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Check out my version (top) of Gil Kane’s cover to Sensation Comics #109. The original art and a color print are on exhibit (and for sale) at Headspace Gallery in Michigan’s Green Brain Comics (see press release below)

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Green Brain Comics is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit entitled COVERED on Wednesday, January 13th in the recently named HEADSPACE Gallery inside Green Brain Comics.

Inspired by a similar theme at the Covered blog (www.covered.blogspot.com) HEADSPACE curator Dan Merritt has assembled several pieces by artists that have brought their own touch to famous, and infamous comic book covers from several different decades.

“The theme for this exhibit has really sparked a creative flame.” says Merritt “Each of these pieces has been lovingly recreated in tribute to the original art and the original artists that created them.”

Featured in the exhibit will be works from Michigan based comic creators Paul Sizer, Matt Feazell, and Sean Bieri. Joining them will be other well known local artists Eric Millikin, Jennifer Rose Evans, and Chris Houghton. The Covered exhibit also features new work by many others, including Bryan Durren, Heather Hansma, Lizz James, Jesse Hughes and a piece by Masheka Wood from New York.

The opening reception for the Covered exhibit will be on Wednesday January 13th from 7pm to 10 pm. And the art will be on view until Saturday March 6th.

HEADSPACE Gallery is inside Green Brain Comics which is located at 13210 Michigan Avenue in East Downtown Dearborn. More information is available at www.greenbrain.biz or by calling 313-582-9444

When?
June 6th and 7th, 11am-6pm

Cost?
$10 per day
$15 per weekend
MoCCA Members: $10 per weekend

Speaking of Obama, long-time pal Marcus Bishop-Wright (previously seen in Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Chappelle’s Show) has a side gig portraying the Prez in a series of online sketches.

The most recent is a mash-up of Obama’s superstar status and  HBO’s stoner/Hollywood dude show ‘Entourage’.

Obama Sells Cars

Coming Soon: Stuff I’ve done (finally!) and stuff I’m about to do (guh?!)

The Cartoonists With Attitude gang will be out in full force in San Francisco this April 21-22 for the Alternative Press Expo (APE). Confirmed CWAers:

• Matt Bors (”Idiot Box”)
• Keith Knight (”The K Chronicles”)
• Stephanie McMillan (”Minimum Security”)
• Steve Notley (”Bob the Angry Flower”)
• August Pollak (”Some Guy With a Website”)
• Ted Rall(Silk Road to Ruin)
• Mikhaela Reid (”The Boiling Point”)
• Shannon Wheeler (”How to be Happy”)
• Masheka Wood (”Not Just Knee Deep”)

And in case you weren’t aware, you should really read our group blog (also available as an RSS feed or LiveJournal feed) if you want to get all our blogs and most of our cartoons in one convenient place. We also have a not-so-frequently updated Cartoonists With Attitude MySpace page if you want to be our friend.

Hey there! It’s been awhile.

I decided “vacation” was over and that I needed to finish a bunch of stuff that was thisclose to being finished but got held up for some reason or another. This is one of them, a character display of a story I’m developing. It’s loosely based on one of the strangest jobs I’ve had that began a month before 9-11 and ended with my firing a few days after the 2003 NYC blackout.

The Effing Job details the corporate purgatory (unlike the fine establishment that currently employs me) of a finance department that had a few interesting employee perks amid corruption, sex, layoffs, sub-basements and lunchroom tripe.

You should know that I suck at self-promotion. If I didn’t, then you would
already know that I’ve been nominated for the Rising Star award for the 2007
Glyph Comics Awards. You can check out all of the other nominees (including fellow Cartoonist with Attitude Keith Knight) here:

The ceremony will be held at The African American Museum in Philadelphia
on May 18th followed by the 6th annual East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention on May 19th (cough *birthday* cough).

Ms. Mikhaela Reid and I will also have work featured with other cartoonists in the Other Heroes Art Show from April 3-25 2007 at the Jackson State University Art Gallery. It’s curated by two great artists, John Jennings and Damian Duffy of Eye Trauma. You really should get a move on and book a flight to Mississippi as soon as possible to catch this gallery exhibit. Hey, I’m not kidding people, get going!

Today marks the long-awaited DVD release of Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” a film which could be the companion piece to Alfonso Cuaron’s incredible world-gone-infertile “Children of Men“, another dystopian movie which you should have already seen by now.

“Idiocracy” stars Luke Wilson as an average-joe army grunt who is drafted for a year-long military cyrogenic experiment that lasts 499 years longer than he expected. He awakens to an America that has devolved into a nation of slang-spouting imbeciles and, by default, becomes the smartest person in the world.

After the success of “Office Space” and “King of the Hill”, you’d think that Judge would have some clout, but his latest satire is infamous for being swept under the rug by 20th Century Fox’s abysmal and virtually nonexistent marketing campaign. Only released in 125 theaters (amazingly, none of them in New York) “Idiocracy” was met with mixed reviews and only grossed a mere $438,653.

Was the advertising squashed because the studio was afraid of offending potential ticket-buyers? Or was it because the movie skewers corporatism (future Starbucks franchises offer lattes and handjobs), anti-intellectualism, and Fox News?

I haven’t seen “Idiocracy” yet, so I can’t vouch for the quality of the film, but I’m a huge fan of Judge’s work. I would have skipped work to buy a copy as soon as the stores opened, but I have to earn money and shit.

Oh please please please I hope it’s funny…

-Masheka

PS Oh, and there will be new and frequent toons coming, so calm down.

And don’t forget to watch the mid-season premiere of Michael Richards’s new show “Kramer Kramer Kramer!”

The dance sensation that’s sweeping the nation. Click panel to see full cartoon.