Josh Parpan

run fox run

2011-11-09T00:48:00.000-08:00

Some animation from a film project I'm plugin away at.

It's a Small World at the Glallery Nucleus!

2011-09-16T01:22:00.000-07:00

My friend Joey is having a group show at the Nucleus Gallery this Saturday! there's a lot of really great artists involved and he'll be signing copy's of his awesome new book there as well!

September 17, 2011 - October 3, 2011
Opening Reception / Sep 17, 7:00PM - 10:00PM

more info on the Nucleus website-here

my finished piece for the show-

Geometric..y

2011-08-23T00:42:00.000-07:00

2011-08-13T04:19:00.000-07:00

Design collaboration with good exp. animation pal Greg Sesma. Inspired by a childhood fascination with the creepy hamburger salesman known as Mac Tonight.

Sing Statistics, Reverence Library

2011-07-24T16:49:00.000-07:00

Talented illustrators and independent publishers Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewert have just released their 3rd book, Reverence Library. The book is a collection of art and short fiction concerning 3 different subject matters. They were kind enough to ask me to contribute a small amount of work for its first volume.

Great job guys!
More info can be found here on the Sing Statistics website.

tuesday morning..

2011-07-20T00:27:00.000-07:00

to the moon!

2011-06-27T23:17:00.000-07:00

Monday, late night drawing while watching the history channel.

Stuff from work

2011-06-12T02:49:00.000-07:00

Wow, its been a while, haven't had to much time for personal work lately, so I thought I'd post some very random designs from work. Finally accomplished my lifelong dream of drawing a milk carton!

Friday was caricature day at Nickelodeon, here's one I did of Madalynn.

Teen Angst

2011-03-28T20:06:00.000-07:00

So in high school my favorite movie was Beetle Juice. Lidia, the sand worms, that weird shrunken head guy in the waiting room.. Man I love that movie.. My second favorite movie was Edward Scissorhands, so when the very talented Seb Mesnard asked if I could do something to celebrate it's 20th anniversary, I couldn't say no. Seb is collecting all the work on this great blog here-
http://scissorhands20th.blogspot.com/
and he's put together an art show at The Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra. The opening reception will be on April 16th. More info here-
http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/292

I've always assumed that Edward was a Cure fan. Not sure why, just sort of makes sense.

2011-03-13T05:03:00.000-07:00

Yuki 7 returns!

2011-02-07T23:24:00.000-08:00

Kevin was kind enough to ask me to contribute a piece for an exciting new Yuki 7 project! info here and here.
yuki7.com
kevindart.com

more lunchbreak..

2011-01-22T02:18:00.000-08:00

lunch break madness..

2011-01-14T01:08:00.000-08:00

Cosmonaut Cats

Lunar Rover

tom blackbird drawings

2010-12-21T23:35:00.000-08:00

space race

2010-12-15T16:55:00.000-08:00

screenprint

2010-09-08T00:37:00.000-07:00

inspired by some of my favorite depression era WPA posters.

more Tom Blackbird

2010-08-18T02:01:00.000-07:00

The hunt

Tom enters the Mysterious Yum Yum Temple.
The Mudmincer and his two giant chef cats, Grog and Trog.

Tom Blackbird, american folk hero

2010-04-28T22:40:00.000-07:00

illustrations from a story written by Justin Parpan.

teenage detectives

2010-03-21T02:52:00.000-07:00

old freelance

2010-02-24T22:20:00.000-08:00

yes indeed, that is a shark wearing a cape!..

chef cats

2010-01-10T23:05:00.000-08:00

2010-01-10T23:00:00.000-08:00

more color + blue stripes

2009-10-09T15:16:00.000-07:00

Ruffians

2009-09-28T18:28:00.000-07:00

2009-09-14T00:39:00.001-07:00

2009-09-12T13:16:00.000-07:00

an attempt at something for the crazy for cult show..

Yuki 7 show, Tomorrow!

2009-07-02T14:34:00.000-07:00

Don't forget the Yuki 7 show is this Friday at the Nucleus Gallery! It starts at 7:00 and goes to 11:00. If you miss the opening the entire show will be up until July 14th. Kevin did an amazing job getting everything organized, It will great to see the culmination of all his hard work on display! I can't wait!
Here's an updated list of all the artists that will have work on display-
Kevin Dart, Bill Presing, Bob Logan, Bobby Pontillas, Brigette Barrager, Brittany Lee, Chris Turnham ,Clio Chiang, Daniel Arriaga, Don Shank, Elizabeth Ito, Horia Dociu, Joey Chou, Jon Klassen, Josh Parpan, Justin Parpan, Megan Brain, Scott Morse, Sean Szeles, Ted Mathot, Victoria Ying

I thought it would be fun to get some screenprints made from one of my Yuki peices. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to the Yuki show on time, but I will have some ready for Comic Con this month! 7 colors, limited run of 50, The green ink has little metallic pieces in it, shiny!

2009-06-21T22:14:00.000-07:00

Yuki 7 News!

2009-05-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

Another poster for the Yuki 7 show, July 3 at the Nucleus Gallery!

2009-05-05T00:56:00.000-07:00

2009-04-18T16:23:00.000-07:00

2009-04-15T17:43:00.000-07:00

PopGun 3!

2009-04-13T17:57:00.000-07:00

I forgot to mention that Popgun 3 was released last week!
You can get more info on the Image Comics main page- here

2009-04-07T20:55:00.000-07:00

Yuki 7 Go!

2009-02-16T15:52:00.000-08:00

Murder in Milan, 1968
Secret Agent Yuki 7 travels to Milan in pursuit of Toshiro Shindo, a famed Japanese fashion designer with a penchant for murder and mind control. Only Yuki can stop him as he holds the fashion district hostage with an army of deadly runways models under his control.

A poster for Kevin Dart's upcoming book, Seductive Espionage, the World of Yuki 7. I was seriously humbled when Kevin asked me to contribute a page, he's been working so hard on this project and it looks amazing! I'll do another post when the book is released in a few months, there's also a corresponding show at the Nucleus in July, info here.

Agatha Christie's the Hollow

2009-01-17T21:29:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite Poirot stories, I thought it would be a fun assignment to design as many of the key characters as I could.

more miscellaneous*Updated

2008-12-29T17:33:00.000-08:00

misc. drawings *Updated

2008-12-16T22:38:00.000-08:00