Ronald Quincy Troll/MK Reed

New daily drawing up on Partyka: Ronald Quincy Troll.

Also, our guest this month is my studiomate, MK Reed! She's going to be touring New England and Canada later this month, doing readings with Liz Baillie, Ken Dahl and Sally Bloodbath. If you're near anywhere they'll be, drop by and say hello. Look for the purple van, and follow them at www.punchbuggytour.com!

Oh, and here's MK's "Paisley Skull:"

Thanks, MK!

Glare Brothers/Natalie Collette Wood

New daily drawings up at Partyka. Here's "The Glare Brothers:"

Also, Partyka's guest this month is Natalie Collette Wood, checking in with a selection of her sculptures made from recycled thingnesses and whatnots. Here's "PVC Love Beast:"

Good to have you with us, Natalie!

New Daily Drawings/Peter Maddalena

New drawings up on the Partyka site: pencils from a thing that I've been working on all month. Hopefully, soon, I'll be done and the full glory of its thingness will be revealed.

Also, this month's Partyka guest is Peter Maddalena, Paping contributor and carver of woodcuts. Here's his "Face #35:"
Hi, Peter!

Our Esteemed Guests

Hi; some more folks have been our guests at Partyka while I was asleep at the wheel. Painter/Author/Dungeon Master Zak Smith was here for the month of November; here's his "Crawler 4:"

Now it's December, and Sally Bloodbath of Always Comix and sundry minis has joined us. Here's "Katie Skelly: Catcatcher;"

Thanks, Zak and Sally, for the excellent company, and for having kept the Partyka lighthouse burning while I was in the cellar snarfing down whiskey.

Our October Guest: Roger Human Being

Should've mentioned this earlier, but our guest for October is the multitalented Roger Human Being: musician, storyteller and inventor of the "Watching-Movies-With-An-Orange-Cat" video, which deserves to be the next big internet thing after the "WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?" meme.*

Here's "Brutha and Bloog:"


Thanks, HB! Glad to have you here!

*which I guess itself deserves to be the next internet thing? I dunno, is anything going on with that?

Sept. Guest Artist: Erin Griffin

Partyka's guest for September is Erin Griffin, maker of adorable minicomics and co-editor of the excellent anthology Always Comix, the sixth issue of which will be coming out shortly. Here's one of her gun studies:

You can see more at her guest gallery at Partyka, and at her blog. Thanks, Erin!

Head to Head 7/Our Guests

New Daily Drawing up at Partyka: Head to Head 7.

..in honor in Independence Day, this is a drawing of what democracy looks like just before it is eaten by a whale. For extra credit, name the type of government that would have been depicted if the whale were about to eat a group of clerics who claimed to be ruling according to the principles of a particular ideology or deity.

Also, it's now July, which means Isaac Cates and Mike Wenthe's time with us has reached its end. Big thanks again to both of them for being our guests. Let's wave goodbye with an encore of "Faculty Meeting:"

With us for the next month is Chadwick Whitehead. Here's "Speed," in which no one can stop a man-cheetah from exhaling modern transportation:

Thank-yous also to Mr. Whitehead; we're glad to have you on board. You make me wish I could breathe planes.

I felt like drawing a Ghostbuster, ok.

New daily drawings up at Partyka, again. Here's one:
By the way, Joey Weiser continues being a lovely guest at the House of Partyka. Here is his bad-ass Mothra-As-Snoopy (click to enlarge, because you can't see the extremely pleasant half-tone effect at this smaller size.):

I've had "Koyaanisqatsi" running in a hidden tab on my browser while I've been doing image-and-site-editing for the past hour, because it's up for free on Youtube and I thought "hey, a repetitive Philip Glass score will be enjoyable during repetitive grunt work," but it's mostly been irritating. I guess it's kind of fun to guess whether each slight change in the looping music and the monks-in-space vocals signifies a slow-motion shot of, like, nature or of dudes smelting things, but on the whole it has been way less rewarding than the time I folded my laundry to it five years ago. I am probably not approaching the work in the correct spirit.

Yrs,
MW.

It is going to be a bad year

New daily drawing up on Partyka: It Is Going To Be A Bad Year.
This is a drawing about how it is going to be a bad year.

Dustin Harbin also has his third set of "Heaven" drawings up in the guest gallery section on the site, so you can navigate to there and look at things.

Bites Spread The Infection/Heaven

New daily drawing up at Partyka: Bites Spread the Infection.

Also, Dustin Harbin now has his first set of "Heaven" images up: Lumberjack Heaven.

Whee!

Thanks, Olga/Hi, Dustin

A huge thank-you, again, to Olga Volozova for being our guest at Partyka for the month of February. Here's a bit from her "Baba Yaga in Santa Monica:"

Coming up in two days is Dustin Harbin, who'll be rolling out a Partyka-exclusive* set of visions of Heaven that will knock your socks off. Color us flattered.**

*well, for March. When convention season rolls around, it will become an incredible mini.
**a sort of seafoam-green. Like envy, but self-directed, as if you could not believe that something so awesome was happening to you.

Our February Guest: Olga Volozova

New on Partyka this week: our February guest Olga Volozova, whose book "The Airy Tales" came out from Sparkplug not long ago. Here's a page from "Mukumaka Lives in the Rain:"



...also, thanks again to Damien Jay for guest daily-drawing in December and January.

Ack th oop

So the site's updated. "Sketchbook" by Damien is up now.

I filled in some blank time with things. Here are hands:

It's not that cold inside, but I just realized I've left my hat on all night.

Some days it's a miracle I get anything done at all.

Partyka's December Guest: Damien Jay

Hello, and welcome to December! Partyka's guest artist this month is Damien Jay, the guy behind The Natural World and other sweet minicomics. Here's his first contribution to the Daily Drawings rotation, Root Clutch:


Additionally, thanks to our awesome guest artists from the past few months, Danica Novgorodoff, Minty Lewis and Idiots' Books, whom I neglected to mention here when the tops of their respective months rolled around. Having had them as guests on Partyka fills me with uplift, or "elevation."

Our August Guest: Chris Wright

Partyka's guest artist for August is the excellent Chris Wright, who draws an elliptical tooth-filled mouth like no one's business, and writes a mean story about drunk/aging/dissolute artists to boot. Here's a panel from his series "Familiar Drunkards:"
His drawings will be appearing on the front page every four days, and you can view a gallery of his work at this link. (also you can buy his book, Inkweed, from Sparkplug).

Thanks for being our guest, Chris!

July's Partyka Guest: Matt Kish

I should mention that the guest daily drawer on Partyka for July is our pal Matt Kish of spudd64. His contribution: a gallery of hypothetical "Robot Masters" from a world where Mega Man is even more wonderful than it already is.

(This is "Brass Man.")

Thanks, Matt!