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Weekend illo for the National Post

2012-02-06T09:31:00.000-05:00

Go HERE to check out an illo I did for last weekend's National Post. I think it turned out pretty good.

Weird but good. Sadly the version that ran in the paper was in black and white.

Monday Night Wrestling Doodle: John Cena

2012-01-23T22:57:00.001-05:00

Cena was harder to draw than I thought he'd be. I think I got his likeness OK, I even give you a little tiny drawing of him doing part of his "you can't see me" schtick just for fun. Looks like he's on his way to turn heel. I'm really looking forward to that.

Correspondence Course continues!

2012-01-15T13:57:00.000-05:00

This is the second last of the five assignments from the Kubert Correspondence Courses. I had to use dip pens and brushes to ink this one. I thought it turned out pretty good, I even enjoyed using the pen and ink. I'm probably going to play around with those tools for a while. Watch out for more drawings done using those things from me in the future. I hope you enjoy the werewolf action going on in this thing, I know I did.

I HATE MEECES TO PIECES!

2012-01-14T10:48:00.001-05:00

I drew a bunch of mice for the Saturday January 14, 2012 issue of the national post, this is one of them if you want to see the rest I suggest you go and buy the National Post on Saturday the 14th of January, 2012. The rest are just as awesome

Zombies are boring!

2012-01-12T22:40:00.001-05:00

You know what isn't boring? Skeletons.

So I drew a skeleton today. dig it.

More wrasslers

2012-01-10T22:16:00.001-05:00

Well since Monday was WWE nite at Casa Me, I decided to take the opportunity to doodle up some wrestlers which seems to be becoming a tradition. The tradition of drawing wrestlers on monday. Since I already posted the C.M. Punk vs Creature from the Black Lagoon thing last night I figured I'd post these two quick portraits I did during RAW. I hope you enjoy.

Kane's back and now he wears two masks! this is his wrestling mask. I've always liked Masked Kane,
especially when he's a supernatural monster.

My attempt at The Big Show. Meh, I guess it turned out OK.

Creature from the Black Lagoon vs. C.M. Punk, just because

2012-01-09T21:13:00.000-05:00

Not sure why I drew this. Just doodling in my sketchbook and this came out. I think it would be a pretty good match.
Gillman wins.

Calabrese art.

2012-01-06T09:11:00.001-05:00

First bit of art I do in 2012 and its a parody of the last Calabrese album cover I worked on. Recently the band posted a video where one of the members was turned into a puppet. it made me laugh so I did this to the cover for THEY CALL US DEATH: CALABRESE III. VIDEO LINK. The painting was originally done by the fantastic Eric Powell . I changed Jimmy Calabrese into a pupet on this and did the lettering. hope you enjoyed it.

original cover art

Andrew's 2011 Movie Thoughts.

2012-01-03T11:05:00.001-05:00

Last year I decided to see how many movies I see in a year. I thought it would be interesting (at least to me) to see how many I experience for the first time, well it looks like I saw 159 movies for the first time in 2011. 30 of them in theaters, which were also new movies, you know movies from 2011.

Here's my list of my Top 10 of the movies I saw in theaters.

My Top Ten 2011 movies:

1    Hobo With A Shotgun
2    Rise of the Planet of the Apes
3    More Brains: A Return to the Living Dead
4    Captain America: The First Avenger
5    Thor
6    Insidious
7    Paranormal Activity 3
8    Horrible Bosses
9    Bridesmaids
10 The Thing

Top 10 movies I saw for the first time:

1    Hobo With A Shotgun
2    Rise of the Planet of the Apes
3    More Brains: A Return to the Living Dead
4    Alone in the Dark
5    Captain America: The First Avenger
6    Village of the Damned
7    Trollhunter
8    Oliver!
9   Return of the Evil Dead
10 Laid to Rest

Worst things I watched in 2011

1    The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
2    Cheerleader Camp
3    Stonehenge Apocalypse
4    A boy and his Dog
5    Sharktopus
6    Skyline
7    Deathstalker
8    Quarantine 2
9   Watchers II
10 Behemoth

Weirdest movie: Rubber
Most disappointing: Attack the Block, Super 8. I didn't think either of them lived up to what I was expecting / hoping.

This year I'm going to keep track of every movie I watch both ones I see for the first time and movies I revisit. Probably going to be a really long list.

Dracula: Crime Fighter?

2011-12-30T12:25:00.000-05:00

Found this floating around on my desk at work. Totally forgot about it. its from the inside back cover of the first issue of Dell's Dracula comic. Its about a scientist who becomes a dracula and decides to fight crime or something. The pledge makes me laugh almost as much as the costume. Just keep in mind he's a scientist.

Space Mummy Vampire Squid thing

2011-12-28T21:53:00.000-05:00

A quick study of what I was planning on drawing for this round of C.L.O.C. vs. The Mighty Men and Monster Maker. So far all the art that's been produced for this thing has been fantastic, but considering who's involved I would have been surprised to see crummy art. Below is the Final version of what I drew. looks like I changed my mind about the nose.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2011-12-22T10:33:00.000-05:00

Previous Xmas images

Wrasslin' drawings.

2011-12-19T23:30:00.000-05:00

Watching Raw tonite just felt like drawing a couple of my favorite wrestlers. Sometimes wrestlers are just fun to draw.

Zack Ryder

Wade Barrett

Weird E.T. thing I did for the National Post

2011-12-13T10:55:00.000-05:00

Little image to go with a story about how E.T. is the Greatest Jewish movie ever ... for the National Post. Interesting fact Ghostbusters was number 13 on the list.

Championship League of Champions Vs. Mighty Men and Monster Maker: Round 1

2011-12-05T13:44:00.001-05:00

Check out the CLOC BLOG to witness the weird world of a bunch of artists re-interpreting things created using Parker Brothers / TOMY toy The Mighty Men and Monster Maker. Up there is my entry for this weeks Monster, I don't know why he's smoking but it looked funny to me so he is. Below is the original MM&MM design.

Weird coincidence?

2011-12-03T10:56:00.000-05:00

On the Website for video game Gotham City Impostors

Drawing I did in 2006 about other job's Bruce Wayne could have had.

Not saying anyone ripped me off, I'm not famous enough for that to be the case, just a weird coincidence.

ROLLER DERBY PRIMER

2011-12-02T19:45:00.001-05:00

Did a big graphic on Roller Derby for the National Post. With a little help from my pals Mike Faille and Jonathon Rivait. Pointed in the right direction to find info by Graves of the Undead Bettys.
you can look at said graphic Here!

That is all.

2011-12-02T15:33:00.000-05:00

Did this a while ago. its an expanded version of something I did for The National Post. There was no color in the paper version just Mr. H in black and white, no hobo symbols except the ones in his cravat and on his glasses

Guess who shot first?

2011-11-25T20:24:00.002-05:00

I love Star Wars just as much as the next guy, but man, people need to lighten up they're just movies. If George Lucas feels like changing something, that's up to him, he made the things. If you don't like the changes don't watch the new versions, nobody is forcing you to spend money or time watching them. So how 'bout it fans can we just stop harping on this subject and just say Star Wars is awesome, even Jar Jar?

Uncle Deadly, or My Favorite Muppet

2011-11-23T12:02:00.001-05:00

How come nobody digs Uncle Deadly? I mean the guy worked for both Vincent Price and the devil during the course of the original Muppet Show all while haunting the Muppet Theater. Not to mention he's got creepier eye's than Floyd. Any way just my two cents. You should check out the really boss muppet art that Steve Murray did for the Post recently. Image is based on stuff Steve did of the Muppets for the best Muppet battle.

Royal Winter Fair 2011

2011-11-22T20:43:00.000-05:00

So every year Leigh and I head out to the Royal Winter Fair to do some life drawing of farm animals. We live in a relatively urban area so the opportunity to draw animals tends to be pretty rare. Here's some of the best ones I did this year. I really like those hooded sheep.

Some guys who were sitting near us while we were drawing cows.

Cows just lying around.

Cow profile and sideways cow butt.

Cow laying down. Their hips are crazy.

Back of a cows head.

A couple of folks unfortunate enough to be sitting near me while riding the Go-Train.

Andrew Barr's Monstars: Ashley J. Williams

2011-11-21T16:26:00.000-05:00

Andrew Barr's Monstars: Ashley J. Williams: First appearance: The Evil Dead (1981) Five friends have a lousy time at a cabin in the woods. Miserable time can be blamed on a book (The...

Andrew Barr's Monstars: Matt Cordell

2011-11-21T10:28:00.000-05:00

Andrew Barr's Monstars: Matt Cordell: First Appearance: Maniac Cop (1988) Another weird slasher flick from the '80s. I've only ever managed to watch the first Maniac Cop flick...

Lost Skeleton Tribute

2011-11-16T10:33:00.000-05:00

Did this for the fantastic Lost Skeleton Tribute thing Belle Dee had/has up at her blog. Larry Blamire (writer, director, actor, illustrator) liked it enough he asked if he could put it on his facebook page.
If you haven't seen any of Mr. Blamire's movies you should be ashamed of yourself. Especially if you are a fan of B-Movies. Oh and the quote in the image is from The Lost Skeleton Returns Again. I'd say its one of the best monlogues in movies that aren't Repo-man. So stop reading this and looking at the pretty picture and go watch some Lost Skeleton or Dark and Stormy Night.

Occupy Earth?

2011-11-15T09:41:00.000-05:00

No I'm not trying to make any kind of statement or anything, just surprised I haven't seen this gag yet anywhere.

Awesome Birthday stuff this year! And shameless shilling for t-shirts

2011-11-10T10:15:00.000-05:00

Check out the awesome stuff I got for my birthday this year. and you didn't.

But at least you can go to Shirtpunch and buy this awesome t-shirt to make yourself feel better about everything. Sure you won't get it today but you'll know its going to be on your torso eventually!
Shirtpunch!

SHIRTPUNCH!

2011-11-09T22:47:00.001-05:00

Starting at 12 AM NOVEMBER 10, 2001 until 11:59 PM NOVEMBER 10, 2011 you will be able to buy t-shirts with that above image on 'em. Where, you might be asking yourself? Why SHIRTPUNCH of course. So go ahead celebrate the very special date that is November 10th by getting a beautiful t-shirt featuring a basketball playing werewolf. It's only $10! Your torso will thank you!

"I sleep now!"

2011-11-07T13:33:00.000-05:00

If you're a fan of awesome things, since you're reading my blog I think that's safe to assume, you should check out the fantastic Belle Dee's Doo Wacka Doodle Blog's tribute to the Lost Skeleton. And if you look closely you'll see some art by yours truly in the tribute. Especially if you're looking for it today!

Look I'm in Strange Kids Club!

2011-11-02T09:47:00.000-04:00

Yep a little one page comic I did with Leigh Young appears in the latest Strange Kids club anthology. If you like monsters and creeps and things that go bump in the night you owe it to your self to pick up a copy of this amazing book. There's some really fantastic art in the book this time (there was last time too but I wasn't in it) so go order yourself a copy. Its fun!Its the one with this amazing cover by Dave Hartman!

Sadly Halloween's over..

2011-11-01T10:16:00.000-04:00

... now all I've got to look forward to is my birthday (which I already know is going to be boring).
That image up there is all the skulls I drew for my countdown to halloween. you can click on it and download a huge version of it you can use as desktop wallpaper if you want. I'm also willing to sell you any of the original drawings. They're all on sketch cards so they're like 2.5" x 3", since they're all one of a kind I've only got one of each if you're interested drop me a line and tell me which one you want. $3 each payable through paypal. shipping included.

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-31T15:03:00.000-04:00

Happy Halloween everyone! especially those who wandered

here from the Countdown to Halloween site I hope you'll continue to swing by!

Countdown to Halloween: Its Halloween!

2011-10-31T08:00:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: Tomorrow is Samhain

2011-10-30T09:48:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday, Sis.

Countdown to Halloween: 2 more days

2011-10-29T08:40:00.000-04:00

That's right, only two more days until Halloween!

Countdown to Halloween: 3 days left

2011-10-28T10:37:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: Only 4 more days!

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Countdown to Halloween: 5 Days until halloween

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Countdown to Halloween: 6 Days left till Halloween

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Countdown to Halloween: 7 days remaining

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Countdown To Halloween: 8 Days left

2011-10-23T14:45:00.000-04:00

The Best Champion Ever

2011-10-22T12:09:00.000-04:00

I'm really hoping he retains the title on sunday.

The Master would be pleased.

2011-10-22T11:19:00.000-04:00

In case you were not aware, I've been posting 2 new Monstars a week for halloween over at my MONSTARS BLOG. So, go on over there and check 'em out.

Countdown to Halloween: 9 days until Halloween

2011-10-22T09:50:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 10 Days left until Halloween

2011-10-21T09:49:00.002-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 11 days until Halloween

2011-10-20T09:47:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 12 Days until Halloween

2011-10-19T09:25:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 13 days left

2011-10-18T12:50:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 14 days until Halloween.

2011-10-17T13:24:00.000-04:00

Just two weeks left. Are you ready?

Count down til halloween: 15 Days left

2011-10-16T08:00:00.000-04:00

Half way there

Countdown to Halloween: 16 Days 'til Halloween

2011-10-15T16:40:00.000-04:00

Your Life will be measured in seconds, as long as The Thing is on the loose.

2011-10-14T09:28:00.000-04:00

"Probability that one or more team members may be infected by intruder organism: -75%-"

—Blair's 1st projection

"Projection: if intruder organism reaches civilized areas...entire world population infected 27,000 hours from first contact"

—Blair's 2nd projection

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES! Here it is My how to spot the Thing as it was seen in the National Post. Its always fun when they let me do these kinds of things for the paper.

Countdown to Halloween: 17 until Halloween!

2011-10-14T09:01:00.000-04:00

Protect yourself from The Thing!

2011-10-13T21:04:00.000-04:00

Check out the Friday Oct. 14 issue of the National Post! I teach you how to protect yourself from the intergalactic polymorphous monster that hangs out in the Antarctic. I also fill you in on the history of the monster too. What's that image above all this writin'? Well you'll know if you pick up the Post on Friday.

Countdown to Halloween: 18 days until Halloween

2011-10-13T14:16:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 19 days til Hallowe'en

2011-10-12T08:56:00.000-04:00

Awesome poster for The Thing (1951)

2011-10-11T14:05:00.000-04:00

With the thing coming out soon I figured I'd post some cool thing stuff. First, I saw this poster in Disney World, in the Drive-in restaurant. I think its the coolest poster I've ever seen for the classic The Thing from another world. I wish I could find a decent print of it.
so awesome.
Friday in the National Post you'll be able to find my helpful diagram of how to spot the thing. I'll post a preview image before that but if you don't see anything from me in regards to that, I may no longer be human.

Countdown to Halloween: 20 Days Till Halloween

2011-10-11T11:51:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 21 Days til Halloween

2011-10-10T08:00:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 22 days 'till Halloween

2011-10-09T08:00:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 23 days 'til Halloween

2011-10-08T10:04:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 24 days until Halloween

2011-10-07T23:56:00.000-04:00

COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN: 25 days til halloween

2011-10-06T11:00:00.000-04:00

Another correspondence course assignment

2011-10-06T08:34:00.000-04:00

So, this was the third of five assignments in the Kubert Horror Correspondence course. I was a bit busy with other work and stuff so I just got around to finishing this. I've got two more assignments to go, I'm looking forward to the next one since it involves drawing a werewolf, but it also involves inking the page. so it'll take a bit longer to finish than the first pages. This course was a lot of fun and I've been really enjoying playing around with it.

COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN: 26 days til halloween

2011-10-06T07:44:00.000-04:00

COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN: 27 days til halloween

2011-10-05T09:27:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 28 days until Halloween

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Countdown to Halloween: 29 days till Halloween

2011-10-03T06:35:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 30 Days

2011-10-02T14:14:00.000-04:00

Countdown to Halloween: 31 Days

2011-10-02T14:13:00.000-04:00

Getting ready for Halloween

2011-10-01T09:52:00.000-04:00

So starting this weekend. Hopefully some point today. I'll start my little Marathon of Skulls (31 skulls 'til halloween part of the COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN) to help get myself in the mood for halloween. I've decorated the place for the spooky season. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Abominable Dr. Phibes

2011-09-23T12:37:00.000-04:00

Someone recently asked me to draw Dr. Phibes, from the Vincent Price movie the Abominable Dr. Phibes. Since I love that movie I figured I'd give it a go. Someone else requested I draw No-Zone from the Toxic Crusaders, I drew him too.

My first non-educational comic job involved drawing the Toxic Crusaders, so it was kinda fun to go back and try drawing No-Zone again. If you wanna see the comic I drew its in the Lloyd Kaufman Presents: The Toxic Avenger And Other Tromatic Tales, but be warned it is a Troma book so its full of stuff your mom probably won't approve of. My comic was pretty family friendly, though.

Hey look, I drew the Joker!

2011-09-21T13:45:00.000-04:00

LASERS!

2011-09-20T20:35:00.000-04:00

Just felt like drawing this. I don't know who she is. Why she's blinded. Where those guns came from or anything. She just fell out of my pencil when I was doodling at work. I like how it turned out so I figured I'd post it. I hope you like it too.
Speaking of drawing I'm planning on participating in the Countdown to Halloween this year. You will see 31 skulls, through October. It'll be pretty cool.
I hope.

Just another day at work.

2011-09-15T16:36:00.000-04:00

BOXER Vs. YETI

Sometimes its a day of drawing maps, sometimes its bar graphs, occasionally missiles or vehicles. Today? I had to draw a yeti. I really like my yeti drawing.

Space girl with Ray gun!

2011-09-15T09:50:00.000-04:00

Recently picked up a weird shaped sketchbook figured I'd fill it with pin-up drawings. Since ladies are fun to draw. this is the first of them. I'm pretty happy with the Raygun

Can it be possible?!

2011-09-11T23:05:00.000-04:00

There's a new chapter of Beach Blanket Bloodbath posted at the Bloodbath blog.

Go. Read. Enjoy. I hope there won't be as long a delay bringing you chapter 5 as there was between 3 and 4. I'm pretty happy with the pencil instead of ink look to these pages I probably will stick with that style for a while. let me know what you think.

thanks

Beachblanket Bloodbath Chapter 4 preview.

2011-09-09T09:03:00.000-04:00

Lookit that! I've finally gotten around to getting back to Beach Blanket Bloodbath, what you see above are my really dirty pencil roughs, I'll be cleaning these up and putting them on the Bloodbath Blog, hopefully in the next couple of days. I'm thinking of doing a slightly different style this time. I don't think I'm going to bother inking anything, we see if it looks too crummy that way than I'll ink it. I'll probably post a quick little look at my process with one of these pages one the chapter's done. Until then take heart in the fact Beach Blanket Bloodbath isn't dead. And yes that is a special guest appearance by the Strange Kid of Strange Kids Club fame. I've got a little comical book story featuring him and the Bloodbath girls in the next Strange Kids Club Anthology book. Its a stand alone story and the incredibly awesome Leigh Young teamed up with me for that.

FanExpo Fun.

2011-09-05T14:48:00.000-04:00

So here's some of the stuff that was interesting at Fan expo. up above you'll see a photo of some sketch cards I was doodling while sitting at the table, you always need something to do in between sales and what not. I had a great time sitting next to the guys from Omake Designs, they were selling some really boss t-shirts. The son of one of them stood in front of our table staring at all my horror stuff, I figure I owe him for making people interested in my art, so "Thanks Trent!"
oh, here's some more of my sketch cards.

Last time I was at FanExpo, I got Cassandra Peterson's Autograph, sadly she wasn't in Elvira garb, so I technically never got "Elvira's" autograph. This year she was back so I got this:

I took a quick pic of her after she signed it. Supposedly she was pretty sick the day before but she came out anyway in full Elvira regalia. She was pretty awesome to meet in character. Thanks Elvira!
And finally here's a little trivia for you. Who was the final victim of Freddy Krueger?
Give up?
It was me!

I figure since Mr. Kreuger himself, Robert England says I was his last victim (he added me to the kill count even) that makes it canon. So yep, Freddy killed me disguised as actor Robert England while I took a nap at my table in artist alley:

"AHAHAHAHAHA!"

He seemed pretty impressed that I'd take the time to map out all the kills he committed. I gave him a copy of it too. Will from Omake Designs purchased one of these prints too and managed to get to Robert England before me and he said England was taunting Lance Henrikson (who was sitting to England's left) about how none of Henrikson's fans plotted out graphics about how many people he killed.

Anyway the con was a blast, I think I might go back next year with a book of my Monstars.

And if you're interested I've still got a couple copies of the monstars prints, the Repo Man prints, and the art book. just send me an email abarr at somethingagogo.com I'll let you know how to get 'em.

MONSTARS: the Blog!

2011-09-04T17:23:00.000-04:00

So, I've decided to start another blog. Its going to be dedicated 100% to my Monstars project. Please follow that one, I probably won't be posting anymore monstars on Notchordamnatchoz. I felt they were over shadowing everything else on here. Thanks guys! MONSTARS!

"Ah, geez! You smell like Phys Ed!"– Chunk

2011-09-02T15:21:00.000-04:00

Sloth. Man, he's ugly.

Monstar Heroes: Alex Murphy, Robocop (1987)

2011-09-01T22:47:00.000-04:00

Who doesn't love Robocop!? Nobody that's who. The second of my new Monstar Heroes.
Oh yeah. At fan expo I was selling prints of my Original Monstars 1922–2011 there were only two people who recognized most of them one was a ten year old kid dressed as Sloth from Goonies (he missed 4) the other was artist Trevor Henderson, who managed to not only name the movie but the name of the creature too. He missed two, but they were a couple of the more obscure ones (Monster-a-go-go, which nobody got and Adam Sorg from Color Me Blood Red) way to go Trevor, make sure you watch those flicks now.

Monstars Heroes: Cannonball Run (1981)

2011-09-01T11:19:00.000-04:00

I've decided I've done enough monsters for a little while so while I still enjoy drawing these Monstars I'm going to try some movie Hero characters. I'll probably tire of this quickly and go back to monsters but in the mean time look forward to some weird and wacky heroes from cult and b-movies that I think are fun enough to draw.

This first one, of course, is Captain Chaos the alternate personality of Dom DeLouise's character in Cannonball Run

If you guys have any requests for Heroes you'd like to see in this set or more monsters you want me to add to the Monstar's list let me know.

Vampire Voodoo Revenge

2011-08-31T11:23:00.000-04:00

Nice Big wallpapery image for you, stay tuned there will be some more FanExpo art (sketchs and sketch cards) and a couple of jpgs of the coolest things I ended up with from FanExpo. Until then I hope you enjoy this Calabrese inspired pin-up (its in my art book and I've got a couple prints of it left over if you're interested)

FanExpo Day 2: Bat-doodle

2011-08-27T08:23:00.000-04:00

Just scribbled this down during some free time at the con. I hope you like it. Con's going pretty good. If you read this blog swing by and say "hi".

Monstars: 1922-2011. How many can you recognize?

2011-08-24T11:21:00.000-04:00

FanExpo tomorrow. I'm gathering up all the art and comics and stuff I'll be taking so I thought I'd share share this. A full set of Monstars that covers a bunch of Sci-Fi and horror movies from 1922–2011 that's almost 90 years of creeps (strangely most of them seem to have come from the 1980's) this isn't the end of drawing up Monstars, I'm planning on expanding the series (monsters from the 50's aren't represented enough) by doing some of my favorite movie heroes. Until then enjoy this small version of the collection, I'll have prints available at the Convention swing by if you want one.

The End.

Never Sleep Again: Freddy Kreuger's body count

2011-08-18T20:59:00.000-04:00

By popular demand. Freddy Kreuger's kill list. The Dream Demon proves to be the most inefficient killer of the big three killing less half the number of victims Jason killed. I'll be selling prints of this at the FanExpo this year, if you want a physical easier to read version of this.

Udate: Compare to Michael Myers: Halloween.
Compare to Jason Voorhees: Friday the 13th

just felt like drawin' Hellboy

2011-08-16T22:31:00.000-04:00

That's all. No reason at all, just felt like drawing big red. Hope you like it.

Summoning the Beyond

2011-08-15T09:55:00.000-04:00

A little pin-up inspired by my listening to Calabrese while doodling. I'm not sure if I'll ink and color this up like I've done with other pinups I've drawn. We'll see once I'm done with FanExpo next week. Check my previous Blog if you're going to Fan Expo and want to find me there.

Fanexpo 2011

2011-08-14T17:07:00.000-04:00

So the Fan Expo is only 11 days away. I've put together a map of where you'll be able to find me and Leigh Young, if you are going to the fan expo. What will you find at my table you ask? Well, I'm getting some prints set up for sale and I'll have my artbook of course. there will also be some copies of my old comic books available I'll probably be drawing up some sketch cards, you just won't know for sure unless you swing by.

Halloween: Michael Myers' Body Count.

2011-08-12T15:13:00.000-04:00

Since that Jason info-graphic I did for the National Post 2 years ago was so much fun, I figured I'd do one for the first slasher I was a fan of, Michael Myers. While not as prolific or as creative in the murder scene as Mr. Voorhees he does have a certain dedication to kitchen cutlery.
And for those who asked I am going to be doing Freddy's kill list too, its just going to take a lot longer than this one.

Enjoy!

Update: Compare to Freddy Kreuger: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Compare to Jason Voorhees: Friday the 13th

Jason's Body Count.

2011-08-10T13:22:00.000-04:00

I recently noticed this info graphic I did for the National Post with the assistance of my pal Mike Faille has been touring the internet again. Due to its recent popularity I received an email from Larry Zerner, Shelly from Part 3-D, pointing out we got his sex wrong. since he’s such a nice guy and Shelly’s the reason Mr. Voorhees wears a hockey mask I figured I’d correct the mistake. So, here’s to you Mr. Zerner, you are now a man again.
note: he also pointed out we got Fox wrong too.

Udate: Compare to Michael Myers: Halloween.

Compare to Freddy Kreuger: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Monstars: They Live (1988)

2011-08-08T11:25:00.000-04:00

They Live ... we sleep! I've always been a fan of this movie. May not have understood the whole political angle the first time I saw it (I was a kid, leave me alone) but really liked it from the first time I saw it.
With FanExpo only a couple of weeks away I'm starting to get all the prints and stuff I'm planning on selling together and printed. I've got a series of four Monstars prints that I just finished up yesterday featuring 89 years of movie monstars starting with Nosferatu and ending with Hobo with a Shotgun's the Plague. I'll post a preview of them soon. The prints will be 11 X 17 and feature roughly 25 monstars per page. I've still got a couple of the ART BOOK s available to anyone interested.

Hail Caesar!

2011-08-05T08:47:00.000-04:00

In honor of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but mostly just because Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is my all time favorite of the Planet of the Apes movies, I did this little tribute to Caesar's big speech at the end. This is the version at the end of the non-theatrical cut of the movie where he doesn't get all soft just 'cause his girlfriend says "No!"
I'm really looking forward to Rise it looks pretty awesome.

Monstars: Army of Darkness (1992)

2011-08-04T16:09:00.000-04:00

Good ol' Bad Ash. I don't understand why people keep calling him Evil Ash, he calls himself Bad Ash when he introduces himself to that little goody-two-shoes Ash. Any how I've seen this movie way too often. Actually saw it in the theater back in '92. I'm afraid I think its lost a bit of its coolness in light of every nerd in the world deciding its the greatest movie ever (its not as good as Evil Dead 2) but I still think it was pretty cool. I still wish Raimi got his way and called it Medieval Dead or at least Evil Dead 3: The Army of Darkness.
I'm not going to bother posting a trailer since I'm pretty sure everyone's seen it by now.
ok. The End.

Monstars: Jaws (1975)

2011-08-01T11:02:00.000-04:00

I guess since Discovery channel started Shark Week last night it might be appropriate to bring Jaws into the Monstar Fold. Little bit of useless trivia about me. Jaws was the first movie my parents took me to. It was at a drive-in and I was 9 months old, so I can't really say its the first movie I ever saw (the first one I remember seeing was Star Wars). Any way, Jaws! Hope you like this one.

Monstars Double Feature: Labyrinth (1986) & Legend (1985)

2011-07-29T16:15:00.000-04:00

Look out its the Goblin King! Jareth. Yep, that's right Jareth. the terrible king of the Goblins from Jim Henson's Labyrinth. and his terrifying pants. He steals babies I think that's enough to warrant his being included with the rest of the monsters in the Monstar collection.

And of course what collection of monsters would be complete without at least one devil. Oh wait, I already had the liquid version of Satan from Prince of Darkness but I really felt like drawing those horns.

Artbook sketch...

2011-07-29T11:58:00.000-04:00

So the first of my artbooks went off to its purchaser. He asked that I draw Megan from my Beachblanket Bloodbath and other Something-A-Go-Go comics. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. If you're interested in picking up one of my artbooks email me: abarr at somethingagogo.com Let me know you want one and what you'd like me to draw in the back of the book. the book will cost you $35 (including shipping) payable through paypal.
Carry on.

Monstars: Christine

2011-07-28T14:36:00.000-04:00

Geez, another John Carpenter flick showing up in the Monstar list?! oh, well say hello to Christine.

Monstars: The Classics...

2011-07-27T11:53:00.000-04:00

So some Classic Monstars this time. If you don't recognize them I don't know what you'd be thinking of some of the other Monstars that have been here. Anyway if you dig these guys and would like to have them on a shirt or some drinking glasses or something check out my Cafepress store. I'm thinking that at the Fan expo I'll be selling a print that has all the Monstars I've done by the time I get around to making the print.

Monstars: Trick R Treat (2007)

2011-07-24T19:37:00.000-04:00

I know its a while until halloween but. Trick R Treat is a great flick any time of the year. I wish there was more anthology films. I really liked the wrap around story with Sam (see above)

And now the trailer.