Blue Fedora

Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies

2011-12-11T20:35:00.001-08:00

I was fortunate enough to be asked to work on the Album art for the new Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies album, The Flood. I also did the design for the T-shirt and type on a poster, the printing came out really nicely, and their album release show was spectacular! Check out the band:

http://stevegoldbergmusic.com/

-Eamon

The Front Cover

The Back Cover

The Disc

Inside flap w/out text

The T-Shirt Design

DEBT: You owe. Pay.

2011-10-04T20:42:00.001-07:00

Some sketches for a recent graphic novel idea, a sci fi story about a man working off a debt on some implants he got for his two dearest friends, that prevent these odd contraptions from depleting their motivation...Kinda weird but here are some sketches...

-Eamon

Weird Punk

2011-09-05T18:28:00.000-07:00

I did this with a Sharpie on a piece of Staples printer paper and liked it enough to throw some colors on it. It looks a little like what a mutant from The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller if he were maybe drawn by Jack Kirby.
-Eamon

The Horror at Redhook

2011-08-17T17:55:00.000-07:00

I was invited to participate in a group art show by an old friend of mine, Sam Heimer, of works influence by H.P. Lovecraft. The piece that was chosen for me was "The Horror at Red hook" which is basically a story about a cop who is afraid of Big buildings and foreigners, because in the story they gather in them to perform arcane rituals and bring a reclusive weirdo youth again, and summon some glowing god of evil. The story is somewhat infamous for some of its content, but I went for it anyway, starting with some sketches.

With the above I was focusing on the creepy old man, and for some reason I thought that that was too narrow a focus? I do very much enjoy drawing craggy, creepy old men for some reason, but I wanted to capture the feel of the story a bit more. I went off on one of my wild tangents and eventually worked up something to almost finished levels...

I am really liking how the character in the foreground, but not enough reference and just kind of a boring background made me not really like this piece. On the advice of some artist friends, I decided I wanted to capture more aspects of the story, the strange orgies, the paranoid cop, and the reverse aging of the evil old man.

I started with this...and ended up with:

Enjoy!

-Eamon

Drawn To Letters

2011-08-04T19:24:00.000-07:00

The Philadelphia Cartoonist Society invited me to participate in their latest show, Drawn to Letters at Brave New Worlds in Olde city, where each member would be selected to depict a letter from the alphabet. I got the letter G, and wanted to share the gradual process that got me to my final...I started out w some thumbnails:
I orignally either wanted to do a montage of G-Men type characters, or a letter G-themed superhero, G-man if you will...I went so far as to doodle some superhero stuff in ink on tracing paper...

Something about these just did not speak to that Eamon inside, who says "YEAH! NOW THIS PIECE I WANT TO FINISH!" So sally forth I did, until I drew this guy...

And I decided a medieval scene with giants could be a fun thing to do...so I went with it!

After I 'figured things out' I went to the tracing paper, then transferred it to board and inked it up. I kind of wanted to go for a Groo the Wanderer style image...I don't know if I succeeded, but I enjoyed working on the piece!

And there you have it! Enjoy! And if you are in the area come to the show!

-Eamon

Punisher coffe shop doodle.

2011-07-17T20:09:00.000-07:00

The Punisher has fast become one of my favorite Marvel characters, his stories are a mix of awesome action movie level violence, absurdity and pathos. This weekend while killing some time in Olde city, I stopped by the Olde City Coffee Cafe in Philadelphia and busted this out, no reference or anything, just something to keep my hands busy. I got this fat brush pen to ink it with, and considering all of that I thought it turned out fairly well! I forgot what his kid's names were though...

-Eamon

Space Dudes

2011-07-12T18:52:00.000-07:00

I did a strip with these characters, the Space Dudes, a while back. It was just a random thing I did on a staples printer paper sheet that I never revisited, with some characters I enjoyed the drawing. I tried to revisit...but rather than just continue the strip I started I drew one up on tracing paper and just worked it up to the ink stage all on tracing paper...basically something to get me drawing. In any case here it is!
-Eamon

Artificial Dissemination

2011-07-11T18:59:00.000-07:00

Heya Gang,

So last Saturday was the Artificial Dissemination show, at Masthead print studio, and here are some photos I took at the event. Above is my piece PRINT LIVES "in the wild" as it were all framed up.

Above is the wall I was on, I am surrounded by awesome artists, including the always impressive work of Alex Eckman-Lawn (directly under my piece) and Jennifer Gin (to the right of Alex's piece). Awesome and intimidating company!

Here is another section of some awesome work, with 2 pieces by James Heimer, show curator and screen printer extraordinaire! (He also hand pulled the prints for my contribution). Also a sweet print by Anthony Pedro!

Above we have another section of amazing prints, with work by poster machine Mike Wohlberg, Jeffro Kilpatrick and a collab with Patch and Melissa Lomax!

Not a bad turn out, eh?A big thanks to Shawn Hileman at Masthead and James Heimer, and everyone who came out to the show! I am humbled with the chance to show my work with so many amazing artists. The show is up for a month if you are in the Philadelphia area, check it out!
-Eamon

Print Lives!

2011-07-07T19:35:00.000-07:00

A piece I did (the very top one) along with a collage thumbnail using various sketch materials, for the upcoming show at Masthead Print studio, Artificial Dissemination! This image was done on smooth Bristol board, lots of layers of tracing paper and ink. It had to be a propaganda piece, and I decided to try my hand at a pro-paper/anti e-reader message in light of print being dead and all. The image was screen printed by James Heimer (and they look fantastic, thanks James!) I was pretty happy with how the piece turned out, but definitely need to try my hand at more type/poster layout.
-Eamon

Crowd scene

2011-06-28T22:26:00.000-07:00

I did this sketch while trying to come up with a poster idea for an upcoming show I will be participating in at Masthead print studio...I did not end up using these guys for the piece but I may have to color this and use it for something else.

-Eamon

Donald enters the fray!

2011-06-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

While Rummaging through a bunch of papers I found this, Decided I would share. I like this one! Maybe I'll finish it...

-Eamon

Dashiell Hammett

2011-06-14T19:30:00.000-07:00

This is a quick brush-pen drawing of Dashiell Hammett. He is one of my all time favorite writers, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, a former Pinkerton Detective, who also served in both world wars if my memory serves.

-Eamon

Takeshi Kitano

2011-06-13T19:13:00.001-07:00

Here is a quick Portrait of one of my favorite film directors, Takeshi Kitano. I did this with a Pentel GFKP pen, which gives me these really brushy lines. Kitano has a new movie called Outrage which competed at Cannes, I am curious if it would get a release here in the states.

-Eamon

The Bile Knight of the Black Landscape

2011-05-26T20:01:00.001-07:00

"The Black Landscape is a charred and dark plane of slag, a stranger to life itself, barren and silent. Beneath the charcoal heaps of land boils primordial energy, molten life-blood of the earth itself. The ooze churns mixes and bubbles until it breaks the blackened surface and shoots upwards. A soggy lump of flesh falls upon the dead ground, and a humanoid shape shambles upward on two feet. The form is covered in boils and scars, armor is molded, bent to his misshapen core. The Black Landscape has birthed it's knight. It knows, and it chooses. Those it chooses, die."

A new character I am throwing ideas around, wrote this quick origin for him. Enjoy!
-Eamon

Robin Again

2011-04-10T11:36:00.000-07:00

I find Robin a lot easier to draw than Batman. After watching the recent Batman the Brave and the Bold episode Bat-Mite presents Batman's Strangest cases! I wanted to draw a Robin, because I find the Jiro Kuwata version of Robin to be really appealing. My version doesn't really reflect Kuwata's Robin, except for maybe the eyes. I did this in a hour and a half with tracing paper, a brush pen, and photoshop.
I am also toying with a fantasy series comic idea, here is one of the characters:

More to come hopefully!

-Eamon

The Fedora and Top Hate

2011-03-29T20:38:00.001-07:00

Some characters.

-Eamon

Dinos!

2011-02-20T11:46:00.000-08:00

Kahn

2011-01-30T16:37:00.000-08:00

Dinostuffs

2011-01-17T20:42:00.000-08:00

So here is a bunch of preliminary sketching for a new show I will be in, The Age of Reptiles, at Paradigm Gallery. My final piece might not actually use any of this stuff...but I thought I'd share.
-Eamon

Hallowed Halloween

2010-09-20T17:36:00.000-07:00

Here is my piece for the Autumn society's new show, Hallowed Halloween, being showcased at Proximity gallery in Fishtown (in Philadelphia). The basic idea for this piece is this dude, in a really lame home-made batman costume comes to this costume contest, and sees that he is destined to lose. Now, are these guys in costume or actually monsters? I think it is funnier to imagine that they are all somehow in elaborate costumes (even though that would be basically impossible). This piece was done in marker, sumi ink, pitt pen and sharpie. Enjoy! The show is going to be awesome.

The Facebook Invite link, with all the deets.

All Hands On Deck

2010-07-05T21:24:00.000-07:00

Here is my entry in the Autumn Society's new Show, All Hands On Deck, showing at Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery . It depicts various characters from Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick.

Autumn Society of Philadelphia presents "All Hands On Deck"

Chapterhouse Cafe & Gallery
620 s. 9th st
Philadelphia, PA
between south and bainbridge st
917-373-5055

Opening July 9th 7PM
Show will hang through out the month

Facebook Link:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=139050229438630

http://www.myspace.com/chapterhouse

The Autumn Society

Come on out!

Disaster Man Versus Self Gratification!

2010-06-27T19:18:00.000-07:00

Disaster man at Golgotha

2010-06-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

On the Road to Fat!

2010-06-15T18:00:00.000-07:00

This is a quick sketchbook comic I colored in, it relates a true story about the time I went to see the movie Exit Through The Gift Shop, which was completely not what I expected. It really made me wonder about what makes a successful artist, and kind of infuriated me by the end. Also I think the Wendy's Recipe has changed for spicy chicken sandwiches. Boo!

-Eamon

More Monsters!

2010-05-31T15:01:00.000-07:00

Japanese type monster brawl

2010-05-23T18:58:00.000-07:00

Zepf, Multron and Shnaz, the Space Dudes!

2010-05-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

Monster Street Fight w/ Lawrence Hugh Burns

2010-05-12T21:41:00.000-07:00

Here is a page of a collaboration comic I am working on with fellow Uarts illustration Alum Lawrence Hugh Burns. His page was a tough act to follow! I designed the monster who gets his arm chomped off, Lawrence designed the one what did the chompin'!

Happy Mother's Day

2010-05-09T07:36:00.001-07:00

Adventure Times

2010-04-14T19:38:00.000-07:00

Chogrin was kind enough to extend me an invitation to contribute to an adventure time tribute...here is the result! Thanks Joe!

Space Menz

2010-04-13T16:56:00.001-07:00

Fightin' Dudes!

2010-04-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

Back into the swing...

2010-01-17T21:31:00.001-08:00

Funny Animals

2009-11-03T19:35:00.001-08:00

Back From Baltimore

2009-10-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

Attended the Baltimore Comic Con this weekend, should have some pictures and updates soon, but in the meanwhile here are some fun sharpie/marker sketches I did during the off moments at the table.
-Eamon

Moby Dick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent

2009-10-09T19:51:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine gifted me this amazing hardcover of Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, with amazing black and white Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. I've decided I would scan and share some of my favorites. Ejnoy!
-Eamon

Shin 2

2009-10-06T17:09:00.000-07:00

Shin, from Hokuto No Ken.

2009-10-01T21:33:00.000-07:00

The rest.

More Comic Goodness

2009-09-24T17:47:00.000-07:00

Some more sample pages!
-Eamon

MORE new comic stuff

2009-09-15T20:53:00.000-07:00

From Me and Nick!

new comic stuffs

2009-09-10T21:19:00.000-07:00

New pages from me and Nick.

Two Hats and Family

2009-09-02T14:20:00.001-07:00

A family outing.
-Eamon

Frog, and Monster Further explored

2009-07-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

I really liked Chrono Trigger and old Squaresoft RPG, so drawing Frog from that game seemed like a good choice to get the creative juices flowing again. I have also been watching some Voltron Lately, and Decided to try my hand at some monsters brawlin' again.

Monsters a Brawlin'

2009-07-26T22:49:00.000-07:00

Go Monsters Go!

New style stuffs

2009-07-21T19:28:00.001-07:00

Fooling around with new techniques.

Bat Hedgehog

2009-07-20T18:38:00.001-07:00

Robin

2009-07-01T20:09:00.000-07:00

I had some big time CS3 troubles and just got it fixed tonight, and did this up in honor of the golden age show. Feeling a little under the weather also, sorry I could not make the hanging. It is going to be a kick ass show!

Golden Age Show!

2009-06-28T19:58:00.001-07:00

Come see the astonishing Autumn Society at their thrilling 4th gallery show! Featuring works of art inspired by the glorious Golden Age of Comics and Animation!

The event will be hosted by the brave and bold folks at Brave New Worlds Comics, this Friday, July 3rd, at 6pm! Be there!
(thanks to Joe for the help on the design work!)

Dr. Claw

2009-05-14T15:38:00.001-07:00

Sample Sneak Peek

2009-05-01T23:44:00.001-07:00

more to come soon...

The Sheep Man

2009-04-30T14:26:00.000-07:00

Enter: The Sheep Man

Cute Animals

2009-04-29T10:18:00.001-07:00

Tried my hand at some cute animals...awwww!

Jungle Book

2009-04-28T23:07:00.000-07:00

I watched the intro to an old jungle book anime i used to like, "shonen Mowgli" and came up with this, enjoy!

Spring Has Sprung!

2009-04-02T14:12:00.000-07:00

For the Autumn Society Joker Show. I wanted to try some off register stuff, and throw the dynamic duo in there. Go Joker Go!

Joe Shishido

2009-02-25T19:32:00.001-08:00

Joe Shishido is a Japanese actor, who has appeared in a lot of movies, according to wikipedia about 300, including "Branded To Kill", directed by Seijun Suzuki. Shishido had his cheeks artificially enlarged, and it improved his career greatly, even though I think it makes him look like he has cotton balls stuffed in his cheeks at all times. Just trying some things out here with ink, and coloring in a slightly different way than usual, as well as trying to improve my likeness skills. Enjoy!
-Eamon

Garden of toonly delights

2009-02-22T21:49:00.001-08:00

I did this for the Philly Cartoonist Society music show, and i never really showed it off. I had mixed feelings about it composition wise, color palette wise, and every other concern an illustrator can have about his own work. Something i did like was all the silly little characters and jokes inside. I was trying to riff off of THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS by Bosch, (what was i thinking?) but inject it with weird cartoon-isms and jokes. The right panel in Bosch's garden depicting hell had a lot of music related things in it, which is why i chose it for the music show. Not sure why, but i thought i would share. Enjoy!

Silk Spectre

2009-02-15T13:04:00.000-08:00

Silk SPectressssss.

Lincoln Mask

2009-02-03T11:24:00.000-08:00

HEY KIDS!!! NOW YOU CAN BE JUST LIKE HONEST ABE!!! With your new Abe-face you can emancipate, proclaim, and be an all around tall dude! (Hat not included)

More Franklin in Space

2009-01-24T20:43:00.001-08:00

Some villians and equpiment designs for the Franklin comic.

Future Franklin

2009-01-09T18:00:00.001-08:00

ALiens

2009-01-06T17:15:00.001-08:00

Vegetables

2008-12-23T12:28:00.001-08:00

Pirate Versus Zombear

2008-12-20T09:29:00.000-08:00

Kenshiro

2008-12-18T16:31:00.000-08:00

A Fist of the North Star fan drawing.

Franklin Head sketch

2008-12-17T14:04:00.000-08:00

Roughie for my future Franklin idea.

Harpooneers continued

2008-12-16T13:32:00.000-08:00

Having read Moby Dick, I wanted to do an illustration with Whalers in it. Im not sure if it's finished yet.

Works In Progress

2008-12-15T17:12:00.001-08:00

Sherlock Holmes and convicts

2008-10-22T22:33:00.000-07:00

Holmes, the World's Greatest Detective

2008-10-16T16:56:00.001-07:00

Monster Street Fight pt 3

2008-10-10T10:51:00.000-07:00

I comic i did on the blog INK ANSWER. Check it.

AHAB

2008-10-09T10:54:00.000-07:00

Something I drew at work.

Monster bunny

2008-10-07T16:26:00.001-07:00

Murphy McCool: Demon Cop

2008-10-02T15:32:00.001-07:00

Monnnster

2008-09-26T16:49:00.001-07:00

Recent stuff

2008-09-10T17:36:00.001-07:00

Ranma

2008-08-10T20:57:00.000-07:00

Here's Rumiko Takahasi's Ranma, with Burgers!

More character stuff

2008-07-30T11:15:00.000-07:00

I love coming up with characters, Soooo here are a bunch more!

more characters and updates!!

2008-07-22T23:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some more character sketches for the comic Nick Tapalansky and I are preparing.

Updates

2008-07-02T12:27:00.000-07:00

It's been a while, time for updates!

Mighty Atom

2008-05-08T15:49:00.001-07:00

I need to resurrect this blog, and who better to do so than Mighty Atom himself? More to come, I promise!

The Infamous Pee Wee

2007-10-05T10:17:00.001-07:00

Here is a piece I did for the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society's recent Show at Amble gallery in the Northern Liberties in Philly. PeeWee Martini is a funny looking dog in fishtown, who's owner was kind enough to let us pay tribute to. I wanted this to have a dick tracy/Great Piggy bank robbery feel, and threw Ren, Astro, Scooby Doo, Muttley, Odie, Droopy, Huckleberry Hound, Mr.Peabody, Snoopy, Goofy,Santa's Little Helper, and Brain from Inspector Gadget as fellow gangster type dogs. Thanks to the Society for having me contribute, and for Amble for the space.

Self portrait

2007-09-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

I took a pose from an old japanese print and inserted my own head and elements. Going for some humor here. I hope someone finds it funny!

2007-09-07T10:44:00.000-07:00

Here is the front/back cover for a book that will hopefully be given out at the baltimore comic-con (if the printer doesnt screw it up). The japanese Text is a font, i dont know if it says what i want it to say, but it looks cool so whatever. Hopefully it says monster.Hahaha

Kitsune

2007-09-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

I couldn't find the texless version of this, so up it goes with text!

more japanese folklore monsters

2007-09-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

Here is my layout for the Kappa. These guys can be nasty, what wth their sucking out your organs through the anus and all. They have water in their heads, and if it all spills out they get weakened, so practice bowing in case you meet one!

more comic pages!

2007-09-07T10:21:00.001-07:00

Page three of the new comic I'm working on. The aliens have been spotted, who are these mysterious shadowy figures? WHO? WHOOOOO? Also that car took forever and a half to draw. Why are cars so hard to draw, hmmmm?

2007-09-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Page two of the new comic im working on, using a little drybrush here. Some of the panels need some touching up, as does my text and bubble work. I am happy with the characters though!

New comic page one

2007-09-07T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here is the first page of a new comic i am working on. Trying to ink more with a brush, alot of this page was doe with a bamboo brush. This mysterious craft is headed for earth! What ill omens does it bring? Whom does it carry inside? Color and text soon to come.

Tanuki

2007-09-03T06:44:00.000-07:00

Tanuki are racoon-dogs featured in japanese folklore as mischieveious little creatures, with enlarged testicles. (this is true or REAL Tanuki as well, though maybe not as exaggerated in the folk tales, or in my drawings).

I wanted to capture their funloving.troublemaking nature here. Hope I succeeded!

Tengu

2007-08-25T19:28:00.000-07:00

This is a page of Tengu, my interpretation of them anyway. Color and text soon to come!

The Invincible Iron Man

2007-07-06T00:50:00.001-07:00

No matter how many new suits they design, this will always be my favorite Iron Man suit of all time.

The Hand of DOOM!

2007-07-04T11:38:00.000-07:00

DOOM!

Open House poster

2007-07-01T14:28:00.001-07:00

Here is an Illustration I did for Uart's Open House Poster contest. I was trying to have fun with an urban setting and show the different majors you can choose at Uarts.

Sketches

2007-07-01T14:25:00.001-07:00

Some faces from around the school!

2007-07-01T14:10:00.001-07:00

Ogre Design

2007-07-01T14:07:00.000-07:00

Here is an Ogre character design I did, just for fun!

Pinup

2007-07-01T14:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a fan art of the character the escapist, punching Hitler in the face, like the old captain America cover.

Let's Wrassel!

2007-07-01T14:01:00.001-07:00

Here is a postcard concept, originally for my school's portfolio day. Another sketchbook drawing turned finished piece.

Let's Box!

2007-07-01T13:59:00.001-07:00

Book Cover I did for class. I took a sketch book drawing I liked and decided to make a layout from it. Gotta love the sketchbook!

2007-07-01T13:55:00.001-07:00