Gearing Up Hot Breath Hype

Some items and details slowly emerging, as from the murky waters of an eightball. "The Hot Breath of War" graphic novel is officially going to print, and this here is a promotional postcard for it. Please print up thousands of these on your home computer, on glossy paper, and then dump them on the bathroom floor of the nearest Taco Bell:




Plans are still in the works and in the eightball as to promotional happnins, release parties, gladhanding and the like. My first comics-event of the year is a reading for the gala opening party for the Stumptown Comics Fest , at Guapo Comics & Coffee, Portland, OR APRIL 25th 2008 8pm.
Presented by Guapo Comics and Coffee (6416 SE Foster Road, Portland PH#503-772-3638)and Sparkplug Comic Books the party will include an awards presentation, free food, a book premiere and a comics reading including myself, Sarah Glidden (How To Understand Israel
in 60 Days), Julia Wertz (Fart Party), Minty
Lewis (PS Comics), Austin English (Windy Corner), Theo Elsworth (Capacity),
Jason Shiga (Bookhunter), Liz Baillie (My Brain Hurts) and more.

That's all for now, more soon, hopefully!

back in black

M.U.S.C.L.E.M.A.D.N.E.S.S.

Recently I went insane and took photos of a full-strength company of "m.u.s.c.l.e." figurines. I was inspired by a post on Dan Zettwoch's drawing blog. Here's a couple of the photos from that session:









You can see the rest here

it's already a crazy August but I'm being productive

When I draw late at night sometimes I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about:




Stretch out your legs and dance with Ted Leo all night (it's all right):




recent sketching:


I'm back on the horse working on the new graphic novel, exhibit A:



exhibit B:



exhibit C:



exhibit D:

summertime blogz

comics in process and new sketches

The first two images are from THE HOT BREATH OF WAR

if can, can, if no can, comics

Last week I went to a family reunion on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I went to Kona, Hilo and the volcano, but most of my drawings are from Kona side. That's because it's the more touristy side and therefore lends itself (for me anyways) to more time spent sitting around staring at the horizon. Above: Downtown Kona




Now that I'm back on the Mainland I'm trying to get back into working on my next comic, below are some attempts at that:

aloha I must be going

I have one weekend back home between going to New York and going to Hawaii for a family reunion, and everything I had to do in the interim got in the way of doing very much drawing. It's a little annoying having a years worth (at least) of intercontinental travel squeezed into 3 weeks, but it's an annoyance you sound like a real asshole complaining about, so I won't. I'm excited to revisit my birthplace, and do some drawings of jungles and volcanoes. Below: a few Santa Rosa drawings (click to see them larger)

Last weekend in New York City

I'm startin off this here drawing blog with some sketches from from a few days ago when I was in New York. I am back in Sonoma County, CA now and missing it a bit. Click on the pictures to see them bigger.

Below: Corner of Grand and Havemyer in Brooklyn.

Below: Marcy Ave. in Brooklyn

Above: sketch from Picasso at the Met's "Gaudi to Dali" exhibit.

Below: drawn back in Santa Rosa.