Sex, Drugs and Candy Canes: The Santa Claus Story

My Graphic Novel is available digitally on Amazon!

I actually finished this at the start of the year, so I'd just missed Christmas 2013 and waited to put it out during this season.  Here's the official synopsis.

The true untold story of Santa Claus with all the sex, drugs, and violence Bing Crosby didn't want you to know about. 

In 1964 Kris Kringle is killed by the mob for welching on a gambling debt and it's up to his estranged nephew, Santa Claus, to take over the mantle as Christmas gift giver. Content to live out his life on a government pension and a cash settlement from a bus accident, Santa has no interest in such things. But when his wife, Sasha, accidentally kills a neighbour with some questionable baked goods, forcing them on the lam, the North Pole seems as good a place as any to hide out. Those living arrangements come with a price though and now Santa and Sasha have to race the clock as they search for the magic sack, conjure the elves and track down the reindeer, while staying alive and free against mobsters, yetis, the feds and a slew of other dangers. But was it really Sasha's baking that killed their neighbour? And if not, who or what did? 

  Here're the first 5 pages of it!

  The idea for the book snowballed(no pun intended) as many of my ideas do, out of a doodle.  I drew Santa with a sexy Mrs. Claus and some twisted evil looking elves trudging through the snow like 5 years ago or maybe even longer and for a couple of Christmases in a row revisited them with different drawings and eventually started writing down ideas for where the elves came from, why a sexy Mrs. Claus(her name's Sasha in the book) would interested in such a fat slob and started coming up with ideas for the reindeer and other elements of the mythology until eventually I had a pretty detailed outline for the plot.  The book is 116 pages long and is a fast, fun read.  You can get it at Amazon, HERE.  And hopefully through some other sites soon as well.  You can also get the cover art on tshirts and mugs and stuff at Society 6 and Red Bubble.

Season's Greetings

Here's a holiday message from the stars of my animated film, "The Case of the Midnight Murderer."

Have you seen the trailer yet?  It's not exactly festive but here it is...

Don't forget to show a little indie love and become a fan of the film on Facebook.  I haven't posted much on there as of late but I've got some stuff to post soon!  Notice how whenever I write "Facebook" it's a different colour?  That's cuz I've conveniently linked the word "Facebook" to take you to Facebook so you can become a fan of the film on Facebook.  Facebook.

Merry Christmas! Shitter was full!

There's not a lot to say about this one.  Just about everybody watches this this time of year and with good reason.  It never get's....get's...sorry...memories not what it used to be with this steel plate in my head.  Whenever someone fires up the microwave I piss my pants and forget my name for about half an hour or so.  I used to eat Squirrels but I found out they were high in cholesterol.

Where do you think you're going?  Nobody's leaving!  Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.  No, no.  We're all in this together.  This is a full-blown, four alarm holiday emergency here.  We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye.  And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.

Classic.  Happy Holidays everybody.

A Christmas Carol

A few years ago I had some ideas for what I thought would've been a pretty cool animated version of "A Christmas Carol."  I even did some sketches for it, then a week or two later I saw the trailer for Robert Zemeckis' mocap version and that was pretty much the end of that.  His take on it wasn't that much like mine but it was close enough, it was mocap, that alone is too close to animation.  These aren't the original sketches I did for it, I still have them somewhere but I drew these last night after having watched "Muppets Christmas Carol" and "Scrooged" over the last couple weeks and getting kinda inspired.  Here's Scrooge and the Cratchets:

I really like Bob Cratchet here but I think Tiny Tim could use some work.  I like Scrooge too but I could push him a lot further, he's not miserly enough for my liking.  Here's Jacob Marley:

I like where I'm heading with Jacob here...going for more of a zombie idea, but again I think I could push it more...could do something more creative with the chains too.  One idea I had when I was first starting that actually was in Zemeckis' version was Marley's jaw dropping from his face when he takes the bandage off, they played it more for laughs though where as I was thinking it'd be more creepy, maybe funny too, but in a more sick and twisted sort of way.  And of course the real stars are the ghosts of past, present and future:

I really like all three of these drawings actually, but if I was ever going to actually pursue this I'd probably experiment a lot more...in animation it's sort of a waste to keep characters like these too grounded in reality, these could all conceivably be played by actors and where's the fun in that.  I doubt I ever would've really had the chance to pursue my version of A Christmas Carol anyway, it was just something fun to think about.  I did like Robert Zemeckis movie though...