Ultraist Studios Blog Journal

What is an ISSN? The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is the standardized international code which allows the identification of any serial publication. SPY GUY is ISSN 1913-5181 -

Alan Moore quotes: “There’s that white page somewhere there at the beginning of the process, whether you’re talking in cosmological terms where the white page is the quantum vacuum. If you’re a novelist then it is literally a white page.” “Now, what you have to do is limit yourself. You cannot work in a complete [...]

Last night Chuck Palahniuk had a reading at the Indigo in Toronto. I picked up a signed copy of Rant, and Chuck scored a signed collection of SPY GUY! -

Looks like the Recording Industry of America is at it again. Click here for the complete story. In honour of the RIAA’s latest attempt to strike terror into the hearts of college kids, I decided to dust off this comic strip from SPY GUY: Minis as a counter-strike. UPDATE: Special Thanks to Ultraist Reader Matt [...]

I wish a had a pic to accompany this, however I have too many keyframes to set at the moment, and don’t have anything but microsoft paint on this computer to edit an image for posting, so bold font will have to do for the moment… SPY GUY #1 OF THE UNLIMITED SERIES HAS ENTERED [...]

Regular visitors will have noticed that I haven’t been posting much artwork recently. Well that is about to change with this post! I have 2 guest artist pin-up sketches. An Ultraist Studios Blog Journal FIRST! Here we have SPY GUY with THE POSSUM drawn by Blair Kitchen! And the amazing thing about this drawing is [...]

The following conversation has been ripped from the Cerebus Yahoo! Message Board. Re: Dave Sim’s blogandmail #225 (April 24th, 2007) — In cerebus@yahoogroups.com, “Stanley Lieber” wrote: I think the advent of higher and higher quality print-on-demand is going to alleviate a lot of the pressures on small publishers. The profit margin is slashed (print-on-demand is [...]

Dave Sim quote: “I’m tempted to use Larry Bird’s line when someone asked why he was such a good basketball player and he said, ‘The amount of time I practice, I should be good.’” * -

Interesting… a One Million Dollar Coin from the Royal Canadian Mint! The worlds first 100 kg. 99999 pure gold bullion coin with a $1 million face value, and at 53 centimetres (21 inches) in diameter and over 3 cm (1.2 inches) thick, the massive coin is the size of an extra-large pizza, was introduced on [...]

Old X-Box Commercial. Funny because it’s true.