I was actually against making this poster at first. Then I realized, I’m not Chinese, I wouldn’t be offended at all. So I went with it. Nick Brown is an interesting character and pulling from this joke was a no-brainer. It was the most visual one I could come up with. You’ve got to come to the open mic to get a chance to see what this joke is all about. And the other reason you may want to come: This may be my very last performance in Savannah EVER!

the costuming was stolen from Gene Yang’s stereotypically Chinese caricature Chin-Kee, from the book American Born Chinese. Yang is an important voice in the Asian-American comics community, and I just had to take his lead with the costume.

Next comedy show! February 10th, ya’ll!

I’ve gone through a bunch of the regular comedians and have drawn them all. I’m holding off on drawing some of the newbies because I’m not sure how regularly they will be coming. I don’t want to draw a comedian who won’t show up when he or she is featured on the flier. So here’s my cop out, drawing the other regulars hangin’ out with the fat sack of shit who should suck a bag of dicks, Louis CK. Click to view it larger! The show starts at 8PM, Thursday January 13th.

Ahh, another open mic at the Sentient Bean. As fun as it is to perform in other venues, I always feel at home when I’m at my favorite coffee shop. Thanks to all who came out on Monday night for the Night of Stand Up, hosted by my pal Chris Davison. I just killed, had a blast, and now we’ve found another place in Savannah that is great for comedy (and we found out how to set the stage in a great way, too!).

This month is a rarity for my posters. I’ve drawn myself! I’ve held out long enough, and now I’m done a self-portrait and a joke of my own. I do impressions of Christopher Walken and Gilbert Gottfried at one point, and sometimes I get huge laughs. And I felt so compelled to do the poster in the style of theme-park caricature portraits. It turned out to look like a Three Stooges poster. Now, I’ve been able to impersonate Walken since I started doing comedy. Everyone has a version of him in them. But Gilbert Gottfried was a much more interesting discovery. Whenever I’m drawing, and I’m not listening to music or a podcast, I start to talk to myself. Many times, in different voices. During the Christmas break in 2008, I was drawing and being a crazy person, and Gilbert Gottfried started talking to me. I was working way into the night at my parents’ house, and as I had to stop myself from yelling in that voice. But I was going crazy with this discovery! I HAD to keep going with the voice, tinkering it out in detail. I’d jump onto YouTube and found his clips and jokes to tell in his voice. By the time I had perfected it, my parents were in my room telling me to go to bed. And as I laid there in the dark (with the sun just about to rise), I knew I had to debut it at the next comedy show.

Enjoy your holidays! More shows will come to Tantra, and ofcourse keep watching us perform at The Sentient Bean.

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!

Thanks! Go stimulate the economy with your holiday spending!

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.

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.

I’m working on some cool posters for the CoffeeHouse series that is is sponsored by SCAD’s Student Activities Council. I’m discovering some new media and working in strange styles, but I’m having plenty of fun.

This Wednesday, Brian McManus is performing with Magazine Avenue. January 27th, at 8PM. Free Coffee!