Regardless, please stop by and say hello if you're there. Here's the info:

Emerald City Comicon
http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/
Saturday, March 13th 10am-6pm
Sunday, March 14th 10am-5pm
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Tommy Lee Edwards asked me to create a variant cover for issue number three of his upcoming "TURF" comic. Tommy Lee and BBC television personality Jonathan Ross teamed up to create this four-issue limited series for Image Comics. The story takes place in Prohibition-era Manhattan and involves mobsters, vampires, and aliens.
I very honored to be included as a guest artist for this series. Other guest cover artists include Jim Steranko, Bernard Chang and Duncan Fegredo.
More info at:
www.turfcomic.com/

San Francisco's favorite gallery-in-disguise is hosting a solo exhibition of my art. "All The Best," will highlight some of my favorite pieces from 2006 through 2009. The work ranges from commercial illustration to paintings on panel and I'm excited to see it all in one place. Please mark your calendar for the opening reception on February 6th. More info below:

"All The Best," by Josh Ellingson
Showing Feb. 6, 2010 - Mar. 10, 2010
Opening Reception - 7pm Feb. 6, 2010

Mission: Comics & Art
3520 20th St. Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94110

www.MissionComicsAndArt.com
www.joshuaellingson.com

This weekend, Los Angeles' Gallery 1988 will host their annual "Under the Influence" show. This year's theme is "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". My art will be featured along with dozens of other amazing talents for this epic show. Word on the street is that Mattel will be transforming the gallery into Castle Greyskull for the opening. Above is my piece "Faker and Child". It's 18x24" acrylic on panel. Here's more information about the show:

Under the Influence: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
January 8th-January 29th, 2010
Opening Reception Jan 8th, 7-10pm
Gallery Nineteen-Eighty Eight: Los Angeles
7020 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles CA 90038
http://www.nineteeneightyeight.com/

Holy smokes, it's almost 2010! It's been a very interesting year, and about a million things happened. Here's a meager rundown of all the trouble I got into this past year:

• My artwork went to SPACE!
• I was certified FRESH on Communication Arts
• Kitten on the Keys asked me to make art for her one-woman show
• Laughing Squid did a huge post about me and my art!
• I traveled to Arizona for "The Panelists" art show
• My studio space, The Local 303, turned 3
• South Carolina State University gave me a solo show
• I crashed the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR
• I guest-DJed with Matt Delight on KSFS's "Everyone's a DJ"
• I had a solo-show at the Museum of Robots in Second Life
• I tried out for a reality TV show about artists. FAIL!
• SF Station recognized my strong fashion sense
• "Burlesque Poster Design" featured my poster art
• My little cousin spotted my art in Nickelodeon Magazine
• I started covering the art beat for Laughing Squid
• "Toy Karma 2" went off in Chicago and I brought my little sister to the show
• Lots of conventions like Renegade Craft Fair, Wondercon, APE, and Al's Comics Benefit
• I discovered diet root beer, DIY microwave popcorn, and velvet painting technique
• 1AM Gallery featured my artwork as part of their "Eternal Sleep" group show
• I painted on a skateboard for Pravus Gallery's "DECK" show
• Artist "Phoneticontrol" had me customize one of his "Thought Processor" papercraft figures
• I made the logo for the Hell's Belles annual pinewood derby. I also carved a truck!
• The Local 303 was in full-force at Lowerdeck's "Playdate" show
• My robot friends threw a big fundraiser art show. Robots and humans attended the event.
• Indy music site, "The Bay Bridged" featured my portrait of Emperor Norton I
• I finished more He-Man related artwork

Here's my "Year in Pictures, 2009" Flickr photo set.

Special thanks to Laughing Squid, Space Adventures, Robogames, Lowerdeck, The Local 303, SomaFM, Super7, Joe at KSFS, The Drygs, Hi-Fructose, The Museum of Robots, Max Toy Co., SCSU, my Twitter homies, and everyone else who made this year memorable. Here's hoping 2010 will be even more amazing.

AUTOMATIC: Art Show Benefit for RoboGames

Do sentient machines dwell on the existential circuit that leads to the spiritual 404 error?
Does being a machine mean just being a device: literarily, artistically and literally?
Or does everything just boil down to everyone?s deep-seated need to crush all humans and plot eventual total world domination?

Find out at Automatic!
November 19, 20, 21, 2009
Exhibit: 5pm-8pm / Beer reception 7pm-12pm on Fri & Sat
@ The lowerDeck Gallery - 2295 3rd Street
(below Sundance Coffee in San Francisco)
415.307.3482

Robot Paintings and Sculptures from the prodigious talents of:

Doctor Popular * Josh Ellingson * I-Wei Huang * Simon Cox * Nils  * Jawa * Jonathan Foote * Camp Peavy * Alice Koswara * Max Chandler* Eliot K. Daughtry * Adam Davis * Patrick Lake * Phoneticontrol * Mike Hales * Bill Robinson, Liz Mamorsky and many many others!

Photo Credit, www.artbusiness.com

Come watch your favorite artists draw at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco for Sketch Tuesdays. Better yet, bring your sketchbook and draw with them! I'll be at the center table, cranking out the jams for cash and trade. You can expect squids and robots, for sure. I'm also good at pointy teeth and tiki masks.

More info about Sketch Tuesdays can be found on Fecal Face's calendar. Also, check out my coverage of Sketch Tuesday on Laughing Squid.

Photo by Randy Stewart @stewtopia

APE Returns to San Francisco October 17–18!
One of the country’s most popular and vibrant alternative comics shows returns to its San Francisco home, The Concourse Exhibition Center, for another two big days of fall fun this October. APE, the Alternative Press Expo, rolls into the city by the bay on October 17 and 18, 2009.
Having switched to the fall in 2008, APE proved to be a big hit with the comics-loving people of San Francisco no matter what time of year. APE 2009 is shaping up to be another crowd pleaser, with seven special guests having signed on: Jamaica Dyer (courtesy SLG Publishing), Phoebe Gloeckner, Dean Haspiel, Batton Lash, Lark Pien, Dash Shaw, and Jeff Smith.

APE 2009
Saturday, Oct. 17 11am - 7pm
Sunday, Oct. 18 11am - 6pm
The Concourse
620 7th Street
San Francisco

I've been working on some new pieces for a "Day of the Dead" themed art show at 1AM Gallery in San Francisco. The show is booked with great talent from around the Bay. It's also 1AM's one-year anniversary event, so it's a great excuse to check out the space. Hope to see you there. Here's more information via 1AM Gallery's website:

Thanks to our great fans, supporters, and artists, we’ve made it through our FIRST YEAR.  Through the good, the bad, and the ugly from the past year, the most important lesson we have learned is that street and urban art is here to stay.  To commemorate our anniversary year, 1:AM gallery is hosting Eternal Sleep, a tribute to Dia de los Muertos.  For this exhibition, we have reanimated our lineup of artists from our inaugural year to haunt our walls with skulls, death, and the celebration of life through their eyes.  This will be a mergence of the soul of 1:AM with graffiti writers/artists being displayed alongside fine artists, photographers, sculptors, and custom toy designers. Eternal Sleep epitomizes what 1:AM strives to accomplish, bringing people from different walks of life together.

The diverse artist lineup:

Peter Gronquist, Mear One, Mark Bode, 64 Colors, Alice Koswara, Bam, Bryn Taylor, Camer, Carlos A, Dave Crosland, Dia, Dril One, Eli Leppert, Hyde, Jorone, Josh Ellingson, King 157, Kiro, Kob, KRK Ryden, Lango, Laurel Anderson, Lawrence Yang, Lily Black, Nate1, Oliver Fader, Orly Locquaio, Peabe, Pemex, Pete Castro, Phoneticontrol, Reuben Rude, Reyes, Toro, Twick, Vogue

Expect nothing less than a spectrum of art strumming the joyful and mournful tones of life and death that will reverberate to the deepest parts of your soul.

Opening reception is on October 16th from 7 – 10pm. DJ Don Kainoa, Spinnerty, and Bozak will be dropping the beats with guest turntablist from Abstract Revolver.  The opening is a 21+ event.  Exhibition will run through November 6th.