For my birthday a couple of months back, the Pirate Queen gave me a fistful of cash to put toward new art commissions. That’s what you get for the guy who has… well, not everything, but pretty close. Wanting to stretch my windfall as far as possible, I turned to fellow collector Damon Owens for [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Two hawks, no doves
February 17, 2012My funny Valentine
February 9, 2012For those of you who’ve expressed an interest in my burgeoning voice acting career, here’s a little something I voiced recently. It’s a promotional video for a Bay Area men’s chorus that delivers Singing Valentines. NIA Creative, an awesome marketing and production company, produced the project. Fun stuff… …and if you decide to purchase a [...]
Comic Art Friday: RIP, Al Rio (1962-2012)
February 3, 2012I was shocked and saddened on Tuesday morning — as were many of my fellow comics fans and comic art aficionados — to receive the news that artist and former Disney animator Al Rio had passed away in his native Brazil, the result of an apparent suicide. Those of you who have followed Comic Art [...]
Comic Art Friday: Somebody scream!
January 20, 2012You ever have one of those days when you just wanna scream? Tyroc and Songbird have those all the time. A hypersonic scream seems like such a bizarre superpower that it’s actually rather amazing how many comic book characters possess it. In addition to the subjects of the dazzling panel above — commissioned from the [...]
Comic Art Friday: Heavenly creatures
January 13, 2012We’re not fully two weeks into 2012, and already it’s been an exciting art year at the new Casa de Swan. Here’s the first of several reasons why. I frequently discuss with other comic art collectors our approaches to our theme commissions. Many of my fellow hobbyists present elaborately detailed scenarios to the artists they [...]
Comic Art Friday: The best of 2011
December 30, 20112011 was another light year on the commission front, due to economic circumstances with which I’m certain many of you could identify. It was, however, what the late film star Spencer Tracy might have termed a Katharine Hepburn kind of year — there wasn’t a lot of meat on its bones, but what there was, [...]
Comic Art Friday: Nice people rock!
December 23, 2011As most of you are aware, I celebrated yet another anniversary of my birth on Monday of this week. (That’s December 19, for the calendar-impaired.) That very day, I arrived home from a fun time touring the holiday sights of downtown San Francisco with The Daughter only to discover this beauty of a birthday gift [...]
You can still rock in America, even if you need a rocking chair
October 6, 2011Way back in America’s bicentennial year (1976, for those of you who are either too young to recall or lousy at math), Jethro Tull recorded a concept album entitled Too Old to Rock and Roll; Too Young to Die. The record’s theme reinforced the notion that rock music is a young person’s game. (Remember The [...]
This one’s for the boobies
October 3, 2011It hardly seems as though it’s been a year, but it’s October again. You know what that means: It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Those of you who’ve visited here and at our previous location know that I’m not big on causes, but I champion this one for a powerful personal reason: KJ, my wife [...]
36 Days of Adrenaline: Day 11 — “Life in the Fast Lane”
March 7, 2011Artist: The Eagles Why this song is an adrenaline rush: If there was ever any doubt that Joe Walsh is one of the most spectacularly gifted guitarists in the history of rock, the opening riff of “Life in the Fast Lane” should dispel said doubt. And if there was ever any doubt that Walsh playing [...]
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