The 33 Artists
Chapter 01 The Beginning of the End
Cedric Hunter is a visual artist, and lyricist, hailing from South Carolina. He is also the published author of the sci-fi novella, Year Minus. Cedric and I met at the Savannah College of Art and Design. His daughter Asyria is an illustrator and tattoo artist. Listen to the podcast with the artist via the LEVEL 33 Podcast button.
Chapter 04 Firebird Mother
Ash and I met at Lighting in a Bottle Music and Arts festival many moons ago. Ash is a multifaceted person. She is a dancer, painter, writer, fashionista, jet setter among other things. She also holds a wide knowledge on wellness, healing, and mental health.
Chapter 07 The Killer
Jesse Torrey is an artist, philosopher, wizard, swordsman and grappler.
Chapter 10 The Candle
Sergio Navarro-Duran is an illustrator, painter, and muralist living in San Francisco.
Chapter 13 Approaching Epiphany
On the outskirts of the famed Caribbean Sea is the gateway leading to the North Atlantic Ocean wilderness. It’s called Barbados and that’s where Kevin Padmore has spun his tale. AKA Black Cousteau … Kevin is part fish and all photographer. He is a steward of the ocean, a firefighter, and an extremely interesting person.
Chapter 16 Moved
DJ Roshay is an illustrator and musican living in Los Angeles
Chapter 19 Woebegone (Please)
Jackson Dryden is an illustrator in California
Chapter 22 Macabracadabra
Adam Soltau is a DJ, photographer, painter, and teacher living in Los Angeles
Chapter 25 The End of the Beginning
Joel Green is a 3D artist with a background in furniture design. In Portland, Maine he designs and constructs furniture through East Crow Design Company. His recent work utilizes copper printing. Readers may recognize him from the book as one of the members of D, an art collective from my days at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Joel and I got our first apartment together in Savannah.
Chapter 28 - Crypt Tick
William Whittington is a painter and tattoo artist in Arkansas. He owns Tactical Tattoo
Chapter 31 - Cracking the Chrysalis
Brian Oniel is straight outta Ireland. He's not artist. But he makes a mean hot sauce called Scarlet for Yer Ma. I will never be able to spell his last name correctly.
Chapter 02 Innocent Tempest
Theo Bondeaux is a Head of Cinematography at DreamWorks Animation. His credits include The Bad Guys 2 , Trolls 3 and Boss Baby 2. Theo is an avid rock climber, skateboarder, photographer, and a very good friend of mine.
Chapter 05 The Fun in Funeral
Robert Eujean Ogden is from the haunted cornfield mazes of the Ohio landscape. He is an author, musician, videographer, ex-movie studio rat.
Chapter 08 Wildfire
Nicole Ugay is a painter designer working in LA.
Chapter 11 Tiger Picks the Lock
Doug Landry is a tattoo artist and painter living in Portland, ME. He has recently opened his new tattoo shop in the historical district of Portland, ME called Off Hand Tattoos.
Chapter 14 Tragedy Magnet
Noah Haut is a designer, farmer, and family man living in North Carolina.
Chapter 17 Grasping at the Sacral Flame, Accidentally Extinguishing It, Then Rekindling It
Sam Snowden grows weed. He also paints.
Chapter 20 Death Swish
Jason Swisher is a photographer living in Indiana
Chapter 23 Tryst
Bryna Nicole Hubbs is a fashion designer and Robert's favorite human.
Chapter 26 House of Heroines
Orphne Achéron is a mysterious painter in France.
Chapter 29 - A Fifth Ace
Rani Naamani is director of animation at DreamWorks Animation
Chapter 32 - Where a Tiny Spark Still Burns
Cat Fox is an US Olympic gold medalist, fitness instructor, deep diver, painter, and above all, a mother of two. Cat is also the model for the photograph from Chapter 12 - Lovesick where she dove to the bottom of ocean off the islands of Barbados to capture the photograph for the book with aquatic photographer Kevin Padmore, aka Black Cousteau.
Chapter 03 The Night the Stars Fell
Harold Hensley is a musician living in my hometown of Germantown, OH. His folk albums have created quite the buzz. He has headlined festivals and he tours his music regularly as a solo artist. He has also performed in a variety of bands over the years. Including our first imaginary band that we formed in the 3rd grade called Silent Dragons. You can find his music on all streaming platforms or at Magnophone.com.
Chapter 06 Donning the Mask
Davi Anybayn is an artist, web designer, and musician living in LA. He is currently producing music under the moniker Anubayn.
Chapter 09 Philosophy of Fuckery
Steve Gendron is an illustrator and street artist under the moniker Crooked Streetart
Chapter 12 Lovesick
Max Maleo is an art director, storyteller, painter, musician, and fun loving father. He lives and works in Paris, France. Max and I became very close while working at DreamWorks Animation together. As love often does, his dedication to his wife Vanessa called him back to Paris where they live the very coolest life one can imagine. In his spare time Max focuses on his music as he constructs his mission control modular synthesizer. He is now an art director and story writer working on various feature films. There is no end to his creativity, nor to his devotion to those he loves. Somehow through all of this Max has nurtured his inner child and remains a free spirited, rasta monkey-style humanoid.
Chapter 15 Phoenix Feathered Sunset
Susan Olsen is a painter and conscientious eater.
Chapter 18 Lights! Camera! Cut.
Scott Singer is visual artist and filmmaker. Once a coworker of Robert Eujean Ogden at DreamWorks Animation he now focuses on his wood block prints in Chicago.
Chapter 21 A Different Kind of Swan Dive from Even Greater Heights with Absolutely No Parachute
CHORBOOGIE is an aerosol artist in San Francisco, CA. His work is world renown.
Chapter 24 BOO!
Carlos Puertolas is a director of animation at DreamWorks Animation.
Chapter 27 - Turning Off the Light
The Leafriverz are activisits, filmmakers, and artists living in Canana.
Chapter 30 - The Needling
Damon Mueli aka DMON aka Obsidian Tattoos aka The Architect is another multifaceted artist who contributed artwork for Eclipse of the Mourning Star. He is perhaps most known as a master of the tattoo gun. You can find out for yourself by following him on Instagram at DMONTATTOO. I have two pieces from Damon and those who know the art-form always stop to ask me about them. My first close encounter with Damon was something sacred to me. Enough so, to be described in detail as something of a parallel plot climax in Eclipse of the Mourning Star. Damon bounces back and forth from New Zealand to the United States where he has been hustling his buttocks off to support his daughter back in New Zealand.
Chapter 33 - A Phoenix Takes Flight
Antoine Bertrand is a painter living in Paris.