Word Hoard

William S. Burroughs, accosted by black meat centipedes, the ever-patient mugwump and the fires of his own hellish appetites, takes us through his junk sick writing process.

Starting a Webcomic!

It's funny. I came to art school so that I could become better at making comics, and while that may have happened, the general attitude toward comics and most other forms of representative or symbolic art at the particular institution I'm convocating from are derisively called "illustration" with the connotation that illustration and art are two strictly separate and mutually exclusive domains, with illustration always being treated as far, far below art in terms of significance, value, relevence and worth. As a result, few classes really helped me directly get better at the actual 'construction' and codified visual vocabulary of comics, which is actually something I was hoping to chiefly work on, and in all but a couple of classes, comics were discouraged or scoffed at enough that I eventually continued to work on comics alongside school-related works, turning out a lot of longer stories and to-be-continueds, but I had lost touch with the simple raw zen-like completeness of the one-page comic strip. And so, this week I have been spurred to action and have been drawing a lot more comic strips than ever before. They kick ass, so I decided to start a webcomic.
Presenting: NUTRIENTS
I'm going with tumblr for ease of sharing the comics, and this blog will still be updated with comix, drawings, and all the other vitriol and inanity you've learned to accept from this website.

A Love Story

M. Justice Stefaniuk 2012

DARKNESS MEETS CREATIVITY March 15 at Guilt & Co.

The poster I made for an art show me and some other fine fiends are in.. If you're in Vancouver I DO urge you to attend!

Mouse Flower

This is a plan I'm working on- to be able to grow a floral garden inside the corpses of beloved pets.
I have three rats in the freezer, and have a dead mouse that I'm going to grow a flower in as a test.

Dumb and Dumber

Guess what I watched the other night.

Huhuh huh huhuhuh huhhuh heheh mheh mhehehmm

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!

Laddys and genks its the on the only BAR SIMON

Jacked In

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?"

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?

Hypothetical XIII Stoleti Gig Poster

This Band Rules

"You Should Work at Disney!"

NEKRO-LOGGER for GHPR fest!

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

ZING!

Based On A True Story: Abandoned Strollers

PRIEST OF DECAY AND RENEWAL

You gon get eated by woims

Seven Deadly Sins

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

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

Heathen Deity

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.