Recent Activities

It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought I'd put up some photos of a couple zines I put together in the last few days: WoRM and Encounters.

Conflict: pleased with zine production, displeased with neglected homework.

WoRM is my first assignment from my Self-Publishing course this winter, a zine that doubles as an exhibit. Below are some of the spreads, not all though 'cos where’s the fun in that. Wanna see the whole thing in the flesh? I made some extra copies and they're waiting on my bigcartel just for you.

Next up, Encounters.  Encounters is the latest collab zine to come out of the Inkmaggot studios (aka my hands).

Fully endorsed by Optimus Prime, It’s 24 Pages B&W, each copy has a unique spray paint cover to keep you warm and cozy. Waiting for you are illustrations and comics of “documentation of the extra-terrestrial run-ins of providence, winter 2013.” Whatever that means to you. Works by the following lovely humans: Anita Tung, Jessica Kleinman, Toril Orlesky, Vinnie Neuberg, A.T. Pratt, M. R. Trower (yours truly), and Ivy Bradley.

The truth is out there. The zine is for purchase out here.

Salty n' Fresh Cork Nuts For Sale

Hey! Remember when I was all like "I'm making this thing called Cork Nut!" a while ago? Well I did make it, quelle suprise. Cork Nut #1 is a weird little 24-pager zine which is 75% comics, 15% drawings, 10% monosodium glutamate. It includes all of Bagel as well as other drawings and sketchbook comics from my stay in Montréal. A sort of documentation of a time period, I guess.

WANT ONE? You can get your very own copy on my bigcartel RIGHT HERE!!!

Anyway, pix below...

Lovingly Hand-Bound

Endpaper madness

sketchbook inclusion

Not part of the zine, but a drawing I made on my way to YUL. 

Teef.

I can't recall if I'd already mentioned this, but I'm organizing the creation of two more RISD zines for production at the end of the summer. Since we're adults with important things on our mind, the topics are "teeth" and "poop" respectively. I can't take credit for the topics themselves...but I can't say that I don't approve. Talk about relate-able subjects, right?

Anyway, here's my contribution to the teeth side of the equation. It's partially based on an unusually clear memory I have of wiggling loose a tooth in bed as a kid. I can still taste the blood and feel it in my hand. I wonder how much of this memory is constructed and how much of it actually occurred. I heard on radiolab, I think, that every time you revisit a memory in your thoughts, it loses some accuracy to the true event...until eventually it is just an abstracted collage of other ideas and events made to resemble the original memory.

But, oh, that kid isn't supposed to be me. Would I be so foolish?

Hopefully the other risdoids will start making their things in the coming month and I'll be able to link 'em here (with permission).

Embiggen em.

Pizza Zine!

Introducing…RISD Pizza Zine! In addition to all the schoolwork eating up my life, recently I've been working on putting together a zine! The original idea was brought up by some other awesome illustration students, but I decided to give errybody some deadlines and actually get this made (we have so many other things to do that even really good project ideas often get permanently left on the back-burner and eventually char to a crisp).

 This pretty little thing is the offspring of eight risd isbabies and features 15 pages of luscious greyscale comics and illustrations all related to humanity’s greatest creation - PIZZA. Need I say more? Cover lovingly drawn by yours truly and layout by the superhuman Karen Sung. 

p.s. WANT ONE? HAVE TWO DOLLARS? SEND ME THOSE DOLLARS AND I’LL SEND YOU A PIZZA ZINE!