Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes!

Changing up the blog! Trying to make the banner and buttons better reflect my usual drawing style.

And now for the news:

Rich Kreiner at The Comic Journal reviewed another one of my minis here. Thanks, man! I actually don't have any copies of this comic left, and don't plan to print more because color copies are expensive, but I think you can buy it at I Know Joe Kimpel.

For Chicago friends, you can now buy my book Woman King at Quimby's! Have I mentioned there aren't many copies of this left? I expect to be sold out after SPX, so get it while you can.

Speaking of the Small Press Expo, I am SO EXCITED about this year's convention. I'll be tabling with Jon Chad (who just updated his website. Check it!), Katherine Roy and Laura Terry, and we have definite plans to rock the party that rocks your body.
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Lil aingil' pt 2

Holy cats!

I haven't actually watched this video, because a)I was there and don't need to, and b)I don't like looking at pictures of myself, or even the idea that they exist.

I'm only posting this as evidence that Carol Tyler pronounced my name right!

I am almost more excited about getting to meet Carol Tyler than I am about the award. Read her books and you'll understand why.




Thanks to everyone who voted! Or thought about voting! I'm gonna go continue freaking out now!

L'il Ainjil!

Woman King was nominated for an Ignatz Award
for Promising New Talent!

You can purchase copies online here or here.

Or read reviews of the book here, here and here.

And there's a 30-page preview of the book here.

This book was self published, and there are still about 300 copies in boxes in my closet. I would be ever so grateful if you were to pick up a copy.

Other cartoonists nominated in this category are T. Edward Bak, Hellen Jo, Ed Luce, and Amanda Vähämäki. Be sure to check out their work, too!

Friend and neighbor Cat Garza was also nominated, for Best Webcomic! Why hasn't someone put together a print collection of this guy's work yet?

It's Here!

No painting this Monday. This morning Jon Chad and I drove over to Lebanon to pick up copies of my new book:

It'll be debuting at the MoCCA Art Festival this weekend!
5"x5", 88pgs, b+w interiors and full color cover, $7.

And there's a 30-page preview of the book here.

Guess what?

I'm bringing this to the printers TODAY!

5" x5", perfect bound, 84 pages, 4 color cover, b+w interiors, $7 yeah!

You can view of 30-page preview of it here.

You can pre-order it here:

Orders will be filled when I return from MoCCA, around June 10th. Oh yeah, there will be copies for sale at MoCCA, too. I'll be at the I Know Joe Kimpel table.

There will also be a book release party...at some point...yeah. I was up at 5am this morning to go print the dummy. I'm pretty tired.

I want to go swimming.

Monday is Groundhog Day. Please, benevolent rodent, make this winter end!

Blueberry Mountain

Still working away on the bear story. I drew these panels in a Starbucks in Manhattan. It's pretty sad, but being from the Seattle area, I miss Starbucks. We don't have them in Vermont!

Rob Clough did a review of the first chapter of this story over on his new blog. You should read it, and then send him some comics. Or a pie.

...I think I need to go eat lunch now.

BASH magazine

I completely forgot I had a comic up on the BASH Magazine Comic Calendar yesterday.

Check it out. There's also lots of great comics up there by fellow CCS alumni Bryan Stone, Morgan Pielli, Sean Ford, and current student Dan Archer. You can pick up BASH for free if you live in the D.C. area. They don't offer subscriptions...but I really wish they did.

Update Blog- CHECK!

This weekend was for checking things off my comics "to-do" list.


New icon for IKJK site redesign. CHECK!

Finish another chapter of the bear story. CHECK!




2 page painted comic for BASH magazine #6. CHECK!


Ink and scan my 3-page submission for Side B. CHECK!

What's left on the list:

-Finish lettering my Side B comic (I've been working on this thing since Spring, but it keeps getting pushed onto the back burner for other projects. No more!)

-Submission for the "Love Comics" anthology that the current CCS freshmen are putting together.

-I was asked to draw a "Bearotaur" or "Minobear", half bear and half bull. Not sure how this is gonna work yet.

OH YEAH! And Rob Clough was kind enough to review some of my work on SeqArt again. The website seems to be down, but Penina found a Google cached version of it. Check it out. He also reviews some of my favorite books that the CCS alums have put together this year. Man, I know some amazing people!

Bikes and Bears and Books

I can't believe I forgot to post for the whole month of November! I had plenty of things I could have written about, too. Like the I Know Joe Kimpel gang and I went to APE in San Francisco, where we had a great time, sold a lot of comics, and met Matt Groening.

This last thing was huge for me, since Mr. Groening is a fellow alumni of The Evergreen State College. Go Geoducks!

After APE, I attended a library conference for work in Boston, taught a class of high school students with cartoonists Bryan Stone and Jon Chad, went home to the Northwest for ten days, then got back to Vermont and collapsed in a heap.

All the while (on planes, in hotel rooms, in coffee shops, and when I should have been paying more attention) I've been drawing comics!


Yup, I'm still working on that bear story. More here.

After I was done scanning pages, I attended a bike parade to celebrate the 37th Birthday of Jon Chad's bike, Scamander (hey, it's White River Junction. We welcome any excuse to have a party).

I don't have a bike anymore, so I stood on the street corner, yelling and taking photos.



And I learned that I don't take very good pictures in the dark. This was the best of the bunch, but there are more of these on flickr, too.

Giant Size Tragic Relief is now available at Atomic Books. Right now that's the ONLY retail store where it's available, so be sure to grab a copy.

Bears on Dark Horse Presents

Check them out here on Wednesday, October 1st:
www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents

Going to note that I only got this opportunity because the artists they'd originally booked dropped out at the last minute. Dark Horse contacted us at the INKubator looking for an 8-page color comic. The e-mail was sent out on Friday night, and they needed the comic by Sunday morning.

Rather than try to color an existing comic like a sensible person, I wrote, penciled and painted this story in about 12 hours. Please keep this in mind when reading it!

Bears on the move..

First stop, Amherst MA for a book signing and comics social!

Wed Oct 01 5pm-7pm
Amherst Books, 8 Main St, Amherst MA 01002
413.256.1547 / 800.503.5865 / www.amherstbooks.com
Jesse Reklaw, Ken Dahl, Robyn Chapman, Alec Longstreth, Clutch,
Samuel C. Gaskin, Colleen Frakes, and the Center for Cartoon Studies

More news to come...

Keep moving, keep moving

More bears are coming!

More pages from the bear story.

Look out! These bears are in a hurry.

Get out of the way, they've got places to be!

Works in progress

Talking bear fight!

These are just random panels from the story- some inked, some not, none of them finished.









Onward to VICTORY!