Latest West Chester Story Slam poster for April 2010. If you’re in the West Chester area, swing by for a beer and a listen or, if you’re adventurous, tell a story. At the very least you’ll end up on the Youtube (that’s me in the very back. You can’t see me but I’m having a Victory Hop Devil.)

I actually drew this flower guy the opposite but he didn’t fit on the poster that way. So I flipped in Photoshop which beats the heck out of the alternative of redrawing him the opposite way.

A new artist-in-residence will take over in 2011 and I’m hoping to push myself for monthly deliveries of something else yet-to-be-determined creative in 2011.

Background photo is More Grass (Chris Court) / CC BY-SA 2.0

I drew this dog as part of this poster for September’s West Chester Story Slam. Figured I’d, you know, multi-purpose-multi-task.

March 2010 poster promo for the West Chester Story Slam. I missed out on this month’s event due to the threat of snow. You can watch February’s Love Hurts videos here.

The February West Chester Story Slam poster for the theme Love Hurts.

The first story slam even of the year last week was terrific – really impressive how many people turned out and how many had the gumption to get up and tell a story. Here’s Shirley Landis Van Scoyk’s winning story for January’s theme, Embarrassing Moments.

Jim Breslin, local Chester County writer and founder of the West Chester Story Slam contacted me through Twitter the other night asking if I’d be interested in helping put together a promo for the first public Story Slam event in January in West Chester. He wanted fliers/posters to put up around West Chester promoting the event.

Drawing and designing late in the night, I tried a couple of different sketches and settled on this guy. Though he’s a little ‘fangy’ and Star Trek’y I think he does the job of showing a dude in the spotlight telling his tale.

Funny that the theme of the event is “Embarrassing Moments”. After Jim posted the poster around the web, I went about writing this post and did a spit-take on it as I pondered my brother, the freelance financial copy writer‘s reaction to the piece. I noticed that I had misspelled “embarrassing” as “embarassing”. A quick fix and the original is now a collector’s item.

I’m really looking forward to the inaugural slam for 2010 — from a watching perspective. Make sure to get to Ryan’s Pub early enough for a bite to eat and to get a good seat. In the meantime, look out for Jim with a bag full of fliers and a brush with a bucket of paste.

[Diamond pattern background courtesy of bittbox's free textures. QRCode inspired by Tikaro and West Chester's Barcode Building.]