Hollaback Holidays! I just finished up a weekend of turkey and sushi (I wait tables in my day job, and I have a family I eat turkey with annually), and even though it’s break, I’m using my free time to make pretty pictures.

Other things I’m using my free time to do is appearing in DeckTechs! Shooting began yesterday, and goes on for the next few weeks. My friend Josh and I are going to be buddies in the show, characters who are always called in to do maintenance on deck. I’m pretty excited because they seem to be comical, and I can’t wait to see the lines I get. I’m sure it will be funny!

But I’ll also be telling jokes a few times this month. I’ll be doing a set at the Bay Street Theater on Dec. 3, with feature act Artie Fletcher, but the exciting news comes the following Monday.

December 6th is a show produced by Chris Davison, and includes performers like Josh Wood, Shane Grey and Peter Griffin! It should be a lot of fun. The poster to the left was illustrated by none other than Julie Collins, one of my professors at SCAD! She got our likenesses all down perfectly. And people love drawing me in that hat! Wanna see another drawing that I’m in wearing that hat? Check it out after the jump!

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It’s tomorrow! I hate that I didn’t color it, but colors could come soon. I will be doing a massive coloring job for the collected volume of comedy posters. More bad news: I will not be performing at this event, because I’m a really stupid person. Thanks for coming by the blog, even though I haven’t been posting . My life has just been a frenzy of emotions, events, etc. Lots of “E’s”. I hope I could post a little more, but with finals being super creepy, it may have to wait until break.

I colored a new poster and an old poster, both featuring Josh Wood in them. Above are the colors with tweaks and color correcting by Josh Wood. And below are my original colors you can totally compare them to. I like some of the changes he made, but you can decide which ones are better.

I knocked the colors for these in one night! I’m so pumped about digital coloring now, I hope you guys are enjoying the fruits of my labor. This week, my bestie Josh needed the old January comedy poster colored, and I filled his request! And I’m glad he made me. Now I’m undertaking a project where I will be adding color to all the old comedy posters, with the hope that in the end they will be collected in a full-color hardcover Stand-Up Comic Book Gig Posters book.

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I created this month’s comedy show poster to star Jayk Johnson, the latest host of the long-running open mic. Now, I’m running off to Dragon*Con in a few hours, but today is Jayk Johnson’s birthday and I wanted to get this out to him at the very least. By Monday or Tuesday, there will be some letters and information about September 9th’s show, including a mention that I will be hosting. Happy birthday, man!

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UPDATE!! (September 7, 3:12PM)

Just added the new poster with font treatment.

We have another show coming up, so another poster! This is based on a joke by my buddy Peter Griffin (yes, it’s his real name), a joke that is devastatingly hilarious because it comes from a devastatingly hilarious person. So I spent my time getting this to look absolutely beautiful. I color this one! I got to experiment with a bunch of things. And I’m pretty pleased, but honestly, I like the black and white version a lot more.