Comics and Sketches by Noah Ginex

his skin was all stretchy and LUMPY.

2011-01-16T12:53:00.001-08:00

his skin was all stretchy and LUMPY.
Originally uploaded by ColonelErnie

The elephant's name was Sir Jumpy.

2011-01-15T13:19:00.002-08:00

Who ate peanuts and never forgotto.

2011-01-15T13:16:00.001-08:00

Lived a huge elephant

2011-01-11T11:21:00.000-08:00

In a cave on a slant...

2011-01-11T01:10:00.001-08:00

Otto The Owl and Friends #1

2011-01-10T11:58:00.000-08:00

Insomnia.

2010-12-04T02:40:00.000-08:00

War Plays Caricature

2010-11-21T21:27:00.000-08:00

I did a caricature of the cast of my most recent show, The War Plays, a production of The Strange Tree Group, written by Emily Schwartz and directed lovely-ly by Kate Nawrocki.

Here is a Behind The Scenes look at how it was done!

The above caricature was "inked" in illustrator, but I did the original sketch in Photoshop.

Just the Babies Part

2010-09-23T09:19:00.001-07:00

SNACK SHACK COMIX #30

2010-09-23T02:35:00.000-07:00

The final Snack Shack Comix, posted here for large size downloading purposes.

Snack SHack COmix #18

2010-08-19T14:11:00.001-07:00

This is the corrected version of a comic i posted over on Facebook. Some day I'll put them alll here.

the Octophant is a nod to Phineas X. Jones, an amazing poster maker/beanbag tosser.

Snack Shack Comix #12

2010-08-13T07:34:00.000-07:00

getting into some heady stuff...

SnackShackComix#11

2010-08-12T10:07:00.000-07:00

Here's the color and black and white versions.

Here is the 11th comic in a series I'm doing over on Facebook. I'll transfer them all over here soon.

IF-Double

2010-07-29T23:12:00.000-07:00

Haven't done Illustration Friday in a while. Here's my take on Double.

WHACK!... oops.

Larry Tone and Zagnut Title Card

2010-07-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

New Bezeus Comic

2010-07-29T00:19:00.000-07:00

More of a Jesse and Phoebe comic.

Bezeus Wizard Of Oz

2010-01-26T06:19:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since I've posted, but it's because I've been supremely busy between projects.

But here is a new one, I've been doing a cartoon a day since the beginning of the year, hoping to make it all the way through to 2011. And one of the ways I can make sure to do that is to keep switching gears on myself to help make it exciting. SO, with that in mind,

I present the first week of comics in:

Bezeus Wizard Of Oz!

Optimus Grime

2009-09-23T01:25:00.001-07:00

I can't remember why I thought of this, but it was one of those thoughts that was funny for half a second and then wouldn't go away, so I had to sketch it. Then, I had to ink it, then scan it, then spend hours I should have spent either sleeping or working on something productive, doing this.

Ta-da.

I'm a nerd.

Let it be known I had to do extensive googling to find out A) What Optimus Prime looked like, and Smiley Face with sunglasses) what color he was.

Happy Birthday Kelly

2009-09-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

Number 9... Number 9... Number 9...

Edgar Allan Pooh

2009-09-03T20:45:00.001-07:00

The dust bunnies are makin him sneeze

2009-08-12T19:37:00.001-07:00

IF- Adapt

2009-06-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

Out at sea, their only chance of survival... What would YOU do?

Illustration Friday's "Adapt"

IF- Cracked

2009-05-28T18:51:00.000-07:00

This week's theme is Cracked, and I instantly thought of Animal. Which led me to the whole band, and I thought about how the Electric Mayhem would spend their time after shows, on the bus, in the dressing room, whatever.

http://www.illustrationfriday.com

Gerbils

2009-04-07T01:49:00.000-07:00

A commission for a friend. I'll explain more once i know that a google search wouldn't compromise anything for her.

ANOTHER ART SALE

2009-03-24T19:02:00.000-07:00

Hi there! Last year I had a big art sale, and it's time to roll it out again!(Puppet festivals are expensive)

Big 11X14 paintings are $50
11X14 pen/marker illustrations are $20
9X12 illustrations are $15
Cute little small paintings are $10
Bezeus-ified versions of YOU! $10
Quick Sketches are $5

For an overview of the style in which I work, scroll down,
or peruse my
Cartoon-a-day set over at flickr.

Email Me For More Details

IF- Intricate

2009-03-12T21:18:00.000-07:00

This week's Illustration Friday topic was Intricate, and I had a couple different things I did i could pick from, but decided on this one.

Part of my Cartoon-a-day set over at Flickr.

IF- Breezy

2009-03-05T20:35:00.000-08:00

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Breezy". Here's Phoebe and Jesse riding the waves of a particularly blustery day.

Cartoon A Day - Second 8 Days a Week

2009-02-27T23:17:00.000-08:00

I loooooooooooove you.

(budum)

Here is the second week of Cartoon-a-day over at flickr.

Tra la la.

#8- We Are Fat.

#9- Cheezits.

#10- I'd Like To Thank...

#11- Seriously!

#12- Pardon The Interruption...

#13- A Friend Flies Away.

Good Luck, Steve!

#14- Mack n Stacey TAlk All Night.

and the bonus extra one,

#15!- Mr. Humphries, are you free?

See you next week!

Cartoon A Day - First Week

2009-02-19T21:53:00.000-08:00

Over on Flickr, I've started posting one cartoon a day, generally just taking whatever I'm feeling and putting it through the pen onto paper. For the first couple days, i just did quick ones with just a PITT B brush pen. After a couple days, I started coloring it in Photoshop, and I've gotten to a look I like quite a bit. What do you think?

Day 1:
Where I Am/Where I Want To Be

Day 2:
Up Late.

Day 3:
The Lethargic Turtle Gets Older.

Day 4:
Escape To Alaska.

Day 5:
Grouce Grouce Grouce.

Day 6:
Eureka.

Day 7:
BFFs

Reclining Brothers

2009-02-14T08:38:00.000-08:00

Me and my brother, watching MASH.

A common occurrence in my house.

Tra la la.

Used as my Flickr 365 for Feb. 13th.

IF-Time

2009-02-11T13:02:00.000-08:00

Jameson rides on a swing being pushed by his Grandpa Monster.

Tauntaun On Hoth

2009-01-09T14:54:00.000-08:00

So not a sketch or a comic, but still worth posting.

This will only be funny if you have knowledge of the obscure-to-most 1930s Belgian comic strip Tintin et Milou, or The Adventures of Tintin.

I thought the hardest part was going to be finding a dog that looked enough like both Snowy AND Chewie, but poof! someone on Flickr did my work for me.

Hooray!

Sheesh what a geek.

Soiree DADA: Schmuckt Der Hallen

2008-12-23T10:55:00.000-08:00

For the past few months, I have been lucky enough to be able to perform in a show called Soiree DADA: Schmuckt Der Hallen, here in Chicago. It has been one of the few highlights of my year.

As i will usually do with something I spend a lot of time immersed in, I drew pictures of everybody in the show. I'll be adding more as I go. I'm including them here along with comparison photos. And a sketch I ended up not using.

Here's the whole cast:

DADA Dabo, DADA Flutter, and DADA Domdeluise, Jen Ellison Erica Reid and Patrick Brennan

Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes

DADA Brova, Gabe Garza

Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes

DADA Segue and DADA Cringe, Regan Davis and Cynthia Castiglione

Photos by Fuzzy Gerdes

DADA XenigN.Rén, ME!

Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes

Dada Hoydl, Jeff Shivar

Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes

DADA Grizzle, Dave Goss

Photo by John W. Sisson

DADA Quiche, Henri Dugas IV

Photo by John W. Sisson

DADA Nip (and Dada Pip), Lori Goss (and a doll)

Photo by John W. Sisson

DADA Little Piece of String and DADA Alvi, Fuzzy Gerdes and Amanda Rountree

Photo by Erica Gerdes

Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes

DADA (g)Nimbus, Bries Vannon

DADA leaP, Mary Jo Bolduc

Photo by sarah-ji

DADA Vichyssoise, Bryan Bowden

Photo by sarah-ji

DADA TT1896, Nathan Robbel

Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes

the Creepy Spiders of Dooooom!

2008-12-04T10:52:00.000-08:00

hey, sorry for the non-posting. Here's a logo recently designed. My old band is getting back together to play a show, and we couldn't decide on a name, so i jokingly suggested this one, and it stuck.

If you're in Chicago on the 26th of December, come to the Double Door!

And also, friend us on Myspace, that lovely outdated networking site:
http://www.myspace.com/creepyspiders

IF-Wise

2008-11-11T22:36:00.000-08:00

Illustration Friday - Wise

Joe Denov, the wisest man I ever knew.

IF- Packed

2008-10-04T08:59:00.000-07:00

I couldn't upload the image here in time for IF's deadline, so that one is on Flickr, but this is just so it's also on my blog.

Illustration Friday- Packed.

Phoebe, Bezey, Jesse.

IF- Clique

2008-09-24T15:44:00.000-07:00

Here's this week's Illustration Friday topic, Clique.

In this picture, we have Zoe, Carissa, Natanya, Heather Herman, and Helloise Herman, who is showing appropriate class in fending off her table of girls from the onslaught of Jesse and his beloved frog of the week, Hoppy.

On Carissa's shirt you can see a Pollywog, the star of an awesome video about Pollywogs, from Barenaked Ladies of Canada. That.. i made.

IF- Island

2008-09-15T01:17:00.000-07:00

"HI"

"uh... hi."

"Hawaii?"

"I'm... fine. can I... help you?"

In plenty of time this week, here is "Island" for Illustration Friday.

I'd say my obsession with Magnum P.I. is fairly healthy. I mostly love it so much because it reminds me of my childhood, and now, of sitting drawing watching endless episodes with my family.

So here we have Jesse the Majordomo, Billy Lampwick as the beefy helicopter pilot, Scooter the dog reflecting as the lads, little Phoebe the manager of the King Kamehameha club, and Bezeus, going without his glasses, as our man in the shorts. Going without his glasses, he's operating about as blind as Magnum usually does anyway.

I've also included the original scan, for comparison.

Pencils and Ink at House of Gerdes, Scan and P-Shop work at Oink.
Photos from Flickr and This place.

IF- Clutter

2008-09-11T21:33:00.000-07:00

This is about 30 seconds after coming in the door, home from school.

6 year old. instant cluttermaker.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY

2008-09-08T23:09:00.000-07:00

I met the amazing illustrator Kelly Light while spending time in Barenaked land this spring, and she's inspired me and taught me a lot of things through only a few months of knowing eachother. She drew the guys for a contest they had off of Snacktime, so this is my tribute to her.

HB, KL!

HALL SIGN

2008-09-05T15:52:00.000-07:00

My mom is a teacher, and asked me to create a sign for the wall outside her classroom door, so everyone would know the names of the teachers of that class. Instead of just having plain shirts on the kids, i opted for original designs, so i could get a little practice in on product design. I sketched the kids out on paper, and then scanned it in and inked and colored it in Photoshop. I also did all the little design stuff like the t-shirts and the lunch box and stuff all in photoshop.

Here is the final product:

and a detail piece, showing the t-shirts and lunchbox.

TelferShark

2008-09-05T12:59:00.000-07:00

It's my favorite time of year, folks! STAND-UP WEEK on The Discovery Channel!

IF- Memories

2008-09-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

Right under the wire, here's Memories for Illustration Friday.

IF- Routine

2008-08-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

"Just out, momma! I'm not... I'm not little anymore!"

GET THAT BEZEUS OUTTA MY CORNWATER!

2008-08-19T10:42:00.000-07:00

I don't often show the real bezeus, the one the empire is based on... but the other day he got into some mischief and I decided to document it.

IF- Detach

2008-08-18T23:29:00.000-07:00

Illustraion Friday's theme this week is detach, and with IF, I've decided I'm just going to to go with the first image that instantly hits my brain, so I've come up with this.

Bert and Ernie were the first things I ever drew when i started at something like 3 or so, so they're generally the thing I fall back on. The thing I like best about them is that they span the entire spectrum of colors, so it's a really great balance whenever I draw them.

IF- Sail

2008-08-12T21:47:00.000-07:00

Upon the suggestion of my friend Kelly Light, I have decided to throw my stylus into the ring over at illustration Friday.

This week's challenge is:

Sail.\
Normally, I'd try and come up with something absurd, or a variation on the typical meaning of the word, as is my style, but I just couldn't think of anything other than "sail".

So here it is.

slightly altered

2008-08-10T22:02:00.000-07:00

take 2

silly new idea?

2008-08-10T12:57:00.000-07:00

Just a sketch.

sheesh.

Apollo 12

2008-04-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

I went to PIF a few weeks ago, where I was witness to some of the best improv I've seen in years. From Phoenix itself and from around the country. TJ and Pete, Jokyr and Jesster, Zumpf, The Remainders, all of it was just solid.

I captured one group in a sketch. They spent their whole show trying to kill one of the people on stage, and it was all really clear how much they loved and respected eachother. Here is Apollo 12:

Greg Jarvis, Travis Barnum, Mack Duncan, Jon Jahrmarkt, Bill Binder. With Stacey Gordon riding the anvil.

another Jenny drawing

2008-03-11T09:05:00.000-07:00

she does like that bear alright.

Why did I never post this?

2008-02-11T08:59:00.000-08:00

A drawing from several months ago.

New markered ad

2008-01-14T01:38:00.001-08:00

come see me play music!

MYSPACE music page

all 5.

2008-01-05T03:56:00.000-08:00

See last post.

new puppet idea

2008-01-04T02:02:00.000-08:00

I'm mulling over doing a version of The Wizard Of Oz somehow... here's my idea for the TinMan, now a robot. just like everybody else does. Not everyone has such an awesome model, though. I'll post scarecrow and Lion when I get them done.

New markers, new markers, staring at the waaaalll

2007-12-26T23:46:00.000-08:00

I am now the proud owner of my very first full 24 piece set of Prismacolor Premier Art Markers.

Open Letter to the Designers of the Carrying Case for the Prismacolor Premier Art Markers-
Congratulations, ladies and or gentlemen, whichever is more offensive, you have taken the Mona Lisa and wrapped it in a diaper that has been used by a baby whose parents only feed him coffee, hot mustard, Triscuits, and Apples. And his own hair.

I hope you trip on the sidewalk and your nose falls in a crack and gets stuck.

Sincerely,
Noah Ginex
proud owner of a set of Beautiful Art Markers, in the world's dumbest carrying case.

guest artist

2007-12-05T19:55:00.000-08:00

my brother, from whom I learned all I know about art and how to make art, took it upon himself to sketch me and all the weird things I wear and carry around with me. Usually, when I draw myself, he'll chuckle, get out a pen, and say, "No, this is what you REALLY look like." and then 5 minutes later, a scathingly accurate illustration of me will be on paper.

drawing by dfg

SCRUBS

2007-11-27T10:09:00.000-08:00

stuck in michigan with some markers over Thanksgiving, I drew this:

Little Red

2007-11-27T02:37:00.000-08:00

Made this drawing for a competition I'm in called My Team Your Team...
Where one person makes a drawing of some kind of character, and then all the characters after that must be able to defeat the character before them with their power, whatever that be.

it's over at FuzzyCo, if you wanna take a look.

Phoebe Caption Contest

2007-11-22T01:53:00.000-08:00

Hey, can anybody come up with something appropriate for Phoebe to say here?

Birdy

2007-11-02T02:02:00.000-07:00

procrastination's fun

CAN'T SLEEP. CLOWN'LL EAT ME!

2007-10-12T15:51:00.000-07:00

I never watched this show when it was on regular run TV( Is it still?) But now that George Lopez has gone into syndication AND has been added to Nick At Nite's roster of Crappy shows from too recently to be OLD yet, his picture is EVERYWHERE.

And it's only served to make me hate him and his gigantic JAW. A passion which has compelled me to watch his show. The only way to break that cycle was to draw him.

So I give you this, drawn in about 10 minutes at 4 in the morning:

Brimstone Drawing Club 9-15-07

2007-09-20T00:12:00.000-07:00

Here are the sketches from September's Brimstone Drawing Club, with our two lovely models, Lady Anabelle and Chryssy:

CHRYSSY:

LADY ANABELLE:

For her final pose, Lady Anabelle came out wearing panties and boxing gloves. I felt sort of encouraged to elaborate:

The Jenny Collection

2007-09-19T23:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Jenny, who is a cute cartoon character I met a few months ago.

These are all photographs.

CHICAGO UNDERGROUND COMEDY

2007-08-22T01:54:00.000-07:00

Oddly Enough, Not only above ground, but on the second floor of The Beat Kitchen.

This was a sketch I did of the Host this week, Dan Telfer:

Click on it to make it big.

BRIMSTONE DRAWING CLUB 8/18

2007-08-22T00:16:00.000-07:00

Here are six sketches I did at this month's Brimstone Drawing Club. It was lots of fun, and there were some great artists there. If you're in Chicago next month, you should come out to it.

CLICK ON IMAGES to see bigger versions.

Here's the first model, Tittie Touche, of the Belmont Burlesque Revue:

I like the face on this one, oddly enough.

I don't know what this is supposed to be, it looks like someone, just not Ms. Touche.

Lola was fun to draw. I loved the stark contrast between her light skin and the firey red in her headband and lips and bracelet and pasties.

she has such an interesting face, too. I loved drawing her.

This one is my favorite, of all the things I've drawn for Brimstone so far. I love the strange perspective. And, the weeping mic stand.

WGN Kids Fair

2007-08-03T10:20:00.000-07:00

This morning I did about 40 caricatures at the WGN Kids Fair in Chicago. Here are the best 8, by my calculations:

Click on them to get bigger versions.

I had a ton of fun.

Hire me to come do caricatures at YOUR party!

Brimstone Drawing Club 7/21/07

2007-08-02T01:08:00.001-07:00

A couple weeks ago, my friends Nat and Kyle hosted Brimstone Drawing Club. at the theater, where out of practice artists gathered to creak and groan and comiserate over rusty chops while gorgeous figure models lingered and lounged in lingerie.

Here are the only pieces worth showing.

A pair of lips. Can't remember whose.... I think Ginger's. At this point, drawing her whole body freaked me out so much that I couldn't bring myself to draw any more than this:

Ginger. I got about this far when Nat called time. I like her eyebrows.

I decided to take a different angle, and focus more on caricaturing slightly, rather than keeping to true figure drawing. Once I did this, I found i was able to loosen up and became more relaxed with myself:

I came back from break and walked in to see Nat modeling, and wearing my furry russian hat. I laughed out loud, and drew these. I like them:

Her left hand is really awesome. Her right hand kinda sucks. I like the scrunched up part of her back on the right there, and her butt almost draws itself.

yipes. just... yipes. why am I posting this?

MURDER IN THE RAVENSWOOD STRIP 2

2007-07-15T18:32:00.000-07:00

Muder In The Ravenswood Strip 2

This one's by Sean Guinan. He and I would switch back and forth drawing a few panels at a time, into a Strathmore black hardcover sketchbook. Sean likes using Flair pens, so that's what we used, for the most part. Penciled first, then inked.

MURDER ON THE RAVENSWOOD STRIP 1

2007-07-13T10:06:00.000-07:00

Here are the first four panels of a book I did several years ago with my friend Sean Guinan. The characters are mostly based on his series of films, Flipping The Whale, and Teplitz. We would pass the book back and forth to eachother, improvising and creating 4 panels at a time and sort of steering the story as we went.

I did the first 4 panels. That's Sean and I as the Captain and the Swabbie, respectively:

Click To See Large Size