My double sided comic, Top Five / Sweet Dreams is now available through this site and on Etsy. Pick it up! Speaking of Etsy, I've added tons of new stuff to the Etsy store, like this original drawing I did for the Covered blog a while ago:
Everybody! I'm going to be at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend, sharing a half table with Matt Sheean. We'll be at table 254A, with the brand new penultimate issue of Expansion! I'll also have some new prints, aside from my usual comic offerings. In addition to that, I'll be signing Mome 22's over at the Fantagraphics table: 12-1pm on both days. Seeya there!
A painting I did for an art show a couple months back. Should I make prints of this for APE?
Floating World is doing some good work to raise money for Dylan Williams' battle with cancer. I've got the above painting up for auction as a part of the benefit here. An 11x17 print will also be available through Floating World. You can check out other auction items here. And of course you should buy comics from Sparkplug. I recommend Lemon Styles by David King and Neverland by Dave Kiersh.
After the thumbnails are finished we make revisions. The sequence that page 9 is a part of got shuffled around, so the layout changed. Matt starts working on the pencils, usually giving them to me in batches of 2-4 pages at a time as he finishes them. The pencils for page 9:
Matt keeps the pencils loose so that the finished image is also more collaborative. I get the page back and use the following tools:
Recently I've been using a Japanese brush pen that I don't know the name of. (This is a little different for me, I usually use the watercolor brush next to it) I use a 08 Micron for the panel borders, and the Staedtler for lettering. Page 9 doesn't have lettering... so we won't get into that. My inks, unedited:
Expansion has a flat grey tone for most of the book. After I finish inking the main page, I tape another piece of paper to it and use a light board to create the shapes that will be grey:
I scan the two parts in and tidy them up. I put the grey tone (which at this point is still solid black) on its own layer, set it to "Multiply", and then change the opacity to a grey tone. For page 9 it's a little darker because it takes place at night.
Here's a page (minus the dialogue) from Expansion Part Three, which Matt Sheean and I are working on. It'll be done in time for APE, the first weekend of October! I'll be posting more images as work progresses.
Silverlake Jubilee is about a week away, and I'm participating in a comics reading on Saturday the 21st with some great cartoonists: Robert Goodin, Keenan Marshall Keller, Levon Jihanian, Jed McGowan, Tom Neely, and Jen Wang. 
Here is the first page from one of two short comics I'll have in Mome 22, published by Fantagraphics. I can't believe I slipped into this last issue! It's kind of bittersweet...
I painted an elephant in gouache, and I don't know why. But an 8.5" x 11" print is now available in my Etsy shop. Also, if you haven't noticed, there are prints available from all my Secret Headquarters paintings in the shop as well.
Now available through this very website! Matt and I are pretty proud of this one. We'll also be at Stumptown this weekend, so you can buy it face to face if you live in the Portland area.
Above: Two gross panels from Expansion Part Two, debuting at Stumptown Comics Fest!
Matt Sheean and I are hard at work on part two of Expansion! Hopefully it'll be all finished in time for Stumptown.
16" x 20" Gouache and ink on paper.
11" x 14" Gouache and ink on paper. Another painting that will be in my art show.
I was interviewed by Fuel Your Illustration. We mostly discuss the Expansion comic I am doing with Matt Sheean, but there are also some images from the upcoming art show that can't be found anywhere else. Check it out!
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