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Early Access Old Timey!

Yo Patrons, get one early! Enjoy the giggles.

Mark

It's Monday, have a SOUP-STACHE!

The world is miserable. Mondays are miserable. But you don't to be miserable because I'm finishing up Old Timey Pictures with Silly Captions Volume 3 and that means more soup and absinthe jokes!

Mark

Blizzurricane & Narwhals: New Art For You!

New art for you Patreons! Here's a look at a concept piece for a project in my head called Blizzurricane (which you may remember is the clothing brand that Ethel the Cyborg Ninja wears.... no relation.)

I'm working on a how-to-draw T-Rex book and that dinosaur drawing is based off one of my sketches, heavily filtered wi...

Early Access - The Horrible Octopus drawings for How To Draw...

Early access first look (I just did these today) at three The Horrible Octopus drawings that I created for my next drawing book titled "How to Draw Narwhals by Mark Bussler."

It's fun to have a guide through parts of the book and I like that The Horrible Octopus can hold up to eight drawing and painting devices at once!...

Magnum Skywolf with Kuretake and iPad

Nerd alert - I'm super excited about this video. 

https://vimeo.com/387068915 

I've been pounding out background work with my Kuretake 50 Fountain Brush for the past few days trying to learn how to make the most out of the fewest strokes...

Kuretake No. 50 Fountain Brush

Early access-

I'm working on some better black and white brush stroke style backgrounds for my newer books like Magnum Skywolf and Omega Ronin, going for that classic 70s look. Most of the work will be done digitally, but learning the trade with physical tools is the best practice, and I'll be making some original art p...

Early access - The Horrible Octopus #20!

Indeed, running out of coffee is horrible! Don't let it happen to you.

The design is evolving as I experiment with different proportions here and there, but overall this strip has been a lot of fun to create and I love the character. Enjoy, it's running on Webtoons at at HorribleOctopus.com

Mark

Early access - Magnum Skywolf Haylee Davenworth sketch

Early access to a drawing video for Turbo Volcano, this is a Haylee Davenworth sketch with the superb Pentel GraphGear 1000 .9mm pencil which is huge, it's a great pencil.

https://vimeo.com/385403834 

Magnum Skywolf had to be set aside at the...

1st look, Robot Kitten Factory final cover!

Robot Kitten Factory Issue #1 is complete. Spent all day in QA, revising, cleaning up, and tightening the cover art. Heavily inspired by classic manga and monster movies. That's what I went for with the cover.

Should be out within the week. Ran out of time to make any videos or art vids today but there will be plenty mo...

Everything must go! Price drop on remaining studio items.

Greetings! We just dropped the price on most of the remaining big-ticket items in the CGRempre Ebay store. https://www.ebay.com/usr/cgrempire 

If you're looking for a Power Base Converter, Nomad, Saturn, Darth Vader Atari, Gunstar Heroes, Ca...

From rough sketch to final comic

Dear patrons, enjoy a look at the process from rough sketch to a completed Horrible Octopus cartoon.

The site will take shape through January. Until then, you can also enjoy these single panel comics on Webtoons:   2020-01-03 04:14:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Have a Horrible New Year!

Have a Horrible New Year with The Horrible Octopus!

 (Actually, I hope you have a happy new year but he doesn’t. He’s horrible.)

Happy 2020, see you soon - Mark

Meet The Horrible Octopus!

Sneak preview for Patrons! Coming soon to the Internet and Webtoons near year, it's The Horrible Octopus!

One things leads to another and during my "antique style art" experimentation with Robot Kitten Factory I created this character which works better as a single panel comic strip. It has that classic...

Like a Space Ninja, we on to the next decade!

I could write a volume about what I experienced professionally over the past decade but the fact is I really don't want to. It was fun, it's over. I'm excited about the next decade. No time to reflect.

2019 was a great year of professional and artistic growth for me. I learned new tools and got back into web programming...

Pre-Release Robot Kitten Artwork

Here's a look at a nearly complete Robot Kitten Factory page pre-dialog and final shading. Note the looser pen strokes and shading effects created within Procreate. 

I'll be posting some new art videos on my accounts later today. 

The issue 1 release may take place in between Christmas and New Years! It ...

Early Access - Kitty Mk II design for Robot Kitten Factory

Here's the preliminary sketch of Kitty Mk II from Robot Kitten Factory who makes their debut in issue 1. The second Robot Kitten has different powers which may help to defeat the alien laser monster that is ravaging the city.... collateral damage will occur!

I'm slowly rolling out the social media campaigns for this pro...

Updates, Revisions, New Stuff

Greetings everyone and welcome to December 2019. We have all outlived the original Blade Runner!

Though you may not have noticed it, with 80sComics.com (the videos) I have developed a system to bypass any one Internet monopoly and instead use all of them. You can now watch my daily uploads on YouTube,...

Have a Heyzoos!

I was learning some new tools to add color to some of my upcoming projects and made a retro Heyzoos!

Created in Procreate on iPad.

Mark

Atari Force (1984 series) #1

Sneak peek at the 80sComics.com review of Atari Force (1984 series) #1! Enjoy :) This is such as bad-ass book.

https://vimeo.com/373818266

Atari Force. Wood grained heroes from yesterday's future of tomorrow maybe.

Mark

Robot Kitten Factory page layout

Here's a fun sneak peek at rough inks and a page layout for my upcoming Robot Kitten Factory. Heavy lifting done in Procreate, and I'll be doing finishing work in Photoshop. Probably December release, these will be shorter issues. So many robot kittens, so many monsters trying to destroy Toykoburgh.

:)

Mark

13 Years in the Making! A Good Time....

Trailer for A Good Time at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

https://vimeo.com/372491171 

My newest film is DONE! So I wanted to make a 1939 World's Fair Film dating back to 2005 after I wrapped up my 1893 World's Fair documentary.

In 200...

CGR 20TH Launch Day!

CGR 20TH is live! We just spent all day shipping packages and oof, I'm exhausted. Anyway, enjoy the new trailer and hopefully you'll get a chance to check it out in physical release form or digital. I'm pretty happy with it :)

www.ClassicGameRoom.com...

How am I celebrating CGR 20TH Anniversary?

Right around now is the 20th anniversary of Classic Game Room! The oldest, longest-running Internet video game review show in the universe turns 20. I don't remember the exact date since things were a lot different back then and we probably shot it a week earlier than the posting date (which I forget), but it was basically no...

1939 New York World's Fair Book Launch

My newest book, 1939 New York World's Fair: A Century of Progress in Photographs launched on Amazon.com yesterday. 266 pages of photographs and commentary about this remarkable historic event that took place in New York City during the outbreak of World War II.

2019-10-31 12:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Growing again! Early look at Transformers review.

For the first time in two years the CGR Publishing YouTube channel gained subscribers over the past month, which is a dramatic change of events after losing several thousands. It's been fun and also creatively rewarding talking about something that I find interesting and, hopefully, finding a new audience.

These videos ...

Let's have some fun!!

Yoooo Patreon! 

It's your friend Mark here and I've been having a good time over the past week spending my few hours of "alone time" unwinding with an iPhone and stacks of my old comic books.

Most of my professional work is pretty serious these days and not much fun to talk about. Do you really care how long ...

Atari Force #2 Review!

I had a lot of fun with this one. Shot a few of these last night and enjoying the wacky commentary.

https://vimeo.com/365638986 

You can see some shorter teaser reviews on the site like this one:

 2019-10-11 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Sneak Peek at 80sComics.com

Enjoy a sneak peek at a side project that started when I tried to catalog and organize my G.I. Joe comics. Turned into a good way to continue my Internet video production while also working on the bigger jobs! (also watch the new Atari Force review!)  

ATARI FORCE #1

2019-10-09 19:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Ethel 2 Launches!

Ethel the Cyborg Ninja 2 launches in print on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1688934642 

 https://classicgameroom.com/product/e...

Hookizoos Go!! Heyzoos Page and More

Pictured above is a nearly complete page from Heyzoos #3, coming out very soon. I'm still fine tuning a few details and adding tails to the word bubbles and wrapping up the marketing text.

Heyzoos 3 and Ethel 2 will launch the same day. probably later this week in print and digital. Loads of little "fiddly bits" to get ...