Goose Hat

Weird Patio Adventures

A lot of the work I’ve been doing lately has been stuff I’m unable to share due to it being top secret or not ready for release, so I’m making an effort to find time to create some fun work to share in addition to what I’m posting on my new webcomic!  Hope you enjoy!  xoxo

McSweeney’s with love!

Last month a special project I worked on hit the stands!  I finally got to work with the super totally badass Brian McMullen over at McSweeney’s, and to top it off my wife Erin Althea and I got to work on the same project, each doing our own spots for the McSweeny’s Quarterly Concern #42!  To boot, our fellow Art Center’er Kelsey Drake did a great cover illo!!  Awesome fun all the way around!

On other news I have been super busy the last few months with projects.  None of which I can share with you now… but soon hopefully.  In the meantime I’ll be back on the freelance illustration train for a while!  🙂

e-waste!

First in a series of several personal assignments I’ve given myself….

We’ve been in SF for a while now, knee deep in game/app/startup computer world, and I’m always wondering where it all ends up.  The turnover of phones, laptops, gizmos, and widget wigwam microchips is mind boggling!

Keep your eyes peeled!  There’s a bunch in the works and I’ll drop some pics of the McSweeny’s work I recently did to post shortly too!

Adventure Time Comic Cover!

 

This was fun!  I think it’s for issue #10!  More projects and work in the works!

Comic News

Erin Althea and I are both currently working on our own illustration assignments for  Mcsweeney’s at the moment.  So cool!  I’ll post that stuff up as soon as I’m able, and Trigger 3 is on it’s way, as seen below!

THIS online shoppin!

The remaining portion of the work from the THIS show is now up for sale on their website at HERE!

Grab what you can now before the work migrates north for a second showing in San Francisco in the extremely near future!

Playboy

Did this fun illustration for Playboy last week for a Lisa Lampanelli article about dating women who have children.  Fun times!

THIS is Danny and me, the video…

Aaron Farley over at the gallery made this cool little video promoting the show tomorrow!  See you there!

A long time coming!

Hello people!  It’s been a long time.  I’ve been working on a longterm contract up in SF with diy.org, and I’m coming back to LA on Aug 31rst for a big show at THIS gallery in LA with Daniel Gibson.  Some images of incoming work and a write up for the show are below!  On a side note, I’ll be pushing a lot of new illustration work and paintings again in the near future with a new website, store, etc. etc. at mikebertino.com!  Stay tuned, and hopefully I’ll see you in LA!

“GOLD COAST”THIS Los Angeles is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by San Francisco based artists Daniel Gibson and Mike Bertino.The show will run from Aug. 31st through Sept. 21^st 2012, with an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 31st from 7:00 to 10:00pm.

“Gold Coast” is a conversation between the two of us about our experiences growing up, and living on the West Coast as adults, and specifically in California. It’s a place where many people come to turn their dreams into reality, to become superstars, rock stars, tech stars, etc. etc.  But it also has a vibe of eternal sunshine, pot smoking hippies, yoga, board shorts, hipsters, and lazy vacation style living.

There is a vortex that happens between this kind of ambition and the illusion of indifferent coolness that bastardizes everything it comes in contact with. Underground music, cultural sub genres, and/or indigenous art are just fodder for a state of cultural irrelevance that is based on aesthetic appeal and a laissez faire type attitude toward creativity.

Danny and Mike met in San Diego, while attending a city college graphic design course.  From what I gather, Mike sat up front and talked about art and other cool things, while Danny hid in the back just trying to get through class without anyone noticing.  Before they met, Mike would walk into the coffee shop where Danny worked and “peddle his TRIGGER comics to the poor people sitting at peace enjoying a book.” Mike remembers the first time he saw Danny “Like a caricature of some high school stoner metal head burn-out, a Mexican Spicoli mashed with Slayer.  I drew him in my sketchbook with a Megadeath shirt and a beany sporting a pot leaf patch on it.  Years later I found the drawing and we had a good laugh about it.”  When Danny moved to LA for art school, Mike soon followed, then he moved to San Francisco and so did Mike.

Daniel Gibson is from Imperial Valley Ca. and lives and works in sunny San Francisco.

http://mrtumbleweed.tumblr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/degibson/photos

Mike Bertino moved to LA in 2005 from San Diego to earn his BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.  He now lives and works in San Francisco.
http://mikebertino.com/