one long take. I guess I'll try not to fall asleep during DVD extras, or do some research before making any proclamations of greatness(it still is a great scene though).

Anyway onto Tasty Treats 3a, when I did this issue I still had the idea to have Tasty Treats do different stories with different characters. So here was my attempt to do a children's story starring Dr. Tobor, it is the only issue I had someone read before I finished it. I gave it to some friends and family and pretty much put it away, never really took it around to the record and comic stores and it has been been in limbo since. Looking at it now, it is what it is, I like the artwork and the lettering for me doesn't get better than that. The story is alright, I think when I get sentimental or mushy things tend to fall apart in my stories(it'll happen again in issue 6), so coming next will be issue 3b back to Jake Ace and the crew. Enjoy

I Didn't Realize(or Don't let the kids see this one), and a short rant.

I didn't realize it has been almost a month since the last post, I guess I have(and here comes the short rant) been preoccupied with watching how the oil companies are getting us used to paying $3.00 for a gallon of gas. Which I'm sure is common in many areas of the U.S., and is down right cheap compared to oversea prices. Still I let a Dammit fly loose when I paid $3.29, what was sadder the person who used the pumped before me had only put in $5.00 worth of gas which amounted to little more than a gallon of gas. Unreal.

Anyways if you get the chance check out the movie Children Of Men, there is a scene that starts out so subtle that you really don't realize what's happening until the shit hits the fan-no cuts-one long take-almost dreamlike how the camera moves. A scene I wish I had seen on the big screen. Here is another oldie, and I will try to get back on the 1-2 week schedule. Also expect to see more Tasty Treat issues(even the mysterious 3a issue) as new Jake Ace(one sheets) will begin to pop up here as those run out. ENJOY

Dr. Tobor rings in 1998

Dr. Tobor says good-bye to 1997 and celebrates the #1 drinking album of 97 The Oblivians-Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron.

As Promised: TASTY TREATS #2

This one was done down in North Carolina, I thought these guys would rotate stories with Jake Ace. That did not happen, and though I still like the image of the two, stories did not really pop into my head. The story here is based on the fact that I had at one time been able to take these long vacations and spend money like a lunatic, which was not happening while living down in North Carolina or now for that matter. This issue I tried to clean up the lettering and the artwork, which I think I succeeded in more or less.
---This is Honest to your God of Choice True: I had just finished the issue, STORY and art were all done when a week or two later I'm watching The Simpsons and there is Krusty on stage doing his act and getting booed. He's getting booed for the same reason Max or Fuller is getting booed for telling old jokes-later in the episode he tries to figure ways to become "hip" kinda like the scene in this issue. Since I had not made any copies yet I was afraid that people would think I stole from The Simpsons which was not the case. This seems to have happened to me a couple of times, most recently I liked the idea of a doorway to another dimension or hell and was planning on doing the a new strip on that, but all of a sudden the Sci-Fi channel had a show like that, and there is some movie coming out with Robert Englund, and a direct to dvd movie, so I stopped thinking about such a strip. Now I have to come up with something else.

Rant #3

Still flabbergasted by what my first full paycheck looks like, I'm driving home from work wondering how I'm going to pay for bills and lead any kind of life-this happens SOOOO....

Subbing Dream

Quick strip from mid 90's, was doing a lot of substitute teaching then. I'm usually not one to jot my dreams down(usually don't remember them), but the bad lettering says different for this one. This is typical of my dreams very mundane everyday stuff, no flying, no outer space, no crazy landscapes, don't know what that says about me but ANYWAY...Expect Tasty Treats #2 next week or the following week. Enjoy

Meeting or It's Been Awhile

Done before a meeting(one of my first), nice to know that I can still doodle like I used to way back in my school days. On the new comic front, first page is written and some kind of outline is done. Enjoy the doodle.

Hey Doc! Happy New Year from 1995

Dr. Tobor going into 1996-the #1 drinkin album of 1995 was Solid State by Blue-great album-great live band.

Mural long dead and covered

Here's a sketch for a mural that I painted for my friends pizza place. The mural did not get much exposure as it was in the basement on your way to the bathrooms, and my friend closed the place up within six months. A kosher pizza place took over the space, and I assume covered up the mural(there was a shit load of oil paint on that wall though). I wonder what the initial reaction to the mural was, it was the biggest piece I had ever done, took forever for the oil paint to dry. Never got a picture of it as the hallway was too narrow, but the sketch is pretty dead on, think a box of crayons and a coloring book page--Hey for you adventurous types get to it!!

Maze or Best Movie I'll See in a Theater this Year

From an old issue of Gank, thought I would put this up in honor of Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth finally making it's way to our small town. I would truly be a happy man if he continued with the Mexican/Spanish small movies, but then I also had a great time watching Blade 2 in the theaters(I liked Hellboy but he really needs to stick with the R rating). I'm not going to spoil anything just let me say this isn't a Disney fairy tale and deserves it's R rating. Enjoy the maze.

Friday even though it's Thursday

Warts and All

I never claimed to be a decent letterer, in fact I would claim to be a horrible letterer. It was the main reason I got out of graphic design(this was before computers, and you had to color in letters in gauche), most of my projects looked like a two year old did it(I really was in my own kind of hell). I can't say my lettering has gotten better but I try a little harder now, but looking back at this issue I can say that it is readable and uhm..well..is readable. It has come into my head to redo this issue, but looking at it now I say it holds up well, the only thing I would change is the cover(which I may still do), following the same design as the issues that follow. So welcome to the world of Jake Ace, Martin, and Bradley Hess, I hope you enjoy.

80 Proof Comix Presents Tasty Treats Vol.2 #1











A word about the gag strip, it's based on two friends who used to make Super 8 movies who thinking about it now would have made a great comedy team.

Hard copies are available email me for details.

LESSON 4: Colossal Team-Up

The mid nineties found me out of Cleveland and moving down to North Carolina. I was still working on Dr. Tobor and began to spread them around Asheville(which amounted to about 3 places). Which lead me to contribute to the free music paper Gank(see October 3, 11, and 23 for examples), for it's entire run. I also applied for the Xeric Foundation, which was a grant that helped fledgling comic book writer/artists self-publish their books. I got all I needed together and sent it out, waited and Dr. Tobor never did make it to the Diamond Distribution Catalog but I pressed on and started the book that I continue to work on today.

The origins of 80 Proof Comix Presents Tasty Treats is really clouded in mystery, as I cannot remember what made me start this one up, or use Jake Ace as the first story. Another puzzler was how Jake Ace went from cranberry juice and chewing gum(see Nov. 3) to whiskey in a flask and cigarettes(see Next Week). This version of Tasty Treats is one story per issue with the idea of rotating the characters each issue, but as it turned out you kind of stick with what's the funniest(at least to me) and the crossing guard crew had the best characters. Except for Issue 4(a failed experiment), I've enjoyed this run and have more or less been able to put out a book a year and will be posting them here as time goes on, and now that I've started this blog thing it maybe nice to start something new in the vein of the Dr. Tobor one sheets.


Tasty Treats #1 1997 #2 1998


Tasty Treats #3 1999-2000 #4 2001


Tasty Treats Back cover #4 #5 2002


Tasty Treats #6 2004


Tasty Treats #7 2005-2006

This ones a little short but I figure I'll write a little something as each issue is posted, I hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane, look for more doodles, some paintings, and finally some more comix(you gotta be tired at looking at all these covers). Enjoy Glenn

Lesson 3: Drinkin' and Drawin'

When last we met I was trying to figure out what was going on between 1993-95, well it looks like Dr. Tobor, and the birth of 80 Proof Comix. While Tasty Treats was a stab at some sort of professionalism, Dr. Tobor was born of doodles from the classroom and drunken nights of drawing in my sketchbook which usually had some sort of drunken rant(these type of drunken sketchbook drawings later went on to celebrating the New Year and usually included my album of the year). Now if I remember correctly(which I probably don't as I couldn't remember what I was doing between 93-95), a lot of the comics at the time were autobiographical type books. To me it seemed the Canadians knew how to do it best, they made them funny, thought provoking, and kept the artwork simple but always complimenting the story. But as with anything, for every good one there was at least two or three that came across as whiny-woo as me plus look at the crazy angle I can draw from headaches that they were. I don't need a panel that's looking up your nostril while you complain how crappy your life is because you got the wrong cup of coffee. Anyways the point being is that these books weren't fun, so in a way I knew that what ever I did next my goal was to make it fun which lead to 80 Proof Comix.


Sketchbook drawing 1993




80 Proof Comix 1








































Various Issues
Fliers
Dr. Tobor Collection

80 Proof Comix was a free Bi-monthly-one sheet-with pin-up-created in a sober/drunk mode-which lead to robots-killer robots-blood-some bad lettering-to be continued I was having fun and unlike Tasty Treats and my paintings it was immediate. If I didn't use the name 80 Proof Comix it probably would have been called "One Take Comics" cause that was how it was done, Pen to Paper-no pencil and drawn drunk. This lasted until Issue 7 where pencil started hitting paper, which was still fine as yet again whatever I put down first, stayed that way(unless it was god-awful). Plus I was still having fun with the covers and the pin-ups. The free issues were placed all over Cleveland as well sent out to Quimbys, and See Hear, this lead to receiving some fine comics from Tom Eaton(see link), and Jake Kelly and Stephe Kuchna's Summer Zine. I did a collection for the first six issues, finished the first story arc after I had moved to North Carolina and applied for a Xeric Grant(didn't happen), which leads right into Lesson 4: Skyland

While going through all this stuff I found the second Dr. Tobor story arc all penciled out...HHMMMM