Nkt Notoni plays Casual 6 Live at CPA Fi-Sud Firenze

This is a live performance from 2008, I think. Solo guitar. Opening for Jealousy Party. My first try with iMovie. Just a bunch of my drawings and some of my pictures thrown together. Still waiting for my middle finger to heal and to be able to play again. Maybe this is a good time to look back and polish the old audio archives. 

In the neighborhood

Here it is, the completed version of this little walk through home sweet home. Characters are real, names have been changed to protect the innocent. Click on the image to get full-resolution view.

I went for a walk today. Page 26

Here's the following page from my discarded epic. Brush and grey markers. Further down and down we go. Miles and miles beneath the surface of Providence RI.

I Went for a Walk Today.

A page from the comic story that broke me: "I Went for a Walk Today". I worked on it on and off for years. Started in Providence RI, continued in Athens GA and then in Long Island. Then at about 35 pages long it struck me: the story, improvised on a loose idea was not worth the effort, the artwork had gotten better through the years so that the first 10 pages would need redrawing. And most of the lettering needed fixing. And I also understood that working on a comic book story it's not like working on a novel, where you can delete a phrase here or there, get rid of a paragraph or a chapter; with comics the editing options - on a macro scale - are very limited.
    The story had some cool elements, though. It was set in Providence in the '90s, it featured some of my favorite hang outs, the Safari Lounge, Fort Thunder and a few of those crazy mills where music was played, and also some of my favorite local bands, among which the wonderful Manbeard. It -inevitably - had some nods to Lovecraft, a crazy secret cult, giant crab-creatures and a statue of Sun Ra. I put a lot of stuff in it that I was registering while living in my beloved/hated Providence. For some reason the plot also involved Ron Jeremy. I don't know why. One of the reasons why in the end I decided to put this baby to sleep, I guess.
      Let me know if you want to see more. There's some good stuff in there somewhere.

Admiring the master: Robert William's "Diamond in a Goat's Ass"

No drawings yet. Too busy with work. But here's a picture of myself admiring the always mind blowing art of master Robert Williams. Tony Shafrazy Galley in downtown Manhattan gallery winter 2009. The complete title of this work is Diamond in a Goat's Ass: A Lyrically Poetic Euphemism for Pretension. Photo (and thumb) by Karen. You can get Robert Williams' latest book, including pics of the beautiful sculpture above, here: http://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Realism-Hypothetical-Robert-Williams/dp/1606992996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327160428&sr=8-1

Christmas with Frank

Digital sketchbook

More freehand with tablet.

More tablet fun with the Righteous Sisters

Drawing with tablet. Not as easy as it first seemed and those points sure wear off fast! But here's the Righteous Sister for y'all anyway.

More tablet fun

Finally the thrill of flying! More experiments with the tablet.

Minaccia Aliena!

Fun with a Wacom tablet. Almost like inking with brushes but less sexy.

The whole truth about Robert Johnson!

An oldie. Brush and photoshop grays. This actually got published on the Falgpole, the free paper of beautiful Athens, Georgia, back in the times when I was living behind the magnolia curtain. I never drew the story about Gene Vincent, but I might sometime...

I want to make love to you

Drawn on the old kitchen table in Columbus Ohio.

BURP REVUE ad by Pogo-Nikt

An e-flyer advertising an event organized by Burp Enterprise. Drawn by the mighty Mat Pogo and myself (but Pogo did most of the work) a couple of winters ago in sunny Berlin. Nicotina King of Casuals is yours truly. Check some more of Pogo's art here: http://pasarancomix.tumblr.com/ 

Now, wouldn't it be nice if all your friends could be as cool as Frank?

Having fun with a cheap needle point gel pen.

Never Again

The Joy of Gardening

Kefalonia, a nice place to pretend you're fishing.

From the sketchbook.

The Legs perform Casual 4 in Providence RI

That's what I've been doing instead of drawing comics. Honky tonkin' with a bunch of questionable characters. Great musicians, though. Nikt on guitar, Chris on Bass, Matt on drums. We perform an old composition of mine called Casual 4.

Anf!

 No drawings in a while. I've been busy with work and music. Soon something on my Providence RI frolics. For now a nice pagan priest with artichoke on his head.

Otto Von Plume ep. 2

More Baron. More dastardly deeds. I just bought this crazy Sumo Ink. Soooooo smooth, very thin, very sexy.

Ach! A new dastardly und unlikable character on Planetoids. Meet Baron Otto Von Plume

Baron Otto is up to his old tricks. How will it end this time? Keep reading! Click on the image to read it in a comfortable big format.

Learn Italian with Planetoids. Lesson 1 - The basics.

Mercato Centrale!

Basta avere i soldi.

ZORRO! ZORRO! ZORRO! (Zorro!)

Here's Zorro. He's a drunk. Brush and scratchy quill, and a touch of cheap Photoshop grays.

Mercato Centrale 1

These are a few strips I drew for the "Mercato Centrale" album by the Burp Enterprise band Jealousy Party. The album was supposed to come with a booklet containing a collective story drawn by the Burp collective, but the project was shelved. I drew about four strips, here are the first 2. The album "Mercato Centrale" is still coming out soon though! For more info check the Jealousy Party page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/JEALOUSY-PARTY/103984493033225
or the Burp Publications site in the link section on the right. The Mercato centrale in the second strip is indeed the one in the center of Florence in Italy, a cool place to buy vegetables, drink Aperol for breakfast, and look at entrails of various slain animals.

Don't be that way, Pozzo

One from the sketchbook. Marker and Photoshop. Peter Pozzo is sensitive.

Eugene Chadbourne Sushi

Wow! This is old stuff folks! I drew this in 1997 while living in sweet Charlottesville, Virginia. I organized the show for Eugene and opened for him with a Virginian version of my band Nicotina and the Legs. We played in the basement of a sushi restaurant called Tokio Rose. Eugene showed up with his Insect and Western Party trio, played a fantastic show (including some beautiflu Satie covers for deranged banjo), and then stayed over at my place and read comics all night long. If you don't know Eugene Chadbourne's music and you are a daring listener you owe it to yourself to discover one of the most important American guitarsts and composers of the last four decades. Here's his website: www.eugenechadbourne.com

From the sketchbook

One from the sketchbook.

The Poet's Corner.

You haven't heard the last from poet Ezio Meloni. He's got tons of sonnets and canzoni for you.

DAN DYNAMO - Epilogue!

All right, this is it. Now you can go back and read the whole story in sequence. Am I done with Dynamo? I don't think so. As usual, click on the image to see it its proper format.

DEAR HEARTS website

Also don't forget to check the website of my band DEAR HEARTS, the link is on the top right of this page. There's music, pics and a bunch of other stuff. We play in and around Brooklyn a lot so come check us out.I drew this in 2007(!) with a snazzy Sabre Kolinski brush.

Finnegan's Mare

Still behind with real work, the one that brings home Thai Chips and expensive Tuscan wines. So, in the meantime here's something form the vault.  This was done with a Pentel gel pen, while the grey tones are courtesy Prismacolor markers. Hope you enjoy.