Ahh well, I was reminded that I should be posting here by my pal Eli Bishop. He's totally right..
Just finished a full color two page story that will hopefully make it into the next Kramer's Ergot. I'm pretty proud of it. It's the first comic I've done all in the computer that I felt really happy with. My Jotu comic is an earlier experiment with drawing in the computer, but the new story, called "hurricane" is much more accomplished, in my opinion. If it's rejected from KE #4 I guess I'll just post it at studygroup12.com, since there aren't too many other outlets for full color comics these days.. Hopefully you won't get to see it anytime soon. ;)
Now that that story's done, I'm starting work on a solo comic, currently untitled, to be finished before the next Studygroup12 starts production.. The main chunk of it deals with the main character from my story in Kramer's Ergot #3. Wish me luck, I've been needing to do my own book for a while now, and this is it.
In printmaking land, I'm working on some intaglio that I'm not too excited about right now, so I doubt if anyone else will see it. Who knows, it's good practice at least. Also, I'm painitng, and I'm very excited about the results so far, but I've never been a painter and really never thought about it until recently.. Anyhow, I'm sure all the real painting mestros out there would laugh at my attempts, but i'm having fun. Who knows what will come of these paintings..
I've been filling up my sketchbook, too. Maybe I'll post some of that soon.
TIME - Andrew Arnold - MoCCA Go Go Andrew Arnold wrote about the MoCCA festival in his latest column, and he even mentioned the new Studygroup12 in it. We're the 1st of 3 images selected for the article! Big ups to Megan Kelso for dragging him to our table...
Mocca was a blast. met so many peeps and sold and traded many copies of the new Studygroup12.. here's some pics:
The lovely Andrice Arp, editor of Hi-Horse and contributor to the new SG12...
Me and David Cross from Mr. Show He was just wandering around lost.
Ellen Linder of Little White Bird/ Megacom looking saucy.
Gabrielle Bell and Jeff Mason at the Alternative Comics booth.
Jason Little (Jack's Luck Runs Out & the upcoming Bee Comics collection from Pantheon) looking snappy in his sailor outfit. You can't see his socks suspenders.
Dave Kiersh, Dan Moynihan and friend laugh it up while looking at the new Studygroup.
Kim Dietch is angered by my flash..
Brian Ralph and Kurt Wolfgang at the Highwater table.
The ultra-talented and super nice Megan Kelso gives me MONEY!!!
Josh Simmons (happy) and Renee French (Marbles in My Underpants) with their publisher Chris Staros at the Top Shelf booth.
View of the second room from behind my booth.. That's the great silkscreener Sara Varon with the bald head there..
Me at my table late into the day, delerious from lack of food and water, about 20 minutes before the end of the show.
Me and Talice assembling books the night before the show (of course!)
I've been doing most of my infrequent Blogging at Killoggs lately.. So I haven't posted anything here at the studioblog for a bit.
updates: I finished that woodcut a week or so ago. It's pretty cool, I guess. I'll try and get a picture of it to put up here when I can.. It's not perfect by any means, but it's definitely gotten me excited about doing more relief in general and woodcuts in particular. And working BIG! I'm gonna make more big woodcuts! ***** I spent more money than it's worth getting that image and two smaller silkscreens (here's the image for one) ready for the "Student Art Show" here. What a joke.. The student show here is always horrible. Every moron and their cousin submits every half assed piece of shit they did in the last year (I'm no exception) , from art structure assignments to first semester paintings (ie the first painting someone ever does!). To make matters even more sad, they have now gotten it to the point where there is a "pre-juried" show where you can see everything submitted, so as to keep anyone from feeling less than worthy. So, if things are like last year, you go and see a bunch of crappy art with some decent stuff, and when you go to the show you (meaning I) get angry at the "jurors" when they somehow manage to leave out the coolest stuff (not mine, other people's.. my prints are not a factor in this rant since I always seem to get something in.. this is not an ego thing..) and have plenty of the absolute worst kitchy artwork up instead, making the "real" show only slightly better than the pre-juried one. Actually, almost worse, since some of the best stuff is missing at that point.. Whatever. This years show looks to be no exception, although the pre-juried show revealed even less semi-decent artwork than last time. There's barely enough good/decent stuff there to make a small show, so hopefully with the narrowed field, there's less outright crap in the finished product. HAAAAA ha. It's a losing proposition to even care about that show, so I have no idea why I just spent those minutes writing about it.
in other news, my current to do list includes: getting the next Studygroup12 ready. getting another piece of wood ready for the knife. making a deck of silkscreened playing cards. figuring out how exactly to make a 3D comic. and passing my academics that I pay too little attention to.
So let's see: Everything seems a lot better since I'm not feverish and phglemmy, I sent off some comics to my pal Sammy Harkham of Avodah press- publisher of the comic antho Kramer's Ergot. He'll be selling copies of Studygroup12 #1 at APE in San Fransico this weekend. He should also be pimping Kramer's Ergot #3 at ape, which has a 2 page story by me and a bunch of stuff from other more talented people in it, like neil fitzpatrick, sara varon, stefan gruber, mark burrier, kathleen lolley, ben jones, joe grillo, sammy harkham, mat tait, and anders nilsen(aka abel brekhus). Some of whom are also going to be in SG12 #2... Kramer's Ergot # 3 will be exciting I think, 130 pgs, 7.95$..
I've started doing relief printing again for the first time in almost a year, doing woodcuts and scaling back to Black & White for a change of pace. I'll be posting the results here as soon as possible... I'll still keep doing weird colored digital stuff, and working on comics/ towards SG12 #2. I'm all excited, because I really love relief and carving. I also just got this new set of japanese carving tools so, as they say in France, "It's On."
Well, it seems that the illness I thought might be the flu turns out to be Pneumonia! oh happy day. I'm still fucked up, coughing my lungs out, but I'm on this super powerful antibiotic called z-pak or something, so I'll hopefully live through it. Just in time for school, which started this week.. All I do is sleep & cough, wake up from my coughing and find myself sweating horribly, then go to my classes and cough & sweat through those. I guess it's all for the best. At least i'm supposedly not contagious.
While I've been illin', I've watched Citizen Kane 3 times, once with Talice b/c she'd never seen it, and twice with the different commentaries by Peter Bogdanovitch and Roger Ebert. I also watched the documentary that came with it. I guess everyone knows how good that movie is....
I've also seen, among other things, Legally Blonde (and watched it with commentary- what else am I supposed to do when I can sleep for coughing?), the Sweet Hereafter, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and other random things. I only really wish I had cable when I'm bedridden.
He was just wandering around lost. 
