My three drawings of three great bands at Open Gate hosted by Scribble. First up was the Present Quartet, playing Anthony Braxton in celebration of his 80th birthday, then came Rosenboom's Quartet. Lastly You, Me and the Whales played

They all played their asses off.

Caught a fantastic night of music featuring, Rosenboom, White, Mohler, and Baltazar. This is a hot shit band. A friend asked, "How do you describe the music?" That question is probably the best description of this group's music.
Check 'em out every second Wednesday at the Vine in LB.

Here is a short video of inking progress of our our little comix noir story, Always and Never.

Music: "You" by the Idols.

#westerinocomix #alwaysandnever #longbeach #noirstory #wip #workinprogress #orkrecords

Headed over to the Vine and caught three sets of Scott Heustis, Pablo Calogero, Anthony Shadduck, and Breeze Smith. Realky fantastic music by fantastic musicians and it happened in my Long Beach town. Fuck ICE. @vine_lb #westerinocomix #bsides #sketchbook #longbeach #penonpaper #fatsandfives

How to pick up a waitress: the first step.
Fresh inks from our story, Always and Never.
#westerinocomix #alwaysandnever #inking #comics #comix #longbeach #workinprogress #wip

Here are the two drawings I made of the Butterss / Uhlmann duo from Thursday night. They used a lot of electronics and a bit of synthesized percussion. Good stuff all the way around. I sat my ass on the floor to draw these. @buttersscup @gregoryuhlmann @zebulonla #westerinocomix #fatsandfives

Here is some inking from last night. I'm still working on these but you get the idea. I inked a lot of this as Jeff and I sat at Jug Band Coffee during a singer/song writer open mic. Good stuff. #westerinocomix #alwaysandnever #inking #comics #comix @jugbandcoffeeandtea #longbeach

They asked me to administer the AP Government test today, so I got to draw. Here they are.
(College Board, if you see these, the kids were in rows and adequately seperated.)

I've been scanning and laying out drawings from my live music sketchbook. I'm planning an 11x11 inch book. Not sure about binding or how many pages this will be. Gotta ways to go. These are looking pretty nice, I gotta say.

Music by Estradasphere
#westerinocomix #bsides #fatsandfives

Mary is a friend and she is still making comix.

You have a Didi Glitz or Mary Fleener thing happening here. That's a good thing!

A couple panels from the 3rd page of Always and Never, our Long Beach noir. That is the F&M Bank. #comix #alternativecomics #westerinocomix #longbeach

Saw Scott Heustis' group at yhe Vine. The core players were Breeze Smith, Rebecca Lynn, and Matt Piper. They also swapped in Ben Rosenbloom, who brought an avant-garde piano sound probably never heard in that room. Eric Barber sat in on the last set.
Here are my loosie goosie drawings.

From Always and Never, our Long Beach noir. Still needs some clean up. Enjoy a heaping helping bowl of Flakes. They're fantabulous! #westerinocomix #alwaysandnever #inking #longbeach #comix #wip #flakes

Here is the first page of Always and Never, our Long Beach noir story. It's pretty much inked, but not erased. I'm going for a much looser feel and pages will be dense and dark. This page took me 4 sitdowns.
#westerinocomix #longbeach #makingcomics #workinprogress #longbeach #comix

Two of my better live drawings from Sunday's Open Gate show

Feels good to get back to inking comix pages. These are work-in-progress inks for our our 48 page noir story, Always and Never.

Here are a couple of new posters using my sketchbook drawings. Ornette was drawn direct with ink to test a new Windsor & Newton brush. The second is Akira Kurosawa. If you don't know, I am a huge Kurosawa fan. Both need some adjustments. #westerinocomix #bsides #ornettecoleman #akirakurosawa

George Foreman was one of the greats during a legendary period of heavy weight boxing.

A quick ink drawing by me from way back during the pandemic. #georgeforeman

Thanks!

Here are some reworked little prints I made up. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Albert Ayler, Sonny Rollins, and Roscoe Mitchell.

Two color pen drawing of Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party. Everyone should read his memoir of the founding of the BPP, Seize the Time.
#bobbyseale #blackpantherparty #westerinocomix #bsides #sketchbook #fatsandfives

Wtf

Great hang at the Vine with Scott Heustis, Tony Green, and Breeze Smith. They added a theremin, player. Her name was Shelby. Didn't catch her last name. I really dug it. #westerinocomix #bsides @scott_heustis @tony_green_ @breezemuse888 @vine_lb

Two over-scribbled drawings from last night's Kidambi, Shiroishi, Parker, Jaffe set. Sublime.

Saw three bands last night. There was a lot of kinetic energy on the stage. Up first was Perfect Band. Really wild improv. Then came a band from Kobe, O'Summer Vacation. Very loud, very powerful. My drawings lack the energy they expended. Last, but not least came Oort Smog. Really dig this band.

Here is a quick pen sketch of the great John Gilmore of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Akira Kurosawa. This is a ink and wash drawing I did a few years back. I always liked it.
#akirakurosawa #art #inkandbrush

That is really lame

Here is a colorized version of an Albert Ayler drawing I posted a while ago. It is definitely a work in progress. #westerinocomix #bsides #visionsofayler #albertayler #freejazz #wip