An Unlikely Autocrat

I published a story in Slate on Bashar al-Assad's family. Take a look!

Millie

File under "miscellaneous comics about sadness."

Fallow Fields

Dang! Between being in California, then Wisconsin, then playing catch up, I've let the blog go fallow for over a month! I'm mainly working on The Creeping Things right now. It's 56 pages, and I'm working on getting through the pencils all first before I start in on the inks. That makes for less stuff I can post up here, and I'm 36 pages into the pencils so far. I'll be trying to ink excerpts of it that I can stick up, though, as well as any of the screen prints and commercial stuff I've been doing on the sides.

Above is a three panel excerpt from page 6.

Hurting

A comic I did for a class assignment on coloring earlier this semester. Maybe something I'll pick up again later next year....

I made a store

It's true. I did. You can buy all of my minicomics, as well as a couple limited run screen prints. I also changed up the comics section of my site, so that it's a dedicated page on blog (which will make it much simpler to update) and filled with all my newer stuff, rather than the old crappy comics that were there before.

Two Stories Cover

I was in Montreal for ExpoZine this past weekend and had a blast! Saw wonderful things, stayed with friends and sold lots of comics. In addition to the first non-draft printing of The Man Who Built Beirut, I brought together "Squirrel" and "A Ghost" into a collection I called Two Stories. I even made a creepy self portrait for the cover!

I spent all of today screen printing another mask image. I'll post the one from last month and this new one soon.

Heads and Vans

Some new stuff for The Creeping Things. I've gotten to a good place with the script, and I spent this week working on the prep stuff for starting it. I decided to go with a different style than the one I'd used in these character concepts, so I redid the heads. I wasn't sure about the hairstyles, so I tried a few out:

After settling on a hair style for both of them, I did their head turns:

And finally, I roughed out a quick drawing of them standing to get a better idea of proportions and early costuming concepts.

A Volkswagon Vanagon also figured pretty prominently in the beginning of the story, so I did a some studies of one from a few different angles:

Right now I'm working on printing out two new mini-comics. The first is a revised edition of The Man Who Built Beirut, and the second one is a collection of A Ghost and Squirrel, both revised, with a sweet cover. I'll be hawking them up in Montreal at ExpoZine, along with a new screen print. I'll post some images once I'm done with the production.

A Ghost

Character Studies from "A Ghost"

Some character sketches from the 8 page comic I'm working on now, titled "A Ghost." I'm set to wrap it up later this week or early next week, and I'll post it then.

The Man Who Built Beirut

Squirrel

First Creeping Things Sketches

The first character sketches for what I'm hoping will become my thesis project, tentatively titled The Creeping Things

Overconfidence

A monster, as promised