Halloween Showza preview...

Halloween Showza comin'!

(Monster courtesy of Stan Winston.)

A Long( but fun) Weekend..

Heres the schedule...

Friday night: River City Soul Company's Soul check at Shantytown. Double duty playing with Mike Fout AND The Corporate Whores. Hanging out with The Snacks and Johari. Drinkin' and druggin'...

Saturday night: The Next Art and Design Showcase at Flux gallery. My first showing in Riverside. Haven't been to a Flux opening, it should be fun. If not, home is a couple blocks away...

Sunday: Back to work...shitty...

Insert Coin...

28"X36" acrylic on canvas... My pseudo political piece about mercenaries, I mean private military contractors: Blackwater.

NEXT...my next art show.

Flyer by: Karen Kurycki


Brian Gray and The Outer Box presents Next: Art and Design Showcase. Saturday night(9/20/08) at Flux Gallery in 5 Points from 6PM-10PM. This will be my FIRST showing in Riverside. Should be a good time!

Henchman sketch...

Big Helmet Guy...

River City Soul Company presents: SoulCheck...

...featuring Jacksonville bands: The Snacks, Corporate Whores, Mike Fout, and Johari.

Mr. Goblins new suit!

Character sketch for Mr. Goblin and one of his crazy "suits". I don't know why he has a face and arms where the crotch is located. Form over function?

Goblin character sketch...

Character sketch of who I think will be the first antagonist in the Shyloh comic. I am currently scripting a seven page preview for submission. Hopefully, the story can get into the next issue of the Vault by local comic guys: Alphacat Comics.

Fall C+C schedule...

The Halloween Show
Ghosts, Zombies & Monsters!

Show off your best Halloween art. Go spooky, go silly, go scary, just go go go p, draw, sculpt or design and celebrate the great fun that is Halloween! Submissions are due for this show by 8pm October 3rd. This show will kick off with a costume party October 4th at 7pm.

Left, Right, Middle: Politics in America
The Election Season Heats Up!

Express your viewpoint this election year, as Alex Ross does here with his Obama painting. Join us for "Right, Left, Middle: Politics in America" and submit your political art. Please email Ed Dansart or Kimberly for guidelines on this show before submitting. Submission deadline Oct. 29th. This show comes complete with a mock debate and election, featuring a few of your favorite comic book heroes and opens with a reception on Nov. 1st from 7-9 pm.

Nuclear Winter
Sci-Fi & Futuristic Fun!

This winter we delve into Sci-Fi Art and examine the future and our place in it! submissions for this show must be received by December 1st. "Nuclear Winter" opens with a reception Sat., December 6th from 7-9pm.

E-mail me with any questions at edbot5000@yahoo.com.

Comics&Classics+eb5k...

Sweet! I have become the official art guru/goon/consultant at C+C!

That means I get to brainstorm theme ideas for group shows and recruit artists for solo shows. Its going to be a great learning experience. I have already met some great artists setting up the last show. The next show will be the Halloween group show. October 4th. More info on this show will posted here and at the Outer Box very soon.

Crooked Little Vein...

Plot Summary:

"Michael McGill, a burned-out private eye is hired by a corrupt White House Chief of Staff to find a second "secret" US Constitution, which had been lost in a whorehouse by Richard Nixon. What follows is a scavenger hunt across America, exposing its seedier side along the way. McGill is joined by surreal college student side-kick, Trix, who is writing a thesis on sexual fetishes."

Warren Ellis is one of the best comic book writers out there. "Crooked Little Vein" is his debut novel. This is book is fantastically perverse...I love it.

About the secondary secret constitution:

"It is a small, handwritten volume reputedly bound in the skin of the extraterrestrial entity that plagued Benjamin Franklin’s ass over 6 nights in Paris during his European travels. Benjamin Franklin wasn’t some nancy-boy novelist who wrote sensitive books about aliens sticking things up his rectum, you know. On the seventh night he got right up and killed the little bastard with one punch”

One more little passage:

“What I am is unlucky,” I snarled. “You know I got an adultery case last year? You know what the husband turned out to be doing at night? He had formed a sex cult that broke into an ostrich farm at midnight three times a week. You know what it’s like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?”
The chief of staff made a sympathetic noise he’d probably learned off a talk show. “I’m not sure I can even imagine how to do that.”
“I had that image in my head for two months. I couldn’t have sex. My girlfriend came to bed one night in a feather boa and I started crying. She left me for a woman named Bob who designs strap-ons shaped like dolphin penises.”

How awesome is that? Read it.