Rubbing with Rubber

Dan & I are in puppet building overdrive!

It feels a lot like that effect in Star Trek when stars turn into long skinny lines and your hair is being blown back as if riding in a convertible.

A Little Video that may only Make Sense to Dan

Here's a little draft for "Three Floyds" puppet's mouth operation. I realize they look like training chop sticks. Click play to watch:

And a drawing:

The Sun's Shadow Show & a Cat that Bites my Leg

BEER Show Sketches

Some new concept sketches for the BEER puppet show with the Neo Futurists:

Metropolitan Brewery

The future site of our next puppet show with the Neo Futurists:

Puke Puppet Brainstorms

And now for puppet design drafts for a new show by the wonderful Neo-Futurists. This show is called Beer, and it will heavily feature animation & puppets by yours truly. Another joint venture with the wonderful Dan Kerr-Hobert! January is right around the corner. Below, you'll find some drawings for a hat-full of puke that comes alive to become a young boy's friend/guide. We wonder if he out-grows the hat as a chair, at some point wearing it on his head:

And sure enough I managed to make a phallic one before passing out. Why would I do this?

Idhi oka idi le

Thanks, Journalista! What a wild ride:

Birthday Present for Puppeteers

For the fine puppeteers that we worked with on our Hedwig & the Angry Inch production.

Nerds & Vicious Unseen Things

Did you feel the earthquake this morning?
There are a slew of things from the month of March that I can't bare to see unposted. Like my favorite dioramas, the great shadow play just finished, a stuffed mystery, some snow, or the Rube Goldberg competition at the Children's Museum.
The internets is finally back:

Times

Hurry!

You only have until the end of March to see the elaborate shadow puppets of 13 Dead Husbands by yours truly. Here are two fine desktop images:

Plus:
Frederick Cooper, Light of the World issue #1 is finally polished off. Want to buy a copy from the artist before it gets purchased from a publisher? Click on the sample page below to buy one!
Additionally, here's a painting for Frederick Cooper (as a submission to the old Amelia's Magazine number 9) and a photo of little Bernie circa 1988:

Carpe Bernum

SO ~ "Le Cat Show" by Sarah Bendix and Mikalina Rabinsky was a true delight and engaging. The Chopin Theater was set aglow...
And apparently I'm the very last person to see the Baron Munchausen, which split my head right open letting goopy German-Irish-Polish brains spill out all over my room mates' beautiful rug:And so long for now, Chicago. I'm heading out to the country again to shake loose some of these city woes. But I'm bringing you with me Freddie :)

Beauty Manager

Take charge, Nanna... I'm gettin off this machine