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About Me

I'm a freelance artist/cartoonist, currently a store manager for an Arizona comic chain (Atomic Comics), trying to make any buisness connections to do my art as my profession. I moved out here in March of 2000 and have been trying to escape since =) I graduated from the Art Insistute of Phoenix in Dec. 2002 with a degree in Computer Animation (however decided with a quarter to go, I didn't want to do Animation, but Charcter Design). A week BEFORE I graduated, I got married! (yeah, a wedding AND a graduation within 7 days!) I got lucky and met my wife, Tricia in school almost 6 years ago, and we've been happily married for almost 4 years. She's an Art Director for a local design firm and really great at her job and while born in Ohio, she spent most of her life in Kenya, Africa (which we visited last year, where a rhino charged me and I almost died. It was awesome.) I have self-published 2 "Idiot Pen/Johnny Roulette" comic ashcans (for those of you who know Idiot Pen, he will live on in "The Inbetweeners"), and a 3-issue mini-series "Dr. Oblivion's Guide To Teenage Dating" out now. I have a sticker line sold at the chain I work at, as well as at "first fridays", an art walk in downtown Phoenix. I also have shirts with various pieces of art on sale at www.cafepress.com/jpina. Check out my other artwork at www.sideways8studios.deviantart.com!

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My Blog

So, my apartment was a crime scence a few weeks back....

CRIME SCENE! Scene of the Crime!Ok, so EARLY Friday morning, I thought I heard multiple gunshots and a car screech about a mile away from our complex. Not sure if they were gunshots or loading palatte...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:57:00 GMT

Vegas, Baby!

I went to Vegas this weekend for a buddy, Chris', bacholor party. I'm thankful to say it was a realtivly relaxing weekend, dispite there being 21 guys there. We stayed at the Main Street Station in ol...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:29:00 GMT

San Diego Comic Con 07

Ok! Now I've got a handful of minutes to myself, here's SDCC stuff!So, my co-worker Thomas, his buddy and my cousin-in-law all filled up in my wife's Ford Focus (my civic NEVER would've made the trip)...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:22:00 GMT

Kenya, Out and back again

I realize I spend more time on my deviant art (www.sideways8studios.deviantart.com) posting than here, so here's a blog from there from a few weeks ago: So.... I'm a busy guy these days! So ..:namespa...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:19:00 GMT

My New Art Job

So, I still work at Atomic, slinging comics all the day long, but I now have a SECOND job. Yup, a second one. It's not so much a job, as a possible future career. I am now an artist for Hasbro, makers...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:23:00 GMT

Strange/Interesting/Unique things I've done....

Ok, so I figured everyone has unique experiances. I realized that nowhere, have I written down any of mine. So here's a short list (which will no doubt have a second part that's made up of "dang I for...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:22:00 GMT

PDHS No More...

Hey, all! If you didn't know, my mom still works at the ol' campus as the Principal's Secertary and she passed on some crazy news. The school district was looking to refurbish the campus and update th...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:09:00 GMT

My 10 Names

You all can thank my cousin Carmentina for this: MY 10 NAMES 1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current street name)Fluffy 432.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)Mint N' C...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:23:00 GMT

I fold.

Well, I finally broke down and joined up! Here's my MySpace! I hope it dosen't bore anyone to tears. I'll try to put as much art up as possible, but for just about ALL my art (that I'm not totally emb...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:03:00 GMT