Eik is still coming

I swear! (proof below)

What I'm doing with my life currently.

Usually when I'm bad at blogging, it's cos I'm too busy doing real actual things in the physical world to document them in the digital one. No exceptions here. I wanna take a couple seconds here to explain what's eating up all my time.

This fall I'm doing a collaborative independent study with Myken Bomberger and Anita Tung, mentored by the great Paul Karasik. We're each doing 30-50 page comics which will eventually all sit side-by-side in an anthology this winter. My comic has the working title of 'Eik' and is a kind of confusing complicated story about a character in another universe who repeatedly breaks up the social hierarchy and pays the price. But it's also about drawing little weird characters running around and trying to communicate in frenzied pantomime (metaphor for my life?). It's super intimidating since I've committed myself to 50(+?) pages and time is already ticking away.

I've made a bunch of process work in developing this so far, so enjoy some random images from the first stages of development.

Some Character Designs (Eik is top Left)

More character business

thumbnails pt. 1

thumbnails pt. 2

Working on using sketchup to create buildings/perspective to save time. Also sketchup is apparently a good skillset to acquire.

Psst...

wanna spy on the creative process?

shhh

First SPX!

This past weekend I went to SPX for the first time, and it was so great. I came back with a bunch of great comics and about 400% more psyched than I was going in. Below you'll find a silly sketchbook comic I made to document the event as well as some photos of *part* of my haul (Includes a signature from Chris ware on the copy of Lint I brought along from home).

 

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. 

Human Assembly

En bas, you'll see Human Assembly, my submission for Lodacal Comix #7. NSFW, hide the children. Actually don't, it's nothing they haven't seen before.

Also included in this post are some sketches from coffee shops (Olimpico, Club Social) of late. I'm struggling with a recent addiction to the iced soy lattes from Club Social. They're a reasonable size (unlike any American drink) but very sugary, and they emerge from some sort of sweetened coffee slushie machine. I gotta get back to my black allongés, it's far more respectable.

By the way, it's over.

Here it is, the last page of bagel. It's sickly sweet so make sure to brush your teeth afterwards. Bagel and other drawings/sketchbook things will be included in a little zine-y type thing I'm gonna print once I return to providence, entitled Cork Nut #1. Cover is below!

Let's just have this moment last forever

Me and my bagel, in rapture, for eternity. Or being in Montreal. I'm not looking forward to leaving this place!

Below you will find page 10 of Bagel as well as a couple snippets from the first three pages of another (4-page) comic I'm working on right now called Human Assembly. NSFW.