Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in James Lloyd's LiveJournal:

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Monday, April 16th, 2012
4:06 am	Sketch of the day (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 9th, 2012
10:57 pm	Bunny from a honey from another planet Hey folks. So if you got nothing to say about my work, feast your surprised eyes on this little baby! A birthday gift from the amazing Rebecca Dart... bestowed upon me near ten years ago now. Not many people give away fully realized masterpieces as a token of friendship, but that is she. Oil on press board, I believe. She's given me many since then but this one has a special place in my heart. Plus it's got a bunny-- in honor of this weekend's holiday nearly no one observes anymore. Anyways it just happens to be the divine Ms. Dart's birthday tomorrow, and I have little in the way of gifts to bring, parum-puh-pum-pum. But you can all hop over to her tumblr page and wish her the best: http://r-dart.tumblr.com/. Not only will you be treated to more amazing work, but her current post reveals and in-depth look at her working process. Be enlightened by the master! Love you, T-Dog. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
8:44 pm	Sketch of the Day Get what's left of your ya-yas out! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
2:09 am	Sketch Of The Day (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
9:07 pm	Is She Not My Girl? Oh, Sinead. No one else on the planet has churned such mixed emotions in me. You've gone from being a fearless (if guileless) force for public advocacy of personal ethics to the embodiment of excoriating female drama with no off switch... like some endless episode of The View. And you clearly haven't learned a thing with time. Yet... you were there at the most needed time in my youth, right on the final gasping death of the eighties and my time in high (or low) school. By making your way onto the cd racks in Vernon BC and basic cable, you were one of the eye-openers that saved me from the land of giant perms and miniature ideas-- always paying the full price for doing it. And at the end of it all there has always been THAT VOICE. So I wish you luck with the tour and I really want to hear that new album. Maybe you'll find some liberation in song again. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
2:53 am	More from the sketchbook. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
3:38 am	Happy March! From a photo of the statues at Vancouver's English Bay. Tinted again on photoshop. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
2:34 am	I didn't see a person's colour before now The great and incomprehensibly generous to lost causes pile of sweetness known as Rebecca Dart http://r-dart.tumblr.com/ has shown my feeble monkey paws a colour tint feature on photoshop, and here are some of the results. All these are b&w texture pieces posted earlier. Such fun to humbled by technology I'll never fathom! (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
10:01 pm	Briney Boy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 19th, 2011
9:38 pm	Time and (Yule)tide Ran out the clock before I could get a card drawn this year, so once again here's something from the archives. This was an offering from the early '90's. Guess which cartoonist I really, really wanted to be like? And if this doesn't do it for you, there are tits in the previous post. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
12:41 am	She excited dreams of honey for the horn Marilyn this time, from the sketchbook. Drew this on the fly while skimming the latest edition of Taschen Magazine-- which is NOT a good idea if you're taking on a truly one of a kind beauty. The article featured reproductions of Ms. Monroe's incendiary last photo shoot by Bert Stern, which is the first time I really got knoocked upside the head by photos of the lady (I've never been taken much by the classic form-- where my pillowy punk girls at, y'all?). This is one of the "crucifix" shots-- so termed because of the large orange cross with which she defaced the contact sheet sent for her approvals. Of course the one she rejected is the one that appealed most to me. If I had the watercolours handy I would have added the cross, too; might have obscured some of the weaker parts of my attempt to capture the Lady of the Lens. As it is, I'm standing quite... naked... imperfections and all. I did want a kind of Guido Crepax-like casual warping of the features to give it some character, but in this case it could only work if I nailed it as accurately as possible. Anyways, the heading is from the Norman Mailer text accompanying the article. I like Mailer's prose but not always as much as he does; his typewriter often contains a lot more business than the events he covers. In this case, though, I found his observations and insights blow-for-blow spot on. I still can't afford the book they're releasing, which features the full photoshoot and Mailer novel, but if someone's got a thou to spare and wants to get me a Christmas gift... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
3:04 am	Some people pay me for my work Alright, here's some proper comics for you. Issue 58 of Futurama is on the stands this week, and it features a full length story as rendered by me and written by Bongo top dog Ian Boothby. Features a backup short drawn by Mike Kazaleh and probably some ads. I'm actually pretty happy with the way this one turned out, though the cover has nothing to do with the interior. My pal and mentor John Delaney drew it, and it's pretty zappity-pow-- so we'll forgive him. Ask for it by name! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 28th, 2011
11:36 pm	Cyberlesque Here's something for the end of your long Monday. Couldn't resist returning to this territory in the sketchbook. Inspired from a genuine living lady right here in town. Tristan Risk again... got to attend a life drawing sit with her in full cyber-form. An endlessly astounding being, that one. Check out the original photo in Glitter Machine's amazing gallery. They do some wild work: http://www.glittermachine.ca/ (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
3:41 am	it's not all bad (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
1:04 am	Halloween Bonus Fun Drew these in the interior. (Comment on this)
Friday, November 4th, 2011
2:42 am	The Uncanny This is what I had planned for Arin Sieber's Halloween show at the Soho Billiards... which I couldn't participate in 'cause my Halloween got ruined. I did it tonight instead as a gift to myself. Who are you to say I can't? This is Sir Karloff from "The Body Snatcher"-- my favorite of his roles. I got it close, but the scan really is atrocious. Oh well... missed my shot for folks to see it in person. Maybe I'll give him a mustache for any Movember shows. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
2:09 pm	Hallowankers Not feeling too inspired this year, but this is what we went as two years ago. Anyways, hope everyone out there has a good one. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
12:21 am	What the patch yields Dad's is the one on the left. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
2:20 pm	Maybe I'll Be Wishy One Day And Washy The Next! A little late for Thanksgiving, I rendered this proud fellow from a picture by a very good local photographer whose name I neglected to write down. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
1:53 am	Don't Look Back Drawing new comics tonight... and big surprise, it's frustratingly, achingly slow. So with the knowledge that a new post may be some time in coming, here's some old stuff! I mean real old. This goes back to my 15th year on the planet, I believe. Another artifact recovered from dad's place this summer. yet another reminder of a misspent youth... on the plus side, I finally got to add that text to the last panel I always wanted over 20 years later. ( Things get real under the cut ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)