George WebberArtist - Cartoonist - Illustrator

5FINITY HIGH FIVE AWARD 

Well I just about pooped my pants last night when I got the email telling me I had won a place in the 5FINITY Second Annual High Five Awards as "Most Original Artist" !

I don't win many Awards, mostly due to not trying out for awards or contest, so winning an award based on Fan & Dealer choice without knowing I was even up for it, is PRETTY FREAKIN' AWESOME

Thanks to everyone voted and thanks to all the hot babes I had to draw to get this award and thanks to all the little people (muchkins, smurfs, wee folks, etc) I crushed along the way to get here.

 From 5FINITY:

"As voted on by a core group of dealers and fans:

Favorite Artist (Body of Work) :  Mark Bloodworth

Runner-ups : Benjamin Glendenning, Patrick Finch, Axebone, Danielle Soloud

Favorite Artist (Specific Release) :  Dean Yeagle (Manga Mandy)

Most Collectible Artist :  Katie Cook

Most Original Artist : George Webber

100% Effort Every Time Award : Benjamin Glendenning

Each winner will receive a cool award and recognition in an ad in an upcoming Non-Sport Update magazine.

Thank you to all of the wonderful artists we are blessed to work with here at 5FINITY! Here's to a great 2012! "

SO TAKE THAT 2011 !

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Space Scooter Girl Saves Xmas - Comic 

Ok, first a little quick background info on this.  Originally this was going to be part of a little anthology book a few of us wanted to put together for Christmas ... well, best layed plans and all that jazz.

Bottom line, book didn't happen but at least I got my short story done.

The art could be cleaner, but drawing 5 x 8 inch pages in scale on crappy paper at midnight over three days, well it kinda limits the results, but over all I came out pretty good. 

First image is the character designs, originally I had no idea what I was going to write or draw for my story, all I knew was I wanted something cute, sexy and "PG" enough to not put off parents at the Xmas CAM-JAM (Decembers Cartoon Art Museum's artist Jam).

Anyway I hope you'll all enjoy this silly short story.

-gWebber

Thanks for giving Space Scooter Girl saves Xmas a read,

Happy Holidays to you all !

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  Lady Death Sketch Card Set for 5FINITY

I've been insanely busy the last few months with trying to get my Pirate Fairies of the 8th Sea comic finished for WonderCon and a zillion things in my personal life as well.

So I haven't posted as much new art and stuff as I should have here on the NCC Blog.  Well in an attempt to fix that a little bit I now present ... 

A sampler card from the Lady Death Sketch Card Set from 5FINITY Productions.  I'm not sure of the release date but you guys can look it up on the 5FINITY web site (June, July?)  And take a look at the artist list too, there's going to be some great cards given the people working on it.

Plus I can't tell you what a great thrill it was to have the creator of Lady Death, Brian Pulido personally look at and approve my cards for the set. 

A bit of a FANBOY moment on my part to be sure.

Oh, also this Lady Death Sketch Card was featured in my video on the Sketch Card Process on YouTube, you can see the video and others here > 

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  It's FIXED !

Just spent the better part of the night fixing the NoCashComics Store Pages.

So now you can buy my books, prints and art (as soon as I post more items). All of my books are up though, so you can get a copy of my latest book Pirate Fairies of the 8th Sea while you can!

Pirate Fairies sold like hotcakes at WonderCon and I'm only printing a limited number of them before I start working on issue 2 !

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Something New

So I'm trying a little something new.

I'm in the process of changing the look and navigation of the site in an attempt to make it less visually cluttered and (I hope) more cell phone and tablet friendly as well.

Sadly CSS Coding isn't one of my strong suits, so expect some bumps along the way, I'll try to make it as painless as I can.

To start you'll see I've put up the NoCashComics Blog as the "Home" page. I'm hoping that this way I can keep the site's front page content a little more fresh and interesting, plus quicker and easier for my readers to find the good stuff .

I'm also currently in the process of writing a bunch of new articles that I'm pretty sure will be of interest to my fellow artist, cartoonist and hopefully to my fans too.

So stick around and see how it goes

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IT'S OFFICIAL !

I'll have my latest book TIKI TALES! at ZineFest (for sale here in NCC book store).

I'll also have a table at ZineFest San Francisco - September 4th & 5th

for more info about ZineFest go here!

Also, I was recently interviewed by Marc at Non Sport Trading. He's a nice fellow that enjoys following and writing about Non-Sports related collector, trading and Sketch cards. He also does news and video reviews on cards and ofther related stuff, so check him out. Till then click to read the interview here!

Marc de Groot

NonSportTrading.com

Facebook/NonSportTrading

Twitter.com/nonSportTrading

And last but not least, for a little sexy something...
Here's a couple of pinup girl cards I did for 5finity featuring my lovely friend Natasha Yi
-- Click to View ! you know you want to! (no nudity)

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BIKER Magazine & Me 

One day some time ago I sent a few cartoons, illustrations and drawings along with a cover letter to the Editor of BIKER Magazine that literally said (among other things) "You don't have the balls to publish MY art in your magazine".

While I don't generally recommend writing cover letters to Editors that say that sort of thing, I guess the Editor liked my nerve or the cartoons because not long after that he sent me my first assignment.

It was for a two part story starting in the November 2001 issue # 197 of BIKER magazine and finishing in the December issue # 198 of BIKER magazine.

He wanted some cartoony illustrations for a story called O' Tannenbaum about a bunch of misfit bikers selling Xmas Trees in a rather questionable manner, but eventually doing a good deed for some people much less fortunate than even them.

Now, I've loved big nasty chopper motorcycles and hot rod cars ever since I saw a photo of some Hell's Angels with a big old Panhead Harley in LIFE magazine back in the 60's.

As a kid that photo had an impact and that became the life I wanted.

To that end I spent plenty of time reading Hot Rod Magazine,  and any bike or hot rod magazine I could get my hands on back in those days.

I'd go to the World of Wheels car shows and drool over every crazy custom car and bike guys like Ed Big Daddy Roth and George Barris built during the 60's glory days of custom cars ... and of course I'd draw cars bikes and skulls all the time.

So the just idea of getting published in BIKER magazine was a big thrill for me.

Well now it's 2010 and the June 2010 issue # 268 of Biker Magazine will be the 60 th ! issue that I've done either a story illustration or a cartoon in.

Nine years later and it still gives me a thrill to see my work in printed in BIKER every single time.

Since that first assignment back in 2001, I've had my cartoons and illustrations published in almost all of my favorite magazines.

I've done cartoons and story illustrations for Easyriders, BIKER, V-Twin, Rebel Rodz and half a dozen other hot rod, motorcycle or tattoo magazines.

Not too shabby for a kid whose Dad once said "You'll never be an artist; nobody wants drawings of skulls and motorcycles".

I do have to admit though,  he was right when he said I'd never get rich as an artist, but at least I can say I like what I do and there are people out there that like what I do too.

I may not have any money ... but I'm rich.

So a special thanks to all my friends at Paisano Publications, Easyriders, BIKER, V-Twin and Rebel Rodz magazines and to ALL the people out there that love crazy hot rods, chopper motorcycles and SKULLS!

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3rd Annual SKETCH CARD BENEFIT AUCTION & GALLERY SHOW for the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY

I just finished up this five card set for the Comics 2 Games annual SKETCH CARD GALLERY SHOW & Benefit Auction for American Cancer Society.

This is a great event that I've tried to be a part of every year for the last three years, even though I can't be there in person.  I also would like to encourage other comics artist to be a part of it too, if not this year, than next year.

Last year alone the auction raised over six thousand dollars and had a great lineup of sketch cards from dozens of artist, from big name artist to little guys like me. 

The auction of the cards will end on May 22, 2010. The Comics for Cures website, www.comicsforcures.com, will provide a link to the auction on eBay the week before.

Here's the Official Press Release

George Webber / NoCashComics.com contributes to Blue Line Pro Sketch Card Event for Cancer 2010

Some people talk about doing something to help; others actually take steps to make it a reality. And with a little help, big things can happen.

Such is the case with the Blue Line Pro Sketch Card Event Cancer, an annual auction that benefits Relay for Life.

Over the past two years, the event has pulled in over $15,000 as hundreds of artists mostly from the comics industry have donated their talents and contributed baseball card-sized pieces of artwork for auction.

In 2008, Robert W. Hickey, founder of Blue Line Pro, started the Event and dedicated it to his wife’s recent bout with cancer. Blue Line Pro, a leading producer of comic book paper products, also make and distribute sketch cards, which are sent out to artists to produce small pieces of artwork.

Past contributors have included some of the comic book industry’s leading professionals including: David Mack, Steve Rude, Dick Giordano, Joe Staton, Todd Nauck, Jimmy Palmiotti, Jim Valentino, Neil Vokes, Don Perlin, David Michael Beck, and hundreds of others.

The auction this year promises to include some of the same as well as some new faces.  George Webber is one of those individuals.

The auction of the cards will end on May 22, 2010. The Comics for Cures website, www.comicsforcures.com, will provide a link to the auction on eBay the week before.

Proceeds will go to:

The AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY.

Location: Comics 2 Games, 8470 US 42., Florence, KY 41042 phone: 859-647-7568.

For more information about participating or attending the event

email: Sketchcards@bluelinepro.com or call 859-282-0096.

Sponsors:

BLUELINEPRO.COM - COMICSXP.COM - SKETCHMAGAZINE.NET

Art by gWebber, not to be used without permission.

Characters are: Black Widow, Black Canary, Wonder Woman, Vampirella & Poison Ivy

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Cartoon for Pimpartworks.com

 Here's a cartoon I did recently for PimpArtworks.com , it's part of a promo mailing package they're going to send out to ... um, somebody, everybody, I'm not sure really, but it's got stickers and info and stuff so it'll be pretty cool.

The web site itself  is pretty neat, artist specializing in Urban Art or Graffiti (and I guess other styles too)  can post artworks and the artist can sell people prints of the art in assorted sizes.

I have an account there ( See gWebber Prints at Pimpartworks Account ) and got a Canvas print not long ago, colors and print quality is very good.

THIS CARTOON IS PROPERTY OF PIMPARTWORKS.COM AND IS NOT FOR PUBLIC USE.

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Hey Mom! am I cool yet ?!?

Issue number #16 of Rebel Rodz Magazine (2 / 2010) features an article about ME ! and is on news stands now ... so run out and get your copy and read all about the one and only me,  gWebber !!! 

Ya, ya, I know I ain't all that great to read about, but the magazine is pretty cool even if they did have to resort to writing about me. Heck ! I even got my name on the cover !!!!!!!!! How cool is that (Mom will be so proud).

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