Always with the Valentines...

Of all the holidays...I sure seem to be getting a lot of "love" around this time of year.

I was invited to make a cut-out Valentines Card for Beatroute magazine...in the mag it is free, but if you can't find it there:

THEY ARE FOR SALE!

Eric on the wall...once again...

ZOMBIE VALENTINES
Opens First Thursday, February 1
Carbon Media Design
Art Central - Lower Level
100 - 7th Ave SW
Calgary, AB T2P 0W4

I'm happy to announce that I'm draggin my sorry butt into an art gallery after a hiatus of many years. My humble entry will grace the walls of the Carbon Media gallery alongside the likes of Calgary icons like Tom Bagley, Dean Stanton, Tim Huesken, Aubrey Hallis, Kipling West and more. I'll be there (maybe Teri too!) and would love to see you...c'mon down and enjoy Art Central's First Thursday goings-on as well.

Come on down!

Broken City Poster

...Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Our little betta, Beanish, has made it onto a gigposter...he's a STAR!

...Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

...Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Band names don't get much better than this. For those of you who aren't complete nerds, "Chimpan A to Chimpan Z" is a song lyric from the Simpsons episode featuring "Planet of the Apes: The Musical!". Planet of the Apes, of course, ends with Charleton Heston confronted by a Statue of Liberty half buried in the beach.

...Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Beatroute Magazine

2007 predictions on the local Calgary music scene.

Thanks to Jesse and Beatroute...

Science Matters

FFWD Weekly article by David Suzuki about Stephane Dion's leadership win and the environment management choices any future Canadian Prime Minister will face.

Happy Holidays

Thank you to everyone for all of your support this year, and I look forward to working with you in the new year...

Eric Dyck

Science Matters

FFWD Weekly article, written by David Suzuki about Canada's lack of international reaction towards the destructive practice of bottom-trawling.

The Ramblin' Ambassadors Poster

Inspired in part by The Ramblin' Ambassadors' post-Huevos Rancheros instrumental rock-noodling and in part by my fixation on this little artefact.

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Eight Emotional Caricatures

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An opportunity to create some fun images for a farewell to an agricultural group's outgoing president. Some of the emotions are inside jokes...but I was told this gentleman wears his emotions on his sleeve, so I didn't feel too bad going over the top. I enjoyed incorporating the beltbuckles as well as furthering my experimentations in background.

Thank you to Rose, Holly and Nigel...I understand that you spoke very highly of me! I really appreciate it...it's all who you know...

Broken City Poster

Trying to push my colour work again with this poster...


Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Bond Schmond

Wow. George Lazenby is quite the looker...I haven't enjoyed drawing someone that much in some time...ha! Maybe that's the magic the Bond franchise needs...take a really gorky looking actor and make them uber-cool! I dunno...

Thanks to Jesse and Beatroute...

The Perceptionists Poster

Def Jux heavy-hitters The Perceptionists are coming to Calgary...and I was tapped to do the poster. DJ Cosm opens the show, he hosts a great radio show on CJSW after an afternoon of reggae...check him out.

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

BOOMTOWN

An interesting article by Gillian Steward on the Alberta government's responsibility for the working conditions of labourers in Alberta's current economy.

Bowie at the Movies

An interesting subject...portraying David Bowie's many odd film roles. I enjoyed working from the photos, although Mr. Bowie has some very strange facial anatomy. A lot of sketch paper is getting recycled. I've looked online, and it doesn't look like other cartoonists/caricaturists haven't had much better success...from left to right: The Goblin King/Labyrinth (top), Andy Warhol/Basquiat, the alien guy/The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nikola Tesla/The Prestige and Pontius Pilate/The Last Temptation of Christ.

Thanks to Jesse and Beatroute.

Broken City Poster

Five Star Homeless is a bluegrass/rockabilly-ish country band...this was inspired by a goofy animation on their website of a sheriff's star on fire. This poster is not inked with crowquill pens as usual, but is my first poster drawn completely with markers and brush pens while sitting in a parked car (long story).

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Eric's Fall 2006 Postcard

Welcome! My Fall 2006 Postcards are arriving in mailboxes, slipping under doors and flapping underneath windshield-wipers(well, no...not really) near and far.

Thank you for visiting and I look forward to hearing from you.

My portfolio can also be seen at theispot.com.

Kid Koala

Kid Koala is coming back to Calgary. Kid Koala was my first Broken City poster, and I hope those crazy fans are going to like this one too. His new CD is called "Your Mom's Favorite DJ"...just so you know.

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Two very old men...

A lot of fun...both old men are from 2 found photographs...

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

The Cranston Foundation poster

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Science Matters

Illustration for a FFWD Weekly article written by David Suzuki, outlining federal Environmental Minister Rona Ambrose's delivery of a death sentence for the last 17 (17??) spotted owls in Canada.

It took a lot of sketches before I settled on this depressing little grouping of owls. Owls are usually great fun to draw, but not today.

Broken City Poster

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. I can also be found at the venerable gigposters.com...

Science Matters

Illustration for a FFWD Weekly article, written by David Suzuki, about the Canadian government's support of Canadian mining companies despite their dismal reputation overseas for human rights and environmental violations.

Light City Fiction poster

Oh, did I ever have fun doing this one!! I could draw bugs all day long...

Thanks to Tim and Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Science Matters

Illustration for a FFWD Weekly article, written by David Suzuki, about Canada lagging behind other countries in ceasing public use of specific pesticides with known human risks.

Hip n' Happenin' on THEiSPOT.com

I'm on THEiSPOT.com, and I'm as cozy as can be...Dave Tabler has been a great help, and I'm looking forward to the coming year together! Wish me luck!

I'm like that little dog in the Warner Brothers cartoons hopping along beside the giant bulldog convinced "Spike" and I are best-est of friends.