Reports From Tr!ckster

photos by Jane Dope

photos by Jane Dope

Check out this awesome coverage from Tr!ckster 2011, including symposium recaps, reviews and honorable mentions!

VEDA art + objects - Special Events // Tr!ckster 2011

Nolan T. Jones is Tumbling Down - Tr!ckster Book Review #2, The Art Workshop

Buzzfocus.com - Tr!ckster Emphasizing the "Comic" in Comic-Con

Graham Smith Illustration Blog - Drawings & Artists

"... doin' that stuff that you do! Messin' me up with your voodoo!"
- Dave

TR!CKSTER & Comic-Con Are Upon Us!

Like a hailstorm of badgers, San Diego Convention Week has arrived! I'll be there with the rest of the freaks & yahoos, mingling with fans & colleagues, selling art & merch, and avoiding sleep like The Plague. But, unlike previous years, this time I will NOT be setting up at a table.

Comic-Con Schedule
For anyone attending Comic-Con proper, you can catch me at the Oni Press booth at 12 noon on Sunday, July 24. I'll be one of the many artists signing during their Kids Day "Yo, Gabba Gabba!" Blowout! www.comic-con.org, www.onipress.com

TR!CKSTER Plans
If you're in town for the Con, you'd be crazy not to check out Tr!ckster, the simultaneous, creator-owned con that's happening across the street. I'll have merch available in their retail space, including the brand new art book WRECKING SKULL and the Puffed TPB. And I'm exhibiting several original works in their gallery. I'll also be on hand at Tr!ckster off and on, in case I'm needed for any live art or symposiums. www.trickstertrickster.com

Guerrilla Art Strikes
Since we'll both be free from the confines of a booth, longtime colleague Jim Mahfood & I have decided to rock Guerrilla Art Strikes during this fine Con Week. We'll be setting up renegade "studios" from Wednesday through Sunday, on a bar patio, by a hotel swimming pool... or maybe even on the bed in your hotel suite!

Jim and I will post our Guerrilla schedule (time, place, etc), between the morning and early afternoon of each day. Fans & collectors are welcome to show up and commission drawings from us, discuss our creative process, buy us drinks, propose marriage, etc.

Keep up on our exploits via the usual social networking suspects:

Dave Crosland
www.facebook.com/DaveCroslandArt
www.twitter.com/DaveCrosland

Jim Mahfood
www.facebook.com/FOODONEART
www.twitter.com/JimMahfood

"They say the good die young, so I added some bad ass to my flavor to prolong my life over the drum."
- King Gum Crosland

FUEL YOUR ILLUSTRATION Interview

The amazing people at the amazing art-centric website, Fuel Your Illustration, just did an in depth interview with yours truly. We discussed my San Diego plans, the creation of Alphabet Attack!, creative influences, and my sordid history with The Thundercats.

READ THE INTERVIEW NOW!

"You shop at K-Mart! I shop at Ain't K-Mart!"
- Dave

Live Art Photos Galore

These are just a few photos from the Nerd City/Image Comics Live Art Jam we rocked during San Diego Comic-Con. Be sure to peep the gorgeous photo sets shot by our fabulous photographer cohorts, Steven Soria and Jane Dope, too.

"You don't know what love is, ya just do as you're told."
- King Gum

Sketches from Comic-Con 2010

Oodles of doodles from Comic-Con 2010, ya'll!

- Gum

On The Slate - 7/30/10

Spent today working on a few commissions that I brought home from San Diego Comic-Con, including Kilowog of The Green Lantern Corps and Power Girl. Heroes ahoy!

From Oakland, with love...
- King Gum.