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"Orca was a great big whale"

2009-12-12T05:00:00.000-08:00

If this video doesn't put a smile on your face........we can never be friends.

Drawings for French People

2009-11-29T03:20:00.000-08:00

Click to embiggen pics.

BETTER France Photos

2009-11-29T02:52:00.001-08:00

Our friend (and possibly the coolest dude in France!!) Mat from Frenchpulp.com took a ton of amazing photos of our trip. Check them out here.

France photos

2009-11-29T01:55:00.000-08:00

Back Home

2009-11-22T07:53:00.000-08:00

France was AMAZING!!! Thankfully Jim and I both survived the trip......at least Jim was still alive the last time I saw him.
A full report and "thank you's" to everyone very soon.
-M

Post-it People

2009-10-27T23:13:00.001-07:00

Apparently they make little 2X2 Post- it Notes...

Agent Black

2009-10-24T06:56:00.000-07:00

I've got a few copies left of my 2009 sketchbook, Agent Black (36pages, $15 w/shipping in US). Email or Paypal me at: Mhuddl@hotmail.com

The last of the under the weather sketches

2009-10-23T06:23:00.000-07:00

More pen and marker drawings....

Soundtrack:
-Ridley Scott's commentary for Legend
-Wes Anderson's commentary for The Life Aquatic

Sick N' Draw

2009-10-18T23:56:00.000-07:00

Sketches from a weekend spent sick on the couch....

Thought Processor show next weekend

2009-10-15T19:58:00.000-07:00

The touring "Thought Processor" show sets up in Chicago next weekend (my contribution below the flyer).

2009-09-25T16:37:00.000-07:00

Homeland Directive Character Designs!

2009-09-09T15:50:00.000-07:00

Me.
Rob Venditti.
Top Shelf.
2010.

Soundtrack:
Black Milk- Pressure
Madlib - Remixes 2, The Saturday Morning Edition
Moka Only- Carrots and Eggs

The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine

2009-08-31T07:41:00.000-07:00

Good article at Wired: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough

New stuff soon!

2009-08-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

I finished my Gen 13 work last week, so I'm on to a new project: a graphic novel for Top Shelf written by Robert "The Surrogates" Venditti! I'll have new art to show soon, but until then enjoy some cartoons.
-M

Food One/Mike Huddleston Print 4 Sale!

2008-12-12T13:06:00.000-08:00

I'm stealing Jim's announcement from his blog, but here's our first print for sale!
"Mike Huddleston and I have produced our first print, "Some New York Rap Shit", from our upcoming collabo sketchbook project. The print is $40 (plus $5 for shipping within the US), measures 13x19, and is signed by both of us and numbered. Only 100 made. Order thru paypal at: mhuddl@hotmail.com"

Ronald Jenkees!

2008-11-19T08:39:00.000-08:00

I just heard of this kid yesterday but he's already my hero!

Train Sketches

2008-11-18T19:42:00.000-08:00

Haven't posted any of these in a while.

Cover #28

2008-11-18T18:45:00.000-08:00

and more behind the scenes process....

Supermarket Pinup!

2008-11-03T06:00:00.000-08:00

I'm crazily inking my way through another issue of Gen13, but I did have time to crank out a quick pinup for the new TPB collection of Kristian and Wood's book, Supermarket. If you guys haven't checked out this book yet you definitely should- the story is great and Kristian's work is amazing!
Seriously, If Kristian wasn't such a nice guy, I'd hate him!
-Mike

Cat Eyed Boy

2008-10-10T12:40:00.000-07:00

I'm not familiar with this manga, but I'm gonna have to pick it up based on these covers alone.
-Mike

Cartoons!

2008-10-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

Studio 4ºC's awesome short for the recent Gotham Knight DVD

And more Jamie Hewlett/Passion Pictures goodness. I wish these guys would make a feature already!

Cover #27

2008-10-08T08:03:00.001-07:00

For Sale- UPDATED!

2008-09-27T12:08:00.000-07:00

UPDATE: I'm putting some sketchbooks up for sale here as well. Scroll down below the prints.

I have a few prints left over from this years convention season so I'm putting them up here to sell. All three prints are printed on a Velvet Fine Art stock and are signed and numbered. The Madlib and Doom prints measure 9.25"X 13" and the Coffin print measures 19"X 13".

If you wanna pick one up email me at Mhuddl@hotmail.com.

-Mike

Doom $15 (plus shipping)

Madlib 15$ (plus shipping)

The Coffin $40 (plus shipping)

Sketchbooks!

"Things Fall Apart" 28 pages, $12 (plus shipping)

"Runnning on Empty" 28 pages, $12 (plus shipping)

"How to be a Magician" 32 pages, $12 (plus shipping)

Bang!

2008-09-26T20:58:00.000-07:00

Artist: Mike Huddleston. Circa 2008. Sharpie on Beer Coaster.

Run!

2008-09-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

More Gen 13 covers

2008-09-26T18:16:00.000-07:00

My superhero experiment continues....covers 23,24 &25

More Gen 13

2008-09-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

Preview from issue #22 (which comes out this week!). Once again, colors courtesy of the talented Carrie Strachan.

Anatomy of a cover

2008-08-20T13:08:00.000-07:00

My run on Gen13 started last week, so I'll wait here while you run out and buy Gen13 issue #21! GO!!! In the meantime here's some process behind the first cover:

(click for bigger image)

NEW SKETCHBOOK PROJECT!

2008-08-20T11:06:00.000-07:00

For years now, rock star and international art ninja Jim Mahfood and I have been talking about collaborating on a project and we FINALLY got something started: a collaborative art/sketch book. Here's my start to a few pieces. I'll post more once Jim finishes with these......

MNEMOVORE

2008-08-11T11:19:00.000-07:00

The Mnemovore film is moving forward so I thought I'd give people a peek of what things in the film WON'T look like. These are really early concept pieces I supplied that kicked off the visual thinking for the project, but it's gone in a wholly different direction since then. I still dig the pieces though...
-Mike

UPDATE! I've reposted the storyboards I did for an early Mnemovore short that helped get the ball rolling for the feature film. (click to embiggen!)

Scribblings from the SDCC!

2008-08-11T06:15:00.000-07:00

GEN 13!

2008-08-11T05:05:00.000-07:00

My run on Gen 13 starts sometime this month, and since DC is running this preview, I figured it was okay for me to show some behind the scenes process. So for each of the pages previewed I've posted my pencils and inks as well as the fantastic colors supplied by Wildstorm colorist Carrie Strachan.
-M

Philippe Starck

2008-06-20T08:56:00.000-07:00

Sunday Sketch

2008-06-15T17:39:00.000-07:00

Thanks!

2008-06-10T17:33:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has called, blogged or emailed in the last couple weeks to wish me well in my recovery. I also generally wanted to apologize for being so slow in responding to everyone (if I even have yet). Unfortunately life doesn't slow down just cause you do and life lately has been crazy.
In related news I had to cancel my appearance at the Heroes Con this year, but it looks like I'll still be in artist alley at the Wizard show in Chicago as well as at San Diego. I'll have official updates about those soon.
Cheers,
Mike

The Lost Gen13 pages

2008-06-07T07:38:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pages that you will NOT see as part of my run on Gen13. Enjoy!

Moebius Redux

2008-06-03T06:21:00.000-07:00

Cancellations

2008-05-31T08:12:00.000-07:00

One of the worst parts of being hospitalized (and now dealing with the recovery from surgery) is having to either postpone or outright cancel some projects I'd been working on.
The cancellation that hurts the most though is a joint gallery show I was supposed to have this summer in Chicago with Jose Garibaldi. Thankfully the gallery seems like they're still interested in exhibiting us so there might still be a show in the future.
Here are a couple pictures of some paintings in progress.
-Mike

GEN13!

2008-05-31T05:19:00.000-07:00

I think my run on Gen13 starts hitting the stands soon, so I thought I'd show some of the preliminary sketches I did of our heroes. They've really changed alot since these initial sketches, but this was my starting point.
-Mike

ps. please ignore the ancient costumes- embarrasingly I hadn't looked at an issue of Gen13 in about ten years. :P

Health Scare!

2008-05-26T19:48:00.000-07:00

Hey, I'm back! Partially at least... It's crazy to think that tomorrow morning it'll already be a week since my surgery.
As many of my friends already know I've had some sort of mysterious ailment nagging me for months now. Frustrating in it's inconsistency, I could go for a week at a time without any noticeable problems and then relapse into some pretty scary episodes (ie: coughing up LOTS of blood).
I thought I had maybe shaken it for good around the beginning of May as I went to Dallas for the CAPE, partied, hit some record shops, hung out with some of my favorite artists and friends, and basically had an awesome time.
A couple days after coming back home though I was coughing up blood like a scene from a horror movie. Ugh!
Anyway the situation finally came to a head on May 14 and my doctor had me hospitalized. After a week of tests my doctor, a couple pulmonary doctors, a surgeon, his partner and a surgical resident all decided that I needed to have surgery to remove an infected part of my lung. So on the 20th I had the surgery and then two days later I was home, hopped up on painkillers and antibiotics. Which is basically where I am still a week later.
So all in all, a pretty significant life experience that as cheesy as it sounds has shaken my priorities and made me realize that my approach to life, my work and the people I care about has been pretty backwards. I'm just hoping now that as I get back to work in the next couple of days that I can hold on to this new view on things....
Cheers,
Mike

ps. Not that they're gonna be by here to read this, but I want to thank my Mom, Perry, Aunt Sharon and Uncle Steve for not only cancelling their vacation, but then driving fourteen hours straight just to hang out with me everyday in the hospital. Also huge amounts of thanks and love to my girlfriend Erin who's stuck with me through yet another difficult emotional ordeal. I couldn't have made it though this without you guys. Thank you!!!

pps. Thankfully earlier in the month I bought a new sketchbook as well as sweet Kuretake brush pen (thanks Kristian!) so I had something to do between reruns of Golden Girls in the hospital.