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Welcome to Mike's Pencil Do me a favor: DON'T FLY UNITED AIRLINES!! THEY ARE HORRIBLE! Go to the contacts page and send me an email if you'd like to hear my story. They just cost me $372 in fees for a flight that I booked for $270! That's right: I ended up paying $642 for a round trip flight totalling 2.5 hours of flight. United made the mistake. I paid. No refunds. I hate mucking up my site with this crap but the best I can do to levy my rage is warn others. Don't fly United. I'll feel much better about the experience if they suffer a boycott to any degree on my account. You'd think they'd practice good business ethics in our times. Nope.
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sorcerer	half elf	I'll be signing at the NYCC for Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo. I illustrated the story my friend Jeff Carroll wrote: "Toast," inspired by the song of the same title. It's a monstrous book. 12" x 12" and 480 pages! My good friend Rantz Hosely was the editor. It's been a great success so far. Signing times will be: Friday Feb 6, 2-3 pm Saturday, Feb 7, 4-5 pm Sun, Feb 8, 11-12 pm I will most likely be at the Saturday signing. It will be at the Image booth.	mike may sketchbook (signed and numbered - only 250 printed)

Hire me for Greeting Card Illustration, Cartooning/Comic Strip Illustration, and Fantasy/Sci-Fi Illustration

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

So I think I will be gutting my site soon. I'm going to streamline it so only my least-crappy stuff will be showing. Heaven forbid! I should say I will be showing only the best stuff, so it's a proper portfolio site -not an image dump of every atrocity I've slung over the past several years. There's a lot here I'll be glad to hide, so fair warning... dun dun DUnnnnNNN!

I'll most likely be using lightbox 2, which is a simple, snazzy navigation applet that's free, and super easy to navigate. All good things.

The better news is that I'll be actually updating my site with new content. I can't say I've done a lot of personal work in the past year or two, but I do have a handful of show-offable pieces.

I'm proud to say that I signed up for an oil painting class. About time I got my act together in that realm of creativity. Once a week I'll be going to Zoll Studio to learn the methods of mastering painting, beginning with still life. I'll also be going to weekly figure drawing sessions there. I'm pumped to ramp up my traditional skills, which are more than behind where they should be. I see where my peers are and it makes me sick to my stomach. Envy for teh win!

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