The News Letter guaranteed to stimulate your mind.
September 2009 Issue # 2
the mad monster maker
| Hope you enjoyed our news this month and hope to see you month too. |
The Written Word
Brain Waves
Music, lyrics, guitars, amps, keyboard, singing, creating.
Comics writer John Ostrander may loose his sight.
| What kind of article will be for next month? You'll just have to wait and see. I promise I won't let you done. Just because I'm not built that way. Hope to see you then. I'll certainly tune you in the moment it comes out. |
Without a doubt the mad monster maker has been a busy beaver
all of the month of August. Making new bases for the Geometric
Design line of models, painting up this wonderful sculpture by Jeff
Yeagher. Each model was a wonderful adventure into the world
of garage kits and each one created had painstaking details
added throughout the work. This is what the painter and modeler
look for when seeking another piece to work on. This is what
drew me towards for myself.
What's in store for the mad man next? Well let me see ... There
another base waiting for his brush, a PumpkinHead base. And
there's the Mr. Hyde bust. To our left, you can see the bases
themselves, ready to accept that bust. And just like the busts, the
bases for these busts are built with a detailed touch, perfectly
designed to suit the bust they were made for. I'm sure you'd love
to paint one up yourself. So why not go to my sales pages and
pick one up today. I'm sure you'll be glad that you did.
all of the month of August. Making new bases for the Geometric
Design line of models, painting up this wonderful sculpture by Jeff
Yeagher. Each model was a wonderful adventure into the world
of garage kits and each one created had painstaking details
added throughout the work. This is what the painter and modeler
look for when seeking another piece to work on. This is what
drew me towards for myself.
What's in store for the mad man next? Well let me see ... There
another base waiting for his brush, a PumpkinHead base. And
there's the Mr. Hyde bust. To our left, you can see the bases
themselves, ready to accept that bust. And just like the busts, the
bases for these busts are built with a detailed touch, perfectly
designed to suit the bust they were made for. I'm sure you'd love
to paint one up yourself. So why not go to my sales pages and
pick one up today. I'm sure you'll be glad that you did.
Click on
on her to go
to her page.
on her to go
to her page.
Wolfman
base.
base.
Mr. Hyde
base.
base.
Predator
base.
base.
Click on image to go to its page.
It's all the same to the monster maker. Doing something that he has lived
with most of his life is just another thing to be happy about. Oh yeah, he
has been playing those strings, oh I guess its been for over three decades
now. And he has loved every minute of it. Yeah, there's been heart ache
attached to some of the moments but there's been over whelming joy too.
Just as with everything you've got to take the good with the bad and for the
most part the good has outweighed the bad.
I can remember his first group, three members, it was a gas. It was his
good buddy Mike Pagano who he used to fight with on a weekly basis. (You
got it, musicians are very high strung. Oh yeah, Mike lived around the
corner from him and when they fought Mike would get pissed and drag his
drums hold, tom toms and all. Then later that very same day all was forgiven
and you guessed it the drum were dragged back to his basement. Then
was Lenny, the Italian guitarist. Lenny couldn't play a lick, but he had nice
looking guitar. When we played outside in our gate, come on doesn't
everybody play outside when you only know one song. We'd tell him, just
turn it off and make believe your playing. It was so darn funny we'd laugh all
night long.
Ah ... Those were days. Memories by the barrel full.
with most of his life is just another thing to be happy about. Oh yeah, he
has been playing those strings, oh I guess its been for over three decades
now. And he has loved every minute of it. Yeah, there's been heart ache
attached to some of the moments but there's been over whelming joy too.
Just as with everything you've got to take the good with the bad and for the
most part the good has outweighed the bad.
I can remember his first group, three members, it was a gas. It was his
good buddy Mike Pagano who he used to fight with on a weekly basis. (You
got it, musicians are very high strung. Oh yeah, Mike lived around the
corner from him and when they fought Mike would get pissed and drag his
drums hold, tom toms and all. Then later that very same day all was forgiven
and you guessed it the drum were dragged back to his basement. Then
was Lenny, the Italian guitarist. Lenny couldn't play a lick, but he had nice
looking guitar. When we played outside in our gate, come on doesn't
everybody play outside when you only know one song. We'd tell him, just
turn it off and make believe your playing. It was so darn funny we'd laugh all
night long.
Ah ... Those were days. Memories by the barrel full.
| And here he is today. Still setting up all his equipment. Though he's cramped and out of place, it's better than forgetting about it completely. |
When I think of autumn, I think of it as a relief, no doubt about it. It's a time when
nature sheds its trees leaves and winters white snow might just be on the horizon.
Nothing delights me more. Though I am a fan of Springtime, Autumn is
really my bag. Bringing that cool brisk air, that I've longed for on days like today,
one of those hot ones in August, nothing would be better than would be better
than that cool breeze to cool me down. Truly, heat and perspiration are a mix that
makes me long for Autumn more each day.
So here I was, ready to draw the cover cartoon for our Home Depot Newsletter
and pondering what to do. After drawing this Homer character hundreds of times,
coming up with different plots to place him in, isn’t the easiest task in the world.
So I fall back on my old faithful way of coming up with a topic and call on the
months highlights to steer me in the right direction. It's the September issue and
thank God Autumn is just around the corner.
nature sheds its trees leaves and winters white snow might just be on the horizon.
Nothing delights me more. Though I am a fan of Springtime, Autumn is
really my bag. Bringing that cool brisk air, that I've longed for on days like today,
one of those hot ones in August, nothing would be better than would be better
than that cool breeze to cool me down. Truly, heat and perspiration are a mix that
makes me long for Autumn more each day.
So here I was, ready to draw the cover cartoon for our Home Depot Newsletter
and pondering what to do. After drawing this Homer character hundreds of times,
coming up with different plots to place him in, isn’t the easiest task in the world.
So I fall back on my old faithful way of coming up with a topic and call on the
months highlights to steer me in the right direction. It's the September issue and
thank God Autumn is just around the corner.
Every month I get to do the Home Depot News Letter my store 1220 here in
New York. And every month I get the joy of creating another cartoon for the
cover of that letter. Below is what I wrote for the front page of the
September issue. I thought since it was the only drawing I've done last
month, sharing it here might be the appropreate thing to do.
New York. And every month I get the joy of creating another cartoon for the
cover of that letter. Below is what I wrote for the front page of the
September issue. I thought since it was the only drawing I've done last
month, sharing it here might be the appropreate thing to do.
If he loses, he loses his eyesight. John recently under went a surgical procedure called Glaucoma Filtration
Surgery (trabeculectomy). The surgery is a treatment when medications cannot lower eye pressure enough.
Excess interior fluid in the eye or pressure erodes the optic nerve – that's basically what glaucoma does.
Over the past several decades, John had grown resistant or allergic to some of the meds he had been taking that have
kept the pressure down. This site helps explain the procedure and this is a good general site about glaucoma itself.
As of now, the surgeries have been deemed a strong but tentative success for John. Unfortunately, like so many
Americans, John’s rather expensive health insurance didn’t cover all the costs of saving his eyesight… not even near.
The procedure was done in Boston and required two separate week-long trips to Boston, as well as repeated follow-up
trips to track his progress and make adjustments.
John was aware that he could not afford the surgeries on his own; that’s when we, his friends and family in the comic
book field, decided we had to do something to help. Too often in the comics world we find ourselves holding events after
we’ve lost a creator who has given us so many years of joy. Now we have a chance to help one before its too late- after
all it would be terribly hard for John to write dialog for pages he cannot see.
Surgery (trabeculectomy). The surgery is a treatment when medications cannot lower eye pressure enough.
Excess interior fluid in the eye or pressure erodes the optic nerve – that's basically what glaucoma does.
Over the past several decades, John had grown resistant or allergic to some of the meds he had been taking that have
kept the pressure down. This site helps explain the procedure and this is a good general site about glaucoma itself.
As of now, the surgeries have been deemed a strong but tentative success for John. Unfortunately, like so many
Americans, John’s rather expensive health insurance didn’t cover all the costs of saving his eyesight… not even near.
The procedure was done in Boston and required two separate week-long trips to Boston, as well as repeated follow-up
trips to track his progress and make adjustments.
John was aware that he could not afford the surgeries on his own; that’s when we, his friends and family in the comic
book field, decided we had to do something to help. Too often in the comics world we find ourselves holding events after
we’ve lost a creator who has given us so many years of joy. Now we have a chance to help one before its too late- after
all it would be terribly hard for John to write dialog for pages he cannot see.
When I read the article below my heart went out to this man. I've never met him, never ever even seen his
work. I guess it was enough to know that I could do something that might better his situation and chances
of not loosing his sight. So I wrote to the person in charge of the donation and gave the only thing I could
afford to give. My artwork. I gave 3 comic drawings of art. What could I do but to give of my favorites.
work. I guess it was enough to know that I could do something that might better his situation and chances
of not loosing his sight. So I wrote to the person in charge of the donation and gave the only thing I could
afford to give. My artwork. I gave 3 comic drawings of art. What could I do but to give of my favorites.
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