iPhone Wallpaper – Monkey Mod on guitar!
By kevincross on March 5th, 2010Posted In: Blog
As promised, here’s another iPhone wallpaper. Hope you dig it!
I have to give my friend, Jerzy Drozd, full credit for having the foresight to create some iPhone wallpapers. (Click here to get some of Jerzy’s iPhone wallpapers) Its kind of hard to believe we didn’t think to do this sooner. Anyway, with influence from my trailblazing friend, I’m going to be posting some iPhone wallpapers here from time to time. Below is my first one and its a glimpse at some art from a page to be posted in the near future. Stay cool!
Its hard for me to correctly express how awesome it is and appreciative I feel when I get some fan art. I can say that I do feel very blessed and honored anytime someone spends their time to draw my little character. I was especially blessed yesterday when I got two pieces! They are by Chris Butler and Jamie Gambell. I’ve added them to the Fan Art page in the Extras menu, but check ‘em out here now:
By Chris Butler
By Jamie Gambell
THANKS GUYS!!!
As I look towards the future in this new year, I found a relic from my past and thought I’d share. From the Autumn of 1999 to late 2005/early 2006 ( I can’t remember the exact date when we officially called it a day), I was the guitarist and one of the vocalists for a band called Pitch Black. We started off as what I guess could be classified as a horror-punk band and ended up as a post-punk band. We always just claimed to play “The Modern Sound”, which was a nod to the mod culture I am enamored with. Being in Pitch Black was one of the best times of my life! The band break-up was even amicable & we are all still friends. Something I’ve found to be rare in other bands I’ve been in. By the end of our run, we had recorded a split EP with The Enemies for Lookout! Records, 2 LPs for Revelation Records, and a 7″ EP for Cheetah’s Records. We also did a bunch of touring with a lot of great bands throughout North America.
This video is from a track off our self-titled debut LP on Revelation Records called “The Bride”. This song also made it to a couple skateboard videos and clips of it were played on a couple skate contests that ran on ESPN at the time. The video was produced by a friend of mine, Mark Yang, in the motion picture department while we were both attending the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. This video was part of a class project for him. I think that’s why there are so many techniques used and why some of them come off as a bit silly, but I think he needed to show the teacher he had learned everything that was taught. Mark was a super rad guy who was as enthusiastic about Rock-n-Roll as I am. After we graduated, he had to go back to his native Tawain and I am sorry to say that we lost contact after that. I hope he’s doing well! Lastly, I hope you all dig the video and maybe even get a chuckle out of what I used to do before becoming a cartoonist.
Happy Holidays!!!
As of this writing, I think I’m going to be updating comics on Tuesdays. While the ‘Unmasked’ story line is progressing, I’m going to post the original pages, as they appeared in the ‘Monkey Mod Unmasked’ mini-comic, on the Fridays following the regular comic update. That said, here’s the original version of page 1:
Today I was stoked to post some more art to the fan art gallery in the extras menu. This first one is by my Ghettomation co-host and animation trail blazer, Jim Lujan. Check out his cartoons when you get a chance because they are awesome!
The next is from Colin Panetta, who does a cool comic called Dead Man Holiday.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me art! It means a lot!!! You rule!!
I was stoked to receive some new Monkey Mod fan art a couple of days ago from Luis Escobar. He is a talented story artist for the Simpsons and is part of the Cartoonistas, which was started by my pals Jim Lujan and Javier Hernandez. I’ve added this piece to the fan art gallery along with all the other way cool art I’ve gotten from some of my other friends.
