Happy New Year everyone. I just celebrated my birthday, so the holidays are officially over. In the spirit of simply getting back in the habit of posting, I'm just kicking out a potpourri of random info.

I attribute my absence to a couple of factors:
• Got a semi-permanent freelance gig art directing with (and thanks to) tendegreesbelow at an ad agency in downtown Seattle
• A crushingly huge illustration job for Paizo Publishing (more on this to come)
• The second Downer book
• Other random freelance jobs, including regular spots in Pathfinder
• A trip to San Diego over the holidays

Suffice it to say I was a bit overwhelmed, but to my surprise, I avoided coming down with any stress-induced malaise. And now I have money. Over the holidays I spent a lot of money indulging myself, largely to make up for three months worth of 70 hour work weeks. Besides drinking and eating out, 40k and art books, I stumbled on these more unusual items:


This now stares at me across from my Mac. Plaster. 18" tall.


"What's New in the West" It's mounted on a big, heavy board, and is a little bigger than your average poster.


I'll eventually get around to photographing the bits inside, but this is the best part--a big, latched metal box with slick 50s science graphics. The small text reads, "Porter Science prepares Young America for World Leadership." Awesome.

Unfortunately, because most of the projects I've been jamming on haven't been released yet, I can't share much new stuff. I'll get the illos from Pathfinder up ASAP.

At least for the last 15 years I've kept a studio bulletin board with motivational ephemera. Unfortunately, the double-stick tape holding up my current cork-board wall of shit, quit during a recent bout of humidity. Oh well, I guess it's time to change it out for the fall. Here you have it.

Aside from spiritual guidance, I try to draw professional inspiration from the imagery. To that end, I was excited to try this new web application touted by Boing Boing, Big Huge Labs' Palette Generator. "Choose or upload a photo and a palette of colors based on the colors in the photo will be generated automatically." I was underwhelmed by the results ...



Wow, how incredibly boring. OK, I guess the idea is to limit the palette to Web Safe colors, but meh. They hype this service as a home decorating aid. At least it's free.

Here's what I eyeballed from the same collection of junk. I like mine better. This is just the kind of subjectivity that AI can't handle. I guess it's picking near colors based on pixel occurance. I just went a little cross-eyed, and picked colors I liked with an eye dropper. If two were close, I picked a shade in between them on a gradiant.

This is what I was on about, part 1 of 6. The rest can be found here. I assume Wonder Woman was tied up on her own show, and Super Man in the movie license.

Mordru?

Weather WIzard!?

Only Justice League Unlimited surpasses this in awesomeness.

tendegreesbelow reminded me of this and had it posted on his Muffin Top site. I actually remember seeing this as a kid. There was another special besides this one that I need to hunt down that was also, I believe, related to the Adam West Batman production. I think that's him in this video. I didn't understand "camp" until college, so I hated that show as a kid.

Is it the same Shaz ... excuse me, Captain Marvel as the Shazam/Isis Power Hour?

One of the great things about being friends with the editorial staff at Paizo, is being in the D&D campaign DMed by lemuriapress. I memorialized our little band of adventurers in this illo for the final issue of Dungeon.

illo by Kyle Hunter

I played with Painter last night. These were done mostly with the guache brushes.

I've searched for this song for a while. It's featured in the scene when Ten chooses his signature outfit from the TARDIS's expansive wardrobe. I initially disliked the version of this song that's on the Doctor Who Soundtrack CD, by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, but it's grown on me.

THIS, however, is the real deal from the show. I love the distant, "wall of sound" feel to this one (by Murray Gold with Tim Phillips)

I've uploaded some sketches from another project I've been working on for years, Swerve.

In the mid 90s, Slave Labor Graphics published two issues of a comic I wrote and drew called Swerve. It featured the last human, an idiotic hipster known as Agent 23, or The Kid, who competed with weird aliens in deadly deep-space rallies. Deathrace 2000 meets Tank Girl meets Speed Racer. I finished two and a half issues, two were printed, but I just couldn't keep up with the pace, especially doing it pretty much on spec.

Though parts of it make me cringe, it's full of good ideas, and some of the illos aren't bad. I've totally rewritten it to work as a 32-page one shot, and want to pump it, out now that I have some time. I just need to make some big executive decisions on some plot points and character designs. I've created a gallery of stuff, and will update y'all on any major progress.

You can buy the first two issues from Paizo here.



Illos by Kyle Hunter (top one colored by Chris Inclenrock)

I finally dug my teeth into a project I've been dying to work on.

My Dad, Ted Wayne Hunter is a retired DEA Special Agent in Charge, and early in his career, he patrolled the streets of San Francisco in the late 60s and early 70s. His stories are simply awesome, and often hilarious. I've never seen a project that captured the humor and humanity of these stories. From mis-applied choke holds and donut shops, to tangling with Bear Owsley and other masterminds of the acid scene, my Dad and his compatriots kept watch over the nation's turbulent counter-cultural locus.

I have inherited his hatred of hippies.

(I was suprised to capture his likeness so easily in this little comp. I'm not married to the title, but it will do for now.)

illo by Kyle Hunter