Here’s Kiss performing Rock & Roll All Night on stage in 1978:

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Also stay tooned as we get some new artists lined up for 2007, watch this space for them real soon. Also we will start rolling out new guest art, so if you’ve ever wanted to submit some now is a good time.

Opeth performing Harvest in the studio:

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Sorry the updates have been slow for January, there are new RockToons artists as well as a bunch of guest art all lined up. I got busy with another project, an all-ages comic collective called Lunchbox Funnies. There’s some really fun comics you can read online there so go check it out! You can read the launch article at Newsarama.

Here’s a video of Rossi performing Radiohead’s Creep followed by some encouraging words from Lee, Newsted, Clarke and Dave Navarro.

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Anyway, back to the toon, I don’t think Johnny Cash needs any introduction, he’d be a living legend today if we hadn’t lost him just a few years ago.

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Where is Tyler Martin? I’m right here, and going to be much moreso in 2007 getting areas of the site back in order and new content rolling out. Another project of mine I put a lot of energy into is my webcomic, Wally & Osborne, about a lost polar bear in Antarctica with a quirky little penguin buddy. If you like stuff like Calvin & Hobbes you should give it a try, it’s free to read.

Alright, have a safe evening and we’ll see you next year, going to leave you with Johnny Cash’s video cover of Nine Inch Nail’s Hurt…

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RockToons Artists, Where Are They Now?

Where is Felix Laflamme? He’s right here with us, on fire and flaming out many of the most recent toons on the site in his own fitting and energetic style (All Apologies for the puns). He is also a freelance illustrator based out of Canada, visit his site. His clients include music industry companies such as Pro Tone Pedals, Halo Guitars and Monster Guitar Picks as well as the magazines Lollipop, Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles.

Among his guitar pick designs he has done a collaboration with Hot Picks USA including a collection of Psycho Clowns and Shred Heads. Be sure to check them out, you can order them right there at the site.

Felix also just opened a new online T-shirt shop with his original designs, so be sure to check that out too.

Hey, do you guys smell that? Smells Like Teen Spirit:

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RockToons Artists, Where Are They Now?

J.J. McCullough resides to this day in Canadaland… and what better country to live in when you make jokes about politics. He continues to express his views and humor in his popular political comic: Filibuster, which can be found both online and published in conservative Canadian magazine: “Western Standard”. For the last three years, his work has been featured in the annual collection: “Best Canadian Political Cartoons of the Year.”

Let’s finish this off with some OK Go dancing, do it boys:

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RockToons Artists, Where Are They Now?

Tara Ryzebol was not available for comment but we did get this statement from a homeless man that frequents her workplace:

Amid the smog and busy city traffic, the forlorn call of a Torontonian illustrator drifts, barely audible, over the din and rackus. “Buy me a beer…” it calls.

Tara has been known to mooch free booze now and then. but more importantly, she’s busy with her final year of schooling at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Currently, she is working on several projects and beefing up her professional portfolio. She’s working on a graphic novel entitled “Gutbucket”; a charming little ditty about an ill-fated indie-metal band who covers 30’s and 40’s jazz songs. Gutbucket refers to something to store liquor in and to the type of music associated with heavy drinking. An early term for lowdown or earthy music: ie. “That cat Satchmo started out playing some real ‘gutbucket’ in the houses down in New Orleans.” Gutbucket also happens to be the name of the band. Stay tuned for updates on this project.

Other than that, Tara works part time at a trendy hand-made bathsoap store called “Lush” and is continually hit on by semi-homeless perverts.

When she isn’t making art, selling soap or wasting time on the internet, she can be found sleeping, usually in a bed. somewhere.

RockToons Artists, Where Are They Now?

Nina K., who’s long Russian last-name is too long to print or spell correctly here, works in the field of corporate graphic design. On the one hand, outside of the strict brand rules, this position occasionally even provides her with opportunities to create traditionally drawn caricatures, although she must be very careful and refrain from turning the managing director into an elf. On the other hand, she frequently wakes up in cold sweat (on the nights she gets to sleep, that is), reciting RGB values and their CMYK equivalents.

She is currently determining whether to pursue a doctorate in some useless humanities field and thereby lose all economic viability, or face her destiny and become a walking encyclopedia of troubleshooting excellent Adobe products.

In closing, Nina had this to say, “Since neither of the above sounds particularly appealing, sometimes I want to drop everything and just paint Byzantine icons all day long.”

RockToons Artists, Where Are They Now?

Maria Picasso resides in Spain where she is currently finishing her education towards an architectural degree. She is also finding her place as an illustrator, she does freelance work as well as a monthly comic page published in a Catalan magazine. Also Maria does some characicature work, both in studio and at live events.