Cover design for a rain-themed comics zine

I submitted this design as a proposed cover for this month's issue of Stumptown Underground, but they declined to print it. Oh well -- I'm pretty happy with it myself, but the cover they chose is pretty nice too, and Katy Ellis O'Brien is a very cool person, so no hard feelings I guess. I should mention that I didn't know what the name of the zine would turn out to be, so I just put "Pouring" in as a placeholder to suggest a lettering style.



It's pretty dark, so you might need to adjust your monitor to see the good parts.

Superman vs. OK Cupid

I drew this for a Portland comics anthology called Stumptown Underground. The theme for last month's issue was "Flight". The excellent dialog is by Jacob Mercy. Thanks, Jackie!



Oh and here's the alternate ending, which is funnier by most accounts but didn't win editorial approval.

Superman is Copyright/TM DC Comics & Time-Warner Entertainment 2009, and is used here without permission or legal justification.

Of Nightmares and Morticians: a nonfiction 24-hour comic in two parts

The first 6 pages recount a recurring nightmare that my friend Liz Spavento really had, and it serves as the first chapter of a semi-biographical book that we hope to eventually complete. If we pull it off, it'll have romance, deceit, premonitions, and more -- so, you know, fingers crossed!








The next 13 pages are based on three guys that actually used to frequent my friend Amy's tea shop in NYC. She insists not only that the events shown here more or less happen on a regular basis, but these these are the morticians' actual names. Squengl, if you're reading this, please let me know if we got the spelling right on yours.

Vacation Comix #2

Last night I was at a party at Jason Van Glass' house, chilling in his hottub and chatting him up about assorted nerdy shit. After a few drinks I pulled out my tablet PC and asked for something to draw. Apparently he'd had this script in his head for a two-page silent comic, and I could have it for free.





Jason Van Glass is a member of the burgeoning "aspiring screenwriter" industry, and I'm looking forward to reading these spec scripts he wrote for It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

P.S. I used Manga Studio since I've been meaning to make myself comfortable with its interface. Long way to go there, but it does do a relatively nice Speedball impression with no effort and I even managed to make it do my panels for me.

Did a guest strip for Jacob Mercy's "Nausea"

Jacob keeps a regular journal in webcomic form over at jacobmercy.com. Last Friday he experienced an unusual lapse in his memory and, since I was present during the missing span of time, he asked me to fill in as the temporary chronicler of his exploits.

Another sort of caricature

I spent my weekend partying at some friends' beach house. Spent all of Saturday evening doing these, and also a 9-panel comic recounting Friday evening which I'm still planning to color.

Popeye

My sketchbook has been busy lately, but rather secret since I'm doing a bunch of studies for VS Comics.

Here's what happens to your body after years of constantly abusing performance-enhancing vegetables:

We're gonna make some promotional buttons!

Just got back from Drink & Draw, where in a few weeks we'll be drawing and pressing our own buttons! I roughed out a few ideas which I plan to clean up and mass-produce.

So hey, if you're in Portland join our mailing list and come to a drink & draw night! drinkdraw.com!

More caricatures

I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons with some very cool and accommodating guys that I know through work. They let me draw these rather-unflattering caricatures, and even posed in imitation of my weak likenesses so the drawings would look better than they really are. Thanks, guys!







Meanwhile I also did a caricature of a cousin of mine -- my mom's drawing her wedding invitation and needs some help with the previsualization. Mom: please apply your own judgment; the eyebrows are too high, which makes her look dumb, and there are other issues as well.



Also here's a business card that I drew a long time ago and never posted. It's the last one that I haven't given away (I'm holding it for Clifton) and I'd have drawn more already except that I ran out of blanks and haven't had a minute to do more cutting. Soon!