Jeff Pastorek: blog

in association with www.jeffpastorek.com. New Orleans illustrator and man.



I just finished this comic, “Funny Man,” for Leo McGovern’s new Asterisk publication. Word is, the printed product is going to be available at Crescent City Comics’s free-comic-book-day party at 6pm, May 5th.  Crescent City Comics is also now carrying my book, “Quick! Pretend Like You’re Reading!”  The comic features my dog, Giant.  (Click through to read the full comic.)

I just finished this comic, “Funny Man,” for Leo McGovern’s new Asterisk publication. Word is, the printed product is going to be available at Crescent City Comics’s free-comic-book-day party at 6pm, May 5th.  Crescent City Comics is also now carrying my book, “Quick! Pretend Like You’re Reading!” The comic features my dog, Giant. (Click through to read the full comic.)

Here’s my dog.

Here’s my dog.

Enjoy this Emotional Timeline for my “Funny Man” comic! Go emotion-by-emotion as the  tasks bring me on a  roller-coaster of…tasks. The comic format is equally exhausting and rewarding.

Enjoy this Emotional Timeline for my “Funny Man” comic! Go emotion-by-emotion as the  tasks bring me on a  roller-coaster of…tasks. The comic format is equally exhausting and rewarding.

My work, including these monkey paintings, can now be bought at “The Shop” at 509 Royal Street. 

Hippopotamus, Blue Whale, and Basilisk (mythological) from “Realistic Pictures from Natural History” by Johann Matthaus Bechstein, via BibliOdyssey

My new lil’ book “Quick! Pretend Like You’re Reading!” will be available at Avant Garden (December 17th, 11am to 6 pm).  80 pages of drawings and humor; limited to an edition of 100 books; each book hand-stamped and -numbered. $8, or $18 for a book+ 1 piece of its original art. Published by Flopmoore books.

I’m very excited about these invisible mothers. From retronaut. 

I’m very excited about these invisible mothers. From retronaut

A few of the 40 Illustrations I recently painted for Michael Patrick Welch’s new novel, “Y’all’s Problem.”

Available through Amazon.

Albert Brooks

After hearing Robert Popper on The Sound of Young America’s podcast, I remembered how wonderful the one-off Radio Spiritworld podcast was.  Just…delightful.

After hearing Robert Popper on The Sound of Young America’s podcast, I remembered how wonderful the one-off Radio Spiritworld podcast was.  Just…delightful.

I designed a t-shirt for Branch Out, (2022 Magazine Street).
It’s an oyster with a mane of cocktail sauce surfing on a cracker.

I designed a t-shirt for Branch Out, (2022 Magazine Street).

It’s an oyster with a mane of cocktail sauce surfing on a cracker.

New piece for the recent New Orleans issue of I Heart Magazine.
“Map of New Orleans”

New piece for the recent New Orleans issue of I Heart Magazine.

“Map of New Orleans”