Dirty Red Commie

I know it's early, but this is the neatest thing I've seen all day.

 Made by Nick Bertke, found via BoingBoing .

I've been noticing a logo on a number of food products lately.  When I first saw it, I though it was strange that Cheerios had a cute little red sylized demon logo on their box, but didn't actually take the time to examine it further until much later. 

It's a cute little demon with a heart for an eye.  Or maybe a ghost, since it doesn't have legs.  Ok, a half-ghost, half-devil.  But he loves you.

Imagine my shock when I discover that it's supposed to be a little red dress .  I think I liked it better before.

[img_assist|nid=80|title=|desc=|link=|align=left|width=200|height=160]The keen mind(s) at thepartyparty.com have put together an excellent version of Sunday, Bloody Sunday sung entirely by Dubyah.

...and it's a pretty serious one, too.

I'll just cut'n'paste what I wrote in the MoFu forums:

"A break, at last...

Frank Iero, guitarist in the band My Chemical Romance has started a publishing company of sorts, called Skeleton Crew. One of the projects being released through Skeleton Crew is a comic called Life Is Hell, on which yours truly will be doing the art chores. ;)

Life Is Hell is being written by Joey Southside (who happens to front a fine band himself, The Banner), who has created a rich universe, full of detail and history. The story deals with a group of young people with supernatural powers, their own dramas unfolding on a backdrop of apocalypse.

A bit of info I found Out There:

"Joey Southside, vocalist of New Jersey hardcore act The Banner has
announced his upcoming comic book series. Under the working title Life Is
Hell, Southside is contributing the first series to My Chemical Romance
guitarist, Frank Iero's, Skeleton Crew Publishing.

Iero's company, Skeleton Crew was launched in July of this year. It is
described as a record label, book publisher, and clothing design company.
As a label, it will focus on limited edition, colored vinyl and picture
discs. As a publisher, he hopes to publish books written or illustrated by
people who "have something to say.""

You can also go to Life Is Hell's Myspace page for a fuller explanation of the comic itself, as well as quite a bit of art from issue 0 (I myself will pick up at issue 1). Give it a whirl.

So yah. Here's a banner with a few of the characters (all from prelim sketches, so these may not be the final versions):

Considering the amount of time I've dedicated to getting my foot in the comic industry's door, I'm pretty damn excited about being involved with this project (plus Joey's a cool guy, I look forward to working with him). It would also seem my connection to the music world, art-wise, at any rate, will continue for the time being...

As always, thanks for looking."

So yeah, at long last...  It's been about 16 years since I started down the comics illustration road...  So either I'm not as good as I think, or I'm just really lazy.  Heh.  At any rate, I'm pretty excited... 

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Over at misshapenfeatures.com, there's a freekin' hilarious mashup called StarLords.  Where else can you see Yoda and Gandalf in a disco dance battle?  Their site is pretty overwhelmed, so you can also get it from my local mirror.

Last night I got to go to the Expo center for the Roller Derby and dance at halftime with eleven of my closest girls....  crazy huh?

A group of women in Portland started a roller derby league a year and a half ago - The Rose City Rollers. They've got four local teams and an all-star touring team to go against other leagues.

The Zoobombers did some derby during halftime, the Sprockettes helping and dancing during a break in the action.

Jonathan Maus came along and took some pictures.

Honda has a great commercial wherein a chorus makes strikingly realistic car noises.

I'd love to hear more from this group.

(Found on BoingBoing)

Somebody made a sweet Garfield Strip Randomizer.  On average, I'd say it's funnier this way.

Artist William Wray of Ren and Stimpy fame has gone from gross-out paintings of two strange animals doing strange things to fine art urban landscapes. 

 They're very good, but you'd never know it was the same guy.