call to artists Bent-Con 2012

As you may of may not know, I am the curator of the pop-up art gallery at the 3rd annual Bent-Con, an LGBT (and their friends) oriented comic-book, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, gaming (et.al.) convention, taking place this year Nov. 30th thru Dec. 2nd in Burbank, California. 

Are you an artist? Know one who might want to enter? 

  Check out the details HERE, Droogies!

SD comic-con

I'll be in San Diego for Comic-con over the next few days. It's the first time in a while I am not going as "marginalized publications".  I'll mainly be there as a promoter of Bent-Con, recruiting artists for the gallery show and for the contest to name the iconic characters (see card below). Also looking for sponsors and what-not. Bent-con will have a space at the Prism booth (#2144).

Secondarily, I'll be there as a Judge Dredd fan. The film "Dredd" comes out in september, and 2000ad, rebellion, and IDW are all having a big JD presence: panels, signings, et al.. Plus an advance screening of the film that I won tickets to.
Next year we will revert to our regularly scheduled convention schedule of tabling at a booth selling my wares.
See you there!

and another thing...

Something else that has kept me busy the past week is designing the teaser flyer for Bent-con 2012, and since we have a theme this year, being 2012 (as in the Mayan end of the world), and emphasis on the world since this year will see more international guests, we needed new artwork. I intended it to be a lot rougher than this, but ended up enjoying playing around in photoshop and the result was something very "artsy".

I am pretty happy with it.

I would also be remiss if I didn't acknowledge some inspiration taken from Brute/Aidan Hughes' "Godlike" artwork for KMFDM.