This Saturday March 6th My Daughters 4th grade class will be having a Fund raising Sale for their class’s Overnight field trip to Tombstone. I don’t know if you guys ever had a special school field trip when you were young but i did and it changed the way I saw history and fueled a love for it That I have to this day. It was just one of those experiences as a child that always stuck with me. So if you guys can make it out and donate or buy some simple items all proceeds go to Ms Rogers 4th grade field trip.
Islands Elementary (Parking lot)
245 South McQueen Road
Gilbert, AZ 85233
7AM to 1PM
Also Terry Tibke Author & Artist of the “Armageddon” Series of young adult books and Myself will be Sketching for donations for the Field trip, Please spread the word and score some cool stuff and help these kids experience the history and wonder of Tombstone.
Been Working on a lot of different stuff lately, little discombobulated bouncing from project to project since their all so different from one another. Been on a Big nostalgia kick as of late too, Picked up the Dukes of Hazzard seasons really cheap, i used to absolutely go nuts for that show as a kid, its fun silly stuff.
And good friends Terry Tibke and Kat Laraunge badgered me quite a bit this last year about watching SUPERNATURAL and thanks to my bud Bill I got a hold of seasons one through four…they were right, its freakin awesome and i love it. I even picked up the SUPERNATURAL RPG books, I collect RPG’s so it fed two addictions :).
KICK-ASS, got to see a special screening of it last night. Now if any of you know me you know i am very critical of Comic book movies, I think there is a fine line a Comic movie has to ride in order to be good. Comics are a completely different medium than motion pictures and thus a straight up translation usually fails to be entertaining let alone have the impact the book has in my opinion, and on the flip side if you change too much it becomes a whole other Intellectual property all together and to me taints the original source. Now KICK-ASS rode that fine line perfectly. The changes made only helped the characters and story from the book work a bit more smoothly and the ramped up humor offset the major Violence much like the disconnect to reality that comic book art naturally gives. And the Humor of this movie mixed with the over the top violence really created a unique thought provoking experience that s is very entertaining as well. Gotta thank Mike Malve and Atomic Comics for the invite, Julie and i had a blast!
Haven’t had a chance to open up for commissions in a while, I hope to do so in April sometime. Here’s some past Personal Sketch Card Commissions or “PSC’s” as is the vernacular. Let me know what you think.
Until next time folks.
-BEN OUT!
