Part-Time Dog Featured on TheIspot.com

"The kid’s dad keeps rolling up newspapers whenever I walk into the room. But he must know that if he swats me, I’ll just have to bite him on the ankle. I want to tell him, “Look, you’re a grown man. I’m a grown man. Neither of us wants this to escalate. Let’s work it out.” But I’m on the clock, so I just walked up to him, said “Arf,” and tried to look both mature and resolute. This is pretty tough to do when you are eye level with someone’s crotch. I don’t think I pulled it off."

It's pretty unusual for me to post this frequently, but I just got a note that made my week. Jami Giovanopoulos, VP of TheIspot.com wrote, “I think this is just about the funniest, smartest work around! I can't wait to see what happens next ... in the meantime, I gave you a shout in our newsfeed: You are live in Art News and Theispot Blog.”

For those of you not familiar with the illustration world, TheIspot.com is the premiere illustration portfolio site on the net. Getting a shout-out like that from the site that features the best illustrators in the business is an enormous head-sweller. At least that's what my wife said. Twice.

For those who want to mosey on over, the blog can be found here. (You can also check out my portfolio on TheIspot here.) Thanks, Jami!

But don't let Jami stand alone. Blurb my book! Sing my praises! Remember I'm six foot one, 210 pounds of curly-haired need.

I couldn't wait to send out the news, but I needed some progress on the book to justify a new email. Fortunately I had a drawing at the ready, one I'd been looking forward to doing for a long time. Easily the most disturbing picture I've ever done when viewed out of context, nu? Forward it to all your friends! Then enjoy some fascinating and drawn-out conversations with human resources!!

This week's dog is the inimitable Rosie from the inimitable Allan Cunningham. Thanks, Allan!

More soon, promise. In the meantime, keep sending in dog photos (thanks to all of those I got this week!!), write me emails, make some comments on the blog, read the story so far or check out seltzerstudio.com. By the way, to see the Studio's portfolio in the same great format as Part-Time Dog, just click here.

P.S. Don't forget the fundraiser for The Dysfunctional Theatre Company, Rob Brown's (the model for the Part-Time Dog) troupe, at Deacon Brodie's Bar at 370 West 46th Street from 6-10 PM TONIGHT, October 1. For more info, click here. I'm going to try to drop by myself to hoist a few for a good cause.

Open publication - Free publishing - More satire

Career Damage

Two notes this week:

1) At the top of the email, there is now a big honking “ Subscribe Here” button. If you received a message as an email forward and you want to get more, please hit the button to sign up. Remember, anyone can read the email or the blog, but only people who sign up are eligible to win original art. (And please mention the person who forwarded you the email when you sign up, because that person gets an extra contest entry.)

2) Here's the best story I've heard about this book since I started this project: I was at a birthday party last week, attended by no less than Rob Brown, model for Part-Time Dog and actor extrordinaire (www.dysfunctionaltheatre.org).

I told him that he should be proud. The mailing list was up to about 1,400 people, and I was getting new members every week. He told me that he had been forwarding it to friends, colleagues, everybody, and everybody was enjoying it – except his mother. “Your mother?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said. “She kind it looked it over, read it through a couple of times, and then turned around and asked me, 'Rob, explain to me again how this is helping your career.'”

Mrs. Brown: I got nothing. But I will at least publicize that Rob's troupe, the Dysfunctional Theatre Company, is having a fall Fundraiser at Deacon Brodie's on 370 West 46th Street on Thursday, October 1st and that everybody who loves new theater in New York should come. It is apparently the very, very least I can do.

More soon, promise. In the meantime, keep sending in dog photos (thanks to all of those I got this week!!), write me emails, make some comments on the blog, read the story so far or check out seltzerstudio.com.

Open publication