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The “Ber” Months According to Joel: Giving Portions

The “Ber” months: September, October, November and December, have been very busy for me as freelancer thanks largely to game art projects from White Canvas Studios, some work from Outsiders, and comic book color projects such as Foldabots (K-Zone Philippines) and Eternal Descent (IDW Publishing). Without which I probably wouldn’t be able to pay [...]

The Complete M.A.S.K. Opening Theme Song

Hey friends,

I LOVE the 80s, especially the cartoons!!

Did you like M.A.S.K.? I did! So I was really ecstatic that my friend (and amazing Blender 3D artist) Giancarlo Ng found…

Archie Andrews Commits to Veronica!?

This in interesting.

Riverdale’s Archie Andrews finally marries Veronica Lodge.  Is it for real or is it merely a ploy to drum up faltering readership?

Regardless, I say it’s about time he committed!

Pacquiao versus Hatton, Street Fighter Style

I just found this both amusing and nostalgic.

Retro Toys as Inspiration

These past few months I’ve been thinking about products to put my characters on.

Our Wonderful Nature: 3D Animated Short

Reminiscent of the old shows I used to watch as a kid, where a British explorer/reporter (Alan, I think his name was,) would go around studying and narrating all sorts of things – from archaeology, to paleontology, to zoology. I used to imitate his journeys in the confines of our garden!

But [...]

Transformers? Why not Thundercats?

Ah good ol’ 80s cartoons. Back in the day when everyone had no cable TV or Internet… When you could talk with your friends about the latest episode of whatever cartoon, and they’d be watching it too.

They made Transformers into several movies. I’m hoping there’d be a Thundercats one. I was a [...]

Xavier Talk & Walk

Mark Santos invited me to speak at the Xavier Grade School Library about illustration. All in all around 60 students attended from grades 2 to 7 (except for grade 6, they were on a field trip.) I discussed what an illustrator/illustration is as well as how a book gets done. [...]