I recently did my second illustration for Yell! Magazine regarding the current Twitter banter between Ariel Celeste and Chael Sonnon and am really looking forward to doing many more.

Hopefully I can convince them to have me make something for the upcoming Lesnar vs. Overeem bout for UFC 141. If anyone is gonna draw these monsters duking it out it might as well be me

The fine folks at Yell! Magazine also were kind enough to review some of my comics as well and NoFaceNorm’s write up is extremely well done and I can’t thank them enough. You can read the whole article here and I really enjoyed reading it – and not only just because it is all about me.

“As a freelance artist, Bryan G. Brown definitely has the boldness to do what he loves, and bring his passion to like-minded people. To me, that alone, makes him worth rooting for.”

See? I can’t pay someone to write up stuff that sounds this good!

Monsters of MMA #2 is complete and off to the printers just in time for Halloween. Really looking forward to working on some new things including some t shirt designs for Balance Studios, First Fight #3, and some other crap I’ll be posting about in the near future.

 I’ll be going on MMA Insight tonight around 9:45 EST where you can call in at or check out the site at http://www.HitTheRopes.com/HTRRadio or you can call in at 786-375-8082 by phone or through Skype. We’ll be discussing the recent UFC 137 event, as well as some discussion there has been in regards to  the “first mma comic book”.

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I’ve been meaning to post this but better late than never – right before SPX I did a couple interviews and here’s two in particular that I had a great time doing:

Many thanks to Colin and Justin for including me in their series of interviews at SPX which I exhibited at for the first time this year. You can check out my interview with them and several other awesome artists that are definitely worth checking out.

I was also a guest on the Wrestling Mayhem Show (episode #286) and had a good time talking about ninja turtles, Scott Baio, MMA, and other good stuff. I came on around the 28 minute mark and it turned out to be a fun half hour interview. Definitely check out http:/sorgatronmedia.com

Just recently banged out an auto bio piece for the “Philly Comix Jam Presents: A James Kochalka Inspired Art Show”. The piece I did was a bit different from my other stuff and experimented with just using a brush and had some really good results. I had a frame that was 10″ x 28″ and ended up making the piece for it which worked out near perfect, with hand lettering and all!

Kochalka does a variety of comics and music and is very well known for his autobiographical and all around domination as far as indie artists go. He’ll be unveiling his new comic Fungus and the show’s opening is this Friday at Brave New World’s in Olde City, Philadelphia.

Here’s some more pics from the Kochalka show which included an oversize jam piece that I brought to have the exhibitors create while the opening went on. The idea behind a comic jam is that one artists draws one panel while another draws another panel which could be any other panel on the page. It’s tons of fun and can be a bit of a challenge. Below is an example of myself pondering what to put on the poster.

The show had an awesome turn out and the high point of the night was seeing James Kochalka come over and take part in the Jam. He inspected the poster a bit before carefully picking a spot in the bottom row and drew an awesome centaur.

 fellow comix jammer Steve Peters in the picture above with Ian Harker’s contribution to the show pictured below…

 aaaand below is the finished piece! See if you can spot my classy contribution. Low brow humor in all it’s glory…

I’ve got a lot of things to cover in this post which the Third Annual Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con (PACC) which went well despite the crazy weather we’ve been having this month. It basically poured outside 99% of the time which allowed for very brief periods of coolness within the Rotunda where it was being held in West Philly and felt humid as ever. I got to chat it up with many awesome artists out there and need to yell about their great work. Directly next to me was at the con was Dominique who does cool indy looking comics and illustration. Her website is www.domthedeer.com and click HERE  to see her turn into a cat. Sort of. It was great having our stuff next to each other since the stuff I do looked like it was pumped up with testosterone and her stuff looks like it was injected with estrogen. She did an awesome rendition of Gina Pirahna who will make her first appearance in Monsters of MMA #2 which will be coming out in late October!

Other cool artists at the con include Box Brown’s Everything Dies, Secret Prison, Doug Slack’s Hardboiled Horror Tales which I will be doing something for later this year. Equally as excellent is Sam Heimer and his brother James Heimer’s artwork. They make me want to snap my brushes and crow quill in half and cry.

I’ll post more photos of the Baltimore Comic Con in the next couple days but here’s a nice image or two to hold you over. Keep in mind that I didn’t want to draw this – the kid forced me to.

 Ok – here’s some more pics and sketches from the con…

My friend Jef stole one of my sketch sheets and did a nice sketch

inspired by a photo of Randy Couture beating the snot out of Tito Ortiz.