Monday, February 13, 2012

BATTLEPUG Vol 1 HardCover solicits


MIKE NORTON’S BATTLEPUG VOLUME 1 HC
Mike Norton (W/A) and Allen Passalaqua (C)
On sale July 5
FC, 72 pages
$14.99
HC, 8 1/2″ x 12″
The epic tale of blood and drool begins here! Join Molly and her dogs Mingo and Colfax, as she recounts the legend of “The Warrior and the Battlepug”—a tale of a fearless barbarian, his trusty and freakishly large pug, and evil baby harp seals.
This volume collects the first year of Mike Norton’s Battlepug—the perfect opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the fan-favorite webcomic by Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua, and Crank!
• By famed Runaways artist Mike Norton!
• Includes extras not seen on the website!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

We Need your help (and some money)


ABOUT THE PROJECT

An original documentary about art, politics and religion. Everything that makes us human. -Jeff Durkin / Director

"Art as a weapon" will look at the connection between street Art, Buddhism and Democracy by using the closed country of Burma as a case study. The film will follow street artists, a Buddhist monk poet, a punk band and a elementary school art class- giving the audience a peek into the creative process and the lives of the artists. Interviews include Shepard Fairey and Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

This will be a “connections film” looking at the collision between the big forces that shape humanity- Art, Politics, and religion in both the eastern and western worlds. By combining beautiful cinematography, with Buddhist philosophy the project will illustrate the power Art has in the bloody fight for Democracy. Part art film, part political film, the goal is to continue spreading the word by using art as a weapon for peace in Burma.

Kick Starter page

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Thunder... Thunder... THUNDERCATS! Cheetara HO!



The amazing Jon Wayshak sketched up a Cheetara for charity and I colored it for him...

Check out Jon's Blog post with the B&W version
His main Blog Here:
http://www.scrapbookmanifesto.com/
and his New project with Sam Keith (it's really beautiful)
http://www.chickensrevolt.com/

Monday, October 17, 2011

DC Covers

Here's Stormwatch and Green Arrow #5 covers that I colored for DC





GREEN ARROW #5
Written by KEITH GIFFEN and DAN JURGENS
Art by DAN JURGENS and RAY MCCARTHY
Cover by JASON FABOK, RYAN WINN & Allen Passalaqua
On sale JANUARY 4





STORMWATCH #5
Written by PAUL CORNELL
Art and cover by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA & Allen Passalaqua
1:25 Variant cover by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA
On sale JANUARY 4

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Working Class Premiere in San Diego




Thursday, September 8, MOPA
Admission: $10 General, $8 MOPA & Sezio Members
Doors Open @ 7 pm
Tickets are limited to this event.


*MOPA and Sezio members will be verified at the front door.

A tale of two cities through the eyes of artists Mike Giant (SF) and Mike Maxwell (SD). A film by Jeff Durkin.

The Silent Comedy will perform before the screening.

Film Description: Working Class is a feature documentary loosely based on Charles Dickens book "A tale of two cities." With San Francisco artist Mike Giant, and San Diego artist Mike Maxwell discussing themes found in Dickens 1859 novel that are just as relevant today. Religion, War, Family, History, and Art are chapters that tell the tale of the artists, the cities they live in and how history repeats itself. The two Mikes have been allies in underground art for over a decade and have gained respect for creating art based on the everyday people they see around them.


Check out the New trailer here: Click Me

Monday, June 06, 2011

PurePhotos.com Prints for SALE!




I'm very happy to announce that I'm now selling Prints of my Photography thru Pure Photo They have a great service for photographers to put up a cataloge for sale. The pricing is variable so take a look and see what you might want to have at home.

Here's a link to all the photos I have for sale!

hope you enjoy

-allen

Monday, March 28, 2011

Wonder Woman off, who won?

When I saw the con sketch of Wonder Woman that Sarah Hudson got from Mark Dos Santos http://www.markdossantos.com/ I thought it was cool... but David Baron thought we should do a "Color Off."

So we took that original file that Sarah got scanned in (thanks @Joshwa_)


Here's mine...

Check it out on my flickr and comment here My Flickr


Here's David Baron...

Check it out on my flickr and comment here David's Flickr

The real voting is going on Twitter... please comment or just follow both David and I

me @Angryf
David @Myzombies

Here's a photo of the original B&W

thanks again to:
Mark Santos
@Joshwa_
@Wife2113

Saturday, March 12, 2011

SWAMPTHING

I'm currently coloring my 5th Swamp Thing Collected cover... there's the last 4 I did before






Here's a link to the files on flickr
Swampthing on Flickr

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011

BATTLEPUG starts TODAY!!!



Battle Pug is up and running... check out the first Panel of our weekly comic. Drawn and Written by Mike Norton (the amazing!) and colored my myself.

BATTLEPUG!

Friday, February 04, 2011

Odds and Ends, Mostly covers

Here's a Few covers that I did at the end of 2010 for collected editions at DC Comics.





Saturday, November 06, 2010

Public Barber Salon Photography Show: San Francisco After Dark

Public Barber Salon Photography Show: San Francisco After Dark

Thursday, November 11 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location Public Barber Salon
571 Geary
San Francisco, CA

Featuring:

Jeremy Brooks, Chris Connolly, Dottie L. Guy, Pei Ketron, Cindy Loughridge, Allen Passalaqua, Patrick Power, and Seth Restaino

There will be a keg and fun times. Come on out!

here's sample of a few of my images:

redreflect

liquor22

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Some DC Covers/Pin-ups

I've gotten to do a bunch of the DC Showcase covers over the last few years... here's some from the last few months (and an random other thing or two).

SP_SGTRv3_Cover

SP-DPAv2_Cvr

BOYCOM_Cvrb

SP-LSHv4_Cvr CMYK

DSAVMB Cvr2

ICON 32.Cv.4recon.600

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Working Class Trailer // 3 min by BREADTRUCK TV

Working Class Trailer // 3 min
by BREADTRUCK TV

Here's a sneak peak trailer for Working Class a film being done by Jeff Durkin with contribution from myself.

Working Class Trailer // 3 min from BREADTRUCK TV on Vimeo.



Working Class is a feature documentary loosely based on Charles Dickens book "A tale of two cities. With San Francisco artist Mike Giant, and San Diego artist Mike Maxwell discussing themes found in Dickens 1859 novel that are just as relevant today. Religion, Country and War, History, The Economy, and Art are chapters that tell the tale of the artists, the cities, and America. Director: Jeffrey Durkin, Producer: Allen Passalaqua, Music: The Silent Comedy / 95 mins

Monday, August 23, 2010

8 steps to a double page fight scene

This was kind of a Tricky double page fight sceen... lots of powers and hard to pull off much depth but here's it in 8 steps...

1... B&Ws Art by MARK BAGLEY and NORM RAPMUND




2... FLATS


3... Starting in the Foreground and working my way back... helps set a tone for the depth (that I could get)


4.... just working my way back (little color tweaks that I missed in the reflatting)


5...


6...


7... ok done with Rendering...


8...Just ass F/X... and Done

Monday, August 09, 2010

Vector Art Show at Moxi Salon in San Francisco



Artist Statement:

The artwork hanging in my show is my attempt to capture more then just a portrait ,a pretty face, body or style. Each image is about the mood, personality and feeling within the image. If I as an artist can invoke some feeling from any of my images then I've succeeded.

Vector: A style of art or creating imagery comprised of paths, which are defined by a start and end point, along with other points, curves, and angles along the way. A path can be a line, a square, a triangle, or a curvy shape. I use those paths within my artwork to create imagery base upon photos. These photos are either taken by myself or used with the permission of the photographer. Some of my subjects are separated from myself by countries, continents, languages and cultures. While others are friends or acquaintances that have inspired me to create art.

The combination of photography and digital illustration allows me a certain flexibility with creating each hanging artwork. That said each canvas piece is unique and no image could be duplicated in the exact manor even if tried. I also never print the same size or exact color combination of any image. Each image is completely unique and should be treated as individual artworks.


Here's a few samples and rough sizes that are hanging:

this is my largest at 6' x 3'
tallsocks

this one is cropped a bit but hangs at 2'X3"

fset-006vector

another large one this is at 3.5'X4.5'

bang