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Sandy feet, the sound of waves, jump in the water when it's hot, then dry off in the sun...

Normally I don't like blogging all about myself, but in the words of other Youtube entrants to this contest, "Yo guys!! Check out my contest vid!!!!!@!"

A collection of my art from the last several years...

Even more trading card pieces.

Thanks to Bubblecast, all my post video went poof. So while I recover all that, here’s an interesting tidbit I found today and ripped from VHS. My parents were asked to be in a commercial for the car dealer they bought their suburban from. I thought about it because we ditched our land line today [...]

Just giving the iPad another whirl…this time with WP!

Well, we didn’t make it into New York Comicon. Probably for the best, travel-budget-wise. Artist Alley is full, but near daily emails remind me there’s loads of exhibitor space open. There seems to be a game of chicken going on with the Reed Exhibition folks. Both C2E2 and NYCC had unexplained delays in deciding the [...]

More from this trading card series.

As of this morning, the newsfeed on the front page of candlelightpress.com shows the three newest posts from Carter (carterallen.biz), Jeremy (jeremysmith.biz), Will (willgrant.net), Ian (i-bennett.com), and me (johnirathomas.com).

Read here about The Empire Strikes Back as it almost was…

Just getting done with the weekend. Nothing too exciting. Decided that Die Hard 2 is a worse movie than I remembered. Tried watching Star Trek 4 and fell asleep. Made some fancy coleslaw and BBQ chicken for dinner. Very messy, … Continue reading →

Here are images from a trading card series of parodies of pop music stars that I did as a freelance job.  Here is a taste:

Leroy over at Comic Book Bin has a look at Carter’s latest.

Carter, Will and I are off to NYC for the MoCCA Art Fest. We’ll be along one of the walls at table F33. The website says another table but we just got an email from them saying it’s F33, so that ought to lead to some initial fun.

In one form or another, Candle Light Press has been making comics since 1995, when the minicomic SNAPSHOTS appeared in various places around Iowa City. Yeah, the cover says Jan 1996, but it was really late 1995. Time in publishing is really weird. Since then we’ve made all kinds of comics and graphic novels–take a [...]