BLACK BILE

Dumb and Dumber

2012-01-31T12:48:00.000-08:00

Guess what I watched the other night.

Huhuh huh huhuhuh huhhuh heheh mheh mhehehmm

2012-01-30T00:32:00.000-08:00

Whenever I watch Beavis + Butt-Head, I always feel an unholy compulsion to draw their birth-defected little nebbish features.
Also, if you haven't yet seen the new season of Beavis & Butt-Head, go to your preferred piracy outlet or mtv.ca/.com and do yourself the favour of watching it.

DON'T HAVE A COW, MAN!

2012-01-23T17:11:00.000-08:00

Laddys and genks its the on the only BAR SIMON

Jacked In

2012-01-22T15:16:00.000-08:00

It's 2012 and if you're an idiot, the apocalypse is just around the corner, but if you're an optimistic idiot, maybe you prefer to believe "armageddon" is just code for "THE SINGULARITY", the idea that we will make machines as smart as us and the internet will go neural, locking everyone into each other's brains like a giant skype buddies list, turning the planet into one schizophrenic, cyberdelic utopia.
Or, you know, maybe it just is a nice way of saying we're all wasting our time on the computer... It's art dingus.

kool vid on THE SINGULARITY theory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8v8mgwuubU

"Spare Any Change?"

2012-01-21T18:21:00.000-08:00

Preview of a "Vancouver Sights" scavenger hunt bingo that I'm putting together.

This kid is spanging to get back to Coquitlam. They're abundant in the summer, especially on Commercial Drive!

The Circus Dork, with his pinstripes, wallet chain, costume shop bowler and twirly moustache replete with soul patch. Burlesque shows are crawling with these kids who never ran off to join Barnum & Bailey.

Ahh, the Junkie Strut. What day cavorting about Vancouver would be complete without a few of these stiff-wristed, cramp-armed be-boppers puttering around town on autopilot like busy little bugs?

Nightlight

2012-01-20T01:10:00.000-08:00

Christmas lights nailed to wood covered with found German bible pages adhered with spit, wine, blood, etc.

Hypothetical XIII Stoleti Gig Poster

2011-12-30T08:04:00.000-08:00

This Band Rules

"You Should Work at Disney!"

2011-11-29T13:40:00.000-08:00

Kegstand Khrist

2011-10-03T11:27:00.000-07:00

I just found the planning sketch I did for that Inverted Jesus Kegstand piece in the last post! My eye for monochromia almost prefers this one.

Blasphemy n' Backpatches

2011-09-24T11:44:00.000-07:00

Couple friends of mine, Ange and Tyler, have been getting bored with what's on the backs of their vests and asked me to whip them each up a painting on canvas that they could sew to their backs. Angela was after an image of herself slugging back a bottle of Crown Royal in a zombie-infested graveyard, and Tyler wanted an upside-down, crucified Jesus doing a kegstand. Both were great fun to execute.

Ange's patch, still pinned flat to the board I painted it on:

Model Tyler brings sexy back. After three days in the tomb, that is

NEKRO-LOGGER for GHPR fest!

2011-06-07T16:42:00.000-07:00

Some designs I scribbled up for the posters for GHPR fest coming up this summer--
July 30-August 1st, 30 bands from across the West coast of Canada and the United States- punk, crust, grindcore, anarcho, metal and more noise, all up in the mountainous forests of Squamish, British Columbia!
So widdout further ado or adon't, BEHOLD: THE NEKRO-LOGGER!

I'VE HEARD OF A CHAINSAW RIFF BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS

AXE VS. AXE

Info on the fest: http://www.myspace.com/ghpr-fest#

Childhood Misunderstanding

2011-06-04T16:31:00.000-07:00

ZING!

Based On A True Story: Abandoned Strollers

2011-05-20T13:32:00.000-07:00

PRIEST OF DECAY AND RENEWAL

2011-05-19T09:14:00.000-07:00

You gon get eated by woims

Seven Deadly Sins

2011-04-24T17:48:00.000-07:00

Thought I had a gig with a shirt design company but after a couple drawings the dude just stopped getting back to me. Lame.
Anyway, it's been a month or so so I'm posting the design I had the most fun with: The Seven Deadly Sins. It was really open-ended direction, he just said draw the seven deadly sins.

SOLITUDE

2011-04-24T16:50:00.000-07:00

Because one comic hyperbolizing my misanthropy and social anxiety JUST wasn't enough!
Trying out a few new things here:
It's all done with brushes.
I rarely colour my comics.
All colours are derived from the primaries.
India ink and gouache on some thick-toothed printmaking paper.

Small Talk Stinks

2011-04-15T15:56:00.001-07:00

Heathen Deity

2011-03-25T14:45:00.000-07:00

Piece for a drawing class about a year ago-- the assignment was to do a self-portrait, I decided to depict myself as a divine spiritual beast, replete with mighty pen, brush, axe and absinthe, as well as my first rats [X and Viktor] and every cat I've ever had.

NECROPHILES! Reel 1

2011-03-15T22:19:00.000-07:00

Is it a comic? Is it a movie? IT'S BOTH!

Angel's Prey

2011-03-06T22:16:00.000-08:00

Told you I'd continue "A Murder"!

Zombie Classical Trio

2011-02-21T16:58:00.001-08:00

A DVD cover for a composer friend's live ensemble recording.

Philosophikal Phunnies!

2010-10-20T13:16:00.001-07:00

The Will to Apple Juice

Totentantz Reflux

2010-10-18T20:31:00.001-07:00

Did an edition of twenty 20-layer silkscreen prints in three days.
20 prints for sale!

Passtimes

2010-09-18T00:18:00.000-07:00

Passing time on the bus home.

Sure to Win your Hearts

2010-09-18T00:14:00.000-07:00

Sail Hatin'!

2010-09-17T23:46:00.000-07:00

Everything I Ate on Thursday

2010-09-17T23:30:00.001-07:00

CHEMICICAL BOULLION CUBES

MASCULINE FASHION

2010-09-08T18:36:00.001-07:00

It's the next best thing to Cinco™ Mouth Decorations®!

LEVITICUS 19:28

2010-09-04T01:41:00.000-07:00

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Retina-Scorching Majesty

2010-08-14T19:46:00.000-07:00

Hey kids, I know, I've been neglecting you. Busy times as of late such as zine fairs and shows that I should've been telling you about all this time, my bad.

But hey! Don't look so glum! Have some fresh hot paintings!

This is a Putrefactre. It is the acid-spitting, thunder-shitting spirit of decay.

This is WART HOG, named after the song by Dee Dee Ramone and also a tribute to his neon spraypaint-and-ink style of painting.

And here's an old one I finally took a [half]decent picture of.

These are all for sale if you're looking to trade some of that useless cash of yours for hi-class, quality original art, and really, who wouldn't?!

NEW ALBUM COVERS

2010-06-23T13:49:00.000-07:00

Here's whut I been bizzy with the past little while, my childrens.
Firstoff we got a quick n dirty ransom-style cover for an upcoming release by screeching Victoria shock-punkz Lesbian Fist Magnet

And here's the cover of One Way Streets, an upcoming album from Call Before You Dig, my buddy's band currently based in Edmonton, with a flowing, sometimes ecstatic sometimes slow and writhing sound.

Klikken fur der Biggen.

Here's the inside cover for One Way Streets

Both these albums should be out by the end of summer so KEEP YER EARS PEELED hounddoggs.

Paintings

2010-06-16T13:49:00.001-07:00

If for some arbitrary reason you can't make it to the show at the Chapel, here's a sampling of what I'm hanging there.
The show's still up for another few weeks so GIT ON DOWN they're open thursday nights.

MAY 27th! GO SEE MAH PAINTINS N' SITCH!

2010-05-20T19:26:00.000-07:00

On May 27th [a week from now numbskull] I'm hanging ten pieces in this rokkenroll artshow which opens tonight.
I'll be contributing a buncha new paintings, some drawings and general emetics of all kinds. GO TO CHAPEL ARTS on Gore n Hastings or therabouts to look at cool art and listen to cool music? SOUNDS LIKE A DATE!

BLACK BILE #7 FINALLY OUT

2010-04-22T16:35:00.000-07:00

That's right squids!
After long last the pieces of the latest seeping issue of BLACK BILE have fallen into place! Available for the first time in two formats: Regular and Deluxe!
Here's the regular cover fer alla youse downtrodden proletariats:

And the maleficent majesty of the full colour poison bottle cover, hand-screened by Rat Samsa himself!

Standard 2.50 for the regular, the screened cover version is $10-- a bit of a hike but it's HAND MADE ART, MAAAAAN.

Wherin I Undergo the 5 Stages of Corporeal Decomposition!

2010-04-11T15:28:00.000-07:00

Welp. May as well just come out and say it.
I died, folks.

New Patches!

2010-02-03T19:35:00.001-08:00

So I've hit anothe jag of cutting stencils during sizable portions of my free time; here are the results.

If you're interested in buying any patches, email mjsamsa@gmail.com for a full list! I'm poor!

SERIOUS POLITICAL CARTOON

2010-01-11T14:03:00.000-08:00

My Reputation Precedes Me

2010-01-03T02:36:00.000-08:00

Making A Friend - New Cartoon

2009-12-20T02:08:00.000-08:00

THIEF

2009-11-18T00:24:00.000-08:00

Strange little thing I was able to squirt out very quickly tonight for class where we had to animate this music clip without drawing, of course I fucked it up by drawing but hey whatchagunna do?

Hot Rod Homer

2009-11-13T19:50:00.000-08:00

X

2009-11-05T17:08:00.000-08:00

Rest In Peace little buddy

Update + Kartoon [for Niki] -- BUSINESS LUNCH

2009-10-21T13:41:00.000-07:00

Hey skallywagz.
Yeah, I been silent for a while for a few reasons. Been completely busy the past couple months what with getting evicted, having to live in a friend's basement with seven cats shitting EVERYWHERE including on/in a nearly completed sketchbook, big changes in the family, and school kicking in and kicking my ass. Plus there's Halloween in a week and I'm STILL not too sure as to what I'll be... Thinkin', a DINOSAUR!!!!
Anyway, so as not to starve all you hungry youngsters, here's something I done finished this mornin' for my experimental animation class!

BUSINESS LUNCH

Hoo boy, what a kicker.
Aaaanyway, I do a fair bit of this crap and I'm trying to get everything up and snazzy on my youtube account, so go there! link> http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackBile13

STORY TIME WITH "GRANDPAPPY" ASTOR

2009-08-31T12:48:00.001-07:00

Black Bile #5- The Suffering Issue!

2009-08-28T19:04:00.000-07:00

BLACK BILE #4 - second part

2009-08-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

ISsUE 4 part 1

2009-08-11T01:37:00.000-07:00

BLAck BILE 3 - end bit

2009-08-10T01:47:00.000-07:00

Bethlehem Gentlemen

Smokin' Babby

Issue 4 starts up tomorrow!

Me VS. the 7 Deadly Sins

2009-08-08T19:40:00.000-07:00

EY! This one's a spread but that don't work on blogger so EAT IT IN CHUNX KIDZ.

Have Some Cows, Man

2009-08-07T19:28:00.001-07:00

WHAT A NEWT!

2009-08-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

Women Like My Coffee Like My Women

2009-08-07T19:01:00.000-07:00

The Girls of Black Bile

2009-08-05T12:04:00.000-07:00

Pages 6-12 of Black Bile #3

[by lizzie VVVV ]

BLACK BILE #3-1

2009-08-04T17:58:00.000-07:00

BLACK BILE #5 OUT!

2009-08-04T17:44:00.000-07:00

After a stupid amount of time #5 is finally out!
The first part of issue threes will be posted later today-- 'Til then, FEAST YER EYES!

Burrito

2009-08-02T10:54:00.000-07:00

So's I got around to colouring this old ditty. Checkitt.

Faith, Stress and Monsters

2009-08-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

A Religious Vision!

STRESS

Girl n Fiend

Fatty, Skinny and Shorty

BLACK BILE #2-2 -- A Murder

2009-07-28T14:51:00.000-07:00

BLACK BILE #2-1

2009-07-22T00:06:00.000-07:00

It's a HALLOWEEN ISSUE!
Let's get the scarrifying started with a discussion on EDUCATION!

BLACK BILE #1-5 : the End

2009-07-11T18:32:00.000-07:00

PAGES 16-20
Here's the tail end of Black Bile #1, muttonbabes!

BLACK BILE #1-4: komix, ads n' doodlez

2009-07-09T14:07:00.000-07:00

PAGES 12-15

BLACK BILE #1-3: KOMIX + MISCELLANY

2009-07-08T10:48:00.000-07:00

PAGES 8-11
KOMIX + MISCELLANY

BLACK BILE #1-2, Burrito + Art Skool how-to

2009-07-07T21:57:00.000-07:00

Pages 5-7

BLACK BILE #1-1

2009-07-07T21:55:00.000-07:00

Pages 1-4

BLACK BILE IS ON THE INTER NET

2009-07-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

KLIKKEN HEIR to get BLACK BILE IS ON YOUR COMPUTER
YOU HEAR ME?
This is a place where eventually all issues of Black Bile will be found.
Read em!

Lesbian Fist Magnet album cover finished!

2009-07-02T16:57:00.001-07:00

Tastes Like Armageddon

A Tangy Glimpse of the FUTURE TO COME!

2009-07-01T01:33:00.000-07:00

Black Bile being on the internet means that lots of it will be in retina-tingling COLOUR!

HAMLET

2009-06-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

OutRAGEOUS fortune.

Play-Doh

2009-06-30T12:21:00.000-07:00

BLACK BILE ONLINE coming soon!

2009-06-30T02:32:00.001-07:00

Soon NEITHER of us will have to leave the house!
Black Bile will be secreted into your eager noggins via INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS.
Watch this spot for titillating developments on this and other issues.

AWT + LFM National Tour Poster!

2009-06-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

ALCOHOLIC WHITE TRASH and LESBIAN FIST MAGNET will be going across Canada this summer and YOU SHOULD SEE THEM so keep on the lookout for this poster I drew for them so you can do just that.

The Minotaur Wants Answers

2009-05-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

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A Bitter Fish

2009-05-24T17:08:00.001-07:00

SADISTIC SAINT band logo

2009-05-23T16:10:00.000-07:00

*Kaff KAF*
Hey Kids, I'm back.
I've been busy with lots of stupid little things but CHECK THIS NASTINESS I designed for a friend's metal band...

:)

2009-04-27T05:05:00.000-07:00

Designed a logo for a metal band today-- I should get that scanned and up here soon. Until then, choke on this!

Self Portrait Age 18

2009-04-17T06:20:00.000-07:00

POST PUNK DEATHROCK PARTY

2009-03-19T18:42:00.000-07:00

Hey goofs.
Screamwithme organized this show, there are a few bands and I'll be DJing, you should come on by if you live in Vancouver!
Lugz Coffee Lounge, Main + Broadway
Thursday March 26

Here's the poster I drew up last night:

COME ON DOWN!
LET'S START THIS TOWN ON FIRE!

RATT FINK

2009-03-10T17:42:00.000-07:00

ARR-AY-TEE-TEE EFF-AYE-EN-KAY
Tribute to the Big Daddy, Ed Roth. Father of bug-eyed drooling hot rod monster art, after Stanley Mouse.

BLACK BILE #4-- The whole comic.

2009-03-08T01:25:00.001-08:00

READ IT ONLINE YOU LAZY ASS!

HOPE IT WAS ALL YOU EVER DREAMED OF.
Soon I'll get a bank account and subsequently an etsy store or something like that. Til then, if you want to hold a copy of Black Bile in your filthy mitts, just hunt me down and pay me however much pocket change you think is fair, I'm like radiohead.
Or if you want a free subscription just send me your address!

Yeah yeah print is dead whatever.

Daily Onslaught

2009-03-04T13:38:00.000-08:00

WAKE UP. FACE LIFE.

NELSON

2009-02-25T19:21:00.000-08:00

NEW CARTOON!
made it in under a week for class hence the shitty backgrounds + any other excuse.
Based on a Based On A True Story comic.

TO MAKE A RAT

2009-02-16T04:51:00.000-08:00

Click this text to watch a rough stop motion cartoon about a skeleton.

New Painting

2009-02-15T20:48:00.000-08:00

Volcano Season

R.I.P. Lux Interior

2009-02-04T17:47:00.000-08:00

1946-2009

Roll on
Rock on
Raw Bones
Well I still got all the rhythm in these
Rockin' Bones

I wanna leave a happy memory
when I go, I wanna leave something
to let the whole world know,
that the rock n' roll daddy has
a done passed on, but my bones
will keep a rockin' long after I've gone

Well when I die don't you bury
me at all, Just nail my bones up on
the wall, Beneath these bones let
these words be seen, "This is the
bloody gears of a
boppin' machine"

And I worry about tomorrow just
thinkin' about tonight, My bones are
getting restless and I do it up right,
A few more times around a hardwood
floor, Before we turn off the lights and
close the door

Roll on
Rock on
Raw Bones
Well I still got all the rhythm in these
Rockin' Bones

BLACK BILE issue 4 OUT NOW!

2009-02-03T00:30:00.001-08:00

BUY IT! READ IT! MEMORIZE IT! MAKE YOUR FRIENDS DO THE SAME!

luv ya,

Rat

CRUSHED. KILLED. DESTROYED.

2009-01-20T10:21:00.001-08:00

R.I.P. Bob May
1939-2009
Lost in Space forevermore

DEVIANT ART

2008-12-08T18:03:00.000-08:00

Remembered I had an account here, I've been filling it up with a lot of stuff lately. Have a looksee!

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS AND EVERYTHING HERE

INK PRAKTIS

2008-12-07T23:58:00.000-08:00

Smearing and Smatterings

2008-12-04T02:11:00.000-08:00

Son

Song and Legend

The Spirit of Paxton

Hollow Hills

Influenza

Flesh is Never Stronger than Bone and Brain

2008-12-03T02:18:00.000-08:00

Cyanotype Series

Some Paintings

2008-12-03T01:04:00.000-08:00

Smoke Break

Eventuality

Feet

All Art Ever

Fragile

BLACK BILE issue 1 cover

2008-11-28T14:24:00.000-08:00

In Glorious COLOR

Some older Inkwork

2008-11-28T14:19:00.000-08:00

TUMORSKAPE

2008-11-28T12:34:00.000-08:00

Landscape which Lizzie hung up in Prague at Drop Dead festival 2007.

HE IS FRANZ KAFKA

2008-11-20T02:52:00.000-08:00

The Sudden Walk, two sentences by the above

When you seem finally to have made up your mind to spend the evening at home, when you have put on your smoking-jacket and settled down after supper with a light on the table to the piece of work or the game that usually occupies you ‘til bedtime, when the weather outside is so unpleasant that it makes staying at home the obvious thing to do, when by now you have been sitting quiet at the table for so long that to go out would cause general astonishment, when the staircase is anyhow dark now and the front door locked, and when despite all this you get to your feet in a sudden fit of restlessness, change your jacket, promptly reappear dressed for the street, explain that you have to go out and after a brief word of goodbye actually do so, estimating the degree of irritation you may have left behind from the force with which you slam the flat door, when you rediscover yourself down in the street, your limbs responding with particular agility to the unexpected freedom you have procured for them, when you feel all your decisiveness concentrated within you as a result of this one decisive act, when it strikes you with more than usual significance that your power to effect the swiftest of changes with ease and to cope with it outstrips your need to do so, and when in such mood you can go striding down the long streets, -- then for the space of that evening you have completely broken out of the ranks of your family, which veers off into the void, while you yourself, firm as can be, black with your sharpness of outline, slapping the back of your thighs, rise up to your true stature.

All this is intensified still further if at so late an hour of the evening you look up a friend to see how he is.

BLACK BILE Tarot Deck - I - The Magician

2008-11-20T02:42:00.000-08:00

A preview of Black Bile issue 3, out next week.

SON

2008-10-31T00:27:00.000-07:00

A flash cartoon I made a few years ago is now part of the curriculum at my high school's Theory of Knowledge class.

HA!

WATCH IT:

- SON - by M. Justice Stefaniuk

ZOMBIkE: RIDE OF THE LIVING TED

2008-10-13T19:08:00.000-07:00

Ted's bike that Jon and I started with acrylic paints and I finished with aerosol

as ever, KLIK FOR BIG

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

2008-10-12T20:25:00.001-07:00

BASED ON A TRUE STORY
are komix done 2004-2006
by M. Justice Stefaniuk
KLIK FOR BIG

VOICES

DOLPHIN STUDY

AIRPLANE

DAD EULOGY

BULL COUP COMEMMORATION

LIFE

CLOWN

COFFEE LIKE MY WOMEN

WISH UPON A SHOOTING STAR

COMING SOON TO A TORSO NEAR YOU!

2008-07-13T04:25:00.000-07:00