Yes? No? Well, either way, I present my newest print, Mighty Thor Is Mighty, now available for purchase in my Etsy shop. And with this print, the holy Avengers trinity (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor) is complete! Perhaps you want to procure one before the Thor movie hits next year. It’ll make you cooler. Just saying.
And congratulations are in order for one Nuri R. from Texas, the winner of my first-ever print give-away. The print Nuri chose?
Crawly
Thanks again to all that entered, and be on the lookout for more give-aways in the future!
From top to bottom: Ponyo Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, Essex County trilogy hardcover by Jeff Lemire, and the ultra-beautiful Wednesday Comics hardcover from DC Comics! I am very thankful that I will never run out of inspiring art to absorb. Needless to say, I would recommend all of the above to anyone and everyone.
On the give-away front, ye olde Random Number Generator has spoken, and the winner of a free art print from my Etsy shop has been chosen and notified! If it’s okay with the winner, I’ll post his/her name and their prize choice in a later blog post. Thanks again to everyone who participated, and please do tell your friends, as I plan on doing another give-away in the future.
So, today is my birthday. Also, I have recently achieved the milestone of 50 items sold in my Etsy shop. What better way to celebrate than to hold my first-ever blog give-away! And the prize? Well, I am going to give the winner one free 8.5″ x 11″ print of their choice from my Etsy shop! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling me who your favorite super-hero is. You could also tell me why, if you are so inclined, but it’s not necessary, though it could be fun. The winner will be chosen via random number generator. And now, some rules:
Only one comment per valid email address allowed. Multiple comments will be disregarded.
Winner will be notified by email, so please be sure to leave a valid email address.
Deadline for this give-away is 11:59PM, Friday, July 23, 2010! Comments must be posted by this deadline.
So good luck to you, dear reader! This should be fun! And to keep the celebration going, I am also offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders in my Etsy shop through July 31, 2010!
By the way, here is one of my favorite super-heroes:
Psylocke has been one of my favorite super-heroes ever since I started reading comics. She is pretty much all-around badass, she has purple hair, and she’s Asian (sort-of)! Now, who’s your favorite super-hero?
Update 7/24/10 The Give-Away is now closed. Thanks to all who participated! The winner will be notified on Monday, July 26, 2010. Thanks again, and I hope to do another give-away soon.
Suddenly, and without warning, I find myself rediscovering the magic and awesomeness of books. I mean, I read a lot of comics and graphic novels, but lately I have this desire to read more novels of the non-graphic variety. I guess I kind of forgot how powerful, moving, and inspiring books can be.
Right now I am in the middle of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and I am truly absorbed in it. As soon as I finish it, I have decided to revisit a bunch of stuff from high school english class:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
All of those books are pretty much considered classics, and I really want to reread them now because I just didn’t appreciate them when I was in high school. Funny aside: all the books pictured above are the actual copies I read from high school, except To Kill a Mockingbird. I could not find my high school copy anywhere. Luckily, the fine folks at Borders emailed me a coupon for 50% off To Kill a Mockingbird, it being the book’s 50th anniversary and all. Win!
Of course, I’ve got some newer stuff waiting for me as well. So yeah, basically I am giving myself an even bigger pile of things to read along with the comics and graphic novels stacked up and occupying my living space. Totally not a bad thing, though.
I call it Still Trying. It is 11 x 8 1/2″ ink and colored pencil on paper. I like it. You can also check out my Drawgasmic artist profile here.
Tonight I saw Toy Story 3 for the second time. I laughed just as hard as when I first saw it, and I still shed a tear at the end. Basically, Toy Story 3 makes me happy that I still have a kid inside me, and it inspires and validates my creative aspirations.
I still haven’t seen Toy Story 3 yet, and this greatly worries me. My fave girl and I were supposed to see it last Monday night, but we were lured away by the call of Portillo’s and a session of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. We already beat the game once, but now we are attempting to acquire all the gold coins, so that we can really beat the game (World 9 and all). You know.
So I went ahead and added a new, smaller Spider-Man print to my Etsy shop! Of course, smaller = cuter, so there you go. It’s printed on 5″x7″ fine art paper, and it is really, really adorable. Or something like that. Spider-Man isn’t even my favorite super-hero, but I really get a kick out of drawing him in this style. XD
P.S. I have recommitted myself to physical fitness. You are all now my witnesses.
I am still having an awesomely awesome time experimenting with the post-processing of my photos! The above photo was originally taken a few weeks back while in awesome Galena, Illinois. As you can see, Galena is possessed of some awesome hidden, miniature worlds. Awesome!
And now I would like to present the most unexpectedly awesome game to make its debut at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 for those in the know:
I seriously cannot wait to get my hands on this awesome game! If that video didn’t make you smile, then you probably have no heart, and therefore, are not awesome.
Why yes, this is my newest print, now available in my Etsy shop. It’s DC Comics’ Green Lantern, AKA Hal Jordan, who some say is the greatest of the Green Lanterns. He’s got a green power ring that harnesses willpower, and he’s pretty cool, too. Pretty cool, indeed.
I fairly recently jumped on the Green Lantern bandwagon, and I’m glad I did. What can I say? Geoff Johns is just money when it comes to the DC Heroes, and he turned my tangential interest in Green Lantern comics into a bona fide one. Green Lantern is easily one of the best super-hero books out there, and I encourage everyone to give it a try. Or else.
