I will be signing copies of Diary of the Black Widow, The Spaghetti Strand Murder and The Adventures of Polly and Handgraves: A Sinister Aura as well as selling signed prints and original artwork at That's Entertainment's Halloween Event this coming Saturday October 31st from 12noon till whenever!!

Also, don't miss out on the opportunity to bid on an original Dracula illustration (see above) I did which will be appearing in a SILENT AUCTION!!


There will be a costume competition later in the day. And as an added bonus, if you come out dressed as one of my characters, I will create a FREE SKETCH FOR YOU right on the spot!!

That's Entertainment is located on 244 Park Ave in Worcester, MA!! So come on out!!

Click on the link below to preorder your copy today:

Sherlock Holmes: The Painful Predicament of Alice Faulkner

There's still time to sign up for my Saturday Traditional Animation Class at the Worcester Art Museum. If you have a talented kiddo who loves cartoons and animation or know someone with a talented kiddo who loves cartoons and animation please feel free to pass this along to them!!

Traditional Animation 14 - 17 Years
Combine traditional drawn animation with technology. Design and illustrate your own story from panel to panel. Using computer programs, watch your story come to life.

Click on the link below to sign up:

Here are the first three. The third one I'm already plugging around the comic book, Sherlock Holmes and mystery messageboards.

For those of you who are unfamiliar and haven't read The Spaghetti Strand Murder just yet, Romance with a Croquet Mallet was the name of a play I wrote back in 2000/2001 when I was still trying to find my feet as either an artist or writer.

I really wasn't sure at the time if I had a future in either art or comic books so I began to do a little dabbling in playwriting. I had started familiarizing myself with Oscar Wilde at the time, so this play was somewhat my attempt at something along the lines of an Oscar Wilde play.

Although, in the end I found it read more like P.G. Wodehouse than Oscar Wilde. Which was fine by me. In the past nine or ten years I've found myself leaning towards the type of comedy of P.G. Wodehouse.

With a little bit of a naughty twist here and there.

But the play never went any further than a reading with a local theatre group up at Mount Wachusett and sat on my hard drive for ages.

Last year, I ressurected scenes and lines from the play for my graphic novel The Spaghetti Strand Murder. In the past month or so in between writing a couple more follow up projects as well as doing some freelance work, I had decided that I want to write a follow up to The Spaghetti Strand Murder bring back Doland, Lady Sloughshire, Morass, Maladay the Butler, Vicar F. Entreaty Thompson as well as possibly Tom Bakerfield Stewart and Enamour Infamy for a scene or two.

I also want to use Dashing Young Harold Larson and Brigette the Maid from the play as well as introduce a couple of new villainous characters into the mix.

I have a desire to write a Life and Blandings type of story with these characters.

There were still a great deal of scenes and lives unused in my play that I haven't used just yet, so I thought I would day after Thanksgiving on the old turkey and pick the bones clean once and for all.

And I've decided to finally use the title of the play on this story. So nearly nine or ten years later, Romance with a Croquet Mallet will finally see the light of day.

Perhaps not on the stage at the Hanover Theater in downtown Worcester. But on the shelf at That's Entertainment ;-)

As a continued effort to promote Polly and Handgraves as an ongoing series, I just set up a page for Polly and Handgraves on Myspace. Click on the link below to check out the page and join it today. Be sure to pass it along to your friends as well:

Polly and Handgraves on Myspace

Here's the finished design. Scanned in and cleaned up.

This is an illustration I did for a t-shirt based on the book Lincoln Hates Werewolves. Those of you unfamilar with the werewolf hunting exploits of our former President, it's from the series of the same name by Stephen Lindsay published by Alterna Comics.

My Lincoln design was illustrated on Canson Smooth Bristol Board and inked with Deleter #3 Black Drawing Ink with Crow Quill Pen and Brush.