Parodthy Darker

Now, I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to savor.
If I should die before I wake,
I'll consider it a personal favor.
-Steve Price

Happy St. Parody

I'm sure I'm not the first person to riff on this. No infringements intended.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

The Great and the Powerful

You Are What You Eit

It takes work to believe

In what has been conceived,

And to turn that conceit

Into something concrete,

But no amount of deceit or deception

Can turn a belief into a beleption.

-Steve Price

Wrapped in Old Newspaper-Part 5: Frozen in Place?

I drew this for the Long Island Voice back in 1998. It was for an article about how the Islanders hockey team were "frozen in place" at the Nassau Coliseum. Looks like they're finally moving. And to Brooklyn's Barclay Center, no less.

Decisions, decisions...

Here's a color sketch I did at the end of last month regarding the two of the season's impending events.

I've since seen another artist's take on a pumpkin with the party mascots carved into it, so I've kind of lost my enthusiasm for doing a fully rendered version. If I rally in the time remaining, I'll post that, too.

Here's the black & white sketch.

Yankenstein's Monster

Dug up this somewhat Halloween-y cartoon from my old editorial cartooning days. This one never saw print. It was some kind of commentary on the public cost of the then-impending new Yankee Stadium.

Unliving Dolls

Just in time for Halloween, I unearthed these old sketches for Halloween-themed paper dolls. As I recall, they were going to be part of a seasonal fashion spread for one of the many free weekly newspapers that have long since joined the choir invisible.

The Cure for the Common Breakfast

1961!

Here's an idea that's been kicking around my head and sketchbook for years.

The Carpenter's Devil

Carpenter's Devil Study ©2009 Stephen Price • All Rights Reserved

In keeping with this month's Halloween theme, here is one of several iterations of The Carpenter's Devil, of which I did several drawings and at least one watercolor in 2009. This one's pretty loose, (note the see-through saw)but it's my favorite (so far). Happy Halloween!

Tillboy

  The Right DANDY of Doom! This tip of one hat each to Rea Irvin's Eustace Tilley and Mike Mignola's wonderful Hellboy began as an (unsubmitted) entry to the New Yorker's annual Tilley contest a few years back. Halloween seems as appropriate a time as any to -um- resurrect him.

MAD-SQUERADE Part 2

Another Mad Men homage profile pic design from last year. It isn't strictly a Halloween toon, but I did dress as Batman several childhood Halloweens in a row. Batman is a trademark of DC Comics.

MAD-SQUERADE Part 1

"I do not drink....Old Fashioneds."  Have I mentioned how much I enjoy MAD MEN? I whipped this up as an avatar (profile pic, whatever) last Halloween.

Last Outhouse on the Left

Was that "BOO!" or "POO?" Talk about the Mummy's Curse! Happy Halloween!