Creeping Excerpts

Here are a few excerpts from the finished pages of The Creeping Things. I'll be doing final edits and getting the whole package together in the coming week.

In other news, I was interviewed (along with a bunch of other students) for a New Hampshire Public Radio program on the Center for Cartoon Studies. I also got a cool scholarship courtesy of the pinball machines in CCS' media room! It's been a good week.

Cartoon Picayune Cover

Meant to post this last week, but I did the cover for the Spring issue of Josh Kramer's awesome Cartoon Picayune. It's debuting at TCAF in Toronto, and it'll feature The Man Who Built Beirut in it. It'll also be for sale at CAKE in Chicago and SPX in Bethesda. Go read Josh's post for the full rundown!

In other news, I finished the inks for The Creeping Things about a week and a half ago. I'll post some more previews of it in the comics days, as I tweak and clean it and figure out what to do with the sucker.

A Couple Creeping Pages

A couple preview pages from The Creeping Things. This is the spread from pages 2-3, which leads into page 4. I'm a little more than half done with the inking, and I'm really, really, really enjoying working on it.

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