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11.18.11

New Comics

Filed under: comics — Nick Main @ 5:29 pm

I’ve updated the comics section with a few short stories I’ve done over the past year for Ink & Drink Comics‘ anthologies. I&D is a group of St. Louis creators that started getting together for beers a while back and eventually decided to collaborate. Thanks to the editing might of Carlos Ruiz, Jason Green, and Bryan Hollerbach, we now have 3 books on the shelves, each based on a different genre: horror, crime, and sci-fi (and currently taking submissions for the Western book due in 2012.)

They’re available through my shop or you can read my submissions here for free.

If you’re going to read one, may I suggest the latest, Kids These Days, from Blasted. And remember, if you buy Blasted here, I donate %100 of the profits to The Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit medical charity dedicated to extending healthy human life. So really, the more copies you buy, the longer you’ll live.

04.17.10

Record Store Day 2

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nick Main @ 4:36 pm

Here’s another one. I reappropriated a copy of “The Rex Nelson Singers’ Expression of Love” album

and tried to make them a little less creepy.

And speaking of…days…Free Comic Book Day is coming up May 1st.

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Record Store Day

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nick Main @ 3:50 pm
Did you know they still sell music? In STORES too! Its true. In fact, today is National Record Store Day. STL’s Vintage Vinyl put together a record to promote it called “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” with original music by the store’s employees and friends, and they asked local artists to make some original covers for the LPs. Here’s my contribution…

Since it’s probably too difficult to read here, I’ll just say it tells the story of a guy quitting his job, getting drunk, getting into more and more trouble till he’s broke and hospitalized, and has to go back to his job. Oh, life.

They’re doing some in-store promotions and stuff today so swing by if you get a chance.

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02.02.10

The Twainstache

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nick Main @ 11:38 pm

Bowl of Fruit

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nick Main @ 12:39 am

01.12.10

FSM FTW

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nick Main @ 10:00 am
I spent about an hour driving on Big Bend yesterday so I started on this tacky landscape and got about this far before Stephanie took over…

See if you can spot the difference!

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01.11.10

Winter Stephanie

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nick Main @ 11:24 am

Stephanie got me Corel Painter a while back, but I just finally got a laptop that can handle it without pausing 20 seconds between every brushstroke. It's pretty fun, but there are a LOT of options for media/brushes. Too many. They should make graphics software like video games and make you unlock everything one at a time. No gradients till you beat the Pen Tool level! Also, when you think you've finished it, you should have to play the whole thing again, but upside-down! That one's free Adobe.

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10.19.09

Dead Fly Art

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Nick Main @ 8:46 am

One time, when I was living with Don, he found a dead cockroach on his desk and proceeded to drag me in to help make a crime scene, with chalk outline and yellow tape if I remember correctly. I should see if he has any pics. Anyway, I was just reminded by these charming little dead fly cartoons. More at TheChive.com

Found on Digg where a commenter linked to this…

10.18.09

Eastwood and Frazetta

Filed under: Kickass Artists — Tags: , , — Nick Main @ 3:03 pm

What a great picture. Taken moments before they wrestled a bear and saved America from a Nazi invasion.

Frazetta and Clint Eastwood

Frazetta’s kind of the cliche of fantasy illustration, but I love him.

I got into him after I realized Sam Kieth was ripping him off.

Don’t get me wrong, he obviously added his own thing to the style. I hope to someday rip off Sam Kieth half as well as he’s ripped off Frazetta.

More art by Frazetta (and inspired by him) on DearComputer

10.13.09

Jesus2000

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Nick Main @ 8:31 am

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