On Friday October 16th, two new shows opened up at Rotofugi. “Fake it ’till you make it” by Martin Ontiveros and “The Devourer of Men” by Jeremy Tinder. The work shown from Jeremy Tinder will all be a part of a book being released in 2010, so not only is this a great chance to score some original art from Jeremy, but also art that is going to be a part of what looks like a very interesting book.
Both artists have very colorful styles. Martin seems to be using acrylic and inks on paper mounted on wood, and Jeremy is all acrylic on wood panel with display shelf. The shelf looks like a unfinished piece of wood attached to the bottom of the painting, kind of a cool effect.
I like Martin’s work, but I have been a big fan of Jeremy’s work for a while now and really like that his show pieces are all sequential, but you can buy a single piece and not worry that you are missing anything to go with it. A cool little bonus, is that when you purchase one of Jeremy’s painting your name “will receive a special thank you credit in “The Devourer of Men” book when it is published in Fall 2010.”

Head on over and check out the full show: Martin Ontiveros & Jeremy Tinder @ Rotofugi

All weekend long, if you are in San Francisco you might want to stop over to the Concourse and check out the Alternative Press Expo. It will be filled with all sorts of indie comics, and there will of course be the original art and prints that many of these artists will no doubt have with them.

I love indie, self published comics, but it is really the art/prints that I am going to see. So I have put together a little list of some of the artists that you will be able to check out at the show. I am told it is not very big, nothing like SDCC, so finding some of these artists shouldn’t be too hard in case I wasn’t able to get the table number they are at.

- Food One, Dave Crosland & Scott Morse will be at #314, and then later that night at the Space Gallery on Polk for a live art with screen printing on an item you bring.
- Tom Haubs and Ken Garduno will be there, with some original works and a new zine.
- Hi Fructose will be there at #350-351, make sure you stop by to pick up some back issues.
- Lesley Reppeteaux & Daryll Peirce will be at table #119
- Alex Pardee will be there with ZeroFriends at #150. Bunnywith 2 will be sold, and a new 8″ x 10″ print that looks amazing.
- Ben Walker will be at table #446
- Camilla d’Errico will be at table #272, with some prints, keychains and books.
- David Choong Lee will be at #254-255
- IDW Publishing will be at booth #331-332, and I think Ben Templesmith will be signing.
- Jim Mahfood will be at table #314
- Jeremy Tinder will be at #349 with his new “Papercutter” book
- Tom Neely will be at #360-361 with some books

Along with the A.P.E there is also two shows opening that go along with the Expo.
At Varnish Art, the group show “Crom” opens. It’s all work inspired by the Conan movies from the artists that are there for APE. The show opens at 7pm and will have work from N8 Van Dyke, Jon Wayshak, Alex Pardee and many more. Check it out

Also, Panelists IV opens at Giant Robot SF at 6:30pm – 10pm. The show will feature work from such comic artists as: Allison Cole, Matt Furie, David Horvath, Mats!?, Tom Neely, Jeremy Tinder and many others. Check it out Here