BRADBURY WEIRD TALES

This is a piece I did for WEIRD TALES MAGAZINE in honor of the passing of Ray Bradbury. I tried to make this simialr as my Lovecraft piece where the author is surrounded by his many creations. In this piece though I also wanted to get the feel of Bradbury's messy office that I would always see in the main titles of "Ray Bradbury presents". 

See if you can find what items relate to what book title he wrote.

Find out more here at WEIRD TALES... CLICK HERE

10,000 ZOMBIES!!!

10,000 Zombies! - I am so proud of this book. A flip book where you can mix and match body parts to create over 10,000 combinations of melting, sutured, crusty, flesh-rotting zombies. From sunken, water-logged corpses to brain-stem eyeball cadavers. I did all the artwork for the book with words by Alexander Cox (the descent). The quality is fantastic with a hardcover and a foreward by ROB ZOMBIE.Reviews on GoodReads.com

ORDER HERE FROM AMAZON

A fun take on the living-dead genre - and its got a (decaying) thumbs-up from horror legend Rob Zombie.
--Bizarre magazine, Oct 2011

A new art book - 10,000 Zombies - gives fans of the undead, well, 10,000 zombies! And all in one little book. Emmy-nominated artist David Hartman's book splits, the head, torso and underpants of the animated cadavers, giving you loads of possibilities --ImagineFX magazine, Oct 2011

CEMETERY BONES COVERS

Here are a few different covers for the anthology series I would like to someday put out. I have a ton of stories written but need to sit down and draw them out. Someday maybe.

These are three imaginary covers for the series. I may upload each of these individually if there is enough demand.

And here are some of the past covers...

LIVING DEAD ROUNDUP

Here are a few pieces I never got around to posting on the blog. Lots of zombies in this group.

JOHN DIES AT THE END

John Dies at the End, the film by Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep) based off the book by David Wong, is now available on demand, itunes, vudo, xbox and more before hitting screens in January. Check this movie out, it is hilarious, and I do a tons of fx, artwork and design work on it as well. One scene has a cameo by my wife, daughter and myself . You'll know it by the following scene which is filled with my art.  I also play the voice of a very meaty creature seen early on.

Please check this movie out!

Here is a brief synopsis from IMDB...

"A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: some people return as no longer human. Can two college dropouts save humankind from this silent, otherworldly invasion?"  Stars: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes and Paul Giamatti 

HALLOWEEN 2012 - THE BLACK PLAGUE

HALLOWEEN 2012 - BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

This halloween the family agreed on being the "BLACK PLAGUE". The wife and daughter were the sickly and dead aristocrats and I was the evil plague doctor. (Not sure what really made me evil besides the scary teeth). We had a great turnout this year and the daughter got some good scares in being her first time trying to scare kids. She even got some teens pretty good.

TRANSFORMERS PRIME MARATHON

TODAY! THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1st! The Hub will be playing a 26-hour TRANSFORMERS PRIME marathon leading up to the season finale. 


If you haven't heard me blab about this before, I am the Supervising Director and Art Director on the series. 


This season Finale is EPIC! Please check it out!

NEW ARTBOOK! BOOK SIGNING! ONE DAY ONLY!

SATURDAY - JUNE 16^th – DARK DELICACIES BOOKSTORE

Burbank, California at 2pm

www.darkdel.com

I will be signing at the infamous Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank California this coming Saturday, right before Father’s Day, at 2pm.

I will be signing my new book from Ivy press, “10,000 ZOMBIES!”  a flip-book where you can mix and match pieces to create your own zombie creations with mix and match stories by Alexander Cox ( the Descent). I will also be signing “How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires, and Zombies” from Watson-Guptill featuring work and cover by myself along with Wally Wood! Frazetta! Basil Gogos! Steranko!

I’ll also have my first ARTBOOK on hand. Tons of monsters! Sketches! Color pieces!

AND…

A NEW ARTBOOK! I quickly put together a new artbook featuring many of the newer pieces seen here in my gallery. If you wanted some of these newer pieces since my first artbook then this is your chance to get them in print. I only made a short run of these full-color, softback, 8x11 books featuring 30+ pages of monsters in COLOR!

If that wasn’t enough!

I’ll also have 11x17 prints of my LOVECRAFT and the BLOODY DEAD  IN THE ASYLUM pieces. These prints are on semi glossy, really thick paper for only $10! I’ll also have posters and various other books. Plus I’ll have some FREE postcards of the BLOODY DEAD piece to all who show up.

SKETCHES! If you buy any of the above I’ll be happy to draw in your book for FREE! Any kind of monster or zombie you desire!

I never do signings and I really want it to be a success.  I NEED YOUR HELP! Please come out and buy a book, bring your Transformers Prime DVDs to be signed or just come and hang out and draw.  Please don’t leave me sitting alone in an empty bookstore. 

Covered: David Hartman covers Casper the Friendly Ghost 41

Covered: David Hartman covers Casper the Friendly Ghost 41: "Original artist is unknown; Harvey Comics 1956. David Hartman's website is here."

MOVIES ON itunes

I have now started a podcast on itunes where I will be uploading many of my past short films as well as many new projects. Be sure to visit and subscribe to the podcast to get the movies sent directly to your itunes and ipod.

Click here to visit itunes page

If you don't have itunes you can go straight to the SIDESHOW MONKEY MOVIES blog and download the MP4s directly.

Click here to visit MOVIES BLOG

Sarah Silverman Program

A lot of my work could be seen hanging on the walls of Steve and Brian's apartment on the Sarah Silverman Program. This last season of the show I was asked by my pal Rob Schrab to play a character on the show. I played a model train conductor along with Ken Daly and our dark secret that we keep with Jay Johnston. A crazy and short scene but so much fun to do. Check it out below...

The Sarah Silverman Program
Jay's Secret Hobby
www.comedycentral.com
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time Big Lake Ugly Americans New Episodes

THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Got back from the Comicon and finally got a chance to draw last night. It's been a long time since I submitted a piece of horror film fanart so I threw Hammer Film's "THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN" into the ol' DVD player and got to work. 

This is one of my favorite Hammer films. Not sure why, there isn't much to it, but I love Peter Cushing as the doctor and Christopher Lee makes a creepy looking creature.

TRANSFORMERS PRIME!

The Transformers Prime panel was great. Tons of people showed up and the cheers really made us all feel proud of the work we have accomplished thus far. We showed a 30 second clip of some of the animation and if you'd like to check it out then visit the link below to see it on youtube ( this animation is a work in progress and is not fully rendered yet )

SPOOKY

While working on Transformers Prime I have had little time to scan in and paint new art. I have a bunch, just hadn't had time to take it to the next level. Maybe I'll post some sketches until time frees up.

So this is an old piece that was done for a comic with Brian Harnois ( GHosthunters). The book never got off the ground but I liked this piece and always wanted to revise it to be a standard monster image. Finally got around to it and added more detail to make it more of the piece I wanted

COMICON and TRANSFORMERS PRIME!!!

I've disappeared from posting stuff for quite awhile now. I have been working on a very tight-lipped show as both the supervising director and art director. Well I am now allowed to announce that the show is...

TRANSFORMERS PRIME 

...for Hasbro studios. I can not answer any questions now but I will speaking at a panel at the San Diego Comicon along with character designer Jose Lopez and executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Bob Orci and Jeff Kline. Please come by and check out the new show we have been working so hard on. Here is the panel info...

Thursday, 4:30-5:30 Transformers Prime— The talent behind Transformers Prime -- executive producers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Jeff Kline -- the new animated series from Hasbro Studios, showcase exclusive footage and character reveals followed by a Q&A session. This original series will premiere in 2010 on the new television network The Hub. Room 7AB 

This will be the one day I am at the con and will not have a table this year so please come by and introduce yourself after the panel or if you have a copy of my artbook I would be happy to draw a zombie in there.

FILMS OF COSCARELLI

This was done as a Christmas present for my pal Don Coscarelli ( director of Phantasm, Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-Tep, etc.) It was so much fun drawing the characters from all his films that I wanted to do a comic book of them.

WEREMEAT and PUKE-N-STEIN

It's Christmas time already and I'm still in a Halloween mood. I guess I'll probably be in the Christmas mood in July.

I thought these two would make a great cop team solving mysteries and beating the tar out of crime.

Merry Christmas everybody!

WALK OF DEATH

GHOSTS & MUTANTS

MINNESOTA ICEMAN

One of the things that had spurred my love for monsters as a kid was the infamous "Minnesota Iceman". A purported 6ft tall bigfoot that was frozen in a block of ice, possibly shot in Vietnam during the war and then smuggled into the US, and then put on exhibit at various carnivals and fairs in the midwest.

As a kid in the late 70's I went with my folks to the Ohio State Fair and saw this thing. It was in a trailer where you paid a quarter and entered to see a "bigfoot in Ice" and the "world's smallest woman". The trailer itself was painted with the images of a hairy bigfoot-type man as well as a nude woman sitting in the palm of a man's hand. How could I pass this up? A BIGFOOT and a naked woman the size of my action figures! Oh yea!

I snuck away from my parents and went to this thing alone. I paid my quarter and entered the trailer. It was freezing as I looked down at a hairy Neanderthal creature frozen in a block of ice. It was so awesome to see this as a kid and it sparked a fascination in bigfoot and all crypto creatures from that day forward. The next part of the trailer was equally as scary as the nude woman I had hoped to see was really a 2ft tall elderly woman with malformed limbs sitting on a pillow and smoking a cigar. She looked me in the eye and it scared me to death.

You can find info on the Minnesota Iceman all over the web with varying tales of its origin and it's authenticity. Wether it was fake or not this thing scared the heck out of me and opened my eyes to the possibility of "real" monsters. State fairs are the best!