She Knows the Devil (...and the Devil Knows Me)

She Knows the Devil (...and the Devil Knows Me)

May 2025, digital render

The Painter, Jamie Adams

The Painter, Jamie Adams

April 2025, Digital Render

My inspiration for this artist portrait of Jamie Adams was a diorama featured in his recent show, surrounded by colored lights, from which he could study light and shadow while painting. In Jamie's canvas, the models are standing in water, so I put Jamie and his easel in water for my illustration.

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Die Mutter des Künstlers

"Die Mutter des Künstlers", Jan. 2025

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Werewolf Mask

I don't talk much about being a performing/recording musician on this blog, but a project I both played drums on, and did artwork for, was recently released on both streaming platforms as well as limited edition vinyl- a first among the numerous recordings I've performed on in the last three decades. Truman Kennedy is a fantastic songwriter- I signed on to the "Werewolf Mask" immediately upon hearing the bare bones demo. This singular group of Americana tunes has a ton of style as well as a sense of humor anyone could enjoy.

Of course I could have a free copy, but I couldn't resist picking up a copy literally around the corner from my apartment at Planet Score Records in Maplewood, MO! In a cosmic twist, the shop was across the street from where I performed my first recording sessions 34 years ago, in the building that used to house Smith Lee Productions. What a trip!

Shaw Home at Christmas

Shaw Home at Christmas, Dec. 2023

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Many family Christmas memories of the folks' place back home in Crawford County, Perry Como on the record player, the fireplace crackling... about as idyllic as you could hope for. When a blanket of snow lay over the historic century old home and surrounding acre lot, it could be downright magical to a small town, midwestern boy. 

The Night Watchman Returns

 I'm not the first to spoof Frank Miller's iconic drawing of Batman and Robin swinging across Gotham City's skyline, but I am the first to add a wolfman, one of my own characters from The Night Watchman. Mick Shaw's female sidekick has yet to be named, but she will be an S & T University student studying the nighttime ecology of the spring & surrounding park, overlapping Mick's shift as Night Watchman. I gave her Robin/Carrie Kelly's slingshot from Dark Knight Returns and drew bats in the background to further my homage, replacing Gotham's skyline in the background with chimneys from the old Meramec Ironworks which stand to this day in Meramec State Park.

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The Dark Knight Returns, F. Miller, K. Janson, L. Varley (1986)

Apotheosis Comics and Wizard's Wagon Now Carrying G.H.O.S.T. Agents, Night Watchman Sketchbook

Apotheosis Comics & Lounge is now also carrying G.H.O.S.T. Agents: Crimson Reckoning & my Spring/Summer 2023 Night Watchman Sketchbook! Crimson Reckoning (Cosmic Lion Productions) is a spy-fi anthology capturing the energy that some comics had in the mid-60s and throughout the '70s with an element of danger! This 9 x 13” Treasury Edition -sized comic includes several other artists and I with writer Rocko Jerome! (Ghost.Agents.Net)

The Night Watchman sketchbook is a 20 page inside preview of my own sci-fi/horror tale centered around the retiree Mick Shaw, who becomes its unwitting defender against the otherworldly threats lurking beneath Meramec Springs!

The Wizard’s Wagon was already selling both my books and is also an exciting gathering place with a ton of recommendations on what to read! 

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