Stephen DeStefano

There’s good talkin’ today on YouTube. This time around I speak with friend and stalwart of the COMIX scene, R. SIKORYAK. Go give a look!

Updated dates for you swabs!

Ahoy and avast!

That’s gotta hurt.

FIXED pain. These are boards, I think—-my final clean ups over (I’m pretty sure) Genndy’s storyboard roughs. I don’t know if these scenes actually made it into the final film or not!

Cute! And also…

Kitten layouts and dog designs for Genndy Tartakovsky’s FIXED, now showing on Netflix!

For those who’ve purchased access to my POP-ART webinar series, please be aware that I will be canceling this evening’s lecture (this being Aug. 19th). Sadly, I’ve come down with some very strong virus and I’m not feeling like I’ll be able to deliver my best self this evening. Rather than muscling through the event, half-assing it, I’ve chosen to postpone this event.

Next week’s webinar, intended to be lecture #3, will now be lecture #2, and in the following week’s lecture #4, the final lecture, will now be given on Sept. 9.

For those waiting for last week’s recorded lecture to be posted, a link has been established, I just need to get around to posting it. For this, I do humbly ask for your patience.

Thanks all!

Thanks to everyone who tuned into my POP-ART lecture last night!

Newer and bigger things happen for Popeye in our next lecture, so be sure to tune in then as well! You can still sign up here on Patreon (see my “shoppe”) at a level that’s most comfortable for you. See you next Tuesday, Aug. 9 at 8:30PM, EST. Arf arf arf!

STICKY NOTES AWAY!

If you purchased a sticky-note sketch from me last week, they’ve all been mailed out! Please let me know if and when you receive the sketch! I like to know they’ve arrived….and if they haven’t arrived (that’s not good). I’d say, if you haven’t gotten it in a week to ten days from now, something happened. Not cool! I will get another out to you asap.

Thanks kids.

Sde

TOMORROW NIGHT!

The first in my four-lecture series POP-ART, begins tomorrow night at 8:30 pm EST. Links for the Zoom session have been posted to the purchase pages of the different levels, and you will be asked to give a password to enter the meeting! Look to the pages where you made the original purchase, and the links and password should be visible (let me know if not, please). Only the link for the first lecture is provided, I’ll be providing links for the other lectures as their time approaches. We lo...

I generally don’t share the entirety of these strips on social media, but I like this one a lot, so…

For those of you that don’t know, Frank Giacoia was one of the great comic book inkers of all time. An exceptional artist, he did full drawing duties on some great stuff, including the Sherlock Holmes newspaper strip. But he’s perhaps best known as an inker on work ranging from

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golden age titles to the height of Marvel-mania. For my money, he’s one of the very best, if not THE best inker to have worked over Jack Kirby’s pencils.

This strip hits home for me a bit,...

STICKY-NOTE DRAWINGS to you!

You want one, they want one, everyone wants one. Don’t be slow! Go to my shoppe here on Patreon, plunk down a measly Andrew Jackson, ping me with your choice of character, where to send it, who to sign it to and WHOOSH off it goes.

Don’t know which character to choose? I’ll do it. I can make one up, even (see images above.)

Don’t know where to send it? Can’t help you there.

Don’t know who I should sign it to? That’s…weird. You don’t know your name? The hel...

BLUTO or BRUTUS???

You decide! Go to my Patreon shop now and reserve a spot in my upcoming POP-ART lecture series. There’ll be four lectures in all—-and you can reserve your place in one single lecture, all four lectures for a discount, or all four lectures and a special gift!

Soothing.

Watching drawings being made is somewhat relaxing.

Another in the series!

Pick your favorite: full profanity or something you can proudly share with grandma. Collect them all!~ sde

Most people that know me know this.

It’s true.

POP-ART: Popeye the Sailor and the History of Cartoon Character Design is totally on!

Although there ain’t no Zoom links yet (wait for ‘em), you can enter my shop here on Patreon and root around for the pricing tier that suits you best. Each lecture has been priced singly (all four, count ‘em four of ‘em), but if you buy the series it’s kind of a bargain. But beyond that, if you buy it as a series at the higher price? You get a drawing from me. For serious. Yuh-huh.

Sign up, tell your friends, your pappy, your grand-pappy or even your emenies and see if you can...

Tomorrow...

***if I can figure out all the nuts and bolts. Oy, this Patreon is pesky.

More MICKEY’S SHORTS, part 2

Roughs, notes and boards.

MICKEY’S SHORTS DESIGNS

Based on Aaron Springer storyboard drawings. The roughs, boards and notes for this batch will be posted to the next tier up on my Patreon page!

You’ll like this.

I promise.

F-WORD SERIES, #5 (I think I’ve gotten the numbering wrong in the past.)

MA KNOCKERS TAKES NO SHIT.

Unedited and edited, for your sanitary protection. Hold on, I’m gonna post the time lapse video of my process on this, it’s kind of cool.

DREAM PLAY, Act 3

An adaptation of THE DREAM PLAY, by August Strindberg.

Name Drop Strip

Popeye gets me into all kinds of trouble.

I’m one of the lucky ones I guess.

I’m pro-cilantro.

Mickey’s Shorts drawings

Character design from way back when.

F-Word series #4

Unedited and edited. Collect them all!

Name Drop, 1994.

For you youngsters out there, there used to be this huge chain record store (CD’s were the big thing then) called Tower Records.

Head Strip.

Is me.

Watch me do my stuff!

A fine video for your collection.

#2 in the F-Word Series. Collect them all!

Here you see Stinky giving you sage advice in both the edited and unedited versions. Stay tuned for a making of video!

Name Drop Strip #2, in which Mike Mignola and I discuss my ability to strike fear into the hearts of men.

Don’t worry, this gig drawing Classics Illustrated never happened for me anyhow. I think after a few weeks the editor who offered me Sleepy Hollow figured out they’d made a mistake, and asked me what classic would I want to draw. I told them Gogol’s THE NOSE, and never heard from them again.