"Bad Caricatures" Going Down at AE Party This Friday

Altered Esthetics -- art gallery home of Lutefisk Sushi C and Big Funny -- is celebrating its sixth birthday this Friday with a live auction, music, booze ... and "bad caricatures" courtesy of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy. You want to be flattered? Go to Valley Fair. You want to look long and hard into the fun house mirror? Come to the Altered Esthetics.

Several local cartoonists, including myself, will be sitting behind the drawing booth, waiting to shock and amaze you. Caricatures are free, but donations are encouraged. Altered Esthetics is a non profit, community-run art gallery, so why not come and spend a few Lincolns?

PS -- If you're a local cartoonist who wants to draw caricatures, we're happy to have you! Let Jamie know at: contact [at] alteredesthetics.org.

Festivities start at 7pm, and more info can be found at City Pages, The Cartoonist Conspiracy, and Altered Esthetics' site.

See you Friday!

Zander's Fleming Hazmat/Tommy Chicago/Uptown Girl pinup is online at Staplegenius!

Some time ago, Danno Klonowski asked me to do a pinup for his massive crossover adventure that brought three of the best minicomics characters ever together for a romp through space and time and whatever, and so I said sure. I love drawing these characters, and in particular you may notice how similar Fleming Hazmat looks to a certain lieutenant who now graces the deltoids of a certain cartoonist.

And you should definitely go about reading the entire book here at Staplegenius!

Klonowski on Klonowski

Danno Klonowski, local comics raconteur, has paid me a significant compliment. When told his name and his/his character's likeness would be used in a Transformers comic that I was scripting, he boldly declared that he would get a tattoo of the panel in which the character appeared. Well, I made darn sure that that character got a panel in which he was prominent, and brandished a large weapon. Yes, my storytelling choices are influenced by only the highest muses.

As for what happened then, Danno tells the whole story in some detail at his blog, StapleGenius. But here's a hint:


Holy crap.