Thursday, December 23, 2010

It's Chrimbus!

Have a happy one, everybody. :)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

HAPPY HALLOWEENIE!

Beware of
HITCHHIKING GHOSTS!!!!!!!!!!!


Wednesday, September 15, 2010

SKETCHIES AND PUPPIES AND BIRTHDAY CAKE

Summer's (finally) winding down, and here are more gifts and fun stuff that came out of it!

Here is the birthday card I drew for the dynamic bros. themselves, Ben and Scott!


21 years old doesn't mean too much in Canada because I think by 18 or 19 you can do pretty much all the cool stuff you want there. But it does mean that at least you guys can finally go grab a drink with us when you come to the States to visit!


Next is a drawing for my dear crafty friend Jessica, and her brand new dogtography business!!!! You seriously need to check out some of her pup pics, they are to die for. This drawing was tons of fun to do and gave me a chance to visit some of the great cartoon dogs of our time. There's quite a range of stars here: (L-R) John K's Ren Höek, Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound, Charles Schultz's Snoopy, Nick Park's Gromit, Disney's Georgette, and Tex Avery's Droopy.


Yay!! It's my Mariella! She can cook the most amazing-looking bowl of noodles with broccoli or tofu scramble that you've ever seen. "WE WANT NOOOODLE"


Here's a commission for Trevor! He wanted my character Kiwi taking a nice big leak on Brian from The Family Guy. Man, that show has the flattest character designs in animation history! I thought I'd take it pretty far and make my drawing of Brian as flat and awkward as humanly possible. Funny enough, it still doesn't look that far off from the real thing.


My wonderful friends Cheyenne and Anna visited from Canada over the summer and we had a huge fun-filled day in Hollyweird! Shopping, Daikoku ramen, and sharing a bottle of gin in a hot tub is indeed my idea of a great time. I doodled this in Cheyenne's sketchbook while out at lunch, and she was sweet enough to pose for the cutest picture with it! Hooray!




Well, the biggest surprise of this summer has been saved for last. What's been going on with me behind the scenes these past few months? Hmmmmm....




Friday, July 23, 2010

WELCOME TO MY WORLD

Yes, secret projects that I have been hard at work on with some friends are still under way.. which means it's still just a little longer of a wait before I can reveal to everyone what the big honkin' deal is.
I don't want my blog to die in the meantime, so until I can let the cat out of the bag I'm gonna try to do some fun filler posts to keep you all entertained. Before I just go ahead and steal Zach's idea for a cool blog post, I asked him permission to do this first! I just thought it was a really awesome idea for a blog entry, so without further ado, maybe you'd like to see the wonders and forbidden truths of... MY BEDROOM!

This is the top of the staircase which my bedroom is right by. You'll notice lots of awesome art and nifty toys. Be prepared to see a LOT more.

To begin the tour, here's a shot of the whole room. After that, let's turn slightly to the right.

This is the top of my computer desk. Yes those are bottles of Moxie.

My computer station. This is where the magic happens. And by magic, I mean the boring acts of drawing my cartoons, editing my short films, and much useless internet surfing.

Slightly above the desk I have lots of wonderful art by friends! I have a crapload of art from my pals Kali, Ben and Shawn Dickinson scattered all over the place. I just love their stuff. Friends = good.

To the left of my computer desk is my world-famous DVD collection. Many people have told me that my DVD collection is the biggest and best they've seen. These shelves couldn't fit into the entire photo, plus they are only my live-action movies... the TV show DVDs and animated features DVDs are located elsewhere!

Miss Boop is here to escort you towards the rest of the tour. The rows and columns of DVDs under my TV are my animated features collection.

Above my TV are some more earthly treasures! This is a tiny portable TV that is at the very youngest 20 years old. It just looks so cool and futuristic/retro. I found it while thrifting at Savers. Also on the wall is Skadi, and various presents from friends like Ben, Katie Rice, Miss Withers and Kyle Carrozza!

Here is my HUGE Edie piece, and on my closet door the very early makings of a pin/button/badge collection. I only started it recently so this corkboard is gonna be massive as time goes on. Do you see Lady Gaga hiding?

More lovely art on the wall by the closet and window. Inside the closet are boring clothes and way too much video equipment and props so I won't bore you with that!

Great Marlo art and actress heroes of mine.

This picture of Bill Murray is the first thing I see when I wake up every day.

Lots of Shawn art, toys, Alice teacups, Comic-Con film festival award.. and these rows of DVDs are my collections of TV series.

Hello lamp.

More great art. Presidents toys. My Bugs Bunny doll I've had since the day I was born. He's only 25 1/2 years old!

Boooooooks books books.

And back around to where we came in, the back of my bedroom door. Amazing art by John K and Kali up top, and don't forget.. SPAGETT!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Tune in for my next fun filler post: NICO'S TOP 20 FAVORITE MOVIES.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

GOLDEN APPLE AFTERMATH

Thanks to everyone who visited our booth. Much fun was had!










If all that wasn't cool enough, Golden Apple Comics said they want us to come back! They want us to have a booth on a Sunday morning/afternoon once a month. Score!!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

COME SEE NICO CARTOONS AT GOLDEN APPLE!

THIS SUNDAY,
JUNE 6TH IN HOLLYWOOD!

If you live in LA, come visit me and a few of my friends at Golden Apple Comics this weekend! We're having a booth where we'll be selling artwork and various goodies, drawing caricatures, rubbing elbows, and goofing off with fellow cartoon lovers and comic book shoppers.

You'll also get to meet Scribble and Skarfy!!!


It's all happening from 11am to 3pm. It's going to be a load of fun, so come on down and hang out!

If you can't make it but still want some art from me, I am happily taking cartoon commissions of all kinds right now. Email me at colaleo(at)gmail(dot)com and let's talk, I'd be glad to hear from you!


Sunday, May 23, 2010

OH, BLOG!

Hello my old friend. I'm sorry I'm still abusing you, and having you stuck sitting in the dark lumpy backseat, while everything else that's going on in my life is relaxing up front in the captain's chair with me. It won't be this way forever, I promise!

And while the truth is that I'm drawing a bunch lately, unfortunately it's still all things that cannot be shown at this time. Top secret stuff! Stuff that's coming and will be announced very, very soon. So in the meantime, here I go making a "cheater" post with other people's work! Here is artwork from all my wonderful pals who have drawn Scribble and Skarfy fanart for me since I created them. I guess a post of some kind is better than nothing at all, and I just want a place to put them all so there is easy access and reference to these gems. Enjoy!

Shawn Dickinson


Kali Fontecchio


Benjamin Anders


Tara Billinger


Zach Bellissimo


Scott Forbes


Jenny Colaleo


Cheyenne Hope Curtis


Amir Avni


Katie Rice


Zoë Moss


Callie Gibbons


Tekena Travis


John Kricfalusi



I am completely undeserving of love and hard work of this caliber. Thank you ALL for drawing these for me, they are incredible and so appreciated. Scribble and Skarfy say thanks too, they are so flattered! :)

(pictured L-R: Mariella Morton, Jenny Colaleo)

It'll be a little while until next time, as soon as I can draw stuff that can actually be shared. Prepare for a BIG announcement in the next post!