Illustrations

2024

Digital art. Shawn Spencer is stabbing a pineapple while suddenly noticing a hand with a bloody knife sneaking up behind him. Digital art. Burton Guster holds a bloody handkercheif and a plate of cut pineapple topped with a severed hand and looks queasy. Digital art with a pixel brush. John Flansburgh, dramatically backlit, touches his face as he sings onstage Digital art with a pixel brush. John Linnell, dramatically lit, mouth open as he yells into a mic. Danny Weinkauf is in the background, back turned Digital drawing. A simple white creature points up towards a four-colored star surrounded by squiggles and doodles. Digital drawing. A young man in a cloak and magician's outfit, cane and hat. Digital drawing. 3 humanoid robots and one bipedal research bot cower together, holding a brain in a jar. Digital art. A lineup of Douglas Richardson, Martin Creiff, Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, and Arthur Shappey.

2023

A grizzled soldier and a young android crouch behind large rocks in the Spiderverse mentor/curious student pose. Vampires approach in the distance. Digital painting. Lightning strikes a tall building in a thunderstorm. A figure in red with a white cape reaches up towards it through the driving rain. multicolor pen drawing of someone sitting in a clearing surrounded by staticky TVs, looking lovingly upwards at a winged cell tower with a lit up heart. both tower and person emanate waves at each other. Digital drawing of someone in a purple suit in a clearing in the woods at night. They are surrounded by TV screens glowing blue. Faceless, they give off a heart-shaped signal towards the winged cell tower above Scribbly digital silhouette of a man with a shotgun and glasses, sweating, the words 'you gotta show them' glowing behind his head Silhouette image of a redheaded couple, the girl in go-go boots with a single tiger lily, the guy holding her hand and a whole bouquet Digital drawing of a supervillain with crazy black hair in a costume with 8-ball patterns down the limbs. Screenshot redraw of Laurie Anderson, backlit, face in shadow with a light shining from her mouth

2022

Silver age style watercolor drawing of Harry Osborn, a freckled young redhead in a bright green suit grinning lopsidedly with a hand on his chin Impressionistic digital painting of aconvertible parked by an apartment building at night. A distant city glows on the horizon, lighting up the clouds. A person in a uniform in the passenger's seat holds a smaller man his lap. Their faces are obscured but they seem to be kissing or sharing a tender moment. a strange object-head star fellow with one eye spinning the earth on a spark. digital art, lasso tool A '40s gangster in pinstripe suit stands caught in a spotlight as Plastic Man gets in his face. In shadow they are connected, the same person. Digital art. Mysterio shuffles cards with a tiny spidey trapped in the center, purple smoke curling around him. Light glints off his helmet. Monochrome digital art of Edwina, a black-haired teenage girl, in a vampire hunter outfit, large hat, holding a staff and stake Venom and a thinner purple-clad green goblin, infected with the venom symbiote, grin menacingly, backlit by acid green Ink and watercolor. A young man with curly hair and glasses with a Venus Flytrap. Cuts on his fingers suggests he's been feeding it blood. Young white man with his hair in a ponytail, blindfolded, jumping and slashing a TV in two with dual swords. Miles Morales as an adult, saying Hey with his hand on the shoulder of a nervous boy in an ill-fitting spider-man costume Miles Morales running down a hall with a smashed monitor, looking behind him at the grinning Olivia Octavius closing in fast.

2021

A frenetic robot with many eyes and many arms runs across a strange, webbed floor. Beams of energy shoot from its antenna. Doc Ock as played by Alfred Molina sits with legs crossed & stares intensely at the viewer, smiling subtly & smoking a cigar held in a tentacle claw. He says: Hello Peter. Rough digital painterly style. Ink drawing in the style of Sam & Max. Sam kneels in front of a heap of smoking ash on a cartoonishly small moon. On the dark side is a city of tall buildings and an equally tall cockroach. Satellites and stars fly past. Fluorescently colored drawing of a skeleton in a wizard hat and cape, grinning as it holds up a green crystal. One cowboy-booted foot rests on a glowing treasure chest. A night desert landscape is behind. Digital art. Black and white line drawing of a man in glasses sitting in a dense woodland setting. In his lap is a xylophone. Ink and watercolor drawing of Sam and Max as cosmic horrors, driving the DeSoto which has insect-like legs, teeth, a tongue, and bat wings. Max looks like his Season 3 demon form. Sam is grey and has fins down his back and an anglerfish lure. His tie is tattered and streams behind him. In the background is a flame silhouette against purple and orange swirling tentacles. Three peope stand surrounded by complex control panels, regarding a clipboard. Watercolor. Ink drawing of a silhouette with pointy ears opening a trench coat. Inside are lyrics from Inside by Bo Burnham. Ink and watercolor of Rob Cantor circa 2012. He is falling downwards out of frame, looking surprised. At the top of the image his legs are coming down. Ink drawing of Zubin Sedghi sitting calmly in a night garden landscape thick with flowers, holding his bass and amp. Above him are fireflies and hanging paper lanterns.

2020

A person with 3 eyes, 2 noses, wings, and 4 arms. They say 'As a fun new side effect, we can hear time now.' A man in a green tie plays a pink-and-purple keyboard so quickly that the keys fly off and spiral above him. A man and a woman skate happily together in a city park at night. Behind them a massive christmas tree burns and civilians flee. A man wearing 5 watches says a line from Ruler of Everything. A large silhouetted white figure points at him and laughs. Fake comic cover. Villain York offers superhero Robin a rose. He's down on one knee and his eyes are hearts. Behind him, Xander leans over a death-ray in irritation. Other heroes & villains watch disapprovingly. Dreamlike black and white ink image. One man in a tie stands on a distorted basketball court looking up at the night sky. Another man is floating below an inverted bed above him, covering his face. A man in a red striped suit with a skeletal face swings a guitar like an axe. Behind him is a twisting hall of severed heads on display. A moon and a swirly, starry nebula rise above the surface of an alien planet. Plant or rock growths rise from the surface. A man fights an identical but injured man for a bloody knife. The uninjured man's nose has a chunk cut off, spurting blood. He grins determinedly. The image is vivid purple and green on a light yellow background.

2019

An alien woman with blue skin and a blaster puts her boot on a man's neck. His eyes are spirals and he has a lopsided grin. In the background is a spacescape with some distant city and a shooting star. Soviet style lettering says For Science. Digital art. A young boy wipes his brow after finishing making a sand castle. He is imagining he is an astronaut doing this on Mars. Pixelated digital art. An unfinished building in shades of brown with hysically improbable stairs wrapping around it reaches upwards. At the top is a floating white pyramid with an eye, beams coming out and clouds surrounding it. A blueprint at the bottom says The Tower. A number at the top says XVI like a tarot card. Pixelated digital art. Martin Molin sits on top of a MMX programming plate. Star cutouts hang above him, and one hangs off his finger. John Linnell plays keyboard, leaning over to focus on the keys. The image is in bright yellow lines on an orange background. Pixellated digital art. John Flansburgh leans over to play guitar. In the foreground, a person with a large mohawk takes a photo of him. The image is in black and pink on blue. Pixellated digital art. A woman with hair obscuring her face and a long gown sits in front of a large black lion. It seems to be protecting her. Pen & ink, colored digitally.

2018

A man on train tracks at night looks up as a constellation of a man reaches down towards him. Far away, a train approaches. Neil Cicierega sits on the beach playing a green accordion and singing about mermaids. It is a beautiful day. A grinning blond teenager with an undercut and glasses looks up. She has cartoon antlers and light blue headphones around her neck. Energetic white text above says Felinium. Digital art. John Linnell and John Flansburgh lie in a field of white flowers. JL holds one. JF points up. Clouds reflect in his glasses. The man on the cover of Flood and the woman from Nanobots pose with the girl from John Henry, as if they are her parents. A man sitting at an organ looks away from the camera up a set of crooked stairs. At the top is a chair in silhouette. Flansburgh & Linnell of TMBG do karate poses and finger guns. Text says Still plotting world domination at the age of 58. Digital art in shades of blue. A dark city street rendered in messy paint and marker. Silhouettes mill aroud on the street under umbrellas. On the left a neon sign points to the house of blues, on the right a baseball stadium is vaguely visible.

2017 + previous

Dave Grohl looks upwards in fear as a UFO abducts him. It is night, and many other UFOs are visible in the background. A man with a ponytail and beard looks over his newspaper as a thin man covered in bandaids shouts about the snake that bit him. A portrait of John Boyega as Finn. He looks left out of frame. 3 X-wings fly to the left behind him. Hellboy, a red demon in a brown trench coat, looks sullenly at a skull he is holding. A ghostly flame surrounds the skull. A vector poster. The outline of a Klingon ship in green flies above a stylized Golden Gate Bridge. The Y in the word Voyage is a whale tail. A man and woman crouch facing each other in a dark, candlelit room in front of an old desktop computer. The man is part-monster, with dark eyes and long fingers and neck, but is smiling kindly. The woman touches his face worriedly. Black ink. A man in a black and white baseball suit with patches on the pants and rags tied around his hands sits as if meditating. He is smoking. The smoke from the cigarette forms into ghosts behind him. Digital art, black and white, cel shaded. A blue crystal sends a beam of light upwards into darkness, surrounded by orange pueblo-like shapes. Ink & watercolor. A dark forest path with thick-trunked, stylized, mossy trees. Mushrooms grow on a large fallen log and a boulder. Pencil sketch.

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