JOURNAL

Journal

High Pants, Fast Cars and Hot Dog Specials

March 09, 2009

After a good month of being addicted to watching The Rockford Files I still can't get enough. Not only is it nostalgic as it was one of the few shows I watched as a kid, there's something about the oft-on-location, film-based cinematography and ze...

My Tender Biomechanical Osseointegration

February 14, 2009

I have a fake tooth in my head. I was born missing one maxillary lateral incisor. My mom rationalized this modification, implanted when I was 13, with “what if you wanted to become an actor?” Surely this was done with good intentions. But now I h...

The Patsy Clown

January 25, 2009

I have many stories brewing, slowly piecing themselves together, connected by page after page of giant brainstorm (no, not like Tracy Jordan’s) blobs with high-falutin’ concepts that don’t really translate to anything. And with two large web proj...

Women Expect Him

January 19, 2009

I didn’t intend for this to look quite so Christophe Blain, I swear, but I sure enjoyed drawing it. Perhaps I can pull it away on the next page. I should do an anthology of 40 one page comic starts like this. I guess some could go for 2 or three...

The Girl Who Used Two Sheets Of TP

January 17, 2009

I mentioned on flickr that I’m going to have a comics section soon here on natebeaty.com, and why not? I mean, I code complex websites all day, and my personal site has turned into a ridiculously simplistic online journal that I could get out of ...

Tricking Myself Into Enjoying Drawing Comics

January 14, 2009

My plan to post a comic every day has been almost successful, but at the expense of a terrible sleep schedule. So I’m trying to cancel that out. (I just mumbled “fuck it’s almost 2!” as I typed that, ha!) I have a story I’m trying to flesh out a...

Free With a Catch

January 12, 2009

At this point I'm not quite sure why I'm double-posting these (I'm not even using the flickr image because flickr doesn't deal well with line art). I'm sure it will all make sense at some point! This guy is almost real. I was enjoying a nice dinn...

A Tale of Fail

January 11, 2009

A narrow sliver of my daily fail. Just finished inking this gem before heading to the weekly Trubble Club shindig. The last batch of posted comics are pretty damn good, even with the profuse display of man butt, man penis, dog butt, AND dog penis...

Le Nano Faucet

January 09, 2009

I pencilled and inked this at Aaron’s watching Netflix dinosaur bugs while sipping Jack Daniels. Then, after a slow walk home at 3am (it had snowed considerably in the time I was drinking and drawing), I colored it at 4:30-5am. Am I trying to ex...

Omar In His Purple-Tinted Room

January 08, 2009

Spreading out to a little longer story. I always have such a hard time deciding on coloring, and this one is certainly no exception. On the next few pages I’ll play around and may come back to this page. Yes, I missed a day. Working until 8pm (6p...

Killer Grandmas, Nate Yorke and Tuff Guy the Clown Boxer

January 06, 2009

I didn’t mean for this to turn out so gothic, or to make myself look like Thom Yorke. Mostly just fussing with the nib, this odd creation was the victim. The snow is returning to Chicago, I’m happy to say. I’m sad I can’t zip around on my bike,...

Angels’ Microsoft

January 04, 2009

I’ve never been a big fan of talking heads comics, but then again — are there any fans? Not much to look at for a reader, and the artist has to draw the same thing over and over. I tried to entertain myself with this one with the loony chri...

Killing Human Bugs

January 02, 2009

A conversation I found in an old sketchbook, converted to comics while waiting for a gross dinner. I had a goal to publish a post every day in January but I already fucked up for day two. I’ll make it up to you, dear 13 readers, I swear to god.

I Will Draw Your Pants Off, 2009

December 31, 2008

Overdrawing. Kind of. Underdrawing. More fun. The reality .. just can't stay off the computer. Drawing these made me realize I lost my good Pocket Brush, this one's shot. In the last hour of 2008, I found myself looking at gruesome photos of th...

My Christmas Wish

December 24, 2008

Cynical C is a fantastic blog you should be reading (though not over the holidays) which has, among many other fantastic tidbits, a hilarious feature called Daily Dose of Ingersoll I always love to read something from a completely different time ...

Drop It!

December 04, 2008

It struck me the other day how I am endlessly interfacing with gadgets for most of the day. And among those, the iPhone is such a mixed blessing. I have learned to really, really appreciate and voraciously use the Google Maps app on my oldskool i...

Upstream Route 66

November 29, 2008

31 hours of driving later, I’m sitting in 3 more layers of clothing across the US, listening to the Dead Kennedys in Aaron’s new Chicago pad. I have to wait until Monday to get my keys as the real estate office is closed for turkey/genocide day. I...

En Route to Chicago

November 24, 2008

I highly doubt any of my 15 readers don’t know this already, but if you’re late to the game and somehow check my website, I’m heading out to move to Chicago today. I’ll of course have my mobile on me, but for any computer-related work, I’m unavai...

Into the Cold

November 22, 2008

Behind me is the ever-present, raspy, monotonous blather of traffic along Los Feliz. My worldly belongings are strewn about the livingroom, or at least what survived my latest purging as I pack for my 22nd move in the last 15 years. Before every m...

Ode to Oin

November 10, 2008

I’m sad to say I’ve finally given up hope that Oin was possibly on some sort of epic personal journey and that he’d return home as he has nightly for the last nine years, often injured from battles yet still ready to deliver a mark...

Confused as a Proud American

November 05, 2008

When I stopped by my local overstocked California liquormart to take home my six-pack and Silver Patrón, the man at the counter said “HAHA! GREAT NIGHT TO BREATHE EASY! THE FUCKING NAZIS ARE FINALLY GONE!” He had just given away his last newspape...

Oh-bah-ma!

October 26, 2008

Just a quick, tiny note. Please, please get your ass out there and drop your puny little inconsequential, non-electoral, non-Fox-counted vote for: Pretty please? No more monkey presidents! Thanks. And with that out of the way, a quote from the be...