Comics for the next issue of Lumpen Magazine

Next issue of Lumpen contains some great sequential artwork by the amazing Chicago comics group Trubble Club, as well as strips by Leslie Weibeler, Andy Burkholder, Grant Reynolds and myself. Here's a peek at mine:



Everyone's work for this issue was phenomenal so make sure to pick up a copy! If you are a comics artist living in or around Chicago and would like to submit a strip please send me a sample of your work.

J

A few things...

This is part of an upcoming watercolor series which was recently posted on meathaus.com. The show should be in the next few months and will consist of portraits, scenes and compositional pattern studies



Also some more things on the doodle blog Margin Detail:




-J

Scary Season

Getting in the mood in my sketchbook...

Happy Halloween!

-J

Strip for Lumpen Magazine

Lumpen magazine asked me to contribute to and edit the comics section of their newly redesigned publication. Here's my strip:



Thanks to Kyle Harter, Andy Burkholder, and Eric Ellis for contributing as well. If you would like to contribute comics for future issues please send some stuff to look at to joe.tallarico@gmail.com.

JT

Abrupt Spectral Displacement

New painting for the "My kinda town" Show @ rotofugi. Opened last friday, September 25th and will be there for a few weeks so drop by if you get a chance.


JT

Rock Mix!

If you know me personally then you probably know that i love collecting records and music, and that is something that I use to influence my art making. Well, My good pal Chris Devlin asked me to make a mix for his blog fully fitted. You can listen to what I put together here.

-J

See my doodles on margindetail.com

here's a couple doodles I recently posted on margindetail.com, a blog about doodles. Check there regularly for more by me and some other amazingly talented artists.

The Contemporary Dynamic

For the great Pittsburgh jazz musician and good friend Tony DePaolis. Ill re-post on where to get one when the album drops. From what I've heard so far it is groundbreakingly awesome.

-J

New Sketchbook

Got a new sketchbook that Im diggin on. Here's a taste:

A couple drawings from the hobo digest...

Just got back from vacation. More of these can be seen @ hobodigest.com as well as paintings up here soon.

-Joe

Out of Order

Here's a flyer I recently completed for Out of order, A Dj thing at the darkroom. Well, they asked me to do the flyer and here it is. Look for the details on their website.

Also, I have recently been appointed the position of art director, as well as contributing art to HoboDigest.com. A blog about all things Hobo. Look for daily writings and illustrations as well as art from other contributing artists.

Here's a taste:





-Joe

Painting for Simple Gallery Benefit

(you really gotta click it to make it bigger, blogspot makes terrible thumbnails)

This painting is called Melty Mondale III and will be auctioned off this saturday to benefit the Simple Gallery. The opening is at the Post Family space. Here is the info:

www.simplegallery.blogspot.com/

February 7th, 2009 Simple Gallery is hosting a benefit at The Post Family
at 1821 W. Hubbard Street Suite #202 in Chicago.
There will be an art auction with work by Amanda Browder, Jeffrey Brown, Eric May Brandon Heuser, Josh Howard, Tom Smith, Leslie Carlson, Jeremy Tubbs, Joe Tallarico. A musical performance by The Blue Ribbon Glee Club and video work by Adebukola Bodunrin, Jodie Mack, Camela Jean Christopher, Sara Jean Cough, Graham Calcagni and Emily Kuehn.
There will be some drinks and food and some special gifts! Come join us for a fabulous evening of art, friends and other great things!

If you are interested in bidding and cannot make it to the event, Please contact me directly and we will work something out.

Also, I am just going by Joe Tallarico now so deal with it. JT is fine.

Cartel Podcast on Nerdcityonline.com

Happy 2009! Been taking it easy over the holidays but working on some things again finally! Here's a podcast recorded a week ago featuring The Cartel, of which I am a member.

Here's a link to the audio!

Hilarity ensues guaranteed. Nerdcity is a cool website that you should look at everyday too.

So what I'm working on now is a painting for a benefit show for Simple gallery on Feb. 7th. Simple gallery will be my friend Dee Clement's new project and is really exciting, there will be lots of great art at the show and proceeds will go to finding the gallery a home. Check back here for more details and pictures of the painting soon.

-J

United Nations of Cupco

Hey, If you're In Australia you have to go to this crazy show that Cupco! put together:

THE UNITED NATIONS OF CUPCO

100 international artists received a felt template
of a Cupco Doll from Luke Temby/CUPCO.
Come and see the 70 that came back.

DAMIEN MINTON GALLERY

61-63 GREAT BUCKINGHAM STREET REDFERN

damienmintongallery.com.au

December 10 - 20, Opening Party December 16th

Artists include APAK + Bwana Spoons + Nakanari + Euan Macleod + J. Otto Siebold + Sixty40 + Diego Medina + Leo Robba + Abi Temby + Scrappers + Le Merde + Furi Furi + Kazmo + Little Frends of Printmaking + Arbito + Snaggs + Oliver Hibert + Wrecks + Dehara + Sam Gowing + John Yates + Shawn Wolfe + Yupyland + Kiyoshi Nakazawa + Shawnimals + Jeremyville + MCA + Peskimo + Steven Moore + Johnny Ryan + Abe Lincoln Jr. + Chris Magnusson + Nerissa Lea + Reg Lynch + Reach + Jude Fowler Smith + Chris Magnusson + Tado + Jon Burgerman + more...

Links:

site: http://www.cupco.net/cupcounitednations.html

flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cupco/sets/72157603955382218/

video: http://vimeo.com/2102651

gallery: damienmintongallery.com.au

DAMIEN MINTON GALLERY

61-63 GREAT BUCKINGHAM STREET REDFERN

damienmintongallery.com.au

Here's Mine:



It's a plush version of Geltairn, the space hero/villian with a jelly head.

-Joe (im gonna try to go by Joe from now on...)

Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!

Here is a Wedding Card Emily Cunningham and I made for our friend's wedding last week. I drew the monster, she drew the bride. Candy Get!

My Parts

Here are the panels I created for the Ohno!doom exquisite corpse show. It was amazing, Ill try to get some pictures of the whole thing and post them up here. Currently they are available for purchase through the ON!D gallery. Check 'em out:


"Psychobabble Doorbell"


"I must apologize to everyone around me"

Thanks! Let me know what you think!

Joe

Fall is fallen upon thee.

Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Love that fall air, Normally Chicago is like 40 degrees out right now. Not so. 70!? Whats going on!?

Couple things for you to do this weekend while you watch the leaves turn brown:



This Saturday October, 11th @ Ohnodoom! gallery is the "We need each other" show, which is a giant exquisite corpse by over 40 chicago artists. Here's a sneak preview of one of my pieces. I only had an inch of the other sides to work with:



Will post full shots and hopefully some show pics after this weekend.

Also, that mural from a while back I worked on with Thor and some folks was written about on Center Stage Chicago.

READ IT HERE

It was really great working with the local folks and kids. I think both crime and gentrification are crappy attributes of our society and do not wish either on the great folks of Bridgeport. Also, I am not a "tagger" as chronicled in this article. However, I was influenced by and participated in graffiti as a teenager. I also sometimes paint murals with spraypaint. Go figure.

Also shouts to biengtotallysweetinchicago for blogging about it.

Wax Burners @ a.okay official

For the Sept. 12th prayer candle show @ a.okay official. I think it's a great idea. My roommate has a collection of these. The border designs really stood out to me and I tried to incorporate that. The title is "We don't need no water". Get it?

I have the original drawing for sale, its about 9x5 ink on bristol, suitable for framing! They also have yoink t-shirts and buttons so be sure to pick some up at the opening!



Fall is approaching!

Y

House of Liu - Kagemaru-San

James Liu was nice enough to ask me to create a custom for his upcoming show in NYC. Heres the flyer and the lineup:




Heres some pics of mine for people that can't be in NYC for the show, I think it will be available on-line as well:




-Yoink!

Mural in Bridgeport with Thor

Thor was kind enough to shout at me to paint this mural with him and a couple other dudes on the co-prosperity sphere in Bridgeport, Chicago. It was a fun, beer-filled, rainy, paint-covered experience. I used a smelly milk jug to pour paint into. The locals were all really nice and seemed to dig it.


(click on the image for the large view in glorious detail.)



Someone took this really cool picture which was on the Chicagoist the other day.

If anyone wants a owl movement shirt please holler, I have some left that I would like to get rid of as well as the owl painting from the clothes optional show and the Shawnimals custom plushform. Both are available at a discounted rate for my loyal blog readers until August 5th.

J Ynk