Jeaux Janovsky is a California based cartoonist and animator.
A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Jeaux graduated with a BFA in Character Animation and has also worked in a variety of other fields including art directing, illustration, video games, toy design, graphic design, new media, social media, and more.
His art has been published and seen in several art and culture magazines, as well as numerous comic and graphic novel anthologies and companies.
His work is available in both digital and hand-drawn formats, and he is available for freelance illustration and animation.
"Jeaux I have looked at your illustrations and with out any pandering on my part think its GREAT ORIGINAL PUREST CARTOON DRAWING IVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME IT HARKS BACK TO THE 30s AND FORWARD TO THE FUTURE"-Ralph Bakshi
Jeaux's In Demand w/ Time Warner Cable's On Demand!
My "Pop Culture Cool" Interview at Calarts w/ Time Warner Cable's producer Kyle Maki premieres today & is now up on Time Warner Cable's Video OnDemand service!
Dear Time Warner Cable Subscribers, Go to Channel 1 or Select OnDemand on your remote. Select "Local" Select "SoCal's Best" Select "Pop Culture Cool" Select "Art- Jeaux Janovsky"
Simple as that! I'm not sure if this will be appearing online in a few weeks or not, if at all so you might have to cozy up with a friend who does have TWC so you can viddy it. So let's get it a Futz TON, MEGA LOTTA views! Wanna see some behind the scenes pix from the shoot? Feel free to check them out here: http://allofmyheroes.blogspot.com/2012/02/photo-shoots.html! I'd like to give a thanks and a shout-out to producer Kyle for setting this awesomeness up, Time Warner cable, Their On Demand peeps, and all the So Cal 101 tv folks for making this happen! Special thanks goes out to all of you too for watching it! And when you do watch it, drop me a line letting me know what you thought!!! Hit me up at jeauxj(at)gmail(dot)com or find me and leave a comment on Facebook, or Twitter! Woot! -Jeaux
01/30/2012 I was recently interviewed by Kyle Maki. Kyle's a producer for Time Warner Cable and he recently interviewed me at my Alma Mater, Calarts, for a pop culture segment that will air soon on TWC's on demand service. Keep your eyes peeled here for mo' info on that (and how to watch it) in the future! Here are some behind the scenes pix:
Kyle setting up for the big stop motion scene!
The subject & the Sub-Level! Time Warner Cable Interview GO! Photo by Ava Alamshah
Behind the scenes candid shot! Photo by Ava Alamshah
Thanks Kyle, Daniel & Liz!
2012 is shaping up to be pretty f*cking rad, thus far! Keep it comin'!"
2012 has started off with a bang for me! Literally. Laces untied, but off and running like a Muthaf*cka! I suspect it has something to do w/ the fact that it's the Year of the Dragon, and being that I was born under the Year of the Dragon (I'm a "Fire" dragon, apparently a double powerful version)... Let's just say 2012 and I have been pretty great homeys to one another thus far! Keep it up 2012! Not only did 2012 start me off with a pretty huge freelance deal right off the bat... can't talk much about it right now save for I'm lead character designer for a rad hybrid toy/game for the iPad/iPod! But the 2nd week of January had me book-ended with 2 equally amazing Interviews on and about me! Monday Jan. 9th, 2012 I was Person of the week for A Collection Of! A Collection Of is run by 2 amazing girls named Stefani Greenwood & Gilda Davidian and they post all sorts of cool! Cool stuff like this Daily Dohtrait I did of them and my awesome interview! Which you can check out, here: http://www.collectionof.org/2012/01/09/p-e-r-s-o-n-63/ Enjoy my weirdness! Friday January 13th, 2012 I was featured on Chubstr, an online fashion resource for stylish men of all sizes! Bruce Sturgell, the guy who runs Chubstr, is an all around great guy, who has great taste, and gave me some pretty fun questions! Everything you've wanted to know about Jeaux Janovsky but were afraid to ask: http://chubstr.com/2012/features/a-conversation-with-jeaux-janovsky/ I gave Chubstr an exclusive first crack of the debut of an animated pitch promo of mine called Samurai Nanny! The Samurai Nanny promo was animated, co-written, co-directed by my good friend Avi Tuchman, whose work graces the very bottom of this blog as well! (Scroll AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL the way down til you see a dancing computer!) Avi's an amazing animator, and I really love how the Sam Nan promo came out! Equally amazing music done by my other good pal, Brian Barrale, and great sfx by Michael Schmidt. Totally Samuradical job guys! Thank you!
"What is Epilogue?" Some say in whispers down darkened alleyways... Sometimes we answer, "Post Apocalyptic Roaches.", also with a whisper. "What's that?" they whisper back. We answer, but with a firmer whisper than the wispy whisper we offered before, "It's sorta like Mad Max... but with cockroaches!" And then they're all, "Whaaa?" whispering all inquisitive like. We reply w/ a sterner whisper, "It's a graphic novel. And it's gonna be awesome!" The "WE" is gonna be my pal Daniel Levitch and I. Daniel is a great guy, and I'm glad I connected with him via our significant others. No, not the whispering alleyway people! Ava & Amber, our lovely maidens of love and stuff! Last year, I did some illustration work for Daniel on his film Swine that they used for the dvd packagaing and menus! Swine is amazing. Find a copy today, anywhere you can! Here's the Swine trailer:
I have some other exciting news further down the road, but I'm keeping that mummy under wraps til I can unveil the news, so stay tuned friendletons! 2012 is gonna melt faces off with all kinds of Jeaux brand Awesome! \m/ -Jeaux
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
I Smell Macaroni & Cheeze! Tom Hart @ SVA interview on Youtube: the sketch-note
Yesterday I won a free 5x8 sketchbook from Blick Art Materials, and I also purchased a few comic making supplies (i.e. mechanical pencil, brand new Tombow brush, a pack of bristol board, etc.), and what better way to break in the new sketchbook than by doing a sketch-note page at 3a.m.?
Better yet, why not make it a sketch-note of cartoonist Tom Hart on the Youtubes giving an interview at SVA?
It's a 9 parter, broken up into 5 minute clips, and there's some pretty great nuggets and kernels o' good ol' cartoonin' wisdom oozin' on out of 'em.
