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.

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!!

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!

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!

DEAD BLOG

Welcome to my dead blog! Yes, the once-living blog that I used to update at least once a week with happy cartoon fun is now a MySpace-esque wasteland of forgotten internet assortments. This is all in part due to myself being one of two things: too busy with work/interviews for new jobs/making videos/just going out and being social, and too lazy to just sit down and update this thing.

But while I have been drawing, it's all been secret stuff that I cannot share at this time. Most of these secret drawings are all for a huge, HUGE project coming soon that is top secret right now. I think the only thing I can show from that is possibly this:

Perhaps even that gives too much away. And two other little drawings have been kept a secret up until right now. Allow me to present them... now!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOLLY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACH!!!

Zach's birthday was the 15th, and Molly's is today! So if you haven't yet wished either of them a happy one, go do it!! GO!

For those who don't know yet, I recently bought a new car!! Her name is Phoebe, the little blue 2010 Ford Mustang. She is ACTUALLY this bright of a blue! So vintage-y and cooool.

I'm not afraid to say this about my drawing: a million times cuter and more appealing than anything from Pixar's CARS, am I right?

Playing around with this in Photoshop afterwards, I thought it looked cool when I got rid of the outlines and played with the shading a little.. Kind of looked more 50's style, maybe ever Mary Blair-esque, which is pretty much the initial design I was going for in the first place. Phoebe is very Susie the Little Blue Coupe in her own right.

That's about all for now! If you're still actually following this blog after such a long time that it has been neglected by me, you have my utmost surprise and thanks. And I guess if you actually want to follow me and see what my life is like beyond cartoons, my Tumblr is right here.

Y'know. If you're into that sort of thing. Bye!

BEST BIRTHDAY EVER?

:)

LYFE IN 2010

I've been working almost EVERY NIGHT lately! I'm so busy being tired from work and social with friends that drawing has been a little on the backburner lately. But I am forcing myself to come back online for a moment and share my latest stuff with you nice people!

Scribble and Skarfy appear in a poster you might hang in a guidance counselor's office. Rub their bellies for good fortune!

(the ink, and pre-textured color)

BIG NEWS!

I'm having a really great time drawing Scribble and Skarfy lately, but I think that simple one-piece drawings (like the one above) aren't enough for them. So I've decided that I'm honestly and truthfully going to start doing Hipstergirls webcomics. Yay!!

I've come up with a little over a dozen ideas for strips so far, and I'm getting more all the time. It'll be a while before the comics debut, but trust me when I say that you won't wanna miss 'em!

Remember the girls' new friend Jen that I talked about in the last post? Well since then I've given her a bit of a visual overhaul, just like I was planning to. Lots of minor changes, but they all add up to a character design that I'm now much more satisfied with.

Below is a SUPER quick crapdoodle of all three girls, just for height comparisons.

Here's something funny-
I was looking through my files and found a Jo the Faux comic I made for Ben in April 2009 that I completely forgot to ever post up here. Oh well, 10 months late is better than nothing. Yes, that is Ben and me as his characters in the last panel!

Lastly, here's my awesome pals Mariella and Rev. Alex Italics! All these years and I finally get around to drawing them together. Took me long enough!

CARTOONS for $CASH$!!

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