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Friday, August 4, 2006
I'm on e-hobo!
I've just illustrated two of the seven hundred hoboes listed in John
Hodgman's book,
The Areas of My Expertise. They are available for viewing at
e-hobo or flickr. ps: the book is very good.
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Mail Art
We donated some art to the
Trunk Space's Mail Art show. Here are the images I was responsible
for:
Gretchen provided this
self-portrait:
And here are some shots of the artists in front of their works:
Click an image to see the full version.
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
New Features: Ballpoint Fury & Fan Art
The Sketchbook section of my website has been reborn as a new feature to be
known as "BallPoint Fury."
The new design will allow me to update this section weekly as well as allow you
all to leave comments telling me exactly how badly I need to learn to draw.
Also included in this redesign is the
Fan Art Page. Please take
a look at what everyone has been doing and send in your submissions.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
New sketches, also
Just in time to be three weeks late for Election Day, the
sketchbook page now includes
a series of voting-related drawings.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
New art from the people
New Fan Art is available for your perusal
here. Don't be the
last on your block to submit your Jive Turkey fan art! Click
here.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
the fans have their art, too
Our newest addition to the web page family is this
fan art page and the
inaugural piece of Jive
Turkey fan art. Look back semi-regularly for updates.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
the big Z, issue two
Just this past Saturday, I attended an informal 24 hour comic day with some
friends from my last 24 hour session.
Brandon, from
Male Pattern Radness was
responsible for getting me invited. Thanks must also go out to
Jackie and Eric and
Blue. While my results were encouraging, I did not make it for the full
twenty-four. I don't think I can honestly put out the big Z issue two with
the "24 hour" label, but I finished 14 pages before falling asleep on the floor.
I woke up at about 6:30 in the morning and finished two more pages, but that
leaves eight pages to squeeze in somewhere. What's in it you ask? Some new characters in wacky new metafictional situations, plus the return of Jive Turkey! Yay! More news to follow.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Friday night at the bookstore
We just attended a reading at Changing
Hands by Sal Plascencia and Jack Pendarvis. They were both quite good
and their respective books are definitely worth your pocket change. Sal
read from
The People of Paper, and Jack read from his not-quite-released book,
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. If you ever have the
opportunity to meet Mr. Pendarvis, ask him to show you his excellent Oliver
Hardy impression. Sal's book has multiple narrators, so he employed
multiple readers dressed as beekeepers.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
more to look at
The slow evolution of this page into an actual content-carrying website
continues over on the Art page.
New arrivals will be coming every few days as I handpick items from my
sketchbooks that amuse me.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
the big Z is online now!
You are hereby invited to visit my newly added
ART page which contains my
recent 24 hour mini comic, "the big Z." A
24 hour comic is an artistic challenge
to create 24 pages in 24 hours. Mine was completed at
Samurai Comics in Phoenix back in
April. Enjoy!
Monday, October 3, 2005
Mein Schnurrbart kann die älteren Menschen überwältigen
In recent news, at the last Modest Proposal
show, I was the winner of the Mustache Contest. I won a plethora of prizes from
the Georgia Egg Council. My
powerful, handsome, yet ultimately-temporary mustache earned me the stage name,
"The German Tourist." To pay tribute to this new name, I visited
freetranslation.com and came up
with the title of this post.
Monday, September 24, 2005
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