Doing Lines (+ BO '07 part 2 + What the Frick is Going On?)

Pitt Pen, Photoshop CS3, October '07

What in the frick is going on you ask? Well, we would ask you what you mean, cause there are a couple of things going on. Firstly there's BLOG OFF '07 going on - that's right, we're in the midst of the great post off of 2007 our two colleagues Chuck and Sean who are both incredible artists and story-tellers. Or stor-ellers for short. It's just starting and already getting pretty juicy.

I'M SO JUICED as Chuck and Sean would say (in unison (yes, it is a little weird but ok we guess)) if they were here.

As for what else is going on in the drawing above, well we're playing around with colored line art (hence the title of the post, sorry to disappoint you cocaine lovers out there) and we're thinking (not sure mind you) of maybe doing a whole new comic for BO '07 (though I'll have to check out what the BO '07 User's Manual and Mandates have to say about this. We know 2 existing colored comics pages are in, but not sure about new comics pages - we're assuming 1 page is good if it's new and made for BO '07). So stay tuned, dear readers (or dear reader), find out what happens to our heroes... and to us, all of us.

And for more BO '07 fun and to see some good artwork check out what the other participants are up to:

Sean's Website
His 1st entry
His 2nd entry

Chuck's Website
His 1st entry
His 2nd entry... coming soon... (I'm looking at the original art on his desk, like, right now)

and my first entry

Almighty alrighty, we hope everyone (or you, one person who keeps faithfully reading) is staying happy and healthy.

Regarding you in the fondest way possible without it being at all creepy,
DTWA&K -> your loyal correspondents from the northeast

P.S. Chas and Sven wanted to add something. Go ahead guys...

Chas and Sven: I'M SO JUICED!!!!!!!

IN THE SHADOW OF KILLING PHANTOMS (We want elephant boots)

Killing Phantoms is/was at is again y'all, this time at Sidewalk Cafe in NYC.


2 Screens, French Steel Blue cover stock, October '07

We have fond and now (in our old age) fleeting memories of our undergrad years in a particularly grueling academic program going to Sidewalk Cafe at the tail of an all-nighter and sitting there, exhausted and dazed ,watching MTV's 'The Gring' (with the sound turned off) - a very surreal experience indeed.

Whatever happened to 'The Grind' anyways? There was nothing like being totally spaced out and watching people dance.

ADVICE + LINES + MOVIE QUOTES + INSIDE JOKES ---> FOR A YOUNG CARTOONIST WHO MOST DEFINITELY APPRECIATES IT ALL AND THANKS THOSE WHO MAKE HIM LAUGH

Whew, that's a long title.


Pitt Pen, Photoshop CS3, October 2007

Last week the ineffable Joe Lambert asked us to help with a comic for a certain fundraiser The Center for Cartoon Studies held. The above comic was folded and placed inside a very very nifty piece by Mr. Lambert. We should thank him for asking us to participate in such a project.

We are touched J Lam, touched indeed.

KILLING PHANTOMS the ALBUM (drawings of people ducking / cringing / holding themselves)

Dear Everybody,

Hope you are well. We here at DTWA&K are, once again, somewhat excited... AND, surprisingly, we're feeling good about ourselves. We always heard that was nice... turns out it's TRUE! Feeling good about yourself is, well, pretty good. All we ask is that this feeling will last longer than 45 minutes.

Actually, we don't know where we were going with that. Let's move on to bid-ness. Over the summer we had the distinct pleasure of designing the artwork for the distinguished band Killing Phantoms. Great fun, doing the album art we mean. And it was even more fun when the cd's came in the mail today! We wish we had pictures to show, you could see the joyous look on our faces.

Anyhow, here's a look at the artwork below. You'll have to excuse the different size things. We wish we could post everything in their relative size and keep them easy to view, but alas, we cannot at the moment. Which makes us want to mention that hopefully we will be getting a better more professional more improved more a lot of things website soon.

The album is a typical jewel case 6 panel gate fold format.


The 'outside' of the CD booklet thing, the third of the image is the cover.


The 'inside' of the CD booklet thing, lyrics - all the lyrics.


That's Phuong Nguyen, the front man himself. This image is below the clear CD tray, photo by Lauren Bess Berley.


The back of the CD case, the two Killing Phantoms on the side are folded up and appear on the sides of the jewel case.


The CD itself - we've been enjoying wordless CD's lately - just a nice clean image, please... though we suppose it should be noted that it's not that we don't like CD's w/ words on them... it's just that we like them w/o words also.

We've heard Killing Phantoms will be having a CD release party on Dec. 7th at Crash Mansion in NYC. The date is tentative, but them rocking out is not. Check it out.

Anyway, the days are getting darker here, in VT. We mean that literally, today has been one of the darkest days yet. We're diligently preparing ourselves for the coming winter, hope you are too.

Fondest Regards,
Your faithful friends at DTWA&K

...where the HECK is Sean??

Hello everybody,

Well, seems like things are a-changin' round these parts. Well, not really, but there's a picture of some of us on The Beat - sweetness! Unfortunately, the link from the picture for both Sean and yours truly comes here. Poor Sven's website, not getting linked. We'll have to take care of that right here.

So, if your looking for SEAN FORD'S WEBSITE, click it friend, click it.

How We Almost Forgot About Having A Blog (+ BLOG OFF '07 part 1)

Okay, okay... We didn't almost forget about having a blog. It's just been a while since we've had anything to post. Today, though, today, friends, all that changes. We finally got something! We're filled with excitement over this:



Well, ok, not over the top image alone... that's not what's causing the excitement over here at DTWA&K. We're excited for our thesis, which is what the above is for. Wall City (we're thinking about the title... it may change). We're excited and tired at the same time.

Anyhow, we just got back from SPX '07 down in Bethesda. 1000 miles of driving in 4 days and still very very tired. Hopefully we'll be back to working at full steam soon and hopefully we'll be producing more and more post-able things.

Well, we definitely will be. The above is actually also our first entry for BLOG OFF '07. Something we're doing with Sean and Chuck. Stay tuned for the blogging excitement.

Oh, for some SPX fun check out our good friend, colleague, and someone who's work we admire greatly Joe Lambert's website. Our table (the Sundays Table) was right next to Joe of One Percent Press.

AND OH AGAIN... we should mention Secret Acres - a new comics publisher. We've had the pleasure of meeting them and really, the pleasure was all ours. Good guys, Secret Acres... Good guys.

CLICK HERE RIGHT NOW for some sweet Secret Acres - ness.

Alright alright alright - Your own personal correspondents from dark, cold, isolated vemont signing off.