BodyWorld

pills

2009-06-30T10:16:00.002-04:00

Ruppert

2009-06-18T14:12:00.002-04:00

French TMM from Ca Et La (best version)

2009-06-16T23:26:00.002-04:00

UM Bookends

2009-06-15T11:29:00.002-04:00

Frames

2009-06-12T18:47:00.001-04:00

TCAF

2009-05-07T14:33:00.002-04:00

I'll be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend. I'm on a couple of panels.
I'll have copies of "Torture Hospital 1" at the Picturebox table but mostly I'll be walking around.

Two New Short Stories

2009-04-06T11:56:00.002-04:00

Above: from the 9 page "Blind Date 1."

Below: from the 16 page "The Uncanny Reproduction."
Both will appear in a forthcoming short story collection.

April Readings

2009-03-23T17:39:00.004-04:00

April 12th:April 15th to 17th:
I will be participating in the Emerging Writers Festival at Frankin & Marshall College.

Torture Hospital One

2009-03-19T19:56:00.005-04:00

"Torture Hospital One" is now available at the Desert Island Brooklyn and online store.
Two-color silkscreen 11 X 17" print and a 14 page 11 X 17" comic. An edition of 40. Each print has hand-torn edges and was painted on, so they're all slightly different. This is the first of a trilogy.
Torture Hospital One (40 copies)
Notes for Torture Hospital.
Torture Hospital Two (50 copies) (forthcoming)
The complete layouts for Torture Hospital.
Torture Hospital Three (forthcoming)
The mass-produced book.

Old Work 3

2009-03-06T18:43:00.002-05:00

Moving into early college. Freshman/Sophomore year. Worst comics ever. Unfortunately still haunt me to this day.

A large comic/painting thing that I threw out after finishing:

Making The Abyss/ Mome 14

2009-03-05T19:15:00.003-05:00

In the most recent Mome (#14) , my story "Making the Abyss" was printed out of order accidentally. The second page printed was supposed to be the last page. That's why it says "end" at the bottom of the second page. This mistake also threw off the corresponding page spreads throughout the story.

Above is the first spread as it should have appeared.

It will be printed correctly in a forthcoming collection.

Old Work 2

2009-03-05T11:20:00.003-05:00

This is one of the illustrations I did for The Richmond Times Dispatch "inSync" supplement while in high school. This was a weekly gig.A funny high school photo while I was in Japan. I am the only one smiling. Also the only non-Japanese person.
The cover and a page from a comic I did called "Shippori" senior year of high school. A Xeric grant loser.

More crap tomorrow.

Old Work 1

2009-03-04T17:11:00.011-05:00

I did a long interview a while ago, for the Duke University show, that now appears in the most recent Comics Journal. I dug up and scanned a bunch of old work to run alongside the interview.
However when the interview was printed they didn't use any of the images, just "Mome" pages and random things that they had around the office I guess.
So I'm taking some of what I scanned and posting them here, in multiple posts, for a few days.
First up: a very early (first?) comic that my dad wrote and I drew. It's my dad's handwriting on the bottom of the pages and he probably helped me where I wrote words at the beginning. In its entirety!

More crap tomorrow. Moving into more embarassing territory.

My Entire High School... Sinking Into the Sea!

2009-02-26T22:59:00.003-05:00

The first two pages of a ten page short story I just finished for a future volume of "Mome," the Fantagraphics quarterly anthology.

Bottomless ex libris

2009-02-21T12:15:00.002-05:00

For the Paris "super heros" comic store.

French Bottomless on Iphone

2009-02-18T17:56:00.004-05:00

Kaz took this photo at Angouleme. Thanks, Kaz!

Final Chapter- BodyWorld concludes

2009-02-10T23:06:00.002-05:00

All of Chapter 12 is now on the main page.
This is the last BodyWorld chapter.
Warning: Maybe it will take a while to load. I wanted to put the entire chapter on one post/screen.

New BodyWorld pages- Chapter 11 Concludes!

2009-02-03T09:30:00.001-05:00

The conclusion of Chapter Eleven is now on the main page.

Next week will be all of Chapter 12, the final chapter, in one single update.

New BodyWorld pages

2009-01-25T00:11:00.002-05:00

Chapter Eleven continues on the main page.

This is early due to my France tour.

Show & Tell: Torture Hospital layout book

2009-01-21T19:59:00.004-05:00

For Christmas, Jane made me a book to do all of my layouts for a murder-mystery comic I'm working on in.
It's designed for each page to be a spread of the book. It's awesome.

New BodyWorld pages

2009-01-20T00:03:00.003-05:00

Chapter Eleven continues on the main page.
Next week's pages will go up Sunday, earlier than usual, because of my France trip.

I finished a new 8-page mini for Angouleme. It's a ditty of Humorama-style gags featuring BodyWorld characters and I'm selling it for a dollar. Color covers are scraps from BodyWorld photocopies (I sometimes paint over computer photocopies so I can work over computer colors.)

Jesse Moynihan's "Forming"

2009-01-16T08:08:00.004-05:00

My friend Jesse Moynihan is starting a weekly webcomic, "Forming":

http://jessemoynihan.com/

His writing always makes me laugh. Check out the "Future Me" comic in the "other comics" section and also all of the Kime Agine strips.

He has a secret 100+ page hilarious, moving comic book that's yet to be published. The above image is from his Meathaus SOS story.

webcam portrait

2009-01-15T13:26:00.002-05:00

I made a two second webcam-ish animation and put it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbvdd2TFlgQ

New BodyWorld pages added

2009-01-13T00:01:00.001-05:00

Chapter Eleven continues on the main page.

France Tour

2009-01-09T11:42:00.005-05:00

Above image by Phillipe Druillet.
Here are my tour dates for the French Bottomless Belly Button:
Tuesday, Jan 27
Librairie Super Héros175 rue St-Martin, Paris (3e) from around 4 pm to 8 pm

Wednesday, Jan 28
Librairie Millepages133 rue de Fontenay, Vincennes (near Paris)from around 4.30 pm to 7 pm

Thursday Jan 29 to Monday Feb 2
Angouleme International Festival(ca et la's booth in the « New World » Pavillon)

Tuesday, Feb 3
Librairie La Réserve à Bulles76 rue des Frères Barthélémy, Marseillefrom 4 pm to 7 pm

Wednesday, Feb 4
Librairie Expérience5 place Antonin Poncet, Lyonfrom 4 pm to 7 pm

Thursday, Feb 5
Librairie Album84 bd Saint Germain, Paris (5e)from 4 pm to around 7 pm

Friday, Feb 6
Librairie Multi BD122-124 Bd Anspach, Bruxelles (Belgium)in the afternoon

Saturday, Feb 7
Librairie La Parenthèse19 cour des Arts , Nancy from around 3 pm to 6pm

I will have a few Cold Heat Specials I did with Frank for this tour. I hope to have a new mini too, but I don't know if I'll be able to get around to it before I leave.

Side note #1:

I was asked to be on a panel about character designs at the New York Comic-Con. I enthusiastically agreed, but realized later that it overlapped with my France trip. I cancelled, but it looks like I'm still listed on the New York Comic-Con programming. I won't be there. I wish I could. I'd love to hear what people have to say on this subject.
Side note #2:

BodyWorld scheduling will get wonky around my trip. I'm going to post a couple of days early (Sunday) the week of the 25th, and then a day late (Wednesday) the second week in February. I don't know if anyone cares or would notice, but there you have it.