KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
After the Quake- J. Tenney
One Account of the Tōhoku Earthquake, 2011
At that time, we’d been sitting in front of the computer screens and TV’s for so long that it seemed as though our watching had something to do with all the horrible images being shown from up north; the thousands dead and the raging walls of ocean water carrying some nameless, burning wrath that was sure to swallow us all. It had been 3 days since the Tokai earthquake had ripped apart the northeast coast of Honshu, and it was decided that our futures were tied to the rest of the country’s.
“Ok,” I thought, “This is bigger than usual.” It was. I stood in the doorway to my back porch gripping the frame with my eyes closed as objects fell to the floor from my desk, in the kitchen and the top shelves of my closet. “It’s a dream,” I thought. “It’s got to be a dream.” I was afraid. I thought about the great Kobe earthquake of 95, being crushed, suffocation, burning, children screaming and everything else I’d ever paired with the idea of the big one. (more…)
The Slipping day-Clouds overhead: BASTARDS OF THE INFINITE #4
script by K. Hartrumart by J. Tenneyletters by Daniel Herbertson
Heaven last.
The Garden
The Brackish Heaves of Friendship!
Dreams of the Void
Four mighty hands have been keeping together what’s been falling apart. Palms quickly cupping the syrupy lumps of creative fetish that try to slump away from our creative goop! Goop piled high in some tantric mixture of two men’s’ brain juice and creativity.
Our imaginations have been hacking up love butter and blood, wincing our faces with tears and grimaces alike, watching each other birthing GODS, and evil women. The Infinite has been beckoning us like some alkaline serene, howling sweet epitaphs-join this loving daemon in the throes of God’s throat, oblivion! And alas, I fear we have listened once or twice to many.
The madness drove us to start fighting our hands against one another, wresting for more of the muculent body of work we hold together, testing the others hands by teasing to drop some of the precious viscous characters into the mire of ‘without you’. Each hand catching more of the love losing from the globules or the Infinite. And then the infinite spoke to us both in a dream, or were we awake? We will never know how it happened but suddenly the mind spires that we had built, standing tall to scrape the beautiful heavens that swarm around the artist. SUDDENLY we were both carrying the creative goop together again, it was as if a finger or two of our own had gotten lost in one of the infinite folds, and couldn’t the finger then feel anything other than the warm slimy pocket it had found in the mass we had made? As if minds would destroy the whole plasmid body for the right of one fold of flesh! Glory to the dream’s end! We now know that all the body of work is our body to finger folds and wrest slim-skuzzy balls. Yes happy bastard we have made friends again in the whole of the infinite. We will continue to break the rules of quadratic drama. And reining unicorns will tear with their horns the fabric of space and let in/out the benefactors of both universes. So sleep you no more, stay awake for this! Bastards of the Infinite IV has been packing its bags and getting ready to leave utero-state. Its fingers are uncurling and its eyes are swimming in birth juice. Its very lungs are drunk with love. It is drunk with love and wants to stagger, crawl, pull itself out of our conflagrating contours and then rest its heavy sweat laden head on our milky thighs. Brutus’s hulking arms reach for the ankles of our gams!
A Jewel in heaven is sparkling more softly tonight, as it needs not catch our eyes. We are set on holding it in our brow and feel the soul speak to us of wisdom and tact. Oh! And there is a small chance I might die tomorrow or be disfigured, so I want everyone to know that I want my comic books to go to Rylee and my SketchBooks and Flat file to go to Cameron, and then he can give with pertains to Kris. You guys are friends, so work that out. Scoot to Rylee for 300 to my brother and uh…my cloths to Cameron. And D-Flo gets all other stuff as he see it fit. Burn the Flag over my bed, I never wanted to see it stand when I couldn’t. I love most of you with most of my heart, and some just enough. But few of you had the best of me. The Infinite is an intimidating tall woman with great hair.
In this time of recession.
Greetings Komets! Shinning stars! So much has been going on in our worlds. I know that K has been stalking the great gods of awesome in Japan, Sadie Cakes has been fighting the powers that be with Crunchy Paul in ole NYC. And I’ve been, well being a madman in Western Carolina. Amidst my raves and quarrels and jealous pouting I have been somewhat productive.
I landed another comic gig for a fellow small press doing interior art for a ‘southern horror’ mini-series. I cant wait to see where that goes. I’ve been experimenting with color application as well I have been working on a Top Secret solo comic, featuring as assumed, some people I’ve been living with. Its going to be a what Starburst are to movie theatres. But have no fear I have been rearing to go on the upcoming ‘Komet, Space Adventure.’ And yes I’m still setting on finished pages for BOTI pt.IV. Soon!
Later this week I plan on having committed the time to scan/upload the BOTI pt.1 and some other vignettes from the now classic Matador Sequential Presents Issue One. And following the week after BOTI pt.II (my favorite!) as well I will be picking back up my old stand by ‘Girl & Dog Romance’ with a special Guest artist. I hope to upload this in the manor of with my ‘Stunning Spider-Girl’ was viewed.
So! Last night I went through my stacks of various works and uploaded some of my favorite of those into my galleries sections here in the site. 
Please take a look at that. And low if it isn’t the seed that sprouted I came across the original drawing of ‘The Matador’, it was a cover concept sketch that sparked (Kris’s) idea for the first ‘Matador’ story that was featured in MSP#1. Of course when I drew the story I opted for another cover illustration since this original concept no longer fit the script. However I love this concept and I decided to give it full justice last night, thus enjoy!
I believe this will be a milestone as I think I have come up with yet another logo design. In other news I am doing some conceptual work for a series of large pieces that I intend to FINALLY have shown for material gain at a local coffee shop or salon. Some of the concepts I’m working with are among the new color gallery images. I’m not saying which ones they are yet. So many things running circles in my mind these days. That’s all for now I hope you all continue to race fevered threw the cosmos, spiralling life and creation over ever celestial body you pass!
Art – Bastards of the Infinite
Some original Bastards of the infinite work by J. Tenney, circa 2007
Matador Sequential Presents #3
This work was a one the original ideas we had for Edward and his training. The scene is fleshed out in Bastards #3, set to hit the web and local shops in mid June.
Bastards T-shirt design