I'll update with pictures etc. as I receive them from my photographer, but this week I spent 5 days painting a mural at the Facebook Headquarters!!!  Big shit, yes, and I'll update you on all the good stuff going on surrounding it.  I'm also leaving for a 7 week U.S. tour and will post dates soon... So far I'll be in Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Austin and I'm booked to paint live at the Voodoo Music Fest in New Orleans.  It's been an amazing year so far and there's so much new art to come!

Another Friday during comic con and another night in the Gaslamp trying to find a place to sit at the bar that is going to charge you $15 for a well drink. Well F'K that! This year, a few of us (meaning the top talents in art and music in the city and beyond have gotten together to throw the definitive Fri night comic con 'event'. We'll be pulling together live painters, artists, dj's, circus folk, go go dancers, whiskey bathers, body painters and every other kind of geek and weirdo we can shove into the warehouse, and offering you the chance to spend a night meeting incredibly cool people, and taking in giant art collaborations, perfomances, and killer music! COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!

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TICKETS: $20 PRE SALE ONLY!!! No tickets will be available at the door. To order:

[link]
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HERE'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO SO FAR (more performers, artists on the way!):

--Over 30 artists live painting, including a massive art collaboration that will be raffled off!

--Debut of Schugar and Dietrich's 'Reichenfunk' live art/funk/dj/wtf collaboration

--Superhero body painting by Sean Selfridge [link]

--SolSis Productions presents a new series of comic-book themed art entitled "Welcome to the Slums." Characters and Artists in full action!
[link]

--'Sketch Lounge' (show up with your sketch book and you've got a separate area to do sketch book exchanges etc.) hosted by Pink BoomBox Drink 'n' Draw w/ Lilly Holiday and Anna FireBird modeling!!!!

--FOOD - Gourmet kitchen is open!!! There's an option on the ticket ordering page for dinner. The menu for tonight is:

Vegetable Mung Bean Curry

Green Onion Edamame Rice Pilaf

Sesame Za'atar Spiced Cabbage Slaw

Flat Bread brushed with Roasted Garlic Olive

--Special launch for the new 'The Nazi and the Rabbit' comic book

--FREE PRINTS, GIVE-AWAYS AND RAFFLES for art and more! (you never know when one of the artists will have just one too many whiskey shots and start to throw original art into the crowd!)

--Go Go Dancers - Terina Dance
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ARTIST LIST: (Lots more to be added!!!):

Sean Dietrich [link]
Vincent Gordon [link]
Kai Martin [link]
Jim Chelius [link]
Alan Moorefield [link]
Brittni Stadler
MOFO
Eric Evenson [link]
DeJon Parnell
Janeane Povilaitis [link]
Tracy Black
Dan Mac Issac [link]
Alex Avila [link]
Eyemax ThreeDee [link]
Ukeim Ortiz-Rosado [link]
David Gallegos-[link]

DJ'S/MUSICAL PERFORMANCES:

Ricky Wrecks
ReichenFunk
Schugar [link]
JRockA & Sarai Knowledge [link]
Sudonim [link]
Man Du
OSAL8 [link]
Kombat
BlackAss Ringleader
Knottyboy [link]

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EVENT PHOTO & VIDEO:
Ukeim Fotografia [link]
KP Wedman

SO HERE'S THE UPDATED INFO ON THE AFTER PARTY I'M THROWING AT SAN DIEGO COMIC CON!!!!!  1st 100 people to buy their tickets gets a free signed/numbered print!!!


Another Friday during comic con and another night in the Gaslamp trying to find a place to sit at the bar that is going to charge you $15 for a well drink. Well F'K that! This year, a few of us (meaning the top talents in art and music in the city and beyond have gotten together to throw the definitive Fri night comic con 'event'. We'll be pulling together live painters, artists, dj's, circus folk, go go dancers, whiskey bathers, body painters and every other kind of geek and weirdo we can shove into the warehouse, and offering you the chance to spend a night meeting incredibly cool people, and taking in giant art collaborations, perfomances, and killer music! COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!

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TICKETS: $20 PRE SALE ONLY!!! No tickets will be available at the door. To order:

[link]
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HERE'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO SO FAR (more performers, artists on the way!):

--Over 30 artists live painting, including a massive art collaboration that will be raffled off!

--Debut of Schugar and Dietrich's 'Reichenfunk' live art/funk/dj/wtf collaboration

--Superhero body painting by Sean Selfridge [link]

--SolSis Productions presents a new series of comic-book themed art entitled "Welcome to the Slums." Characters and Artists in full action!

--'Sketch Lounge' (show up with your sketch book and you've got a separate area to do sketch book exchanges etc.) hosted by Pink BoomBox Drink 'n' Draw w/ Lilly Holiday and Anna FireBird modeling!!!!

--FOOD - Gourmet kitchen is open!!! There's an option on the ticket ordering page for dinner.

--Special launch for the new 'The Nazi and the Rabbit' comic book

--FREE PRINTS, GIVE-AWAYS AND RAFFLES for art and more! (you never know when one of the artists will have just one too many whiskey shots and start to throw original art into the crowd!)

--Go Go Dancers
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ARTIST LIST: (Lots more to be added!!!):

Sean Dietrich
Vincent Gordon
Kai Martin
Jim Chelius
Alan Moorefield
Brittni Stadler
MOFO
Eric Everson
DeJon Parnell
Janeane Povilaitis
Tracy Black
Dan Mac Issac

DJ'S/MUSICAL PERFORMANCES:

Ricky Wrecks
ReichenFunk
Schugar
JRockA & Sarai Knowledge
Sudonim
Man Du
OSAL8
Kombat
BlackAss Ringleader
Knottyboy

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View Declines

Another Friday during comic con and another night in the Gaslamp trying to find a place to sit at the bar that is going to charge you $15 for a well drink. Well F'K that! This year, a few of us (meaning the top talents in art and music in the city and beyond have gotten together to throw the definitive Fri night comic con 'event'. We'll be pulling together live painters, artists, dj's, circus folk, go go dancers, whiskey bathers, body painters and every other kind of geek and weirdo we can shove into the warehouse, and offering you the chance to spend a night meeting incredibly cool people, and taking in giant art collaborations, perfomances, and killer music!

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TICKETS: $20 PRE SALE ONLY!!! No tickets will be available at the door. To order:

[link]

Fri, July 13th - 8pm - 21+
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HERE'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO SO FAR (more performers, artists on the way!):

--Over 30 artists live painting, including a massive art collaboration that will be raffled off!

--Debut of Schugar and Dietrich's 'Reichenfunk' live art/funk/dj/wtf collaboration

--Superhero body painting by Sean Selfridge [link]

--SolSis Productions presents a new series of comic-book themed art entitled "Welcome to the Slums." Characters and Artists in full action!

--'Sketch Lounge' (show up with your sketch book and you've got a separate area to do sketch book exchanges etc.

--Food (more details to come)

--Special launch for the new 'The Nazi and the Rabbit' comic book

--FREE PRINTS, GIVE-AWAYS AND RAFFLES for art and more! (you never know when one of the artists will have just one too many whiskey shots and start to throw original art into the crowd!)

--Go Go Dancers
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DJ'S/MUSICAL PERFORMANCES:

Ricky Wrecks
ReichenFunk
Schugar
JRockA & Sarai Knowledge
Sudonim
Man Du
Osol8
Kombat
BlackAss
Knottyboy

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It's that time again!  Time for ol' Sean Dietrich to throw out (or up) his artistic mayhem in the form of a book.  My new book 'The Nazi and the Rabbit' is finally set to release on May 28th!!!!  That's right, we're giving the 'Greatest Generation', and others who've fought for this country to become homeless and neglected, a run for it's money as to why Memorial Day will be celebrated.  

"We, you say Mr. Dietrich?" Oh, did I forget to mention that the man at the helm of the writing is none other than legendary reporter and novelist Richard A. Webster!?  That's right, the man who won prestigious awards for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina by living through it!  The man who redefined the words 'writer', 'journalist', 'drunk', and has actually been able to have a symbiotic relationship with Mother New Orleans, as opposed to being sucked into the mess, scooping up the blood and mucus from the streets, packing as much of the muck into his eye sockets so as not to be blinded by the morning sun.  The man who slugs back Tequila on a Tuesday at nameless dives, dressed as a pink bunny, a sort of 'A Christmas Story' nightmare bunny meets 'Bar Fly'.  Yes, THAT guy.
    
This book will redefine what a comic, a novel and art is.  The combination of the art and writing will be an ongoing development, an experiment, a mold growing in the back of your fridge.   The book will be yours.  Contributions and sacrifices will need to be made.  Victory gardens of poppies and the rationing of sanity will be demanded.  The mental nuclear clock is now set at 1 min 'til twelve.  There is no set format, because it's impossible.  The book will be presented in online format first, for trying to print the book would set the printing machines against their operators.  So until a solution can be found (estimates put that 'solution' to be presented at next year's Seattle Comic Con), it's wise just to view it from the safety of your online vessel.  There's no need to pull money out of already stretched state budgets to pay for S.W.A.T. teams to take down droves of print shop employees, who have been zombified by large format printers that have bitten off their legs, and have replaced their hearts and eyes with ink cartridges.  

So on Monday, May 28th, when the politicians and black hearted are holding their hands to their chests, pretending to give a fuck about those who died for this country, remember to check back for the official launch of 'The Nazi and the Rabbit' website www.nandther.com, and come take a dip in the 'real'.  Come run through the briar with our Rabbit, and then follow him into the dark, depths of the South as his descent into a rotten carrot hell begins.  Bugs Bunny and Peter Rabbit are already blowing Japanese businessmen in back alleys to raise money to buy a train ticket to New Orleans, and see what the fuss is about.  To see who this Rabbit is.  To see why the shiny, black boots of destruction are marching a long way from home, and heading to the deep, deep cereal bowl of alcohol and bleach that lies at the end of the Mississippi River...

Hello!

My name is Sean Dietrich, and I've been a part of the dA community for over 9 years now. In that time I've made some awesome connections and have been able to build up my career to the status it is now--which is a great one! Part of that success is working with incredible artists to help spread the word of what we do, and to help empower up and coming artists by helping them with the business, sales, and promotional aspects of their work. Business talk aside, one of the greatest things we do is tour around the country every summer with Identity Fest, various comic cons etc.,and this year, we've lined up some super cool after parties...

....AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR ARTISTS TO LIVE PAINT AND SHOW ART AT THESE SHOWS!

Basically we have a show in NEW ORLEANS and BROOKLYN right now that we are promoting for. If you are not in the cities listed, feel free to let me know anyway where you are at and there's a good chance we'll be coming through so it's possible that we can set up an event. I'll be updating this thread, and adding a list of cities we will be needing artists for to my journal as we get closer to releasing the promotion for them. So if you are interested in showing your art and doing some live painting, or performing some sort of artistic feat in any way, send me a note, or an email at sean@industriacide.com. I will then review your portfolio and send your info off to our head honcho DJ Schugar, and he'll fill you in on all the details of the who, what, why, where and how.

Thanks so much, we traveled over 20,000 miles last year, through 27 states, over 17 weeks and had an incredible time, and now we would love to help show your work off as well!

Cheers!

Sean

PS - OUR IDENTITY FEST TOUR DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

IDENTITY FEST 2012:

July 19 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
July 20 Elektricity Festival grounds, Pontiac, MI
July 26 Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
July 27 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
July 28 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
July 29 Festival Pier at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA
August 2 Aaron's Amphitheater at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
August 3 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater, Tampa, FL
August 4 Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami, FL
August 10 Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, TX
August 11 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX
August 17 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
August 18 Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA
August 19 Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ

Summer is fast approaching, and once again I'll be on tour across the U.S. live painting with the ID Festival!  Joining me will be VIncent Gordon and Matt Schugar, as well as surprise guest artists.  We are going to be looking for artists to work on rotating murals--we'll get you details as that comes about.  More details on the festival to follow, but for now here's the dates!

IDENTITY FEST 2012:

July 19 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
July 20 Elektricity Festival grounds, Pontiac, MI
July 26 Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
July 27 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
July 28 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
July 29 Festival Pier at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA
August 2 Aaron's Amphitheater at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
August 3 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater, Tampa, FL
August 4 Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami, FL
August 10 Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, TX
August 11 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX
August 17 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
August 18 Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA
August 19 Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ

Previous to this tour, I'll also be at the San Diego Comic Con in the small press section, booth P9 July 12 - 15th!!!
See you there!

So in my many years of selling my art, and dealing with everything from total drunks to serious buyers, I've never really sat and written about my experiences with the art buying public.  I am now at a point in my career where my art is selling for a good amount of money per piece, but not so much that I'm sitting on a really lumpy mattress. When a deal falls through it has quite an effect on my life. The lost promise of food on the table and bills to be paid carries the weight of another shell being loaded into the shotgun that I would love to use on the person who doesn't follow through with the buy. This week I had a deal fall through at the wrong time, just after my transmission blew up, and has sent me scrambling to put back together the financial puzzle pieces that make up my life, although if you have ever lived a day in the life of an artist, that is commonplace.  My feelings towards people who don't follow through with the purchase are as varied as the lame excuses that are heaped upon me year after year in this business.  Some people have legitimate reasons, most just lie.  They are like AIDS infected aspiring porn stars with fake test results.
Now most people feel art is incredibly overpriced, confusing smears of paint on a giant canvas with no obvious or legitimate reason for hanging on the wall of a gallery--the sales rep staring at you in delight as you have taken interest in a piece that he could not tell you what the fuck its back story is.  He just knows that some drunken French guy that died a hundred years ago, painted it during a herpes outbreak on a piece of carpet from a whore house.  Others feel that true art is buying a homeless man's cardboard stick figure drawing, made from the butts of cigarettes in order to justify that all the art that they collect is 'legit' because it's from the streets.   After spraying down the art with Lysol to make sure that they don't contract an ancestor from the dead French guy's affliction, they hang it on the wall, and make use of its social class distance as conversation at a dinner party, wowing their upper class friends with tales of what it's like to walk amongst the downtrodden for the few short moments, outside  of the shopping mall, where the homeless man sleeps.   
So what about the rest of us that fall into the middle category?  Those artists that function in society without total life failure and homelessness, or being dead to help our art carry value.  Those artists who work at Olive Garden or Starbucks, serving people in order to support the basics in life so they have a place to sleep, and a place to work on their artwork in those few precious hours between shifts.  Many of the artists I work with actually take this shit seriously, and expect the buying public to do the same.  Weather we agree with what they are creating, or can definitively call it 'art' is really no concern when you consider that these artists are cutting out a big slice of themselves, and serving it up to you raw.  For those of us, such as myself, that make a complete living on our art, supporting our families, allowing our wives not to work, and trying to build a legitimate business out of our craft for example, the stakes are incredibly high.  The rewards are even higher, which obviously makes it worth fighting for.   
As far as my clients go it's been a struggle to even get a thumb on the pulse of what makes people buy, and what makes them walk away other than price.  I've had plenty of people actually put a deposit down on a painting and then never answer my phone calls or emails to complete the deal.  They actually GIVE their money away for no reason.  Others try to haggle me down to 75% off the price of the painting, thinking that it's a 'privilege' that they are buying it in the first place, and I should open my eyes anime wide and let the tears of joy flow.  Fuck you.  And of course there's the cell phone wielding cheap fucks that walk up and try to take a picture of my art without asking.  The lack of courtesy and class that fills the urban swamp I paint in is immense, and the artists are just as much to blame.  
I think that one of the reasons art and artists are seen as a novelty, is because of their lack of enthusiasm and their lack of ability to price their art at a level worthy of what they are creating.  I did a show recently where a guy was selling his originals for $10 - $20 each.  It was decent enough stuff, but for some reason, making just enough money to maybe get through the day was ok with him.  Now you can imagine the buying public getting excited about those prices, and then walking over to my art and seeing prices that were at $800 or more.  The paintings were 10 times in size and detail, and as well, I have been doing this for a long time and have built up a fan base and reputation, yet these people were cringing at the prices, with a look on their face as if someone had just burned off their genitals.  Hopefully it was because I was putting their current salaries into perspective, and sparking a job hunting revolution, but probably not.  Most artists are pushovers, and I mean that in the most insulting way.  You are.  You who sits there and does the bare minimum and thinks that you have the right to sell your art. You who rehashes the same shit over and over and over because it was the only thing that you could come up with in that foggy brain of yours. Yeah, you who is too scared to raise your prices because you are too insecure that it might not sell, or that it's not worth it.  And you who sits on Facebook and reposts other people's artwork, spiritual sayings, and 'pictures with a cause' in between your offerings, thinking it makes you look more educated about, and more apart of, the 'scene'.  This does no justice in helping the buying public understand that, while art is a necessity in life, art buying is a luxury in a sense that it's not food, clothing or shelter.  Price your art high, and make them realize that the money they spend on flat screen tvs, sports cars, getting chunks of metal shoved through their faces, and shitty tattoos is a waste.   
Art is an investment. Why?  Because, unlike that depreciating liability you drive to work everyday, it goes up in value.  And it does so in style.  That is the great thing about art, if the artist dies it goes up, if he commits genocide it goes up, if he keeps working hard and people keep buying his art it goes up.   It all depends on the artist to keep working hard to make sure the investment keeps going up in value.  But for a buying public that has lost everything in the recession when their 401K's have been wiped clean, their house values have fallen lower than what they owe, and their faith in the banking system is gone, they are looking for alternative places to put their money.  Make sure they try your pockets out.
This industry is a total crapshoot to begin with, as factors such as hundreds of thousands of lost art school students desperately selling their art for rock bottom prices to pay off student loans, and the flood of crap that is the internet make it tough to stand out.   I implore you though, to take a stand and make sure you are charging a price that is fair to YOU for your art.  I beg you to make sure you charge a deposit when someone wants you to hold a piece of artwork for them, and set a date by which they have to pay for it or they lose it.  I grab you by the neck and shake you until you are blue and peeing your pants, if that makes you take half up front and half upon completion for custom work.  Treat yourself with respect and respect for your art will follow.  
So in writing this rant I had hoped to feel better about the individual who committed to buying a piece of art and then flaked, but I don't.  In fact this is the beginning of something great.  Something that will no doubt make me a few enemies, but at minimum I'll continue to get what the fuck I deserve for my art, and will be weeding out those people who deserve to have generic mall posters and landscape paintings on their walls, instead of something savage and intelligent.  A more educated client will hopefully emerge from this social experiment that is also my livelihood.  A client that realizes that when a commitment is made to purchase art, they are not only decorating their walls, but helping to push forward and nurture a talent.  They are paying the artist's rent.  They are feeding the artist.  They are probably buying most artists drugs.  Point being, realize the importance of what you are doing when you spend your cash on art, instead of pissing it away on something that just makes a useless groove in your life's record.

Well, it's been quite awhile since my last journal update, and I shall say now that I will probably not be able to write as much as I want in this one, as I am completely swamped with work.  That is not a bad thing though.  The tour I last spoke of went extremely well!  I got to travel over 20,000 miles across the U.S. multiple times, and painted live in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Now, after the holidays and the ringing in of the new year, I'm well on my way to releasing new art, books, prints, and more!  I am also going to be announcing the tour dates for this summer soon.  My first big convention will be WonderCon March 16 - 18th, which is in Anaheim this year, not SF as they are doing remodels on the convention center.  After that I'll be at the Emerald City Comic Con, always my favorite convention!  Please check out www.industriacide.com for updates on the tour, news and the store  - next week I'll be releasing my whole back catalog of artwork as 18 x 24 and 24 x 36 prints on silk stock or canvas!!  I hope everyone is having a great year so far, and I look forward to presenting my newest and brightest art!

Sean

WELCOME! I'm Sean Dietrich and I am about to embark on a 10, 000 mile U.S. Live Art and Promotional Tour.  I'll be traveling around the U.S. promoting my books 'Bubbles from Atlantis' (Richard A. Webster, writer), 'I Brought the Gutter', my 200pg full color art book, and my brand spankin' new kid's book 'The Fruits of Our Labor'.

I'm packing up my Volvo, hitchin' up my camper, grabbin' the wife and kid and heading out on the open road on a very important mission to spread the word of art across the country.  I live in San Diego, CA, one of the cities in California that is getting hit hard with budget cuts, which include pulling art, music and drama programs out of the schools, as well as firing tens of thousands of teachers. In an effort to combat this, I'm going out on the road to bring art back to the people through live art shows, in store signings, and conventions, as well as working with local charities including Stand Up For Kids and the Boys and Girls Club.  There's absolutely no need for the youth of today to grow up without a proper education in the arts and music, film and drama--and it's NECESSARY for them to be able to develop creative problem solving skills.  So join me in helping any way you can by showing up to the conventions, club events etc. to support, writing to me if you own a club or bar or have an event that you would like some live art at, donate to the cause via my kickstarter campaign (info below), or just emailing me a pat on the back in support of the long journey ahead....thanks so much, I appreciate the years of support already, and I'm excited to start giving back on a level that I've not done before.  Please read below for all info on this killer tour!

INFO:

Sean Dietrich's site [link] - for all information about the tour, my day to day tour blog, art for sale, books, prints, news and more!  (And you can obviously keep checking back on my dA page!)

HELP FUND [link] Click on the link and help donate to the cause.  $1 or $5000 we appreciate it, and any donations above $10 will net you some pretty cool gifts including prints, copies of books, original art and more!

MAILING LIST For up to date info via your email, please click this link to subscribe to the Sean Dietrich Newsletter:

FACEBOOK Follow Sean on facebook here [link]

TOUR DATES SO FAR Many, many, many more to come!


5/31 - Poster Show @ Bar Basic (San Diego)
6/3 - Dragonfly (Hollywood, CA)6/4 - Boys/Girls Club of Linda Vista painting demo (San Diego, CA)
6/5 - Happenin' Harry's Hell Hole @ The Cat Club (Hollywood, CA)
6/12 - Red C Lounge (San Diego, CA)
6/13 - Dubstep Massacre @ 710 Beach Club (San Diego, CA)
6/16 - Switchfoot Bro-AM Charity Auction (private La Jolla Farms Residence)
6/18 - Batcave @ Medusa Lounge (Los Angeles, CA)
6/19 - The Office (San Diego, CA)
6/23 - Beer and Sake Festival (San Diego, CA)
625 - BOOGIE @ Kadan (San Diego, CA)
6/26 - Art Opening @ James Grey Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
7/2 - AMERICANA @ Colosseum Fine Arts (La Jolla, CA)
7/14 - San Diego Comic Con pre convention party @Colosseum Fine Arts (La Jolla, CA)
7/19 - Poems, Rhymes and Tales @ Bar Basic (San Diego, CA)
7/21 - 24th - San Diego Comic Con (San Diego, CA)
7/21 - Samurais and Schoolgirls comic con after party @ 10th St. Theatre (San Diego, CA)
8/11 - 8/14 - Wizard World Chicago (Chicago, IL)
8/20 - 8/21 - Baltimore Comic Con (Baltimore, MD)
9/24 - Jet City Comic Con (Seattle, WA)
10/01 - 1-/02 - A.P.E. Con (San Francisco, CA)
10/29 - 10/30 - Long Beach Comic Con (Long Beach, CA)
11/11 - 11/13 - Wizard World Austin (Austin, TX)
1/28 - 1/29 - Wizard World New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)

That's right I'm launching my first official U.S. LIVE ART TOUR starting July with the San Diego Comic Con!  I'll be attending store signings, club events and conventions bringing my live art and books to you.  Here's the list of dates so far:

7/21 - 24th - San Diego Comic Con (San Diego, CA)
8/11 - 8/14 - Wizard World Chicago (Chicago, IL)
8/20 - 8/21 - Baltimore Comic Con (Baltimore, MD)
9/24 - Jet City Comic Con (Seattle, WA)
10/29 - 10/30 - Long Beach Comic Con (Long Beach, CA)
11/11 - 11/13 - Wizard World Austin (Austin, TX)
1/28 - 1/29 - Wizard World New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)

I am also going to be performing live at clubs in New Orleans, Portland and Seattle - More dates on the way!  IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING ME PERFORM AT YOUR CLUB OR FESTIVAL, PLEASE MESSAGE ME AT sean@industriacide.com for booking.

--keep up to date on tour dates and exclusives at www.industriacide.com or on facebook at www.facebook.com/seandietrich

SEE YOU IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS!

For those who will be coming to WonderCon this coming weekend (Apr 1 - 3rd) I'll be in the Small Press section booth SP60.  I'll have a limited edition WonderCon exclusive print - only 50 available, as well as my new books 'I Brought the Gutter', 'Bubbles from Atlantis', prints and more!  Plus buy ANYTHING on the table and enter to win an original painting that I'll be live painting at the convention.  

Here's a list of my 2011 appearances/tour dates so far....with many, many more to come!


1/16 - (DAY) Los Angeles Sci Fi and Comic Convention (Los Angeles, CA)
1/16 (NIGHT) - Red C Lounge (San Diego, CA)
1/22 (DAY) - MDGOT Music Festival (San Diego, CA)
1/22 (NIGHT) - Batcave/KGB/Industriacide (Hollywood)
1/23 (DAY) - MDGOT Car Show (San Diego, CA)
1/23 (NIGHT) - Red C Lounge (San Diego, CA)
2/15 - 17th C.H.A.M.P.S. trade show (Las Vegas, NV)
3/4 - 6th - Emerald City Comic Con (Seattle, WA)
3/12 - SD IndieFest (San Diego, CA)
3/18 - Batcave @ Medusa Lounge (Los Angeles, CA)
3/20 - Red C Lounge (San Diego, CA)
3/23 - Birthday Party for Kari Ann Peniche of Playboy/VH1 @ Aqua Lounge (Beverly Hills, CA)
3/24 - NOHO2 Studios charity event (North Hollywood, CA)
3/26 - BOOGIE @ Kadan (San Diego, CA)
3/27 - The Office (San Diego, CA)
4/1 - 4/2 - WONDERCON (San Francisco, CA)
4/17 - L.A. Sci-Fi and Comic Convention (Los Angeles, CA)
4/23 - Long Beach Comic Con (Long Beach, CA)
4/28 - R.A.W. showcase @ The Ivy Nightclub (San Diego, CA)
4/30 - Lois Merrill charity event @ EDEN (San Diego, CA)5/7 - GETTING MARRIED!
7/21 - 24th - San Diego Comic Con (San Diego, CA)

I'm leaving this Wed the 22nd to start my month and a half long tour/launch party for my new books 'Bubbles from Atlantis', and my 10 Year live painting anniversary art book 'I Brought the Gutter', starting with the Jet City Comic Con in Seattle.  Here are the dates so far, more are being added as we get closer to Oct.  

9/25 - Jet City Comic Con (Seattle, WA)
10/1 - Fez Ballroom (Portland, OR)
10/9 - Batcave/Club Industriacide (Hollywood, CA)
10/10 - Red C Lounge (San Diego, CA)
10/16-17 - APE Con (San Francisco)
10/23 - KGB @ Dragonfly (Hollywood, CA)
10/24 - The Office (San Diego)
10/31 - Red C Lounge (San Diego)

And of course these book release parties will be booze soaked and filled with live art from myself and some guest artists, give aways, and tons of surprises!  For current info on the tour and books please follow me on facebook @ www.facebook.com/seandietrich.  I'm looking forward to seeing you on the road!

OH, and if anyone in San Fran knows of a club that would let me come and do some live art, let me know, I'm heading down that way the weekend of Oct 2nd/3rd.  

AS FAR AS THE BOOKS THEMSELVES, HERE'S A SYNOPSIS...MESSAGE ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFO ON WHERE TO ORDER AT SEAN@INDUSTRIACIDE.COM.  

"BUBBLES FROM ATLANTIS"
by Richard A. Webster

...is an offensive, rebellious, and, at times, sentimental take on what it was like
to live in New Orleans during the first year post-Katrina.
If Bubbles had a working title it would have been "Fear and Loathing in New Orleans ," as it is the
closest this city has come to approximating Hunter S. Thompson's legendary work of drugged-up
degeneracy and wisdom.
The book combines hallucinatory dispatches written by Webster between October 2005 and September
2006 with articles he wrote during the same time period for the weekly publication, New Orleans
CityBusiness.
"Bubbles from Atlantis" has been described as "a full-throated proclamation of survival and funeral
dirge, the bleeding soundtrack of the post-apocalyptic city. It chronicles the author's struggle to make
sense of the tragedy swirling around him as he becomes increasingly unhinged, addicted, psychotic
and, eventually, paranoid enough to construct a private tomb out of beer bottles and rage. This is the
real story of what it meant to live in New Orleans after Mother Nature made love with the Devil."
Famed San Diego artist, and one-time New Orleans resident, Sean Dietrich provides illustrations
throughout the book, creating images just as disturbing as the words that inspired them.
As Webster said before riding his tricycle off the Crescent City Connection, "I ain't saying there's no
hope but hope better wear a flak jacket."
Excerpt from "Bubbles from Atlantis":
" New Orleans is a bum and an angel, a devil and a wastrel, a genius, monster, moron and master. It is
pearl-white mansions and crack houses in flames. It is song and dance and slashing knives and gats.
Dark wisdom, enlightenment, cool-night brass bands and scorching summer crawfish boils. I caught a
firefly with my mouth the other day. My name is Jack-O-Lantern and I sit on the front stoop smiling for
the parentless children hopscotching on broken-glass sidewalks. I am the ruin and undying hope of the
last-gasp offspring of our crumbling memories."

'I BROUGHT THE GUTTER'
by Sean Dietrich


'I Brought the Gutter' is a journey not unlike Alice's down the rabbit hole, except it's more like sticking
your head down the hole that is a garbage disposal and breaking the switch off in the 'on' position,
while guzzling whiskey and screaming out your desire for fishnets and fried chicken.  It's a raw,
personal and powerful look into the art and times of Sean Dietrich, who over the last 10 years, has
performed live painting at over 700 events.  From the seediest night clubs to large scale festivals,
Dietrich allows you a glimpse into his world of bars, booze, pin up girls, and frustration with the art
scene in this country.   It is truly a tale of one of the most famous artists you've never heard of—an
underground artist who has forged an intelligent art scene for a tiny little beach town with over inflated
egos and a fear of books.

...pause!  

Ok, so I thought that in order to suck up and get birthday wishes I would finally, after a long time away, post some updates about all the neat-O stuff I've been working on.  So, yes, it's not some 'let's disappear for awhile and then show up to be all mysterious and have people miss you thing"--my art career has been blowing up and now it's time to share.  

3 NEW BOOKS:  Yes, finally after 2.5 years, I've got some new publications coming out!  

BUBBLES FROM ATLANTIS!  My buddy Richard A. Webster, who lived through that little rainstorm called Katrina, wrote a book about his experiences, and we will be presenting it to you in all it's glory, with illustrations by me!  Here's the synopsis:

Bubbles from Atlantis is a violent scream for help and a firsthand account of life in New Orleans during the first year after Hurricane Katrina. It is a mixture of memoir-style hallucinations and straightforward journalism, a full-throated proclamation of survival and a funeral dirge, the bleeding soundtrack of the post-apocalyptic city.
One month after the storm, the author, a local journalist, returns to New Orleans, to a militarized, childless town overrun by a rogue police force and populated by dead-eyed survivors, swarms of new-breed insects and the confused, wailing souls of the departed. It is a city tortured by a lingering evil that infects the nurseries and nursing homes alike, tormenting the drunks and saints and wannabe sinners.
As time creeps forward, drawing closer to the one-year anniversary of the storm, New Orleans falls under the spell of racist elves, murder-happy babies strapped with AK-47s, and tender dreams of mass suicide.
Bubbles from Atlantis chronicles the author's struggle to make sense of the tragedy swirling around him as he becomes increasingly unhinged, addicted, psychotic and, eventually, paranoid enough to construct a private tomb out of beer bottles and rage.
This is the real story of what it meant to live in New Orleans after Mother Nature made love with the Devil.
"I ain't saying there's no hope but hope better wear a flak jacket."

I BROUGHT THE GUTTER: Ten years and 800 shows of live painting mayhem  This is the art book I know you have all been crying yourselves to sleep over at night, wondering when the touch of it's papery hands will finally run down your skin.  Crazy stories and over 120 pieces of crazy art.  Here's the synopsis:

'I Brought the Gutter' is a journey not unlike Alice's down the rabbit hole, except it's more like sticking your head down the hole that is a garbage disposal and breaking the switch off in the 'on' position, while guzzling whiskey and screaming out your desire for fishnets and fried chicken.  It's a raw, personal and powerful look into the art and times of Sean Dietrich, who over the last 10 years, has performed live painting at over 700 events.  From the seediest night clubs to large scale festivals, Dietrich allows you a glimpse into his world of bars, booze, pin up girls, and frustration with the art scene in this country.   It is truly a tale of one of the most famous artists you've never heard of—an underground artist who has forged an intelligent art scene for a tiny little beach town with over inflated egos and a fear of books.  

THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOE A delightful children's book written by Rachel Andrews and Lexi Sadler with artwork by myself, pairing fruits and veggies with occupations.  Now you can learn WHAT to do when you grow up big and strong!  


LIMITED EDITION PRINTS

I've released 16 new, limited to 100 prints on a 100lb silk stock and they are gorgeous!  I'll be posting up the thumbs and ordering information in the next few days.  

NEW T-SHIRTS

Got 5 new designs out inspired by 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'

LIVE PAINTING ON THE ROAD!

I'll be on the road this fall in a west coast city near you!  I just got back from some sick shows in Vegas and LA and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.  Had a great time at the CHAMPS show in Vegas--struck up some deals that I'll be disclosing over the next few weeks which include distribution deals and appearances at other shows and in some prominent magazines.  So far it looks like I'll be in LA every 2nd and 4th Saturday for 'Batcave' and 'KGB' at Club Dragonfly on Santa Monica Blvd.  I'll also be at the LA Sci Fi and Comic Book Convention Sept 19th, and I'm driving up to Portland and Seattle to do club dates and the Jet City Comic Con the following week.  Then it's off to San Fran in Oct. for APE and I'm working on a deal to be at the Kush Kon in Denver in Dec.  

I'm sure I forgot some stuff, but this is just a taste of what has been going on in my life and with my career.  Hope all of you are well!!!