Barf Comics

Skeleton surfing a pirate ship

video art for Shipyard Skates from 2015

YouTube video by Chris Anderson Comics The Making Of the JUNGLE

Thanks to @chrisacomics.bsky.social for having us on his YouTube channel to talk about The Jungle #3: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xzR9...

Joker

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*ping* a hand painted skate deck for a 2015 park fundraiser

Mondo dude shirts for @capeandcowl.bsky.social

signature top graphic

Original art for the pool service skate graphic from Ghost/Ship Supply

Ghost/Ship Supply pool service skate deck

Pool Service deck for
Ghost/Ship Supply

Another sketchbook drawing from 6 years ago. Gosh, why do these all feel relevant again?

I barely knew Melissa but could tell she was a real one. Thank you for all you did for our community.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Two boxy horizontal panels on white show weather of a certain emotional landscape: on top: a purple thunderstorm rolls into the mountains in evening, clouds rumbling and pushing fog down into the darkening valley. The sun is a small and dying distant yellow scribble. On the bottom: close up green-gray churning river water, peaked by foam that is just a hint yellow, a little dirtier of a river perhaps than one might like. Though the image may stand alone, the origin of the piece is actually the brooding personality of teen delinquent Onion Pendergrass. He is the main protagonist of the graphic novel, Blue Hollow, and if these drawings suggest any deeper meaning, it is only that he has a melancholy disposition at the beginning of the story.

Insides

“Anti-Fear” comic from 2018

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Barf Skate vol.1 — James Callahan 188 full color pages of skateboard artwork by James “Barf” Callahan, featuring twenty years of skate decks, skate comics, shirts, posters, and more. The 9 by 12 inch collection describes project origi...

Available here:

www.jamescallahan.co/store/barfsk...

sketches, process, comics, finished decks, and even some photos of the skateboards in action around the world

BARF SKATE art book collecting the skateboard artworks of James Callahan

BARF SKATE vol. 1 is a full color, 188 page collection of all of the skateboard graphics I designed between 2000 and 2020. Published in 2021

Enraged tough guy in a sad scaredy cat shirt

weird that all the drawings in my sketchbook from 5 years ago are suddenly relevant again. What’s the connection? hmm…

Johnny Sampson rules

a drawing of Uncle Sam with a handgun

This is for your safety

Piece Prize

Batman breaking a shotgun in half, saying, "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

Friendly reminder that you don't need generative AI to make your point!

I was camping with friends once and an unwanted Filet-O-Fish was tossed in the fire. It burned for hours.

Scrooges cheer

good cheers

Hey! Check out the covers for issue #3 of The Jungle! Cover A by me, and Variant cover B by our amazing friend @nicolegoux.bsky.social make sure your comic shop has these ordered for you from @unciv.bsky.social

Lobby of WRIR’s permanent home. The front wall of the broadcast studio is adorned with an unlit Christmas tree & the letters W R I R from the Pirate Radio show at Gallery5. Letters painted by local artists Silly Genius, Barf Callahan, Noah Scalin & Stachesquatch.

🚚🎄Hey, we’ve started moving a few things into the new studio space, so we decided to get festive with a little tree and the WRIR letters painted by @sillygenius.bsky.social @stachesquatch.bsky.social @barfcomics.bsky.social & @noahscalin.bsky.social

painting a drawing of a skeleton

Peeking Death

From what I’ve seen, the harshest criticism of art posted online is no comment/no like. If people say anything about someone’s art, it’s almost always positive.