All My Heroes Contest: Name our B-Movie Title, Win a personalized Facebook Avatar from Jeaux Janovsky!

Hey gang! The results are in!

A couple weeks ago, Ava had her John Waters themed Halloween House warming party. I dressed up as a Drape from Cry-Baby, and Ava did her best Divine style. We took a picture together, and I commented on how it looked like a bad B-Movie from the early 90s! I meant it in the best of ways. :)

We even have an imaginary theme song to the opening credits in our fake movie!

A Love From Outer Space by A.R. Kane!

That prompted me to run a contest on Facebook, open to all my pals on both Facebook & Tumblr, wherein I asked them to name our bad 90s B-Movie and the winner will get a one of a kind, unique, personalized Facebook Avatar doodle from me!

Ava & I sat down and discussed the titles, which were rated by how hard we laughed and snickered at them. I even created Mock Movie posters for our pretend movies! I think they came out pretty cheezy and awesome! Perhaps I found my calling in bad graphic design! (Anyone wanna hire me? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?)

Here are the winners for Facebook proper:

1st place "Legend of the Legendary Legion of Legions"- Kyle Maki
Ava heard that title without knowing it was our friend Kyle, and she let out the mightiest guffaw over that one! Great job Kyle!


2nd Place Runner Up "Lightning in Leather" Paul Linsley

Here are the winners on Tumblr:

1st place "The Biker Mafia from Outer Space!!!"- Naomi Mac Millan


2nd place Runner Up "Green Velvet Meets The Greaser In Frogtown"- Trevor Pitt


3rd place Runner Up “The Bearded Soul Train TO HELL”- Michael Rodgers

Here are the details:

• 1st place winners get their FB Avatar doodles fully colored.
• Runners up will get theirs in Black & White.
• I will need you to email me a picture so I can draw you. It would also be helpful to me if you could tell me a couple of your likes or dislikes, such as "I enjoy hamburgers and sleeping", or let me know if you want me to draw you doing something/anything! Nothing is too wacky, bizarre, or shocking. Be Creative!
• You can reach me HERE, or via Facebook.

Here are some entries that, while great, didn't quite make the final cut.
"Rebel with a beard"- Peter Espinal

"Hair: A Tragedy"- Colton

"The Vestibule"- Mell

"The Day the Internet stood still"- Dreams-are-Wild

Thanks to all who participated! :)

Now to get all Avatarded! I'll be keeping my 4 eyes on my email inbox winners!
-Jeaux Janovsky

Something NEW! Day #19 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 19 Something NEW!

Hey!

LOOK!

It's something NEW!
-Jeaux Janovsky

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JUST A DOODLE! Day #18 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 18 JUST A DOODLE!

Hey ma! Look, I can beez a LOW BROW Artist too!

Love & Respect to Matt Groening.
-Jeaux Janovsky

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FAV Plant! Day #17 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 17 FAV Plant!


Feed Me!
-Jeaux Janovsky


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Inspiration! Day #16 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 16 Inspiration!

Thank you Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Joe Barbera, Bill Hanna.
-Jeaux Janovsky


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Family Picture! Day #15 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 15 Family Picture!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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Fav Fairytale! Day #14 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 14 Favorite Fairytale!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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Comic! Day #13 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 13 Comic!

Click to make bigger!
yes, that really is me walking in the pic back when I was living in NY! There's a great comic shop there across from the Empire State Building called Jim Hanley's Universe, which y'all should check out sometime iffin' you get a chance.

Thanks for the photo Ben! I miss you!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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Most Recent Accomplishment! Day #12 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 12 Most Recent Accomplishment!

The company? BAM!
-Jeaux Janovsky


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Turning Point in Your Life! Day #11 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 11 Turning Point in Your Life!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAVE TV Show! Day #9 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 9 Favorite TV Show!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAV Animated Character! Day #8 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 8 Favorite Animated Character!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAV Movie! Day #7 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 7 Favorite Movie!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAV Book! Day #6 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 6 Favorite Book!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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Best Friend! Day #5 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 5 Best Friend!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAV Place! Day #4 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 4 Favorite Place!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAV Food! Day #3 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 3 Favorite Food!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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FAV Animal! Day #2 30 Day Drawing Challenge!

DAY 2 Favorite Animal!

-Jeaux Janovsky


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30 Day Drawing Challenge!

So I'm totally taking the 30 Day Drawing Challenge, which I found out via Tumblrosas freddog & juliavickerman. Should be major FUN!

Here's my first entry:
Day 1 Draw yourself!


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It also marks my 1st Girlfriend comic for my Boo, Ava Alamshah! :D

Ava & I @ the Cinespia "Dennis Hopper/Easy Rider" tribute screening at the Hollywood Forever cemetary. I had never seen Easy Rider before (shh! don't tell!), and had a great time picnicking & watching! :D

Aww,
Jeaux

Oh yea, for those of you out there keeping track:

What I Want.

1. Car
2. House
3. Wii
4. Thin
5. Nice Teeth
6. Job
7. Girlfriend
8. Cartoon Show
9. Published Comic
10. Completed Short Animated Film
11. Iphone (bonus)
    

All others are works in progress. Baby Steps, Amirite?!?

If any of you out there can help me achieve any of these things, please feel free to drop me a line or 2.
-JX!

Drawing (and Meeting) Sarah Silverman!!!

Hey Honkies,
So here's the rest of the Sarah Silverman illustration I teased last week, remember?
Before I TOTALLY MET THE CUTE OUT OF HER!
No, really... LOOK!!! :D

Me & Sarah Silverman, sittin' in a tree...!!! ok, more like a countertop at a bookstore... but still!
My pal Kat & I thought it would be cool to meet the fantastic & funny Sarah Silverman at a signing for her new book, The Bedwetter, at Book Soup on Sunset in Hollywood-land.

I gave Sarah a copy of my mini-comic, Haunted Homeys, of which she seemed to take a genuine interest in! She might even read it on the toilet someday! Maybe? Kinda? Anyhow, a boy can dream right? I kid, I kid. It's pretty cool that she seemed to dig it tho'! Go Homeys!!!

Look at her SMILE!!!

Beautiful.

This was when I gave her the limited edition (of 2!) illo-print of a Kid friendly, Golden Books inspired, retro re-imagining of her book!
I told her a spin-off would be HUGE! And to tap into that Kid Market! Needless to say, she LOVED my art, and said something kinda to the effect of "Wow!!! Jeaux! Amazing!!" etc.

I forget.

All I know is I was glowing for the rest of the evening. Luckily, I had her sign me a copy I brought along for myself that can attest to her sentiments.

She also signed a copy of her book, The Bedwetter, for me as well! I got the usual quizzical stare from her over the spelling of my name at first, but Sarah's wit and funny smarts are always so spot-on, and without hesitation she asks, "JEW?!?" Which I get from folks all the time too, but coming from her it was just hilarious. I explained laughing, "Nah dawg, it's just JOE."

Ok, I didn't really say it like that.

I'm just trying to cover up for the fact that I felt a little star-struck. Kinda like Ralphie, in A Christmas Story, when he was dead set on telling Santa he wanted a BB gun, but instead Santa force fed "Football?" in his mouth.
Anyhow, here's what she wrote:

Jeaux! There's also this Way Option: JOE. Sarah Silverman
Sarah is such a rarity in Hollywood. She was very laid back, genuine, gracious, and 110% awesome. Did I mention she's also dreamy & hilarious? Yea, she is!

In the end, football in hand, I had a great time and think I & my art made a good impression on the lovely Sarah.

It was rad meeting her.

You know, I wasn't even THAT nervous about meeting her, well there was a little of that, but not much. She made me feel pretty comfy/casual. It was her manager/assistant type friends that were making me feel kinda stressy bessie.
But hey, in the end I made everyone SMILE with my art!

Here's the proof:

I hope our paths will cross again someday. Thanks for being so cool Sarah.
-Jeaux Janovsky

Special Thanks go out to:

my friend Kat, for notifying me about the event and for driving us out there, risking a possible parking ticket, and battling the old folks behind us. You rock.

Book Soup for hosting such a fun event! Yay you guys!

My pal Esau Kessler, Mr. UN, for lending an eye or two to my un-graphicy design work and helping a brutha out in a pinch w/ font usage and whatnot! He helped spruce up the top image cause he's cool like that.
Word!

**UPDATE**

Follow SarahSOnline on Twitter!
Chris of Sarah Silverman Online, one of the biggest, if not THE biggest resource for all things Sarah-ness on the interwebs, got in touch with me about featuring my Golden Book Sarah Illo along w/ the pic of her & I together on SSO! As you can see above, he also tweeted my lil' ol' blog post. What a great guy!

You can check out the SSO Fan Art & Fan Photos here: http://sarahsilvermanonline.com/photos/fan-art/ & http://sarahsilvermanonline.com/photos/fan-photos/

Thanks so much Chris! :D

You can now find my Sarah Silverman/Bedwetter/Book Soup set on FLICKR!