light and fluffy

"Danger" is my maiden name

This is the latest and greatest.(?) Ozark Outbreak in Sector 7... get it Double Oh 7. This poster is being printed as I type and will be hung up in the high schools for this last week of school. The Health Department is conducting an exercise in June to see if our plans for mass medication will work in the event of a pandemic like Bird Flu or other forms of bioterrorism. I hope it works. This poster is meant to remind summer school kids of this event and to recruit helpers to play the role of "sick and dying patient". Hey if nothing else, the kids get to take a free field trip during summer school and get a cup of m&m's (medicine)! Can't beat that! mmmmm.

Marky LIVES!

He's alive! He's here! And he's...fat?! I helped get the artwork ready for this real live mascot. I objected to the inflatable suit because it makes his arms and legs look fat and we want to promote kids getting skinny (see the previous post). They didn't listen to me probably because the price was right or something. Taxpayers' money you know. I don't know his girlfriend-he never calls to let me know what's going on in his life. They grow up so fast!

Schoolhouse Rock

This is a character/mascot/ logo I made a year and a half ago for a program by Springfield's Parks Department. They named him Marky after me because I'm super cool – I didn't suggest the name, but I didn't resist. Step Club is an exercise program partnering with the elementary schools where if the kids show up to school a half hour early and walk around the track so many days a week, they get a prize or something. I think they get one of the tshirts I made. A super cool tshirt! Oh yeah and they get skinny. This is to target the obese kids to get them more active. Kids these days...so young and reckless with their eating. Kids behinds are getting so large these days and we need to do something about it. I heard Arnold Swartzenegger is starting an initiative called No Child's Behind Left Alone. I heard that.

Its the pits

It may finally be safe to let your children play outside again. Unless they are deathly allergic to bee stings or pollen or air. Then don't let them go outside. They could die. Then get eaten by some illegal pit bull without a muzzle. You're a bad parent.

White tripe

Jack White from the White Stripes. Kind of a weird guy. He married his drummer, Meg and took her last name, White. I forget what his last Maider(?) name was. Then when the band started getting famous, he told press Meg was his sister. Then they got divorced and stayed together as a band, then he got remarried to a super model in a boat on the Amazon river. This sketch shows his transformation between his last two albums. I like him because he can rock out a song on guitar all by himself and a lot of his songs are from the Blues!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Don't party too hearty! Que hora es? Mas o menos taquitos y burritos! Que pasa? Chiquita banana es muy facil y lugar el leche! Si, me llamo Marcos. Donde esta el bano? Yip, yip ooweeee-i-i-i! Donde esta mis pantelones. Gracias. No hablo Espanol.

Olympic proportions

This is a poster I did for a Winter Olympic event at the Ice Park in Springfield this last winter. The whole event was geared to college kids and kids, but this poster went up around the college campuses and into the college newspapers. I thought the poster turned out well (kind of an Old Navy feal), but the event was kind of a bust- partly because of the weather. And I guess it's hard to get college kids to do anything en masse in a family-friendly atmosphere. Oh well. I had fun making the image of the wreath with a Sharpy marker sketch and a copy machine. The background is an old oil painting sketch from art school that I scanned and turned blue.

PITBULLS WILL EAT YOU!

I am making several images for the Health Department this week. Springfield is putting into effect a ban on pitbulls which means there are strict rules and regulations for owning one in the city limits. Things like microchipping each dog, $50 annual fee, rabies shots and (the dog) must be spayed or neutered. These images are going on the informational sheet that tells owners what they have to do to keep the breed. Since these are going to the owners who love their dogs and think they are big teddy bears, I have to make the dogs appear more friendly and happy (less likely to rip your arm off). Kind of funny. This image is of the puppies that you have to register within 5 days following the same guidelines. They look so cute! I'll post some more later.