Sandwich time!

here's a piece i was trying to put together for the adventure time art show but didn't get to finish it in time.

the three b's: be excellent to each other...

here's the my second piece for the Autumn Societies 3b show. the second b is for Bill and Ted.

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i'm having a show at the cartoon art museum!!! (in san francisco)

For Immediate Release: November 24, 2009
Contact Andrew Farago, 415-227-8666, ext. 313
Images Available on Request

Small Press Spotlight on Andy Ristaino

Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition: December 19, 2009 – March 14, 2010

Beginning on December 19th, 2009, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Andy Ristaino.

Andy Ristaino is a cartoonist and animator currently residing in the San Francisco. Originally from Franklin, Massachusetts, he has been drawing comics ever since he could. His first published work, a comic strip based on Greek myths entitled Myth Conceptions, appeared in The Pompeiiana Newsletter when he was in high school between 1992 and 1994. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design majoring in illustration/animation, during which time he self published two issues of his martial arts comedy zine Nightblade The Nearsighted Ninja, and drew a back up story featuring the character Dangerman, in Oz Squad from Patchwork Press.

Ristaino’s first solo book Life of a Fetus, a story about a bored baby who decides to jump out of the womb early and go on a road trip, was published by SLG comics in 1999 and ran for seven issues. This was soon followed by the spin off series The Babysitter, A send-up of Japanese pop culture. All three issue of The Babysitter have recently been collected by SLG comics. Ristaino’s work tends to focus on themes of the strangeness of life and the fragility of the human psyche, claustrophobia, and the odd space between understanding and incoherence. He looks at storytelling as something liquid.

His work has appeared in numerous comic anthologies such as Meathaus S.O.S., Spectrum 16, Tales of Hot Rod Horror, Spark Generators 2, Pet Noir, Go for the Gold, and the soon to be published Popgun vol. 4 from Image comics. His children’s comic the Uncredibly Confabulated Tales of Lucinda Ziggles was a regular fixture in the now defunct Nickelodeon Magazine.

Ristaino anticipates the publishing of his next SLG graphic novel Escape from Dullsville, a 288 page collection of Life of a Fetus with over 80 pages of unpublished material, sometime in 2010.

For more information about Andy Ristaino’s works and upcoming events, please visit http://www.skronked.blogspot.com and http://www.skronked.com.

About the Small Press Spotlight:

San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip. In the1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when the underground comix movement launched from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and the Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight focuses on the works of these talented individuals.

The Small Press Spotlight is funded in part by The Zellerbach Family Foundation and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.

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Hours: Tues. - Sun. 11:00 - 5:00, Closed Monday
General Admission: $6.00 € Student/Senior: $4.00 € Children 6-12: $2.00 € Members & Children under 6: Free

The Cartoon Art Museum is a tax-exempt, non-profit, educational organization dedicated to the collection,
preservation, study and exhibition of original cartoon art in all forms.

go for the gold 3

i've got some artwork in meathaus' new sketchbook anthology go for the gold 3. (click link to see a preview of the book.) along with a bunch of other great artists.

(this is the cover)

here's the info:

Meathaus’ new anthology sketchbook features: Andy Ristaino, Arik Roper, Benjamin Marra, Bob Flynn, Dash Shaw, Dave Kiersh, Esao Andrews, Farel Dalrymple, Jason Sacher, Josh Latta, HARVEYJAMES™, Inés Estrada, Jesse Moynihan, Katie Rice, Kevin Fagan, Michaela Zacchilli, Mu Pan, Nathan Fox, Nicholas Gazin, Nick Bertozzi, Peter Chung, Rebecca Sugar, Ron Wimberly, Sam Kim, Thomas Herpich, Victor Cayro, Vincent Giard, Vincent Stall, Zachary Baldus, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Brandon Graham, Robertryan Cory, Al Columbia, and Chris McD.

You can pre-order it right now and it will Priority Mail out to you first week in December along with a bonus mini doodle zine and optional Chris McD doodle (just select what you want in the store).

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world robot domination...

here's another sketch.



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kirby lady...

here's a recent sketch.



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terrible yellow eyes...

below is a sketch for a drawing i'm in the process of making for Cory Godbey's terrible yellow eyes blog . which is a tribute blog to maurice sendak's "where the wild things are".
finished drawing coming soon!




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creatures...

here's a piece i just finished for an Slg gallery show in april.

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art show tonight!

hey everyone my art opening in san jose is tonight. if your local swing on by. Live music and stuff.


Event details:

When - Friday February 6th
Time - 7:00 PM until Late
Where: SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
577 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Call 408-971-8929 for more information or email info@slgpubs.com.

when sweet sleep returned...

this past week i finished the art for the 3rd assemble head album "when sweet sleep returned" which will be out in stores april 7th from teepeerecords. you can listen to some of the tracks online or download some mp3s of the not quite final mixes at the teepee websight. i also play theremin and moog on some of the tracks.

here's the album cover.

this are the designs for the lp labels that will go in the middle of the record.

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Art opening in san jose

hey bay area folks.

I'm having an art show next friday (febuary 6th) at my publisher SLG's Boutiki Gallery in San Jose, California from 7:00 to 10:00. Here's a map the address is 577 south market st. There will be live music featuring Shy Grape and the Sundowner Sessions. Should be cool spacey stuff.

here's the flyer that slg made up for the show.

hope to see you there.

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Night of the Living Vidiots! ( in color )

finally finished coloring the piece i'm going to use for the cover to my art book i'm putting together for ape. and here it is. i have two color versions which one do you like better? (again, click image to see bigger)





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the post it project...

hey just wanted to remind every one about the post it project. a place where i and several other artists post post-its we doodle at work on a semi regular basis.

below are a few of the post-its i've done over the past year or two.
enjoy! (click image to see larger)

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Night of the Living Vidiots!

just finished sketching the cover to a sketchbook/artbook i'm putting together to sell at a.p.e. and use for self-promotion. hopefully i'll get it all done and printed before the convention in early november.

(click image to see larger)

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gruntor...

more sketches for things.

the dollar bill project...

hey everyone,

my friend liz put together a show and i got a piece in it! the dollar bill project.
if your around this friday (dec. 14th from 7-10pm) in san francisco you should stop by the opening at:
the eleanor hardwood gallery
1295 alabama st, in sf.

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glove

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more sketch...

i ment to try to post a sketch every week and failed miserably...mainly due to the p.i.p. the idea with this drawing was people walking on each others feet infinitely in space... obviously i never finished this sketch.



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paintings update...

so here is the current state of the assemblehead album cover.

From Assemblehead ...

so here is a puttogetherpictorial of the slightly more finished mural my brother phil and i did for our friends john and gloria

From murals 11/5/0...

and here are some better pictures of the mural i did for ghostown. where my other
brother mark lives.

From murals 11/5/0...

From murals 11/5/0...

sushi with a thai kick...

if your down in the l.a. long beach area and looking for some good sushi (with a thai kick), stop by SUSHI STUDIOS and take gander at the comic book menu i recently drew. I just did the drawing and story Ryan did all the rest.

behold my goofy attempt at drawing a normal action comic