Recent Doodles/Drawings for May 2008.

New Painting - "Pan-Fried"

This is a painting - also with India ink - I did in the bottom of a pan.

Brunetti, Hankiewicz, Onsmith Lecture This Thursday

I will be giving a lecture this Thursday night (May 1st) at Columbia College Chicago along with Ivan Brunetti and John Hankiewicz. We'll be talking about our work and a bit about self-publishing comics. The lecture will be at Columbia College's library on the 3rd floor (624 S. Michigan Ave.) from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. (Above image is from the poster for the event.)

"S.T.O.M.A." Exhibit this Saturday!

I'll have work in an exhibit this Saturday (one day only) called, "S.T.O.M.A." - curated by Paul Nudd (he drew the postcard above). Here are the other artists in the show with links:

Keith Herzik
Joyce Polance
Edie Fake
Andy Bolus
Brian O'Dell
Jean-Louis Costes

Photos from the "Off-Kilter Comics" Exhibit

I've uploaded some photos to my Flickr account that I took of the exhibit I curated in Minneapolis called "Off-Kilter Comics" as well as the signing I had with Ivan Brunetti, John Hankiewicz, and Zak Sally.

Above are some photos of the opening taken by Terry Beatty. You can see more of the photos from the opening at his blog. Here are even more photos of the opening. There was also a nice write-up of the show in the Southwest Journal from Minneapolis.

S.T.O.M.A. Exhibit, Curated by Paul Nudd

This is the poster I did for Paul Nudd's "S.T.O.M.A." show that I'm in. The rest is explained on the poster itself.

"Off-Kilter Comics" Exhibit & Signing - Minneapolis, MN

I am curating a show at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design called, "Off-Kilter Comics." The exhibit features over 70 works including original comics pages, prints, and original drawings by:

Ivan Brunetti
Lilli Carré
John Hankiewicz
Onsmith
Zak Sally
Dan Zettwoch
Above is the front of the postcard for the show and here's the back with additional info:
I'll also be signing books with Ivan Brunetti, Zak Sally, and John Hankiewicz at Big Brain Comics on April 5th from 3 to 5pm. Here's the flyer for the event:

My most recent doodles/drawings.

New Drawing: "Rural Route"

This is a new drawing I did with ink-wash and a touch of colored pencils. I apologize for my crappy digital photos (the lamp light probably didn't help much either).

Hotwire Comics #2 - Out in February 2008.

Here's the cover for the upcoming (Feb. 2008) Hotwire Comics #2 that I have a four page comic in. The cover is by Tim Lane and the anthology is edited by Glenn Head, featuring new material from Mark Newgarden, Ivan Brunetti, Johnny Ryan, Stephane Blanquet, R. Sikoryak, Sam Henderson, and several others. There's also a new website for the series and you can see samples from this upcoming issue here. Below is a sequence from my strip for the issue, entitled "The Candy Rod."

New Doodles...

The first two are Sharpie and litho crayon and the third is litho crayon and brush-pen.

New Illustration for The Common Review.

This is an illustration I did for the Winter 2007 issue of the The Common Review. It's accompanying an article about a college professor who takes his class on a trip to Europe, but his students don't take in the culture and sights and instead party and goof off.

Recent Prints: Woodcuts & Screenprints...

This is a woodcut print I did at the beginning of this semester called, "Laborer and Monkey-Wrench". The block is 16"x20" and was more work than I had anticipated, but it's nice to work in a larger scale for a change.

This one is a two-block woodcut print called, "Peepholes". Both blocks measure at 9"x12" and were printed with water-based ink.

"Duel with Oklahoma" is a two-color screenprint I did in an edition of 40. It's on "speckletone" 100lb. French paper measuring at 12.5 x 16.5.

Finally, this is "Perspire/Expire", a four-color screenprint from a drawing I did previously. This is for Paul Nudd's "Corpus/Corpus" zine and print collection which will feature Nudd, Mike Diana, Greg Jabobson, Bruno Richard, Anne Van der Linden, Mariano Chavez, and others. I still feel like it's crazy that I'll be sharing "space" with these ridiculously talented folks, but Paul Nudd asked and I jumped on the opportunity.

I apologize for the poor photos I took with my 5 year-old digital camera, but at least you can get the gist of what these prints look like.

Fake New Yorker Cover.

This is a fake New Yorker cover I did for a class. I figured I'd do it over Halloween, as it was recent and on my mind at the time I got the assignment. I have plenty of other stuff to post here, but it's just a matter of scanning and uploading, so come on back soon.

Illustration for The Common Review.

This is an illustration I did for the Fall 2007 issue of The Common Review. It's accompanying an articled entitled, "Who Wrote Frankenstein?" (Mary Shelley or Percy Shelly).

New Dumb Drawing.

New Drawing.

Recent Drawings.

Kevin Scalzo's "Sugar Booger" #2.

I did a "pin-up" drawing for Kevin Scalzo's new issue of "Sugar Booger" and it also features pin-ups by Eric Reynolds, Jacob Covey, Anna Klein, and Joshua Vrysen. To order your very own signed copy of Sugar Booger #2, go here.

Bhopal Ink Wash Drawings.

This is a series of ink wash drawings I did for an Environmental Science class project on the 1984 MIC gas (methyl isocyanate) disaster that happened in Bhopal, India. A pesticides plant in the heart of the city (owned by Union Carbide and currently owned by Dow Chemical) malfunctioned and released approx. 40 metric tons of this gas into the city, killing 3,000 people and in the coming years, another estimated 15,000 to 20,000. Neither Union Carbide nor Dow Chemical have given proper compensation nor cleaned up the site. Although these images aren't necessarily accurate, I wanted to choose a sequence that would help sum up the event and its history. The third image shows Warren Anderson, the CEO of the old Union Carbide Corporation, who still has homicide charges against him from Bhopal.

In Memory of Sol Lewitt...

Here's an illustration I did a while back in memory of Sol Lewitt.

Recent Doodles...

All of these were done with colored inks, India ink, and markers.

New Illustration...

(Click for larger version)
This is an illustration I did for a class project. We were to illustrate four different "ism's", such as capitalism, hedonism, cannibalism, masochism, etc.

New Paint and Ink Drawing.

Abstracted Factory Worker.

Here's a drawing I did as an extra proposed sketch for a class project. I was looking at some Stuart Davis art and just kinda threw this together (it's not fantastic, but I just figured I'd share it). It's Prismacolor markers and Sharpies.

Paying Tribute to Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl...

This is a drawing (click for larger version) in tribute to Woody Guthrie's "Dust Bowl Ballads." I did it with India ink and colored pencils. It was just something new that I hadn't tried before (compositionally and technically).

Fernand Leger Ink Wash "Caricature"

Here's an ink wash drawing I did incorporating a few of Fernand Leger's paintings and a small "caricature" of him. I'm pretty fond of his art, so when I was assigned to do a caricature for a class, I decided to do one of him in this unconventional rendering, as I thought it would fit him and his work better than the stereotypical large head and small body.

"Cartoon Suprematism"

Here's a drawing of a Suprematist styled composition with some cartoon characters as the geometric shapes. If you don't know which ones they are, I've failed in my representation of them, I suppose. I may be making a larger painting of this too.

Clayboard Weight-Lifter...

Here's another recent clayboard scratching.

A couple of painted doodles...

Here's a couple more of my geometric guys painted with ink over them. (You can click either one for larger versions.)