My Cousin Dallas: Alone Together

I recently cooked up an album cover for the band My Cousin Dallas. These guys are some good friends of mine from college, and they put together this great little album called "Alone Together". The subtitle is "Songs about pop culture and heartbreak", which gives you a sense of what these dudes are all about. For the cover, I did an iconic, comic book style image of a lonely spaceman encountering another being in the emptiness of space. You can get the album through Amazon or iTunes, or at one of their upcoming gigs.

Mullet River

A while back, musician Jack Norton asked me to help design some characters and a logo for a bluegrass musical act he was developing known as Mullet River. Eventually the Mullet River concept morphed into something else and we did not end up using these designs, but I thought I would share them here since I thought they turned out so well.  

All images in this post are Copyright/Trademark - The Zinghoppers Group.

Mullet River logo featuring Curly Mullet - the background evokes flowing water and sheet music patterns. 

Master character design for the Mullet River mascot Curly Mullet, our banjo playing fish friend.

Grandpappy Norton, a wise and jovial old barn owl.

Grandma Norton, a boisterous yet kind lady barn owl.

Tire Shop Logo

This little logo was done for an aquaintance of mine named Ron Lischeid who plans to use it for an independent tire repair shop he is opening up. As you can see, we went for a cartoony, Flinstones-style stone-age theme. With his beard and buzz-cut, Ron is a really fun guy to caricature. For this one I used a brush instead of a pen, which is a technique I really need to use more often because the line quality is just so much nicer.