Tweet Adventure 09/19/2011

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This was an experiment where I took a day's worth of my live tweeting/Facebook Statuses and turned them into a small comic, complete with the "Likes" and comments I received from my friends thru-out the day.
I hope it's not offensive to the participants, if it is let me know and I'll take you off the comic.
That day I had an interview for a job at Trader Joe's in Silverlake where my gf Ava works. I ended up not getting the job, but I did get offered a job soon afterwards as well as this neat little comic outta the experience!
Feel free to add me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter!
Thanks for reading!
-Jeaux

Original Cartoon Heroes: "Tex Avery" Behind the Art

Doing research on Tex Avery for Original Cartoon Heroes, and I cannot for the life of me find any good photos of him online. Too small, or he's looking away from the camera. I even tried my local library branch, but the 2 books I needed are in Reference and not available for check out. Bummed!
Luckily, Fred is ordering me the books off of Amazon! Thanks Fred! :)
In the meantime, here are a few studies of Tex I did.
-Jeaux

Original Cartoon Heroes: "Bakshi Studies" Behind the Art

For those of you not in the know, I've been working on a dream freelance project w/ Fred Seibert of Frederator on a postcard tribute series, named Original Cartoon Heroes.
Fred & I came up with a list of Animation Legends, and I'm very proud to pay tribute & give homage to these Greats in my style.
Above you will see my studies for Ralph Bakshi. The only one of the list who is still with us, still painting, still drawing, still stirring the Animation stew (and adding a lot of pepper and hot sauce while he's at it!)
Ralph Bakshi is a hero of mine, and I am pleased to say that he's using an early incarnation of my Original Cartoon Heroes tributes as his personal Facebook Avatar still! For that, I am honored beyond belief!
I can't wait to share the new version I've done w/ him!

Thank you Ralph.

Thank you Fred.

Thanks to Cartoons.

-Jeaux Janovsky, a true Original

I made Conan O'Brien's & Team Coco's online gallery!!!

http://teamcoco.com/moca/gallery/illustration/13337/america-y-all-need-to-watch
Holy Crap guys! Go like my Conan fan art!!!!

I randomly submitted some Conan O’Brien fan art a few days ago and they chose it for their online gallery! You should go “LIKE” it, if you got a couple of seconds to kill!

Thanks! I’d totally appreciate it!

tiredly excited!

<3 :)

-Jeaux


UPDATE: HOLY SHIZ, I JUST MADE THE TUMBLR RADAR!!! AND MY CAPS LOCK IS ON! SORRY! THANKS NEW TUMBLRTOON PAL FOLLOWERS & TUMBLR RADAR GUARDIANS! :)

Updated Update: unreal. If you'll excuse me, I'll kindly go and pick up my jaw from the floor now. Many thanks Team Coco!!!

Updated Thrice Update: Thank you friends, strangers, and fellow Conan/Team Coco enthusiasts! W/out you all working together, it wouldn't have gotten my Conan Tribute into the freaking TOP 50 at #11!!!! Friends, I implore you to help me get into the coveted 10 spot. Please pass this along to your pals, your parents, your grandma, your cousins, your pets, the weird neighbor across the street and help me get more "Like" votes! Together we can sweep this and make it a Jeaux Janovsky 10 spot victory!!! (end of Braveheart rant.) In all seriousness, WOW! Thank you so much everyone! I can't even describe to you how proud I feel right now.
Quadruple Update: My Conan piece got picked up by the ultra-cool LA WEEKLY Tumblr (thanks Liz), Mtv Geek, & Laughing Squid! :D Thanks!!!

Bucky El Robo en "Face Book Abstinencia"

Bucky El Robo en "Face Book Abstinencia"

I've officially started my "No Facebook February" hiatus from Facebook for the entire month of February.

it's hard, but feels good to free myself from the shackles of Facebook slavery.

Picked up some good animation freelance that I do not wanna blow. So far, i'm happy to report I am ahead of schedule!

Let's try to keep it that way!
-Jeaux

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

Social Networking & You... I mean... ME!

I'm a firm believer in the powers of "Social Networking".

There has never been a greater time to get in touch w/ anyone, anywhere in the whole wide world (web). People you admire and look up to are just (seemingly) a click and an email away. I never thought much of it... until today.

For posterity, it's October 31st, 2010.

Come to think of it, the early days of blogging (circa 2004-2005) led me & got me one of the best jobs I ever had(Frederator/NextNewNetworks), connected me w/ some pretty amazing artists and friends (seriously, check out my links!)(wanna be one of them? write me and let me know!), won me a computer, published in comix anthologies & magazines, featured on a comics legend's site, a few art shows, and even got me in touch with some of the current things I am doing now (i.e. freelancing, animation tests, pitching to major companies, etc.)! To name a few.

Okay Internet, you win. Hands down. I think you are pretty cool.

Today the internet got me on the radar of one of my all time heroes, the great Ralph Bakshi. Little did I know, that sending out something as simple as a birthday wish would get little ol' me noticed by Ralph F*ckin' Bakshi!!!

The kind folks who run his site, RalphBakshi dot com, are also in charge of his personal Facebook page. I received these notices this morning, and my eyes almost popped out my skull! Much like in one of Ralph's toons!

Check it:





Dudes (and dudettes), Ralph Bakshi is using MY Bakshi Tribute image as his Profile pic Avatar on Facebook.

Yea, I know.

Awesome, right?

Do you realize what this (temporarily) means?!?! It means I'm associated w/ him! Ralph and his folks like my piece so much that they wanted to use it to represent him (briefly) on Fricking Facebook! Holy F*cking Cow, man!

This is dorky, but to me, this is even bigger than the time my art was featured on Gene Simmons' personal site! Yes, Bakshi is bigger than KISS. I said it!

I have been a BIG Bakshi fan ever since I was a little boy whose mom rented him Fritz the Cat, by accident mind you (she wasn't THAT cool), and seeing that at a young age (5 maybe?) warped my brain! And I sincerely mean that, in the best of ways. So you can imagine... I was freaking out today.

Wow. What a great treat to receive on Halloween!

Thank you Ralph, Victoria, Brother Rabbit & the rest of the crew at RalphBakshi dot com!

Really.

Thank you from the bottom of my cartoon loving heart.

-Jeaux Janovsky