posted: January 25, 2010

I'm thinking of starting a clown talent agency. Anyone want to book any of these talents for their next event, let me know ;)

posted: November 20, 2009

It is appropriate that I am posting pictures of zombies since I am returning to the blog world from the land of the dead. It has been awhile and I have so many cool things going on but I thought I'd pick something fun to post since it's Friday! Like many of the artists here, I create quick drawings in the morning before I work to get the engines running in my head. These pictures have no planning involved and usually end up being given away or put in the scrap box. Over the summer however, I decided to apply a theme to them for a month. So I did.....ZOMBIES!! They are popular right now but I have been a fan since I was a kid checking out those crazy VHS covers when video rental stores first opened in the 80's. So aside from the planned subject, these immature drawings are totally random and contain the sophistication depths of a bottlecap.


Happy Drawing fellow Drawgers!!
-Christian Slade

posted: July 12, 2009

Since this past January, I have illustrated the 4 page story "Ricky & Pals" for the monthly magazine "Your Big Backyard" which is published by the National Wildlife Federation. The NWF also puts out the classic mag "Ranger Rick". "Ricky & Pals" follows the tails of a young raccoon, Ricky and his little forest critter friends, Flora Skunk, Mitzie Mink, and Bizzie Beaver. These stories remind me of days spent outdoors playing with other kids in the neighborhood, riding bikes to the 7-11 for comic books, building forts and digging in mounds of dirt for my Star Wars figures to play in. Nowadays I get to relive those moments through my own twin children, Nate and Kate, who just turned 2 this past April. I also get to experience this youthful bliss every month while illustrating these stories, all the time mining my memories to remember what is was like and how it felt to be a kid and somehow get that into the paintings. I also try to add little details to help flesh out the story in ways words cannot,...sort of like a story within a story. These pictures are a sampling of the production over the last 6 months. We work about 3 to 4 months out so I am now closing in on a year with this gang of furry munchkins!

posted: February 5, 2009

I'll be getting on a plane in a little while bound for NYC. These were from a previous sketchbook and they get me in the mood to work. Airports and different cities offer up such a wide array of subjects. Everywhere I look I see a painting! The worst city in which I experience this surge of inspiration is Venice, Italy where I can't go 3 feet without opening a pad and scribbling something down.
I am thrilled to be returning to NYC, one of my favorite places in the world, for this year's first major Comic Con of the season. I'll be there promoting my graphic novel series, "Korgi". For anyone coming out to the show, stop by the Top Shelf Productions booth and say Hi! I'd love to see some Drawgers make it out to this thing!
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