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(Editors Note… my blog is for adults; I don’t vilify sexuality, so I could have sex or nudity on my site at any moment. That said, this blog entry IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

Brandon Graham's, King City

Guy Peelaert's work... from the cover to an album I have.

MC Paul Barman's Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud

So, I’m thinking on Thursdays, I’ll post some sort of thing that inspires me… like a friend or colleague or just a cat that has crazy “skillz”

So my first will be three parts. First the true inspiration for this post, Brandon Graham, whose Livejournal is seriously chocked full of inspiration, secondly, Guy Peelaert, an artist that I recently shared with a friend and finally, MC Paul Barman, an artist whose album I just picked up. … so first up, after the bump,  Brandon Graham…

Brandon Graham is a good dude who lives somewhere up in the frozen north. With his passion for comics, positive attitude and well adjusted happy life he is a role model for a reclusive comics curmudgeon like myself me.

His ravenous hunger for comics inspires me. …seriously. His amazing work holds its own among the amazing work he features on this Livejournal.

There’s some sort of balance and harmony of blacks and lines in his work that I find exceptional. Also his storytelling is engaging; his pacing is mature and calls to mind manga-ka like Matsumoto Taiyo and Urusawa Naoki. There’s also  playfulness I really appreciate about the graphics and content. He’s a true cartoonist.

King City Cover

King City

Here’s a piece he sent me way back (I hope it’s ok to show Brandon, let me know)

…When I saw this it immediately reminded me of another legendary piece of forbidden sexy humor from one of the gods of comics, Moebius (from L’incal Noir):

Moebius' L'incal Noir

Secondly, recently deceased (2008) Belgian artist, Guy Peelaert.

I think most people know his work from the creepy rock album covers he’s done, most notably David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs (I love this album, it’s got some George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four theme to it… one of my personal favorite tracks, “We are the Dead”)

Diamond Dogs

…but actually, what I kinda got hyped on when I found his work some years ago were his comics and illustration work. I definitely vibed with the color and line. You can read his wiki, I can’t compete, but he was in Hari-Kiri with allot of other great artists including Melvin Van Peebles and Moebius.

Peeleart's Jodelle

There’s a great flikr of some of his Hari-kiri work here.

…last but not least, MC Paul Barman

MCPB flyer

MC Paul Barman I don’t have much to say except, good hip-hop is rather scarce and getting scarcer it seems, but MC Paul Barman consistently impresses me. Barman delivers rhymes dense with razor wit and poignant humor packaged in beats from some of the illest underground producers out, from Prince Paul to DOOM. His new album, Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud has been on heavy rotation for me this week, so I figured I should share. The guest list is wild from ?Love to Master Ace to Michel Gondry. It’s a must buy…  Also cop the that Buck Moon Kaboom Mixtape, the RZAView track alone is worth the 7 bucks.

…well, that’s all for now folks. Back to the drawing board for me.