A Friend Gone Too Soon

I feel fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to hang out and draw with you brother. Times I will never forget. We'll miss you.

For Jeremy...

We lost a lot this weekend. The students and faculty at SCAD lost an endlessly driven teacher, who loved his students and yet drove them to constantly achieve their best with the no-nonsense style of a taskmaster. Those who knew him lost a kind and generous soul, who never turned his back on people in need, who gave his all for his friends and loved ones. The genre lost true a Sequential Artist, who always kept the Faith, and never gave up.

Me, I lost a brother.

Rest easy, Unclefucker. We'll see each other again.

I remember an office mate...

I first met Jeremy when he started as a part-timer in Sequential Art, he was teaching electronic portfolio or something another like that and I was over in Norris teaching Drawing for Storyboarding at the time. We became office mates when we both shared a desk between Julie and Dove for a couple of quarters. Jeremy had shit everywhere, all the time, books, art, projects and I used to cuss about it constantly as I had only one box of stuff and a laptop. To his credit, Jeremy never apologized for his mess and after a while I realized that it couldn't negate what an awesome and goofy guy he was (and that I had been sharing an office with Larison, overlord to a spectacle of an office mess). Jeremy, I'd see you time to time and chat, the students we shared sung your praises to me and know I'd much rather be looking at that desk, cussing about it than writing this post. I hope this finds you at peace and among the many great artist who have already left us.

A Call for visual tributes to Jeremy Mullins

Sketchers and followers,

As many of you already know, SCAD Sequential Art Professor Jeremy "Sweetwater" Mullins left us far too early this past weekend. To pay our respects ...sketchyscribbles... will be having a tribute round to the genius and humor of Jeremy and I would like to invite all of you, authors and fans alike, to share your own visual tributes. Please email your contributions (images and text too, if you feel inclined) to me at staticstudios@snotfair.com or to any of our other authors. Please make sure that your images are web ready and let's pay tribute the best way possible, through drawing.

Benjamin Reid Phillips

BABA LOOEY'S LATEST CARTOON "MASTERPIECE"!

Being a politically uncorrect cartoon character is a mark on your resume normally, but in this economy, SHEEESH! Baba Looey takes the work that comes his way, this is the title card for his latest "cartoon" production.

Did you get that "thing" I sent you?

I always imagine Potamus like Steve Buscemi in Miami Vice. A wanna be player always in deep.




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I never want to use the pen tool in photoshop again.

Round Seven - Sargeras

Sorry this is a little late - I've been busy with a webcomic I'm working on with a friend. Anyhoo - So this is my entry, the Avatar of Sargeras. He's a baddie deity from The World of Warcraft. I couldn't focus my strengths on any other kind of real world one without setting off some kind of minor riot with my wry sense of humor. If ya wanna know more, dig it: http://www.wowwiki.com/Sargeras

Round Eight: "To Catch A Predator"

...and this was the tame idea. ;)