Hello and welcome to Glenn Chadbourne.com. I've decided to finally vault into the .com world and open this nifty new website. I should have done it eons ago I suppose, but life always seemed to intervene and things came up that took priority; projects, deadlines, life in general, and so I procrastinated. Then, over the previous winter months--which are long and bleak up here in Maine--I finally made my mind up to put something together. With the aid of two talented lads and a bit of time and effort, here we are.

First off, I want this thing to be fun. I've got ideas. Lots of them. I want to offer a host of different things that will be fresh and interesting. There'll be a gallery of my work, past and present, and I'll talk about upcoming projects. I want to offer contests from time to time where people can win prizes, and I want to feature a specialty section that will change monthly featuring artwork created specifically for the site. For example, I might whip up a series of drawings I simply feel like drawing; things I really enjoy. Say, eight or ten pages of werewolf sketches. Maybe a painting to top things off. I may feel inspired to paint something just because I want to paint it, whatever it may be.

I'm very lucky in the fact that I stay pretty busy doing what I love to do, but everything you see of mine in books or magazines was commissioned by and for different publishers. I'd like to create some things that just drip from my own noggin every so often and toss them up here for people to see. I may feature a "special guest star" section every so often. Work inspired by different authors and their favorite or best known stories.

Another thing I enjoyed doing recently, a gimmick of sorts I suppose, was painting haunted portraits of people, their pets or houses. I painted a series of these for Cemetery Dance customers last winter and it was just the cat's-ass fun to take on. I really had to exercise my brain to come up with different ideas for each.

And so I might offer something along those lines; something unique and personalized. There'll be fun and prizes, and a few surprises I'm sure. The important thing for me is to enjoy all this. It's a new chapter, a new genre to wade in to. So come on in and hang. Feel free to drop an email and bat me in the head with any thoughts or ideas--I may take you up on them. I'll be hawking artwork in my little shop. Some signed, some prints, an original every so often, and I promise to keep things interesting.