Strip Mall

I'm still making short strips for RISD's online paper. It's nice to have a very small space to experiment with story/composition/colouring without much pressure. Also included below is a submission for a the "L O O M" zine curated by a couple of risd students.

Drawing along...

More Eik (first two are consecutive spreads, the third is from later in the story)..it's coming along. And now 52 pages long!

It's a very comics fall.

Below: Two random spreads from Eik and my first strip to be put in the All-Nighter once it restarts up.

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.