Hope to see you there!  Below is more info about EndOtrend Fest, the performers locally and nationally who are playing the three different locations!

Thanks

Daniel Crosier
720-236-6339
www.thothengine.net

Welcome to ENDOTREND! An inaugural event to launch the TICKET-TEE, where your own shirt becomes an all access passport to concert, film & art events!

On October 3rd, ENDOTREND, features 35 musical and performance acts on 4 stages for an affordable price!

This isn’t one of those marathon events where you run around to see all the bands. No more than 2 acts are playing at any one time!

ADV Tickets are currently only $15 ($10 student) at http://www.endotrend.com
$25 All Access Ticket-Tees (The Day of the event)

Bring your own shirt to associated pre-shows. See the site for details.
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From it’s inception, ENDOTREND has been created as a truly philanthropic endeavor, where local artists, event organizers and businesses give back to the community and help to inspire attendees to become civicly engaged to support non-profits that are doing incredible work locally.

Endotrend organizer, Bands for Lands, has 14 years empowering and motivating audiences at over 300 events around the country! Now BFL is bringing the knowledge back to Denver, with it’s initial vision of staging an event that has the community at it’s heart.

BFL has partnered with Metromix.com, 9News, Groundwork Denver, and Metro Volunteers, to produce this momentous event featuring music, art & film at 2 venues from local to national talent (with an emphasis on local).

Please visit our website and see all the wonderful concepts we are implementing to put our ideals into practice!

http://www.endotrend.com

3 Kings – 60 S. Broadway
TS Board Shop – 135 S. Broadway
Oriental – 4335 44th Ave.
Denver, CO

http://www.denvermagazine.com/culture/2009/07/life-art-daniel-crosier

Vincent Price Presents #11 Hits Store Shelves This Week!

My friend Alex Meyer (www.alexjmeyer.com) did the cover.

I co-write this title in addition to the interiors. Special thanks to Peter Palmiotti for the inks, and Zach Meyer who was the additional co-writer.

It takes any army..and I had a good one. Kudos to all my friends for helping make this project a reality.

I’ll have signed copies for sale on my Etsy store shortly.

Hi Everyone-

The Bart Trade is available for pre-orders now!  Check it out on Amazon. I burned the entire book on blanks on pine- it took a while but it’s got a unique look to it.

Daniel Crosier was featured on Denver’s #1 News station, KUSA talking wood-burned comics.  We’d like to thank everyone at 9News and Dan’s publicist Wendy Manning for getting the segment green-lighted.

Daniel Crosier Featured on KUSA Channel 9

Crosier’s featured pieces include the original cover art and first page from the watershed wood burned comic, Bartholomew of the Scissors from Bluewater Productions.

Show Details:

Runs January 12- February 13, 2009
UMC Art Gallery
CU- Campus-Boulder
Broadway and Euclid
2nd Floor

Gallery Hours: M-F 10:30am-5:30pm
Reception: Thurs, January 15 at 4:30pm
Auction: Friday, February 13 at 5:30pm

The gallery show coincides with a special appearance and speaking engagement from Art Spiegel, author of Maus and the Breakdowns. Spiegel will be speaking on Sunday, January 25th at 4:30pm at the Maky Auditorium. Admission is free.

For more information about the show and other participating artists visit:
www.Colorado.Edu/UMC/artgallery

DAN

Description:

Cartoons: Beyond the Comic Book
December 17, 2008 – January 2, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 10 am – 1 pm Opening Reception
Curtis Arts & Humanities Center
2349 East Orchard Road
Greenwood Village, CO 80121-1570

Featuring the talents of Lonnie Allen, Daniel Crosier, Amy Reeder Hadley, Gerhard Kaaihue, Paul Niemiec, John Peters, John Porcellino, Ron Ruelle and Stan Yan
Daniel Crosier

Daniel Crosier’s studio on Denver’s Blake Street looks more like a trauma ward than an artistic sanctuary.

Shoved into one corner is a latex torso from a horror show, flayed open at the ribs and dripping fake blood onto a model of a severed leg.

On a shelf is a grisly werewolf “cocoon,” fashioned out of plaster chunks, for a movie concept where a human vomits up its own shell and emerges as a murderous canine.

And then there’s the drawing desk, an OSHA inspector’s nightmare. Crosier, 32, may be the only comic-book artist going whose main tools are a miter saw and a wood-burner. Crosier’s work on the “Bartholomew of the Scissors” series consists of wood-burned planks of pine, with the thick grain’s contouring curving across every page like a topo map.

He may also be one of the few comic-book stylists who have accidentally set their pants on fire during welding class. For Crosier, his formative moments at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design were about “having a lot of fun making big messes.”

Colbert, PBS are hip to him

“I learned the integrity of materials and the joy of experimentation,” said Crosier, who grew up in Kersey.

Crosier’s laboratory musings have landed him a couple of book series with Bluewater Productions near Seattle and a fair shot at bigger fame with the likes of comic-book legends Marvel or DC. He’s pitching a new style for the Marvel sorcerer Doctor Strange and is installing a gallery show of his “Bartholomew” wood panels in the Ballpark neighborhood.

He’s now been lauded on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” and PBS’s “NewsHour.” Ain’t It Cool News, the prime website for adolescents and college students who love superhero and horror movies, called “Bartholomew and the Scissors” “bizarrely beautiful,” an endorsement that can move copies.

Another northern Colorado success, gory props maker Distortions Unlimited, is teaming up with Crosier for his next series.

Distortions builds ghastly animatronics for haunted houses and Hollywood that sell for tens of thousands of dollars.

On this project, Crosier will illustrate a series for Bluewater that’s based on the Distortions character Rage, whom he describes as Sasquatch meets the Incredible Hulk.

“Fanboys” are in control

Crosier’s sunny disposition belies the phantasmagoric images he puts to wood and paper. He loved comics growing up but cheerfully acknowledges the misfit, Dungeons & Dragons reputation of self-important comic lovers as portrayed in “The Simpsons” and other pop culture.

Such “fanboys” can be tough on artists who take a new look at Spider-Man, for example, and lament, “You killed my childhood.”

“But those are the fans, and they’re the ones who line your pockets,” said Crosier, sporting a black T-shirt with a white drawing of a Minotaur. He loves the arguments, finding them far more constructive to his art than well-meaning friends who keep saying “It looks cool!”

Crosier’s articulate self-awareness and willingness to collaborate make an impact on his creative partners.

Chad Helder, the Seattle-area writer of “Bartholomew,” said he was skeptical when the publisher suggested a wood-burning illustrator.

“Didn’t get it”

“At first, I didn’t get it,” said Helder, who also grew up in northern Colorado but never met Crosier. “But then I saw the first few pages and I understood what the whole aesthetic was going to be.

“I love that you can see the grain of the wood; you’re aware of the fact you’re looking at wood at the same time you’re inside the story. His art transformed all aspects of the story, and we got along great.”

All artists want a paycheck. Crosier wants something even more specific: a health plan to cover severe asthma and allergies. He says that one allergic reaction, during which he “flatlined,” put him in touch with an otherworldly dimension of artistry and an urgency to finish his work.

But Crosier knows that dungeon-dwelling artists don’t always succeed at promotion and glad-handing.

“That’s why I have a girlfriend who does public relations,” he smiled, sheepishly.

Girlfriend Wendy Manning’s other job is to get Crosier to focus. At any given moment, he’s burning wood, filming a short movie, practicing a swordfight for an ensemble performance art piece or writing a proposal for a graphic novel. The performance art group filmed a sketch called “The PPP,” in which each donned pink robes and hoods.

“The PPP is made up of multi-ethnic homosexuals,” laughed Crosier. “In other words, everything the KKK hates.”

He’s looking forward to feedback from Marvel editors when he finally sends off the new Doctor Strange concepts. Head shaved and eyes intense, he appears ready to take any flak.

“We used to have these brutal critique sessions at art school,” Crosier said. “Half the class would leave crying. Those were awesome.”