23rd Kinda Annual Dead-Dog Party. . .

. . . at the San Diego Comic Con International. Bob Chapman and I have worked together for almost 20 years but I've never made it to his well-known, end-of-Con party because I've never stayed until the end of it and haven't been there in years.

I've even done separations and films for all Graphitti Designs' official Comic Con T-shirts, and Volunteer tees, over the years. Maybe next year I'll make it.

I've even helped him put together a number of invitations for this party over the years, so it was fun to find these photos. Lots of famous comic people there, only a few have I actually met, although I've worked with many of them. I've worked on their art to turn them into T-shirts and books and things but always through Bob.

The image below is Bob and his wife, Gena.

See more images here..

Super Obama

I wrote about Graphitti Designs doing a Super Obama shirt, painted by Alex Ross. Bob just sent me a picture of Obama holding the shirt. This is great! I have no idea who the other people are but I thought I'd leave them all in.

More Than a Week Since My Last Post

I really hated to see that date when I looked it up. Unfortunately I've been sick that whole time, to the actual day. Friday the 11th, the day of my last post was also the day I came down with a very bad flu/bronchitis. I've been running fevers as high as 103.5 as well as shaking with the chills and here it is the 20th and I'm still very sick.

The timing, of course, was perfect. Jimmy of Nightmare Girl fame, had just given me 3 new pages to color. Very important because they were the first 3 completely redone, and he was having a book printed up of our first 20 pages so the first 3 had to be done by last Wednesday in order to have time to get it by the Comic-Con, coming up this Wednesday. So my weekend of the 12th and 13th was spent working until I felt too terrible then going to bed. After a short nap I've be back at the computer again and so on for the whole weekend. Then on Monday I had to get into work because STS had a ton of work to do and Bob at Graphitti has his own Comic-Con deadlines, like the Con's official shirts. Wouldn't be too cool if the Con didn't have their own T-Shirts to sell this year.

But I got all that done and I've had this whole weekend free to just relax and get better. Unfortunately, I don't feel any better. I've been sweating like crazy and last night had the shaking chills again and pretty much feel awful and can't stop coughing, feever seems to hover a little over 100, although I'm sure it was higher at times when I didn't take it.

So that's why I haven't been making any blog entries lately. Wish I could skip all the work and just do blogging but I can't do it. Don't know how much longer I'm going to be sick, either.

Super Obama

I've been dying to put this on my blog for weeks now. I may be disappointed in Obama but this is a great illustration, which I made in to a T-shirt, because that's what I do.

The artist is Alex Ross, one of the best in the comic book business if not THE best. The guy paints entire comics. Go to your local comic book store and ask for some books by Alex Ross, you won't be disappointed.

I've been putting Alex's art on T-shirts for Bob Chapman at Graphitti Designs for a long time now and it never gets any easier. His painterly style is the very worst kind of art to transfer into screen printing, too much detail, subtlety and texture for screen printing, so every one is a challenge but still fun because the art is so good.

Anyone who wants a T-shirt can go over to the Graphitti Designs web site, look over on the left for New This Month. Bob will also be at the Sand Diego Comic-Con in a few weeks with quite a few shirts since he sold out of the pretty fast at the Chicago Con last weekend.