May 18th, 2012 by Mulele
I shared this image on twitter a few days ago. It’s still in the sketch faze but now with a Japanese title: EN 『冤』which means injustice, hatred or death depending on who you ask. True to the title this is a tale of violent revenge. Does the guy in the picture look pissed off enough? This will be a 4-part comic, each part being 24 pages.
May 16th, 2012 by Mulele
Tokyo Types was a daily Tokyo style and character guide populating the city that I’ve been drawing for so many years. It is no longer daily but it still continues. sidetracked by other projects left this one ignored for quite some time but now I’m back with a new batch updates and plans for more.
This time round I’m finishing out some of the work I started in January, everybody’s still in winter garb, but I’ll be getting to summer soon enough.
Keep checking back weekly for more Tokyo Types or check me out on Twitter for regular updates on the blog.
March 19th, 2012 by Mulele
My friend gave me a small yellow pepper the other day. “For luck”, she said. “Sometimes that’s all you need.”
March 14th, 2012 by Mulele
Hello! Yes, it’s been a while since my last update- 9 whole months! And in that time a lot has happened. Most of that is personal so I won’t start confirming rumors here but I do have some new projects coming up. ELBIS will be coming out in book form like, next week! I’ll be putting up links so you, too can get your very own copy.
Also, I’ve been working away on WEIRD CRIME THEATER. Now updated weekly, though this week I’ve decided to take a break so I can get over a cold.
And after a one year break, I’ve started posting in TOKYO TYPES again. If you live in the Tokyo area, watch out, I might be drawing YOU soon!
The post above is this year’s Daruma. The theme for this year is HEALTH.
Well, sometimes short and sweet is best. Until next time this is Mulele, letting you know I’m still alive!
June 8th, 2011 by Mulele
June 2nd, 2011 by Mulele
Not new but until now unpublished. I give you, The Salaried Man. It’s been way too long since my last update and though life seems to have exploded my head for the moment I can’t suppress the urge to post out of turn.
November 14th, 2010 by Mulele
Tokyo Types is the culmination of 20 years living in Japan. For all the years I’ve spent drawing and re-imagining my favorite city, I now populate it with real people: friends, people I’ve met and strangers who’ve crossed my path.
I have provided the order I drew them in and the longitude and latitude of where we met.
It is my goal to add one new person to this page everyday for one year or until my head explodes. You can follow the project daily HERE.
September 23rd, 2010 by Mulele
I’ve been working on a lot of smaller projects of late, outside of my Weird Crime Theater stuff, mostly in an exploration of the suibokuga (Japanese ink-painting) I’ve been doing for the past little while.
I do, however, like to bigger things when I have the time. The problem is I don’t have the time to “ta-da!” a big piece of art so I’ll be blogging these next few pieces in stages. The first step was pulling a sketch out of my moleskine. Yes, I have a moleskine. Don’t draw in it too much as it always seems like a waste to work my problems out in a $30 sketchbook. Much prefer the $4 sketchbooks that I can tear through, tear apart but when I do draw in the moleskine it seems just a little more focused, more rendered. The above sketch was drawn the end of last year. I’ll keep you updated as I take it from here to finished piece.
A while ago, I got an idea for a new project that would sum up the near 20 years I’ve been in Japan. Of course most of that time being in my favorite city, Tokyo, this project would have to be Tokyo-centric. This first piece is about my time in Shinjuku back in ’91… Or was it ’93? Things get fuzzy when you get older. I saw this lone bosozoku (Japanese gang biker) riding down a major street near the station’s west exit. He seemed a lot more carefree than my sketch and I think his bike had wheels but there you go.
