Finished inks for an educational tool for a Canadian military museum's propaganda literacy program. Based on "The Great Whites": paper-ban era WW2 comics in Canada...especially Leo Bachle's over-the-top patriotic bare-knuckle adventures of Johnny Canuck.

I also love the line and brushwork in Nelvana of the North, and oddities like the Penguin (a crime-fighting /zoot-suit wearing detective in a penguin mask...for some reason).


Dialogue and text will be added by the program participants.

Sketches from this project can be seen on my sketchblog.

FFWD illo

A back-to-University article on good eating habits for students. Mmmm...smoothies...I think I've got some frozen mango in the fridge...whrrrrrrrrr

FFWD illo

FFWD article on the historical designation of the Rideau Canal. I found the sad ending to the Canal's (and Ottawa's) British creator rather amusing, as well as the decidely NON-military role the Canal plays in daily Ottawa life. The numerous dead Irish & French-Canadian labourers likely did not really find him tragically amusing, but it made for a good drawing.

FFWD Cover

Cover for FFWD magazine...article on oil development at CFB Suffield.
Sketches can be seen here...

Tim & Tara

A wedding present for the spookiest couple I know...congratulations, Tim!

Broken City Poster

A little hiatus and I'm back at the drawing board...here's a poster I forgot to post from a few weeks back. New work soon!

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

Broken City Poster

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

Rings, Roars & Roustabouts

A great title for a kids' play being put on by Wagonstage.

The client had been looking for something in the spirit of vintage turn-of-the-century circus posters. Those posters are a little stiff and awkward for a warm and friendly kids poster, so I energized the composition a little. I sure like that tight-rope walking elephant...hee hee...

Broken City Poster

Sweetheart poster...Thanks to Broken City. You can also visit me at gigposters.com...

Gigposters.com Card Deck #3

Clay's Gigposters.com 3rd Annual Card Deck is for sale!

Music, Posters and...toques? Support one of the pillars of the "interwebs" today.

The card deck was featured on Drawn!, which is as close as I have gotten to being featured on the premiere Cartooning and Illustration Blog...I'll take it!

Shavuot Maze

Holiday game for Tzivos Hashem's KIDS Magazine in New York for the Shavuot holiday. A lot of work to layout but fun to fill with details and colour. 49 boxes were needed for the 49 days of the holiday, but I felt mazes with deadends and wrong-ways are a bit negative...which this holiday is not. I've designed the maze to use all 49 boxes (to get the flower bunches, of course!) and still be able to get back on track to the finish line!

Here's a close-up:

Broken City Poster

Pretty fun sounding group, some nice songwriting too.

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

Broken City Poster

Some great tunes from these guys...may have to check them out! Teri helped with some tattoo and other good suggestions of poor choices. Sorry I left out the pet skunk...sorry babe!

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

Movie poster...sort of...

Poster for the new movie nights at Broken City. Thanks to Laurie Fuhr...

Broken City Poster

Lee Rocker poster...Feel free to check out the process post on my sketchblog.


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

Gigposters.com Card Deck #3

An annual fundraising event at gigposters.com...I am very happy to have been asked to contribute to the 3rd annual Gigposters.com Playing Card Deck. I am in the company of some incredible artists, and look forward to the final deck being available. Decks will be for sale through gigposters.com sometime in March...

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...