FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
Okay, folks, this is your last Free Comic Book update
(unless you follow me on Facebook and Twitter, in which case, you'll get double
helpings of what I'm spooning out to you now). On Saturday, May 5th from 11 pm-3
pm, myself, Joe Foo and Jay Jacot will
be at 21st Century Comics in East Lansing, MI. I'll have a Bodie Troll
mini-print that I'll be giving away for the occasion. And I'll have lots of
stuff to sell--sketches, original artwork, and lots and lots of comics: copies
of each volume of "Little Green Men", "Dead Duck", and copies
from my increasingly dwindling supply of 2011 sketchbooks! Hope to see you
there!
DREAMWORKS
As I mentioned a few weeks back, Ape Entertainment is
publishing "Dreamworks Animation Magazine", and I'm contributing
artwork to the publication. You can see a sample of my stuff below:
MISTAKEN IDENTY OR FRAUD?
On Monday night, I decided to see what pieces of Jay Fosgitt
art were circulating on Ebay. You can typically find my sketch card work from
my various Marvel Comics' sets done for Rittenhouse, and sometimes cards from
lesser known (but still fun) series' done for 5finity and Breygent Marketing.
Once in a blue moon, you might even come across the cards I did for the Star
Wars Galaxy 5 set for Topps a few years ago. It was a card from that particular
set that caught my attention, emblazoned with the description: Topps Star Wars
Galaxy 5 Sketch Card, Shuttle Tydirium by artist Jay Fosgitt (you can check the card out here). Problem is, I didn't draw it. Either the seller had
mistakenly advertised this card as being drawn by me, or he drew the card himself
and is trying to pass it off as my work (my name doesn't carry enough clout to
warrant a high price tag for a card, so this second theory is pretty thin). I
hastily rattled off the following note to the seller:
"Hi. I'm Jay Fosgitt. And I hate to break it to
you, but I never drew this card. I see that the artist signed the card
"JF", but it isn't me, and I can guarantee you that there is no other
Jay Fosgitt on the planet besides me (believe me, I've researched it). I did
contribute art to Star Wars Galaxy 5, but unlike this artist's style, my style
is very cartoony, and I never drew ships (and if I did, they would be much
better than this). So I'd appreciate it if you'd update your product info,
partly because I wouldn't want this card sold under false pretenses, but mostly
because I wouldn't want my name to be associated with such lousy artwork. If
need be, you can visit my website www.jayfosgitt.com for verification of my
artistic style, and you can contact me at fourpanelhero@hotmail.com if you'd like
to discuss it further.
Thanks. --Jay"
As of this typing, the seller hasn't responded to me, nor
has he removed my name from the description of the card. My next step is to
contact Ebay and tell them of the falsification of the product, but I'm not
sure whom to search out. If anyone has any advice in this area, I'd love to
hear it.
COMMISSIONS
Here are a few I've done up in the past week. This
first one was a request for me to draw Mickey, Donald and Goofy from their 1936 short, "Lonesome Ghosts". As you'll see, I added my own flavor to the
piece by giving Goofy and Donald the uncharacteristic weapons of a chainsaw and
a board with nails in it (Mickey did indeed brandish a shotgun in the original
cartoon):
This second commission was a request from a repeat
customer (and I truly appreciate repeat customers) who asked me to recreate the
movie poster from the 1958 movie, "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman". The caveat
was that I draw the customer's lady friend as the giantess:
That does it for this week! Come out and see me at
21st Century Comics in East Lansing this Saturday, and keep following my "Dead Duck" web comic every Monday and Thursday!
--Jay
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