I did some modeling for Noah Scalin, founder of Another Limited Rebellion. The below picture is for print material to promote the performance "Uriel Acosta" by Target Margin Theater: http://www.targetmargin.org/
2/18/14
Modeling for Noah Scalin
My secret as a Jewish super hero is out. I'm not really a mild mannered Persian graphic designer. Hah.
I did some modeling for Noah Scalin, founder of Another Limited Rebellion. The below picture is for print material to promote the performance "Uriel Acosta" by Target Margin Theater: http://www.targetmargin.org/
I did some modeling for Noah Scalin, founder of Another Limited Rebellion. The below picture is for print material to promote the performance "Uriel Acosta" by Target Margin Theater: http://www.targetmargin.org/
2/17/14
NEW WORK: Super Human Resources Pin-UP
Just finished this pin up for SUPER HUMAN RESOURCES!!!! It will probably show up in Volume #2.
Super Human Resources allows the reader to take a behind-the-scenes look at the world of super heros in the context of life at the office. Pictured above is the accounts payable temp, Tim, who learns about the world along side the reader. He is surrounded by various heroes from the comic. Its a hilarious comic. I highly recommend it.
Since the book is stylized, while referencing a genre that is often illustrated "realistically," I thought that flipping the context back around would be a fun exercise.
Super Human Resources allows the reader to take a behind-the-scenes look at the world of super heros in the context of life at the office. Pictured above is the accounts payable temp, Tim, who learns about the world along side the reader. He is surrounded by various heroes from the comic. Its a hilarious comic. I highly recommend it.
Since the book is stylized, while referencing a genre that is often illustrated "realistically," I thought that flipping the context back around would be a fun exercise.
Taken from CBR:
“I’ve always been fascinated with all the ‘behind the panels’ aspect of comics,” Ken Marcus told CBR. “Real world necessities must still be required in this fun, surreal world of superheroes. Someone has to sign the purchase orders, change the coffee filters, answer the phone calls, sign the FedEx orders; stuff like that. We also explore what it must be like for ordinary folks to work every day next to the world’s mightiest yet most dysfunctional beings.” (Read the full article here. )
“I’ve always been fascinated with all the ‘behind the panels’ aspect of comics,” Ken Marcus told CBR. “Real world necessities must still be required in this fun, surreal world of superheroes. Someone has to sign the purchase orders, change the coffee filters, answer the phone calls, sign the FedEx orders; stuff like that. We also explore what it must be like for ordinary folks to work every day next to the world’s mightiest yet most dysfunctional beings.” (Read the full article here. )
If you'd like to read the first issue for free online, you can do it here.
And if you want to download SHR #1 to your iphone for free, you can do it here.
For more info about SHR you can go to there website: http://www.superhumanresourcescomic.com/
For more of my work you can go here: www.mendedarrow.com
2/4/14
NEW WORK: Abiyoyo
Abiyoyo By Pete SeegerOnce upon a time there was a little boy, who played a ukulele. He'd go around town: clink, clunk, CLONK! Of course, the grownups would be busy, and they'd say:
"Take that thing out of here. We're talking. Git!" And they'd kick him out of the house.
Not only that. The boy's father would get in trouble, too. His father was a magician. He had a magic wand. He could go Zoop! with it, and make things disappear.
But the father was a terrible practical joker. He'd come up to someone just about to drink a nice glass of...something. Zoop! The glass would disappear. He'd come up to someone doing a hard job of work - maybe sawing a log of wood: zzt, zzt, zzt. Up comes the father: Zoop! And the saw would disappear. He'd come up to someone just about to sit down after a hard day's work, and zoop! no chair.
People got tired of all this. They said to the father: "You get out of here too. Take your magic wand and your practical jokes and you and your son, just git!"
And the boy and his father, they ostracized them. That means, they made 'em live on the outskirts of town.
(Banjo starts a low, menacing strum)
Now, in this town they used to tell stories. The old people used to tell stories about the monsters and giants that lived in the old days! They used to tell a story about Abiyoyo. They said he was as tall as a house, and could eat...people...up. (Of course, nobody believed it, but they told the stories anyway).
But one day, one day, the sun rose, blood red over the hill. And the first people that got up and looked out of their window - they saw a great big shadow in front of the sun. And they could feel the whole ground shake (Stomp, stomp.)
Women screamed. Strong men fainted. They said. Run for your lives! Abiyoyo's coming!
Down through the fields he came. He came to the sheep, pasture and grabs a whole sheep. Yeowp! He eats it down in one bite. He comes to the cow pasture. Yuhk!
Just then the boy and his father woke up. I think they'd been up late the night before at a party. The boy rubbed his eyes and said:
"Hey, paw, what's coming over the fields?" The father said: "Oh, son. It's Abiyoyo. Oh, if only I could get him to lie down. I could get him to disappear."
The boy said, "Come with me father." He grabbed his father by one hand. The father grabbed the magic wand, and the boy grabbed his ukulele. Over the fields they went, right up to where Abiyoyo was.
People screamed "Don't go near him! He'll eat you alive!"
There was Abiyoyo. He had long fingernails, 'cause he never cut 'em. He had slobbery teeth 'cause he never brushed them. Matted hair, 'cause he never combed it. Stinking feet, 'cause he never washed them. He was just about to come down with his claws, when the boy whipped out his ukulele.
Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo Abi...
Well, the monster had never heard a song about himself before, and a foolish grin spread across his face. And started to dance.
ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO, The boy went faster.
ABIYOYO, YO YOYO, YO YOYO ABIYOYO, YO YOYO...
The giant got out of breath. He staggered. He fell down flat on the ground.
Zoop, zoop! went the father with his magic want, and Abiyoyo disappeared.
People streamed out of their houses, and ran across the fields. They said: "Why, he's gone, he's disappeared!"
They said:
"Come on back to town. Bring your damn ukulele;
We don't care."
And they all sang:
Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo
Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo
Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo
Abiyoyo. yo yoyo yo yoyo
1/31/14
Magic Bullet #8
My comic made it into the magic bullet! The cover image is by Steve Loya. Pick up a copy to see it in print! More info here.
”Magic Bullet is Washington, D.C.’s free comics newspaper published by D.C. Conspiracy, a comics creators’ collective in the capital region.”
More of my work can be found here.
1/23/14
NEW WORK: DOYOU Facilitators guide and promo materials
Facilitator Guide pages and promo I worked on using Noah Scalin's imagery for the DOYOU campaign. The program's goal is to aid teens in having healthy relationships. The forms and diagrams were developed by myself. I illustrated the type for the promo to look like a participant. It was fun playing with magic markers again!
"DO YOU addresses teen violence by promoting positive youth development and healthy relationships. Teens ages 13-16 meet in small groups over 10 sessions with a trained facilitator and gradually create a 'zine about themselves that explores their own cultures, aspirations, values, and strengths while learning about compassion, communication skills, media literacy, and their own resilience. For more information, visit vsdvalliance.org or call the Action Alliance at 804.377.0335."
You should check out this promo video too!
"DO YOU addresses teen violence by promoting positive youth development and healthy relationships. Teens ages 13-16 meet in small groups over 10 sessions with a trained facilitator and gradually create a 'zine about themselves that explores their own cultures, aspirations, values, and strengths while learning about compassion, communication skills, media literacy, and their own resilience. For more information, visit vsdvalliance.org or call the Action Alliance at 804.377.0335."
You should check out this promo video too!
1/22/14
Press over the past couple months.
I've been receiving a little press the past month or so. Here are a few links to articles below.
RVA Magazine published an article about my work written by James Moffitt. The article goes through my experiences studying art/design to practicing it professionally. You can read it here.
Skull-A-Day featured my deer skull commission here. The blog was originally a project by Noah Scalin. Scalin's project entailed making a skull a day for 365 days - and a bonus skull because it was a leap year. Now the blog is run by folks who publish a skull by a different artist every day.
YO! magazine published an article on Occuprint, a database of posters responding to the occupy movement made available to download. My poster was one of the handful featured in the article. The article can by found here.
The VCU student paper published an article about a Civil War anthology titled, Remapping Richmond's Hallowed Ground. I contributed spot illustrations for this book. I'm mentioned in the article as a VCU tie to the project. You can read it here.
RVA Magazine published an article about my work written by James Moffitt. The article goes through my experiences studying art/design to practicing it professionally. You can read it here.
Skull-A-Day featured my deer skull commission here. The blog was originally a project by Noah Scalin. Scalin's project entailed making a skull a day for 365 days - and a bonus skull because it was a leap year. Now the blog is run by folks who publish a skull by a different artist every day.
YO! magazine published an article on Occuprint, a database of posters responding to the occupy movement made available to download. My poster was one of the handful featured in the article. The article can by found here.
The VCU student paper published an article about a Civil War anthology titled, Remapping Richmond's Hallowed Ground. I contributed spot illustrations for this book. I'm mentioned in the article as a VCU tie to the project. You can read it here.
1/15/14
New one page comic
Just finished this guy and submitted it to Magic Bullet.
The comic was a little emotionally straining to make and has taught me a lot about appreciating my daughter during the process. (Click image to enlarge).
1/10/14
The Tour Van Monster Deck is here!
ART-MAGEDDON
I made a poster fro this exhibition is the culmination of a class taught by Tom Dehaven and
Kelly Alder titled, Collaborating on Comics. The class sought writers
from VCU’s English Dept and Artists from VCU’s Comm Arts Dept to
collaborate on comics together. The event exhibits the results.
More info below:
January 24 - February 23, 2014
Art-Mageddon:
When Pictures and Words Collide
at artspace
Zero East 4th Street,
in the Frable & smallspace Galleries
Comics collaborations by VCU artists and writers
Frable and smallspace Galleries
Opening Reception for the Artists
Fourth Friday, January 24, 2014
7:00-10:00 pm
Free and Open to the Public
"Both the Frable and smallspace galleries will feature "Art-Mageddon: When Pictures and Words Collide, Comics collaborations by VCU artists and writers." This exhibition was created through a joint effort of VCU Communication Arts and VCU English Department Writing Students enrolled in the new class called "Collaborating on Comics" taught by Kelly Alder and Tom De Haven. Students created original comics between 10 and 14 pages in an artistic partnership. De Haven remarked on this process "The writers concocted the captions and dialog—but not entirely. The artists designed the characters and determined the graphic style—but not exclusively. In good comics, words and images are inseparable, they blend and they bond, become a single thing, a compound. It’s a kind of magic, but it’s also a kind of pharmacology…"
Read more from VCU News: http://news.vcu.edu/article/The_visual_and_the_verbal#.UsbRe75Lk40.twitter
More info below:
January 24 - February 23, 2014
Art-Mageddon:
When Pictures and Words Collide
at artspace
Zero East 4th Street,
in the Frable & smallspace Galleries
Comics collaborations by VCU artists and writers
Frable and smallspace Galleries
Opening Reception for the Artists
Fourth Friday, January 24, 2014
7:00-10:00 pm
Free and Open to the Public
"Both the Frable and smallspace galleries will feature "Art-Mageddon: When Pictures and Words Collide, Comics collaborations by VCU artists and writers." This exhibition was created through a joint effort of VCU Communication Arts and VCU English Department Writing Students enrolled in the new class called "Collaborating on Comics" taught by Kelly Alder and Tom De Haven. Students created original comics between 10 and 14 pages in an artistic partnership. De Haven remarked on this process "The writers concocted the captions and dialog—but not entirely. The artists designed the characters and determined the graphic style—but not exclusively. In good comics, words and images are inseparable, they blend and they bond, become a single thing, a compound. It’s a kind of magic, but it’s also a kind of pharmacology…"
Read more from VCU News: http://news.vcu.edu/article/The_visual_and_the_verbal#.UsbRe75Lk40.twitter
1/4/14
IWW Logo Download
Did a quick vector reconstruction of the Industrial Workers of the World's (IWW) original logo for the DC branch.
Thought that other General Membership Branch's around the world might use this for themselves. So attached is a zip with various formats that are editable. You might need to use a different bold condensed typeface. I am using Univers. You can purchase just the condensed bold version here for only $29.
Thought that other General Membership Branch's around the world might use this for themselves. So attached is a zip with various formats that are editable. You might need to use a different bold condensed typeface. I am using Univers. You can purchase just the condensed bold version here for only $29.
Here is the zip link: www.mendedarrow.com/iwwlogo.zip
More about the IWW can be found here.
Some of the notable wobblies - or members of the IWW include: Lucy Parsons, Helen Keller, Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Arturo Giovannitti, Ricardo Flores Magon, James P. Cannon, James Connolly, Jim Larkin, Paul Matick, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, Eugene O'Neill, David Dellinger, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,, Sam Dolgof, Monty Miller, Idian Nationalist Lala Hardayal, Fritz Wolffheim, Frank Little, ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin, Harry Bridges, Minnesta Governor Floyd B Olson, Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder, Counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth, Surrealist Franklin Rosemont, Rosie Kane & Carolyn Leckie (former members of Scottish Parliament), Labor and environmental organizer Judi Bar, Utah Phillips, Hary McClintock, Anne Feeney, David Rovics, Jim Thompson, Finnish folk legend Hiski Salomaa, Dorothy Day, Ammon Hennacy, Comic artist Eric Drooker and Former guitarist for Rage Against the Machine Tom Morello.
Some of the notable wobblies - or members of the IWW include: Lucy Parsons, Helen Keller, Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Arturo Giovannitti, Ricardo Flores Magon, James P. Cannon, James Connolly, Jim Larkin, Paul Matick, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, Eugene O'Neill, David Dellinger, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,, Sam Dolgof, Monty Miller, Idian Nationalist Lala Hardayal, Fritz Wolffheim, Frank Little, ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin, Harry Bridges, Minnesta Governor Floyd B Olson, Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder, Counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth, Surrealist Franklin Rosemont, Rosie Kane & Carolyn Leckie (former members of Scottish Parliament), Labor and environmental organizer Judi Bar, Utah Phillips, Hary McClintock, Anne Feeney, David Rovics, Jim Thompson, Finnish folk legend Hiski Salomaa, Dorothy Day, Ammon Hennacy, Comic artist Eric Drooker and Former guitarist for Rage Against the Machine Tom Morello.
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