Bike Kitchen Poster

Herne the Hunter ditches the demon horse for a banjo.

New illustrations

Darwin n' Putin.

The boys

Two character sketches for Speriments.

Sneaker male

A Bluehead Wrasse "Sneaker Male" I sculpted for my Dad's (belated) birthday. It's the fish he used to study for pretty much my whole life. Here's the story: fish don't usually touch when they copulate. The male and the female swim upwards together, the female spews out some eggs at the male, the male sprays some sperm at the female, things get fertilized and the circle of life continues. However, this allows non-dominant males to rush in when they see some mating about to happen, and shoot in a load of their own, giving them a chance to produce offspring without being the head honcho. These guys are called sneaker males. See, it's a pun. I kind of botched the paint job. Oh well.

Speriments Page 12

Early sketches for a pirate attack on page 12 of Speriments. I'm also slowly working my way through a website redesign.

A wish for fish

A little illustration of a bunch of fish for a Sylvia Earle speech excerpt in the November Commonwealth. All these guys don't live together like this usually but I have "artistic license."

Blog Redesign!

I finally finished a pretty heavy redesign of the blog. I'm kind of field testing the idea on here. If I still like it after a while, it'll spread like kudzu onto my main website. I'll post some actual new drawings and stuff I've been working on later, maybe Monday. Many thanks to citrusmoon for the psychedelically sweet wallpaper background.

Speriments

This is an early sketch of page three of the comic I've been working on with my brother, Toby. It's set in Corsica, and that's the city of Calvi over there on the rocks.

Old Timey

The funny thing is, I actually wasn't supposed to look like Abe Lincoln.

Barry Bonds Superstar

Retiring from the Giants tonight? Maybe last night? Who knows! I don't actually watch baseball.

Behold, the vanity of man

Self portrait, hollering.

Puppet Angles & Boldtype

More views of the puppet heads are up on my website. Also, I wrote the feature for Boldtype this month, on the supersweet Fantagraphics imprint, the Ignatz Series.

Severed heads

Above are the puppet heads for Daniel Featherdown (the former) and Peter Thorn (the latter). Thorn took a week, Featherdown only took three or four days. Thorn, unfortunately, fell on the carpet a lot, since I hadn't made a stand for him yet. That gray stuff on him is gunk he picked up. I just sent them both to Steve to be painted. I'll post more angles of them on my website tomorrow.