Gully Foyle is my Name and Terra is my Nation

Here’s something in the way of a confidence boost. I just finished this book cover for “The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester and for once, I’m actually proud of something I did. SHOCKER! That might have something to do with the fact that I’ve have the idea for this illustration in my head for 2 years ever since I finished “The Stars My Destination” and never had the time (ok I’ve had tons of free time. I mean the confidence) to actually just whip it out. Also MCAD is having me show at the annual portfolio day tomorrow so what the hell. It’s a good excuse to make some new work.
Speaking of new work, I’m STILL LOOKING FOR A FUCKING JOB! It’s almost been 6 months since graduation, meaning my student loans are about to go into repayment. I’m not even being picky anymore, I’m seriously at the end of my rope and just need a regular pay check. Outside of that, as far as updates go I am now living with my wonderful girlfriend Jacquie and have been for about 2 months now. She’s in the midst of finals and stressing the fuck out. She needs a break. I guess it’ll be Friday when I post this so my oldest friend Danielle will be graduating today which is exciting cause it means she’ll be moving back to Minneapolis in a few months.
Oh, and one more thing, me and my friends at the Twin Cities Avengers want you to come to Dyke March on June 26th at 7PM that congregates on the steps of the Walker Art Center. It’s a fun and fabulous demonstration against the over commercialized aspects of PRIDE. This years theme is “Consent is Sexy” teaching us all that we should ask before we grab some tail. Hope to see you there. (By the way you don't need to be a Dyke to march. Everyone's invited)

What the hell happened?

I know. I know. I know. I suck at maintaining a blog (by the way my spell check says that isn’t a word. interesting). Well here’s my life in a nut shell for that past four months.
I graduated from MCAD and because the job I had was pretty much based on the pretense that I’m a student, I am now a bum. Stupidly I took a month to sit on my ass instead of looking for work and now I share my time between looking for work and mopping around my apartment depressed because work cannot be found. My girlfriend (and her cat) moved in with me so I guess I’m livin’ in sin (at least as far as my parents are concerned). Now we start the rigorous task of unpacking. I’ve been working mostly in my sketch book but am hoping to actually put out a decent portfolio piece at some point (yeeeeeeah). Here’s a little doodle I just pulled out of my ass of Adam West. Don’t ask me why I did a doodle of Adam West. I also realized that virtually none of the work I’ve put up in my last several posts have been in color. I hope to remedy that soon.
For now the job hunt continues and I continue to look for good excuses to leave the apartment once in a while. Hopefully I’ll get back on the whole one-post-a-week wagon but who knows.

Side effects may vary.

I just realized I never posted these illustrations I did a few months ago on some of the possible side effects of Viagra.

Since it was originally being designed as a blood pressure medication and its common use was really just a side effect of that, Viagra can give you a fatal decrease of blood pressure in your heart.

By far one of the most odd and kinda flat out scary side effects is that the blood pressure effects can actually decrease blood pressure in the capillaries of the eyes, specifically the ones that control the red rods and making everything look blue. The same effect can also potentially blind you.

I went to college for four years and all I got was this lousy comic book.

So for all of you who were out of state of simply didn’t get to see my senior show, here your chance to read my senior project (or what all you folks who go to normal college might call a “thesis”). In case you never bothered to ask what my senior project is about, it’s about the fetishizing of money in a capitalist society told in a crime noir setting, or if I were to cut the bullshit, it’s about a career criminal who gets in too deep with the wrong people
Download it here.
(Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader is require to view the file)

THIS IS IT!

The culmination of four months of work is currently on display in the MCAD main gallery and will be until Sunday, December 13^th. I want everyone who can to go and see it and tell me what you think (even if you think it fucking sucks). Take a business card and check out the rest of the Commencement Exhibition from all of the winter ’09 grads.

For those of you who can’t make it and still want to read the comic, I will be putting the whole thing online soon in a PDF format.

Inks complete

The Odds Page 8 (Sans Letters)
Originally uploaded by destructogasm

More fruits of my seemingly endless effort. Now that the final deadline is less than a week away, the next post will most likely contain pictures from the fully displayed senior show. I graduate in 2 weeks and so far I haven’t had the opportunity to seek out any real post-graduate prospects (for those who have asked I do not intend to go to grad school).
As far as the comic itself goes the only tasks that remain are lettering and printing. I pretty much just summed up my weekend right there.

Getting to know the dark side

Here's a quick warm up doodle I did. Alright now I gotta go be productive.