Konnichiwa!

Can't believe I never posted this, but it's been ten years since I had the extraordinary honor of being named a Fulbright Scholar & traveling to Japan as a guest of the Japanese government. To share my experiences I created a series of paintings collectively titled "Windows on Japan". 

You can クリック to see the whole series, but here is a small sampling~ 

オバマ米大統領はノックをして日本で

Okay, this is pretty damn cool indeed~

"Obama Said Knock You Out" has invaded the beautiful

Land of the Rising Sun...

Just wow.

 

 

Please do send in any pix of the piece that you find in the wild, or better yet- please, please do put some up & send me the photos. I will post any & all that I receive.

Let's make this a worldwide jam!

I, & your President, thank you for your service...

edible misogyny

Only in Japan~

She's enticing you to "Please eat it gently and kindly."

& behold the slightly NSFW pudding "cups"...

found on Danny Choo's waycool portal to Japan

& it was still warm.

"Where The Wild Things Are" was my favorite book when I was a kid (mayhaps it still is) & it was my boy's as well. Now the ultra-talented mad genius Spike Jonze is finally releasing his celluloid version this fall. My thoughts on this have been mixed- the delays & troubles certainly didn't assuage any fears. Adding so much back story may ruin its simplicity or it may be bloody brilliant; I'll give Mr. Jonze the benefit of the doubt for now, especially given the wonderfully beautiful & perfectly odd trailer that is makin' the rounds on the tubes of the Internet as well as in those archaic monstrosities known as movie theatres. You can easily find that elsewhere so here is a the cover to the Japanese version that I was lucky enough to score whilst in country

& a refix of the Arcade Fire song as close to the version of the tune as heard in the trailer.

Enjoy~

Wake Up Where The Wild Things Are

people deserving of more respect, pt. D

Yoshitoshi

friday night fights!

Waycool website http://www.spacebooger.com/ holds Friday Night Fights aka "One Panel of Pain", a competition for bloggers to get their geek on & post some comix art that satisfies the aforementioned criteria, simply enough being one colorful box of graphic hurt~

The above was drawn by the late & great Seth Fisher, who deserves & will get his own post in the very near future, but for the time being enjoy the wonderful insanity of giant robot Otetsukun, as his innards are controlled by the Thing & his mouth encases the Human Torch (hence the fire-breath), & as he brings the pain to Eerok, the monstous ape, & Giganto, the anthropomorphic whale. This thing of beauty appears with many, many other equally eye-pleasing objets d'art in "Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan" #2, by Zeb Wells & Mr. Fisher, & also collected as a trade paperback which should be owned by every comix-, art-, Japan-, giant monkey-loving person everywhere...

Enjoy the genius & please vote for my contender in the comic book brawl of all brawls!