NC Comicon Announcement!

Just got word back that Rachel and I will be manning an artist alley table at NC Comicon this November! 

November 9 - 10th

Durham Convention Center

301 W. Morgan St.

Durham, NC 27701

http://nccomicon.com

Free Comic Book Day 2013

Just made plans with the local comic book store to participate in free comic book day. Anyone in the Columbia, SC area on the 1st Saturday of May can stop by Heroes and Dragons and get free comic sketches from me and my wife. We're also hoping to have our new business "Pretty Weird" up and running by then, so we should have some awesome artwork and promos for sale.

HeroesCon 2013

My wife and I will be showing our comics and artwork at Charlotte's HeroesCon this year. From June 6-9, you'll be able to meet us in person and see the visual insanity that's been bouncing around in our heads for the last year.

Schlocksuckers 3 now in print

The Horror anthology that I contributed a story and cover illustrations to is now available for purchase

online. Check it out. An eclectic group of people contributed to the zine and I'm sure it's flipping awesome. 

SS3 can now be found on the website: http://www.jellykoe.com/books-and-zines.html
or on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/122660457/schlocksuckers-bizarro-zine-issue-3 

New T-shirt up on Threadless: Jekyll and Hyde Theme

My "Vapors" t-shirt design just posted on Threadless today. It's up for voting for the next couple of days. If you'd like to see it closer or vote on it, just follow the link: http://beta.threadless.com/jekyllandhyde/vapors/

Exquisite Terrible Art Show Submission: Robinson Crusoe, War of the Worlds, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula

Bob Jones University put out a call for art grads to participate in an upcoming art show called "Exquisite Terrible". I toyed with several ideas for art pieces, and finally decided to illustrate the theme of the show through literature. The "exquisite" are four well-written books that involve "terrible" elements as major plot points. From left to right, I illustrated scenes from Robinson Crusoe, War of the Worlds, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula. The books I chose are linked though the uniqueness of their plot conflicts. Robinson Crusoe deals with man verses nature, War of the Worlds deals with man verses the otherworldly, Dr. Jekyll deals with man verses himself, and Dracula deals with man verses the supernatural.

2011 Society of Illustrators LA Competition

I submitted a poster that I did for the Greenville Little Theater to the Society of Illustrators LA. To my utter astonishment and joy, I received a package in the mail that said "Congratulations! You've been accepted into the Illustration West 49 show and publication. What an honor!

2010 Scaddy Awards: NVFS Annual Report Cover

I've been reorganizing my studio recently and I came across the 2010 Scaddy Awards book. The award ceremony last year was epic. Not necessarily because of the spectacle, but because of the string of bad luck that surrounded the ceremony.

I submitted a piece of artwork that I did earlier in the year for the Northern Virginia Family Services Annual Report. The illustration won me a Silver Scaddy Award.

When I heard of my award, I was attending school and working in Atlanta while my wife was living in Columbia. The awards ceremony was to take place in Savannah on a Friday night. My wife really really wanted to participate in the events with me, so I told her that I'd pick her up on my way to the ceremony. What followed was a laundry list of worst-case scenarios. Her work schedule changed suddenly. I got off work late. The gallery in Savannah LOST my artwork for the show. I had to reprint, frame, and mat my artwork on the way to the ceremony. I accidentally left a bloody finger print on the mat during the trip. The result of our journey, we arrived after the ceremony was finished and my artwork wasn't displayed in the art show.

Despite our troubles, the trip was wonderful. It provided an excellent venue to interact with other artists and professionals, my wife toured SCAD's Savannah campus for the first time, we found a great little comic book shop, and we bought a couple of interesting comics ( mine was Chew, the wife's was Sweet Tooth).

Color The Arts Show

The Columbia Arts Council is going to have a super fancy shindig on Friday, April 29. Yours truly will be a featured artist at an exclusive art show sponsored by the Board of Directors of the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties. This event is specially designed to act as a fundraiser for the future development of Columbia's art district and as an exhibition of the best artistic talent Columbia has to offer.
For further information, check out the event online at ColorTheArts.info.

Art Water Surface Design

My submission for the 2010 Art Water surface design contest.