Jack Morgan's Poetic Posters

How to Make Tea

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:33:00 +0000

I made this to show people how to make tea, and I also wanted to do something fun on the tea side of the Darjeeling Café. Even though we're concentrating a lot of our efforts on wine, trying to turn our restaurant into the wine destination of Central Virginia, we don't want to forget where we came from. After all, this whole thing started with tea.

We're much more like a European tea room than anything else: come in for some tea, stay for lunch, hang out with friends, before you know it, it's time to enjoy a great beer or wine, then it's dinner time. That's how I lived when I was in Europe (not every day of course, but often), and I think that luxury is missing in people's lives here in the USA.

St. Patrick's at the Darjeeling Café in Staunton

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:51:00 +0000

I made this little type treatment for a sign we hung at the Darjeeling Café on St. Patrick's Day. It was a quickie, but I like the way it came out. I would change the bend in the arrow to a shamrock shape if I had to do it all over again.

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:04:00 +0000

I am a lab researcher. We work on particles containing anti-tuberculosis drugs, meant for inhalation by patients whose lungs are infected. Our lab's particles are not 'nano'-particles as the current fashion dictates, and a potential collaborator recently made a (good-natured) joke about how the size of our particles reminds him of flying elephants. If you permit, I'd like to answer him with scientific rationale as well as your poetic image, modified as attached.

This is the great email I got today.

Skull Maze

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:49:00 +0000

This is another maze I did for the upcoming Murder Bros. package. I think people are going to really like this. It's going to be a really cool thing you can get at our shows.

Knife Heart Maze

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:21:00 +0000

This is part of a rock and roll maze thing I'm doing for the Murder Bros. It will be awesome. There will be a CD in it, and we'll sell them at shows.
If you want, you can print this one out here, and try it. If you have fun, let me know.

Staunton Clocktower Maze

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:07:00 +0000

Climb up the Staunton Clocktower in this maze.
If you have fun with it, let me know.
Thanks.

Elephant on Stress in America

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:10:00 +0000

If you click the image, you'll probably be able to read the speech balloons.
I thought this little comic was funny. At the Darjeeling Café, our mascot is an elephant, and we want to put a little magazine together that extends the Darjeeling Café's brand and message of well-being and thriving lifestyle, and that would include a comic from time to time with an anthropomorphic elephant. We are constantly worried about people thinking that it's a republican thing, but I've resigned myself to it. Artists' work is often misunderstood because it does not really belong to the artist once it is thrust out into the world.

Anyway. It's anti-circus and animal violence and pro therapy. I hope you like it.

Super Rocket Car Maze

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:03:00 +0000

I created this Rocket Car Maze. I was inspired by a fairly horrible film called Hooper - The Greatest Stuntman Alive with Burt Reynolds. It's pretty awesomely bad. This maze is part of my book-length project I'm working on of mazes.

Click the image to make this Super Rocket Car bigger then print it out and solve it. If you like it, please let me know!

Tea Maze

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:45:00 +0000

I think it's better to start this Tea Cup Maze at the handle so that you're going left to right, unless you're left-handed, and you can solve this moving right to left. That's what I was thinking about when I did this. I also thought maybe you could have a tea at my wife's tea shop when it opens back up after a year-long expansion and find this on your table and solve it while you drink. Wouldn't that be a nice way to spend a few minutes? This should take less than 60 seconds to solve, so you could finish it while you waited for your tea to steep or while you waited for it to cool down to the temperature you prefer.

Anyway, this is another maze I did. It's part of the book I've been working on. I hope that you click on it, get the bigger size, and print it out and solve it. If you have fun doing those things, please let me know.

Pegasus Maze

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:29:00 +0000

Most people don't know this about me, but I love making mazes. I am fairly obsessed with them. Well, very obsessed. I am working on a book-length maze project that is part art-book, part puzzle-book, fun/interesting for adults and kids, and in black and white. I am also working on rock and roll-themed mazes so that when you buy the new Murder Bros. album, you also get a little book with a few mazes. I think it could be a very cool thing for people to go home with from a show.

Anyway, here is a maze for Pegasus I drew a few years ago. I like it a lot because it's kind of psychedelic. If you click it and get the bigger image, you can print it out and do it. I hope you have fun with it. Let me know.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (9) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:09:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Nine (9) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten (10) pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (8) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Eight (8) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten (10) pages here.

Sorry for Snake Cover

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:39:00 +0000

I drew this on Illustrator a few years ago, and when I came to find it here, it wasn't around. So here she is. I really like this piece. Thanks.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (7) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:38:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Seven (7) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten (10) pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (6) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:42:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Six (6) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (5) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:26:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Five (5) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (4) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:03:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Four (4) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (3) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:52:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Three (3) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (2) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:18:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part Two (2) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

Jacob Applebock, or the Lilies of the Field (1) by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German with Illustrations by Jack Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:34:00 +0000

Click image to enlarge. Part One (1) of a translation project I am almost finished with. I translate the verfremdungseffekt of Bertolt Brecht's poetry with images and text, incorporating comic book, poetic, literary, and translation theory. I will post all ten pages here.

I might have forgotten to tell you that I studied German at UC Berkeley and graduated with Highest Honors. Translation theory was one of my main focuses.

Murder Bros., Hey Girl, and Astronomers

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:24:00 +0000

I made this photoshop disaster for the Murder Bros. show with Hey Girl and Astronomers. I like the way it turned out because I was really going for that obviously photoshopped look. I thought "tiger" because a lot of people think that tigers live in Africa (Disney's Jungle Book at fault?). I thought "Brazilian super model" because a lot of people think the Nile is in South America, and i figured if Brazil was in Africa, it would be where Egypt and Ethiopia are on that continent. I thought giant nebula back ground because a lot of people like Astronomers.

I guess I over-thought this. But, I love the way it came out, and a lot of people complimented me on it. I think that that's the most rewarding thing about designing things like this. It's not about people "getting" what your process was, but just going "NOICE" when you hand it to them. The guy at the door at the Blue Nile loved it, and someone meticulously drew tattoos on Alessandra (the woman pictured) on one of the flyers taped to the door. It looked awesome. I tried to take a picture, but it didn't turn out. I love when people take work I've done that's been hung up and start drawing on it or adding to it. It's happened a bunch of times, and I'm always glad someone bothered to go to the trouble.

I do want to point out how incredible my background isolation is, by the way. It's one of the holy grails of a good designer or at least photoshopper, but no one outside of the design community ever comments on it. And you only really get to talk about it when someone blows it. For people not paying attention, the catalog perusers of America, the painstaking work that goes into background deletion or alteration goes unnoticed. So when you look at the .psd above, I want you to look at how that background looks like it belongs there it doesn't look like I grabbed another image from somewhere and duplicated her a couple times, did a quick mask, and blurred edges, and used various layer blending options to make it all look like it belongs.

The tiger head on the other hand, was a joke, and was meant to look a little cut and pastey. . . but there's actually an art to that, too. I did adjust the light source a bit to look like the light on the tiger was the same light that was on the girl's body.

I hope you count yourself, dear reader, as one of the people who enjoy this flyer.

Tiger Lilly

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:09:00 +0000

I drew this and then colored it in Photoshop. I only used a mouse. I never use a tablet. I've thought many times about getting one, but I never got around to it, and I'm crazy good at using the mouse.

Murder Bros. and Life in a Foxhole at the Bazaar

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:04:00 +0000

I made this for the Murder Bros. and Life in a Foxhole, who will be playing in Roanoke on June 11 at the Bazaar. It's $5 and starts at 9pm. It's going to be a great show.

Skeleton Martini Drawing

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:22:00 +0000

I drew this picture of a skeleton holding an empty martini glass while watching a burlesque act involving a martini glass. Sometimes my doodles make me happy... or sometimes I'm happy with my doodles.

My Outlaw Cowboy Skull Is Used at a Self Defense Site

noreply@blogger.com (Jack Morgan) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:05:00 +0000

It's always nice to see your stuff altered and reused.