Angus and Teehan

Andrew Chesworth produced the last two drawings, for his own sick pleasure, and I found them while ransacking his things for money for my pills. he is very sick. His work can be found at www.andrewchesworth.com.

Goodbye Lines, Hello Post-Graduation Doldrums

On the ship of my art, I have discovered that my first mate, those thick black lines I think so highly of, nay, those lines that I think of as the sons i ne'er had, have been CAVORTING AND CANOODLING with the captain's daughter. Those outlines leave me no choice but to give them a quick trial at sea and jettison them into the heedless deep.

I think drawing without outlines for a while will advance my awareness of volume, composition and color, maybe about 5 or 6 experience points. So I give you a sketch of my fellow animator Justin Webber and the main cast of Michael Crichton's thrilling bio-disease novella, Sherlock Holmes (Watson, Moriarty, and Ian Malcolm).


I also highly recommend any discerning fan of art, film, and especially cartoons, give David O' Reilly's art a gander- hopefully in twenty years all cartoons will look like this, and not some fucking Seth McFarlane green three-dee singing Dreamworks goblin or some shit.


OCTOCAT ADVENTURE 1-5 (HD) from David OReilly on Vimeo.

Artichoke Hearts (black and white)

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In the desolate American gated suburb of Artichoke Meadows, a misanthropic middle-aged critic and an annoying ten year old boy, two neighbors, decide to stay home from work for a day of R & R. Hilarity, and the awareness of a universe in which everyone is alone, ensues. Can Angus Grant and Teehan Delko get through today with their faith in love and humanity intact? My animated senior project from the last glorious year at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Fullscreen view this mother-effer.

Mesmerini's and Hallucinations

Some Post-graduation catching up here. The first comes from the summer period; I co-created two characters, the Mesmerini brothers, two vaguely molest-intent intensive twin brothers who had inherited their occupation from a long line of hypno-mesmerists. They take baths together and have a roughly 9-year old's conception of sexuality, but they like embarassing women and hugging each other, before retiring at twilight time to their ancestral mansion with their controlling mother (not pictured).

The next comes from Last Christmas (2007) when I was a-visiting Boston to see my comrade and home-skillet, Alex, (whose blog you can find in my links section). We were tripping on acid, and I seem to have translated my class frustrations and fear of 1970s swim coaches into this strange piece of work. there are pizza grease stains on the paper.

I also 'stumbled' upon some nudie art blogs I'm very in love with; I've always fearfully considered my place in erotic art, maybe I'm still too much of a prude though. I'm adding Hellstroem, Colleen Coover, and @$$ and Siouxme to my recommended readings list!

Angus n' Teehan; The Animated Series

a little more then pencil tests from my huge-ass senior project that I am struggling to finish as we speak, Artichoke Hearts, concerning major league sourpuss Angus Grant and minor-league pussy willow, Teehan Delko. Soon this will look like it could be on TV, I promise.

Doubting Tommy

Another comic assignment I did for class that I'm considering for conversion into animated form sometime in the near future, perhaps in the pristine days when I am no longer brutally assaulted by schoolwork. Vaguely based on Johnny Cash music and 'All these Things That I Have Done' by The Killers. The style reminds a little of Scott Campbell's?

Peach Blacke comic

Just a quick comic I did for class about a character I wanted to write about for some time now- a living dead guitarist cowgirl who sells her soul to the devil (the the debbil, and folks in the south call him) an then wanders the earth and does that whole thing. I was finally given chance to fit my character into a class assignment, I saw my chance, and by god, I took it! God bless this great nation of ours!

Space Kelly Revision

Some modifications to the Space Kelly model, both the famous cartoon smash hit Space Kelly, and Wilem Yamagata, a colonial security contractor with no memories. I kind of based one style off Hank Ketcham's and Russell Patterson, the other off a mixture of Eduardo Risso and Mike Mignola.

A Guide To Dating Myself

A did a little comic for Tuesday Bassen's zine thing, the Tuesday whose blog you can find in the links section a little to the left of this post. I guess the comic is about dating me in some obscure capacity. I am way to bored and burnt out to explain anything, but even if I wasn't, I wouldn't know what to say. I think maybe that dating me is a pretty bad idea.

Le Chat Noir

The Europeans rule the new wave of 2d animation! For some time I have maintained that we are overdue for another golden age of animation, with Disney reinstating their 2d department and Pixar blazing the way in academy-winning cartoons. Hot on the trail of Gobelins (search that name on youtube if you don't already know about it, you'll get some pretty slick student animated shorts), another art school, Lycée technique des Arts et Métiers of Luxembourg, is putting out some good stuff too. Le Chat Noir is made by Xavier Gogol, Rony Hotin Sebastien Genre and Yoann Robert, and is posted below in its bohemian, absythe-soaked goodness.

Updated Boy Named Sue Animatic

A NEW ANIMATIC that is now inked and contains MORE THAN TWO new gags!You can see my original character sketches ovah' here.

True-Life Horror Stories

In case you didn't know, it's now official that torture was approved for military use in Afghanistan and Iraq by Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld. John Yoo drafted legislation that is pretty clear cut concerning torture, and now the information is out there and nobody is doing anything, and that includes me. I think the New York Times ran this story on, like, page 30, because America's leaders squeezing out a turd on the constitution and Geneva Convention just doesn't sell the papers like it used to. Britney Spears is more important I guess. I still get slightly queasy with each re-reading of this, and the cold realization that world has a new supervillian, and I'm funding them. . There we go, rant over. My face is a portrait of disgust, a mixture of expression I make when I'm confused and when I'm severely constipated.

Reel, version one

My hopefully-very-professional-looking animation/illustration reel. Cut together with some baroque music from Chan Wook Park's 'Oldboy'. Hopefully the combined effect of the images and sound will produce the inexplicable desire to hire me in the hearts of executives and business-types. fingers crossed.

Angus and Teehan

My senior animation project is a short, mostly dialogue-free animated film about two neighbors, Angus Cooke, a stuffy middle-aged intellectual, and Teehan Carter, an effeminate, destructive ten year old boy, who is super in love with Angus for some reason. They both live in pretty much self-contained worlds of loneliness and misunderstandings, and struggle with their lame-ass lives as best they can. Above is the first sketch I ever did of them together, and below are a copy of color schemes that I may use for it. Haven't decided which one yet. Tell me what you think.

Chicken Spheres

Concept art I created for Brad Pearson's art school film "Once In A Lifetime" (2), involving a fictitious fast-food company, Chicken Spheres. In the story, I guess Chicken Spheres (tm) commissions some students at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design to create a new logo for their unscrupulous company, whose only philosophy is to create a perfect sphere of chicken meat for every customer. If it has an edge, it's not a sphere. If it's not a sphere, it's not a chicken sphere. Watch out for the last few logos. they're pretty intense.

Suicide Food

If you're like me, you must agree that there's nothing more weird and pathetic than an animal mascot promoting a meat-eating establishment, especially when the meat that's being eaten is their own. Anthropomorphic salmon urging you to consume seafood, cartoon chickens selling out their brothers and sisters for perhaps just a few more days of sweet life. If there was a restaurant that served humans I would sooner perish with honor than prolong my tortured life by acting as a treasonous jester for my captors, but apparently many, many cartoon animals feel differently. The blog Suicide Food, which I am also adding to my links, is a list of these sad race traitors, it puts their faces up there on the internet for everyone to see so that maybe someday when one of these schmucks is out getting milk or renting a movie on some calm, normal night, BOOM! they get a taste of what they send their poor compadre's to every single fucking day. Justice.

Shapeshifting Owl Freakout

The editing for this video and the presentation of the owl's abilities are almost more hilarious than the owl's talents itself. Oh, wonderful Japanese TV standards. If mother nature gets any cooler we should bomb her.

Sue Barfight Extravaganzo

An illustration for the proposed Mission-Hill style environmental color scheme that I plan to employ in animated projects, like the recent 'A Boy Named Sue'.

A Boy Named Sue Animatic

The animatic for my proposed music video project, set to Johnny Cash's immortal 'A Boy Named Sue'. You can see my original character sketches ovah' here. My Name is Sue! How do you do! Now you gunna die!

High Treason Characters 2008

Re-hashed characters for my High Treason concept, which is now best described as Rupyard Kipling's 'Kim' spy story set in an American High School.
Zach is the main character of the story, a roughly amoral malcontent/picaresque whose only reliable trait is a smattering of greed, lukewarm cowardice, and a distinct pliability when it comes to bribes and especially Eggs Benedict, his favourite food.His only, and possibly best friends are Oz, an insecure white middle class scruffball whose only loves in life are mean girls and his busted up Oldsmobile, and Zoey, a Nancy Drew-class teen detective, looking to solve her 23rd and final case before she graduates and becomes a cultural studies major. Cade and Grady are both senior high school monitors, dedicated to the heady aroma of power and duty. Sydney Dillon is the worst boy in the world, an effortless manipulator and medication addict with a flair for no-holds barred sociopathy, also the villian of the story.

Mysterious Mose-San

Another puppet-type animation short film, this time from the lonely volcanic island of Japan, located somewhere in the Asiatic seas. It's kind of a creepier, Asian answer to Mysterious Mose, done by the techno-pop group Denki Groove, and contains many actual spirits and monsters. The song is the intro for Hakaba Kitaro, an animated series about a one-eyed boy who fucks about with ghosts and stuff.

Character designs circa 2007

my character designs for Space Kelly, my comic about an androgynous space-bandit, Moonhead and Meisner, and High Treason, my concept work for two boarding school friends trapped in a surreal Village, and a high school drama, respectively, and for Teehan and Angus, my senior animation project for school. As of the end of 2007.

Moonhead and Meisner, Diana Sketch

Some sketches I churned out amid the tempest of finals. There's Moonhead and Meisner, best friends from Britain, and a japanese artist friend of mine, of dichao at blogspot. I think she's a comic major, maybe.

That's Mysterious Mose!

A brilliant puppet short film that involves cut out animation, stop motion, and shadow animation! Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh did this. It's one of the most engaging and encouraging pieces to come out of the animation world in some time. I believe their studio, screen-novelties.com, is working on a lot of exciting stop-motion projects right now, especially in collaboration with the Cartoon Network. The song itself is based on an old-timey ballad about a spooky black man. Go figure.

A Boy Named Sue Character Sheet

The full character sheet for my ' A Boy Named Sue' project.

A Review

a horrible old hag who has no idea about the basic tenets of criticism or youth tries her hand at reviewing the delightful, albeit over-marketed Ellen Page vehicle, Juno. She makes a mess of it, and all over it, resulting in the literary equivalent of one of those videos where the guy tries to skate down a railing and crotches himself. This is collegehumor.com of reviews. I feel guilt, but not regret, for exposing anyone to it.
Phyllis Schlafly reviews Juno

A Boy Named Sue Concept Art

A character sheet for ' A Boy Named Sue', a project I'm storyboarding, and possibly animating in the future. Sue at various ages, his maw and paw, teachers schoolmates and victims, are all here. Overtly based on the Johnny Cash song, about a boy tormented by his father's absence and lack of parental skills. Give it a listen if you haven't already. And shut up.

Pierpoint on Quay

Just a very Miyazaki-influenced sci-fi drawing I forced from my syphilitic fingers.
also, if you have the time, inclination and interest, please read this article on transsexual body image written by a good comrade.
transsexual antinomy Very solid stuff.

The Real Bush

I normally try to steer clear of overt political commentary/humor in my work, both because it totally dates a piece and comes off as compassionless, un-subtle grandstanding. I made the exception here, because I thought i might be able to offer something more than the normal divisive name-calling, I hope I'm right in assuming as much.

Space Kelly Poster

Let's Rocket! (tm)

Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk 3

The final collection of pages from my Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk project.

Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk 2

More pages from the reptile-pitying, whiskey drinking, lady-seducin' (not in this comic) Space Kelly. Is he a boy or a girl? Why is she so angry? Is there another Skywalker? maybe.

Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk

Space Kelly is now an androgynous colony soldier on some Outer Rim Planet, plus a lovable cartoon. Plus a confusing comic project that I did.

Paranoia Agent

Paranoia Agent:
Subversive Anime by Satoshi Kon
The Best There Is!
Enter Li'l Slugger;

George Romero's Dayz of the Dead

In the style of the 80s Romero horror shocker lauded as "The Darkest Day in Horror", comes-
Dayz of the Dead!
Commander Rhodes is an uptight father figure at the head of a ragtag military installation- but what he does count on is- full on wackiness! whether it's confused teen zombie Bub's attempts to shave, Professor Logan's crazy scheme to start Frankenstein monkey farm, or Sarah's dinner of terrible Greek salad, there's only one thing you can be sure of this apocalypse- there's not gonna be one dull moment!

Moonhead and Meisner/ Class sketches

In-class-sketches and the creation of unlikely and untenable creative properties are how i pass my time, very commonly. I hate mondays, but I love lasagna.

Space Kelly and the Voctopoid/ Ghastly Yarns

A one-page Space Kelly comic and a horror comic set at my art school, which, in case you haven't yet guessed, is MCAD, The Minneapolis College of Art and Design. (because apparently those two things are completely different) These are both class projects done under the duress of deadlines, so let's not judge too harshly, eh?

Shipwrecked In Time Poster

A movie poster I did for a friend's Romantic Comedy, Shipwrecked In Time, that features neither epic marine/naval battles or, overtly, the concept of time travel. It's a romantic comedy, stupid.

The Scenic Route 2

The Last two pages of my period comic, 'The Scenic Route'.

The Scenic Route

After deciding to do a period piece, I settled on the oft-mangled prohibition era, and wrote The Scenic Route, partly inspired by Miller's Crossing.

Janus Korczak Lino-Print

Dr. Janusz Korczak emerged from world war 1, in which he was an officer in the polish army, with a vision that children constitute a disticnt class with their own psychology and political identity. he anounced that he would become their Karl Marx. He founded an orphanage in which children governed themselves. They would even come to form their own religion and publish their own newspaper.

The Children's Republic became an ideal for orpahanages all over the world. Its orderliness and spirit were such that when the SS arrived, the children marched through the ghetto behind their flag (King Matt's flag, King Matt being the imaginary Child King of the World). Korczak had been offered sanctuary on the “Aryan side” of Warsaw but turned it down repeatedly, saying that he could not abandon his children. Now too, he refused offers of sanctuary, insisting that he would go with the children. The children were dressed in their best clothes, and each carried a blue knapsack and a favorite book or toy. Joshua Perle, an eyewitness, described the procession of Korczak and the children through the ghetto to the Umschlagplatz (deportation point to the death camps):

... A miracle occurred. Two hundred children did not cry out. Two hundred pure souls, condemned to death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their father and brother, Janusz Korczak, so that he might protect and preserve them. Janusz Korczak was marching, his head bent forward, holding the hand of a child, without a hat, a leather belt around his waist, and wearing high boots. A few nurses were followed by two hundred children, dressed in clean and meticulously cared for clothes, as they were being carried to the altar. (...) On all sides the children were surrounded by Germans, Ukrainians, and this time also Jewish policemen. They whipped and fired shots at them. The very stones of the street wept at the sight of the procession.
According to a popular legend, when the group of orphans finally reached the Umschlagplatz, an SS officer recognized Korczak as the author of one of his favorite children's books and offered to help him escape, but once again, Korczak refused. He boarded the trains with the children and was never heard from again.


in Yad VashemSome time after, there were rumors that the trains had been diverted and that Korczak and the children had survived. There was, however, no basis to these stories. Most likely, Korczak was killed with his children in a gas chamber upon their arrival to Treblinka. There is a memorial grave for him at the Powzki Cemetery in Warsaw.

done on rice paper

High Treason Character sketches

The first generation sketches for my High Treason High School story.

S.E.D.I.T.I.O.U.S.

SEDITIOUS has origins that reach far back before the St. James assassination that popularized it. Years of research has revealed a complex covert cell structure and organized philosophy, as well as the identities of hundreds of members. The organization itself lends its roots to post WW1 terrorist cell called ‘The Sedition’, and before that, the Vril Gesellschaft, an German occultist group, as well as ‘The Men Of The Black Stone ’ and a sect of revolutionary Freemasons known as ‘The Twelfth Legion.’ Primary funding for employment and recruitment of accomplices as well as a stockpiling of various arms and property was traced back to the prestigious Heim family, to which Irma Heim belongs. Subsequent donations are either untraceable or nonexistent, though it is unlikely the Heim Family could support SEDITIOUS over the course of several decades on its family wealth alone.



Of the executive’s hundreds is comprised an inner cabal nicknamed ‘The Office of Sorrows’ or ‘The Shadow Cabinet’, (pictured) known individually as (#1) Irma Heim, (photographed at London-Heathrow Airport, 1992) (#2) Peter Montague aka ‘The King Mantis’ aka ‘King Sharpe’, (origin of photograph unknown) (#3) Akhila Lakshmi, (photographed at Dacca, Pakistan during the Gupta siege, 1981)(#4) Dr. Lysander Opal aka ‘The Crystal Claw’, (photographed at Leary-Case trial in Washington, USA, shortly before escape) (#5) ‘Captain Zephyr’ (real name unknown, possibly Detlev Zivkovic), (photographed during the Zimbabwe Massacre, time and exact location unknown) (#6) Sidney Whisper aka ‘Mister Whisper’ (photographed during attempted capture by US forces in Songhua, China in 2000) and (#7) Fatmir Rugova (photograph taken from Kosovo Liberation Army archives.)

Professor James Moriarty

A Valentine's Day painting from quite some time ago.

A Blackadder by any other name

Some fan-art based on one of my favorite British comedy series, Blackadder, about a recurring malcontent/creep, Edmund Blackadder, who through each era of British history tries to backstab and kill his way to becoming King of England.
pictured: (from left to right, though not in order of cunning) The Mini-brained Prince Regent, George, Lord Edmund Blackadder the First, of the court of Elizabeth, Captain E Blackadder, of the Hull 3rd Battalion, Baldrick, a wretchedly stupid dogsbody, Lord Blackadder the time traveller, later King Edmund the third, and The Mad Queen Elizabeth the first.

"The sound of hoof beats 'cross the glade,
Good folk, lock up your son and daughter,
Beware the deadly flashing blade,
Unless you want to end up shorter.
Black Adder, Black Adder, with many an cunning plan.
Black Adder, Black Adder, you horrid little man."
- a popular Anglo-Saxon rhyme

The Joker and Some Others

As per my tattoo and life-long interests in sociopathy, I have included the obligatory Joker pictures, sprinkled with other pieces.

Space Kelly Original concepts

To kick off my glorious backslide into the social moral sinkhole that is blogging, a pit that I promised I would never allow myself to fall into, I give you the first Space Kelly concepts, back when my character was but a mere slip of a mannish space-cadet with a space-axe to grind. She had a mecha-space suit and a Blockade Runner named 'Som', which is 'catfish' in Russian. My internet regret is your pleasure, hopefully. Enjoy!