I Like Tang: Drawings and Comics by Haircut Swelch

Finished Galaxy Quest Cub Scout Painting :)

2013-05-19T02:34:00.001-07:00

Here's the finished painting from a couple days ago :) It's the second time I've made one of these and this one is 10 times better :) I went back today and touched it up after the faces had been cut out and forgot to take a picture. Oh well ... I'm pretty happy with the final result.

Some special effect scenes I helped work on for "The Headless Princess" Spring 2013

2013-05-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

This girl needs a name.

2013-03-02T10:32:00.002-08:00

Another old sketch book drawing of this character. Needless to say, she's proud of her body type.

The Sweetest of Dreams Book Cover

2013-03-01T18:38:00.002-08:00

I miss this book. Now long out of print. Here is cover of my old book that came and went so fast most people don't know it existed. An old employee of Night Flight Comics ran off with the last remaining copies.

This color paged book was very expensive to print. Who knows maybe I'll find all the old files for it and have a kickstarter to bring it back.

Chubby Girl - aka "that kind of girl"

2013-03-01T18:30:00.001-08:00

More old chubby girl art. This time it's parody of old romance comics.

Chubby Girl - Cowboy Romance

2013-02-28T19:42:00.001-08:00

Found more chubby girl art in an old sketch book :)

Valentine's Day 2013

2013-02-16T13:42:00.001-08:00

Dorky old comic strip that I drew last year while bored. Now inked it in celebration of this year's Valentine's Day. (He could use a little more ink on his bum.)

Torrid Affairs: Chubby Girl Drawing #1

2013-01-03T14:29:00.000-08:00

Just found a set of drawings I made of this girl from a couple years ago. She still doesn't have a name.

I'm sorry if my drawings of thicker girls still offend people. They're just more fun to draw. When figure drawing I always loved it when people of other body weight options showed up. Skinny girls/people all the time can be boring.

Cartoon College: The documentary

2012-11-19T10:25:00.001-08:00

If you missed the Salt Lake City Film Festival screening this past September, you can still catch me in the Cartoon College documentary still on tour.

I was in the final stages of recovering from a lot of illness and depression which made working on comics quite difficult at the time, when some of this was filmed, so this is quite the uncomfortable film for me. It shows in the drawings of me above the "R" in the poster title.

Tonight (Nov. 19th) it's playing @ the San Francisco DocFest @ 7:15 PM.

Later this month, it's playing at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. on Thursday, November 29th at 7pm.

Other dates to come...

Hot Dog King Mascot (Finished this morning!)

2012-11-13T12:18:00.002-08:00

Some art I just finished this morning for the Hot Dog King Restaurant in Orem. I don't know what labels to put on the food products so I left them in pencil for now.

Ok, after this, NO MORE FREEBEES!

...I see a line or two that need fixing.

This is based off his previous mascot design. I just updated it a bit.

2012 Halloween Compilation tracklist revealed

2012-11-03T10:24:00.002-07:00

This year's Halloween compilation was a lot of fun and a LOT of work.

Same rules applied to this compilation: NO overplayed novelty songs like "Ghost Rider in the Sky" or "Devil Went Down to Georgia", both of which I kind of hate, and no novelty parodies like "Ghost Chickens in the Sky". The less novelty feeling the better, I'm always after the "real" stuff. "Ten Horned Demon" becomes borderline novelty with a slight mention of the "Purple People Eater" :P
I also tried to eliminate any country horror songs by non-country artists i.e. Rev. Fred Lane's "From the One That Cut You" etc. therefore trying to make this as real as possible. I take these things way too seriously I know.

The most popular song I included was "Long Black Veil", which although is pretty well known, I don't feel that it's a novelty song like the previously mentioned, and hasn't been household stereo typed. Un-typical western songs like "Ed's Place" were also included to show the broad range of what the genre contains.

I had no idea that there was so much weird country music out there, I even have a large file of song outtakes that didn't make the final cut but are still pretty amazing. For those who didn't get a copy of this year's Halloween comp @ Brewvies or our Halloween party in Springville, here's is the track-list revealed:

Ten Horned Devil - Prince Arky & The Westeners
Ed's Place - Horace Heller
Rubber Room - Porter Wagoner
The Bell Witch - Merle Kilgore
Hell Bound Train - Lumberjack
Insane - Katie Lee
Satan is Real - The Louvin Brothers
Dead Man - George Weston
Cold Cold Grave - Wayland Chandler
Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzel
Lover's Hell - Merle Kilgore
Exorcism - Tommy Scott & Scotty Lee
When the Debbil Taps You On de Back - Della Hicks
I Died All Over You - Bud Messner and His Sky Line Boys; Vocal: Bill Franklin
The Drunken Driver - Ferlin Huskey
Lonely Tombs - Hank Williams Sr
Delores - Eddie Noack
Dark Angel - Benny Joy
Enchanted Forest - Mohawk & The Rednecks
The Devil, My Conscience & I - Billy Barton
You Picked Up A Stranger - Sterling Blythe
Ghost Of Henry Wells - Slim O'Mary
Black Night - Cheryl Thompson
The Little Monster - Russ "Big Daddy" Blackwell
I Created A Monster - Glenn Barbe
Psycho - Eddie Noack
Suicide - Louie Innis
Walking That Last Mile - Bennie Hess
Behind The Fear - Lum Hatcher
On A Hill - Dude Martin

Vote for the music genre you want me to tackle next year. I'm thinking Ska music personally, old 78's, or Disco.

Genres already done:
*Elementary School Halloween (from records made for classroom use.)
*Easy Listening
*Rockabilly
*Psychedelia/The Horror of Drugs
*and now Country :)

-BC

Notebook Comic #6: Beautiful Laydees

2012-09-02T12:43:00.000-07:00

Too Good To Be True

2012-08-23T16:31:00.001-07:00

Ain't it most always the truth.

The Exit Out of Here?

2012-08-21T23:36:00.002-07:00

I don't know what it means, but it was fun to draw :) Reminds me of old comic strips from the 20's and 30's where some situations were more about wonder than anything else.

People are really into pirates these days ...

2012-08-20T09:59:00.001-07:00

My attempt to write a normal comic strip that would be socially acceptable. After the Sweetest of Dreams book was printed, a director from King Features Syndicate told me that a comic strip like that wouldn't fly in standard newspapers. He said it was too strange and that I'd have to tone down my humor and probably write gags that I wouldn't be too proud of. (Some of that I was already aware of).

I recently drew this one to see if I was still capable of writing "normal" comics for a more general audience.

I'm an Eyebrow

2012-08-20T08:45:00.000-07:00

One Halloween @ CCS I was asked to paint random stuff on long rolls of yellow paper as decoration for a dance party, there were more of these on the inside. I also came dressed as "an eyebrow" from my mini-comic "Halloween Costume Suggestions". I was very good at doing the worm.

LDS @ CCS

2012-08-19T20:13:00.000-07:00

This is the third comic that I was asked to draw for the "Cartoon College" documentary, about what it was like to be the only "active" LDS person in art school. I guess my punchline was that the only person who seemed to think that it was cool, was drunk. This comic was unused in the final version of the film.

Later published about a year ago in a magazine about LDS cartoonists.

Tusk Vampires

2012-08-18T07:30:00.000-07:00

Unused zine cover I drew for "Salt" magazine, based on a dream I had about being surrounded by tusk fanged vampires. Not so strange in other countries, I see fangs looking like this in movies from Thailand all the time.

"Homework"

2012-08-17T17:41:00.001-07:00

Another unused comic that I drew for the "Cartoon College" documentary after they asked me to draw something explaining what I've been doing since I left the school.

I really tried to make it look somewhat glamorous, but all I had been doing was homework to try and finish my Chinese classes at BYU.

(Photo taken with my phone. Sorry for the blur.)

"So Bad It's Good"

2012-08-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

A cover I did for Katie Durant's "The So Bad It's Good Movies Fanzine", I chose to do an illustration of the kiddie matinee atrocity "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" which was the first film we bonded over and which I believe also gets reviewed in this issue :) (circa 2006/7)

A list of my fav Kiddie Matinee films is now up @ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/list/JVMa53UahRM/

BC Sterrett Interviews Himself

2012-08-15T20:35:00.004-07:00

Sorry, these pages were photographed with my phone.

One of several comics that I was asked to draw for the "Cartoon College" documentary. None of these comics actually ended up in the film, all rejected I suppose or were not as upbeat as they had hoped. I was just being honest.

Drawn in 2010.

(They use my "real name" and not my artist name in the film for some reason, just a heads up.)

The Band Name Book

2012-08-10T23:58:00.003-07:00

My Chicken Heads CD cover art, ended up on the cover of this book (and on the page below). I want a copy!

Commercialism explored

2012-08-08T12:42:00.001-07:00

An odd strip I drew over the weekend. No punchline or joke really, just a statement on how corporations want you to believe that you aren't cool or wont "fit in", unless you buy or wear their products. It's also a lot of obvious lame word play on phonetics.

Since I may not be able to post tomorrow I'm posting this now.

2012-08-08T12:26:00.000-07:00

CD cover for a compilation of music recorded by friends. (Although, I don't think any of them appreciated it as much as I thought they would.) I kind of like the crude art that was made before I knew how to properly color with photo shop. I want to go back to that.

Portrait of a historian

2012-08-07T09:12:00.003-07:00

Drawing I did based on a man with weird hair, that I saw giving a history lesson on Canada.