Bernie McGovern

New Website

2010-09-14T08:55:00.000-07:00

Check out my new website at www.rockwellfarmer.com
It has a new blog section and I won't be updating this one any more! Things are just much easier over there,
Bernie

Turtledove Sketch from 300 Years Ago

2010-08-30T21:23:00.000-07:00

Fire Child is Looking for a Place to Sit

2010-08-29T20:40:00.001-07:00

Click to go where it's being sold :)

Army of Lovers Excerpt

2010-08-26T17:48:00.000-07:00

Page four from Book Six:

Highball for Owls #1

2010-08-25T20:05:00.000-07:00

Finance my paying people back by buying this for ten smackers by clicking here!

Pebbles Level Sketch

2010-08-25T16:41:00.000-07:00

If (angry) Lil Pebbles had his own 16-bit landscape to explore:

Book 5 for Sale

2010-08-18T15:12:00.000-07:00

An Army of Lovers will be Beaten Book 5 is finally finished and ready to print to order. I have to wait for more funds to add up before I can start printing them to drop off at stores. There are also new editions of Book 4 and Interlude available at my new storefront at Big Cartel.com. You can buy any of my books there or just shoot me an email. Here's an excerpt from Book 6 in progress:

New Etsy Paintings

2010-08-09T22:45:00.000-07:00

Want to help finance this month of my life? Cheap paintings!

Asian Beetle Thinks Painting is Good Idea

2010-08-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

Book 6 Begins Finally

2010-08-07T07:48:00.000-07:00

Page one of book six!

Bernie's Very First SketchUp Picture

2010-08-06T12:28:00.000-07:00

Learning/goofing around:

New Drawing for Old Work

2010-08-05T13:10:00.000-07:00

Now that my home printer is officially toast for printing comics, I'm forced to split up my ol' Book 4 into two different issues to fit into page count restrictions. So here's the new cover for the interlude On Cosmic Heartbeats:

You can buy the original drawing for ten smackers over at Etsy.com (and contribute to the cause of Bernie's Billz)

New Watercolors for Etsy

2010-08-02T14:23:00.001-07:00

More Cosmic Critters (Beware Baby Bunny):

Kali the Deep Sea Angler Fish in profile:

Poem by Christian Hawkey

2010-07-29T09:16:00.001-07:00

New Painting

2010-07-26T17:20:00.000-07:00

Sad sac sold before hitting Etsy for sale:

Heat Wave, Space Bunny, & Some Guy

2010-07-25T14:10:00.000-07:00

New paintings that'll go up onto Etsy soon:

Book is on Sale til August

2010-07-21T12:22:00.000-07:00

An Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten

Purchase An Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten with 15% off with coupon code BEACHREAD305

valid through 8/16/2010

Quasar Teddy painting

2010-07-21T09:43:00.000-07:00

Thank you so much to all of you who have purchased paintings of mine through Etsy.com! I'll be posting more every week from here out in the hopes of preventing future financial disaster. Here's Quasar Teddy!

And here's Good Job, Fusu for Gabe Levinson's Book Bike endeavor:
Click to visit the Etsy shop to buy dees tings.

Nap of the Future

2010-07-19T10:14:00.000-07:00

Buy it at Etsy for $10! (click here)

Poverty

2010-07-17T13:27:00.000-07:00

Want to help Bernie McGovern pay his bills and feed his poor empty stomach? Why not buy a cheap, beautiful painting from him for $10? Here's an example of what's for sale over at the Rockwell Farmer Etsy shop:

Here's a link to the Etsy shop (click)

Space Pickle

2010-07-16T18:02:00.000-07:00

Produced while working with the sick kids:

Easter Island Death Rays vs. King Henry VIII

2010-07-13T16:58:00.000-07:00

Naptime

2010-07-13T16:33:00.000-07:00

Trondheim inspired watercolor:

Nerd Confessional Overdrive

2010-07-06T13:00:00.000-07:00

Still listening to the same old music while drawing, but gradually new (to me) things:
A lovely compilation from the Galactic Zoo Dossier

2D2D by Copter4016882
POETRY... lots of poetry read aloud through the Poetry Foundation
the following astronomy podcasts:
Astronomy Cast
Slacker Astronomy
Cheap Astronomy

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Library books I'm burrowing into:
Comics I should have seen long ago, Gus and his Gang, Isaac the Pirate, the Rabbi's Cat, Bourbon Island 1730, Tintin things, Clowes things, Pim & Francie
Plays by Pinter, Barker, and Genet
The illustrated histories of Sci Fi & Horror comics
Poetry collections by Howard Barker, Christian Hawkey, Joshua Beckman, Joshua Clover, Richard Brautigan, Albert Goldbarth, Alice Notley, Danielle Pafunda, and Ed Roberson.
Tea & note-taking abound! Most of this has been happening to the soundtrack from Katamari games lately:
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Also, but not nerd related, I am officially getting myself down to the harbors to paint pictures of boats with the hopes that some rich people throw about $200 dollars at me - just enough to finish paying some billz. A master plan. Experiments!
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And passive aggressive notes are funny when they're not left for me:~~~
This truck blew my mind & will end up in a drawing sometime, someday:

love,
Bernie

Snow City's Gallery Night was Great

2010-06-28T12:07:00.000-07:00

But you can still attend the second event on July 8, this time for much less $$:

Also, Mr. Gabe Levinson did the following wonderful thing:

At the Book Bike site

Book 6 preview

2010-06-23T18:52:00.000-07:00

Book 5 Excerpt Painting Spread

2010-06-23T14:17:00.000-07:00

The climactic painting from the near-complete Army of Lovers book 5:

Buckeley and the Llama Hunting for Pooh and Piglet

2010-06-20T12:11:00.000-07:00

Army of Lovers Excerpt

2010-06-17T10:12:00.000-07:00

An Army of Lovers Book 5 page 47:

Some More Dodgy Pixel Art

2010-06-09T21:01:00.000-07:00

Some imperfect pixel art of Lil' Pebbles if he were featured in an extreme beat'em up video game:

Calm vs. Calamity

2010-06-09T07:34:00.000-07:00

Toying with pixel art doodling:

Army of Lovers Excerpt

2010-06-07T16:44:00.000-07:00

Page 23 of Book 5:

Book 5 Excerpts pages 12 - 16

2010-06-01T20:36:00.000-07:00

Army Sketch

2010-05-28T15:14:00.000-07:00

Beginning to sketch ideas for the play within Army of Lovers, featuring Landfrey shaved, playing the role of Buckeley:

Army of Lovers Excerpt

2010-05-26T23:21:00.000-07:00

Some more pages from Book 5 of An Army of Lovers:

Extreme Lovemaking with the Goddess of Productivity

2010-05-26T20:44:00.000-07:00

Notes:

Another Work Sketch

2010-05-24T10:07:00.000-07:00

Please Take my Armadillo

2010-05-21T17:19:00.000-07:00

Some sketches, watercolors from work today. I make these while the little ones are focusing on their paintings:

Latest Page in Progress

2010-05-20T11:08:00.000-07:00

An Army of Lovers will be Beaten page 302, in progress:

StoryBoarding

2010-05-17T18:00:00.000-07:00

Story boards for the upcoming (untitled) animation with Dan Kerr-Hobert:

Roots Draft

2010-05-16T23:29:00.000-07:00

For Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Lumpen Submission)

2010-05-15T23:10:00.001-07:00

William Blake Inspired Productivity

2010-05-12T17:55:00.000-07:00

Snippet from Army of Lovers Book 5 in progress:

Back in Chicago

2010-04-16T13:44:00.000-07:00

Just back from the Toronto Comics Art Festival where I sold books alongside the exceptional Lucy Knisely and Erika Moen. It was incredibly fun meeting the lovely people of Toronto! Here's an excerpt from my Army of Lovers Book 5 in progress:

Two Lemonades and One Medium Ice Tea

2010-04-14T06:09:00.000-07:00

Lulu.com has a free shipping sale until May 1st. Click below to buy my comic with free shipping! Be sure to use the coupon code: FREEMAIL305

Between Cookbooks, Pink Eye, Farscape, Inspirational Hymns by Sad Brad Smith, and his Modern Limbs comes a cover for an Army of Lovers Mini, finally

2010-04-13T00:18:00.000-07:00

8 tiny pages for 2 measly bucks!

Smokey Note

2010-04-08T11:10:00.000-07:00

Snapshots from Automobile

2010-04-07T21:37:00.000-07:00

Page in Pencil

2010-04-05T19:31:00.000-07:00

A page from An Army of Lovers will be Beaten book 5 in progress:

Finished Army of Lovers Animation

2010-03-29T17:56:00.000-07:00

Thanks National Headquarters and Gretta Johnson for helping me to produce this! There is no sound as it was only a "screen test."

Animation Still 2

2010-03-25T15:39:00.000-07:00

Another time elapse still image:

Animation Still

2010-03-18T22:25:00.000-07:00

A time elapse still image from the animation I am working on:

Homunculus is Humongous

2010-03-16T13:36:00.000-07:00

It's true.

Another Fun Members Night at the Field Museum

2010-03-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

Army of Lovers Excerpt

2010-03-10T17:47:00.000-08:00

An excerpt from book 5, in progress:

Yes, it's time to start drawing on the walls again

2010-03-09T17:27:00.000-08:00

Burger painting by Steve Riddle 2004

Yuri Norstein is of Mythical Proportion

2010-03-03T18:19:00.000-08:00

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 - Video Game Series

2010-03-02T17:53:00.000-08:00

The idea for this series has been rolling around in my head for a while and I've finally made my first image. Some day these may be in full motion, but for now just stills. This installment is inspired by the sewer adventures of the Ninja Turtles as presented on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989. I need a better digital camera but for now the fuzziness might actually be helping:

A Fifth Lesson on What Skin May Reveal

2010-02-25T02:29:00.000-08:00

Cover in progress for the issue that's also in progress, yikes!

Black Hat

2010-02-24T20:26:00.000-08:00

Some character design for my first ever post-apocalyptic adventure comic! These are preliminary, rough, and will probably evolve drastically:

Illustrative

2010-02-24T11:02:00.000-08:00

I finally updated the illustration section of my website after about a year of nothing. Laaaazy.. Click below to see it:

Neat Beyond my Nerdiest Dreams

2010-02-22T12:06:00.000-08:00

A mountain of very recent orbit photos, uhh!

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/ndxpage1.html

Don't Fear the Salt & Pepper

2010-02-11T10:52:00.000-08:00

Choose your destiny!!

Face Mash Up Overload

2010-02-09T22:41:00.000-08:00

Aurora

2010-02-09T20:46:00.000-08:00

Jupiter has it

Sketchbook Decoration

2010-02-09T16:23:00.001-08:00

Lichi as an Ape with Angel Glands:

Lichi as the Mind-Expanded Modern Nightmare Lichi

Besprinkling the UNIVERSE

2010-02-09T11:29:00.000-08:00

Time to christen the new blog with the glory of what's out the window and some wonderful NASA porn. I realize it's old news to the world but I just can't resist. It's my wallpaper right now:

Image: Flickr/Adam CroweImage: my celly

BRAND NEW

2010-02-09T10:50:00.000-08:00

Here's the new blog! The old one will disappear soon and gradually be integrated into the professional wonder of the ol' website: www.rockwellfarmer.com