2007

Just released is the new, Director's cut of our short animated film, The Tragical Historie of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken.  This is a film about a giant space chicken making a film about a giant space chicken.  ...  Also this year will see the publication of a short story I wrote for the anthology Visual Journeys, edited by Eric Reynolds.  Instead of artwork done to illustrate stories, in this antho, existing artwork was "literated" by various authors, including me, in my first published story, "Worlds in Collusion: A Planetary Romance."  Also in this book, authors literate four of my previously published pieces of artwork. ... I am also still doing art, including a piece for the Westercon progress report.

The big project these days is an animated version of Guidolon, the Giant Space Chicken, which I am creating with a team of artists.  I hope to sell this as a weekly animated TV show.  ... Happy news!  Two of my paintings - "Derelict" (for the SFWA Bulletin) and "Welcome Aboard" (for the 2005 Worldcon inflight magazine ION TRAILS) - are now in the collection of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle! ... I started off this year being Artist Guest of Honor at Arisia in Boston. The highlight of that con for me was doing "Dueling Easels" with Bob Eggleton.  I wore a T-shirt that said, "Bob, you're going down."  We painted to a soundtrack Bob had brought, pausing in the middle of our alotted hour to play air guitar to "Stairway to Heaven." ...  One of my dragon paintings - which I had painted in one day during a writers/artists retreat at the house of my pal Rebecca Inch-Partridge - appeared on the cover of Steve Upham's ezine Estronomicon. ... After that I did the cover art for the RadCon science fiction convention, in Pasco, WA, where I was artist guest of honor, Feb. 17-19.  The theme was "alternative history," and I suggested to Jay Lake, the writer Guest of Honor, what if we did Lincoln on the moon?  He said, OK, but only if the South wins and Lincoln's a zombie. Thus, "Sweet Zombie Lincoln on the Moon."...  After that, among other projects, I'll be doing the cover art for Miscon, a sci-fi convention in Missoula, where I'll be Guest of Honor in May. ... In June, I went to the Licensing International Show in New York, pushing my Guidolon, the Giant Space Chicken project. 

2005

For the final 2005 project, I finished up artwork for Arisia, the science fiction convention in Boston, Jan 13-15, where I'll be Artist Guest of Honor.  That image has a dragon in a British Redcoat outfit, with tri-corner hat, destroying Boston. ... Another current project includes a cover and a set of interior art for Fantastic Stories. The stories include "Increments" by Robert Frazier, "The Case of the Haunted City" by Josepha Sherman, "Through the Looking Glass" by Terry McGarry, "Iron Horse" by Shariann Lewitt, and "Cast a Cold Eye" by William Barton. ... I finished up an illo for the story "Cloud Dragon Skies" by N. K. Jemisin for Strange Horizons. ... The previous project was a space scene featuring the SECC (Scottish Exhibition Centre) "Armadillo" building with rockets launching behind it.  This is for the Worldcon this August. ... Earlier I finished up a space station painting for the upcoming hardcover novel How I Helped the Chicago Cubs (Finally!) Win the World Series, by Harper Scott. ... In May, I was Artist Guest of Honor at Baycon, and painted a program book cover  for them, with a girl and a T-rex, along with T-shirt and badge art. ... I painted the cover for Nick Mamatas' chapbook of humor Lovecraftian poems called Cthulhu Senryu. ... I finished up a sci-fi painting I submitted to SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) for use as the cover for the next issue of the Bulletin. I use the term "painting" loosely, because the canvas board I used was made three-dimensional with bumps of glue, wood bits, etc.  The image is a derelict alien spaceship orbiting a nebula (get it?). ...   I started out the year with a little cartoon for Steve Silver's fanzine Argentus.  He was doing a special edition on gameshows, and I contributed my take on less-than-perfect robots competing on Jeopardy! ... In 2006, I'll have a piece of interior artwork included in the anthology The Exquisite Corpuscle. This anthology is being edited by yours truly and Jay Lake and is essentially a literary game of telephone. ... At Corflu in February I did half a dozen sci-fi cartoons, for the Forman's upcoming fanzine "Corrupt Marquee," for Chris Garcia's fanzine "The Drink Tank", for BayCon (where I was Artist GOH) in May, for Chaz Baden's "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" fanzine, and I thought it would be fun to submit a piece for Pat and Dick Lupoff's fanzine "Xero," which hasn't been published in 40 years.

2004

I capped off the year with the cover for the Jerry Oltion book Paradise Passed, published by Wheatland Press. ... I also had a piece of sci-fi art on the LA Con IV (worldcon in L.A., 2006) website splash page, called "Heroes." ... My artwork of a Klingon spacegirl (sorry, grrl) rising from the water is being used for poster artwork for the film Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water. This was my first movie poster. ... Earlier this year I did a cover for Nth Degree magazine for the story "Breakdown".  ... I recently submitted an illo for Steven Silver's fanzine Argentus called "Killfish".  ... Earlier this year I completed the cover for the Fundamentally Challenged anthology edited by Jeff Turner.  The antho has stories wherein something we all believe to be true - like gravity working or the earth revolving around the sun - stops being true.  In the cover illo, trees grow upsidedown.  It's called "Mama, Put My Trees in the Ground." ... I've been a Star Trek fan my whole life, and I finally got to do a sanctioned Trek piece.  I did a variation of the "I Want You" theme, with a killer Klingon spacebabe (girls are always fun to draw), for Lawrence Schoen's Klingon Language Institute journal. ...  I also painted the girl on the cover of Gothic Wine, the latest book from Aardwolf Press. ... Star*Line poetry magazine no. 27.2 reprinted my image "The Sad Girl", which had earlier appeared in Talebones magazine.  ... Talebones itself finally gave me a cover assignment (Thanks, Patrick and Honna!), so I did the illo "Ad Astra" for them. ... Over the Christmas holiday, I did a piece of fantasy art for the San Diego in 2006 Westercon bid, called "The Lounge Lizard, Elvissaurus, or Dino Marino".  This is intended to appear on book bags.  That sums up to about 19 pubs this year.