Basket Ogress #1 SOLD OUT

I have no more copies of Basket Ogress #1 for sale! It was a numbered, limited edition and they are GONE.

There's a review of it here.

Places where you can probably still find a copy:

I Know Joe Kimple
Trees and Hills (it's not on the website yet, Colin bought a bunch of copies from me. Shoot him an e-mail)
Stephen Bissette might have some copies for sale at his booth in the Quechee Antique Mall, if you're in the area.

And...that's it! At least until the book comes out, and it already looks like I'll be redrawing half these pages for the final book anyway.

Sketchbook Follies: Victorian, Regency, Jacobian

Because I don't have time to sew crazy costumes or prance about with community theater people anymore.

Last of the Basket Ogress Pages

I'm very close to finishing "Basket Ogress" (not counting corrections, of course), so these are the last pages of the book that I'm going to post. You can read more than half of the story online here. The whole book will (hopefully) be available in stores by May.

Speaking of stores- if you're in the Upper Valley area, visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies or skiing or sampling some maple syrup, there's a bunch of local stores that are now carrying my books, and books by other local cartoonists! Here's a short list:

The Grape Vine in the Hotel Coolidge, 39 South Main Street in White River Junction, VT. They're primarily a gift shop/convenience store, but they've got a little spinner rack with our comics.

Revolution at 26 North Main Street in White River Junction. Coolest clothing store in the area, also have a nice display of local comics, books and zines.

Left Bank Books in Hanover NH has a display of CCS mini comics right near the register. While you're there, check out their used books. There's some amazing stuff.

Stephen Bissette maintains a booth at the Antique Mall at Quechee Gorge Village. It's full of comics, movies, memorablia AND comics by Steve, CCSers, alumni and other local cartoonists. Quechee is a bit of a drive, but there are free cheese samples at the Cabot store in the same building, so it's worth it.

And...I think that's it? Something new next week.

Of pages and parties.

Oh right, I have a blog. I've been trying hard to post something new every week, but got busy and skipped one.

By "busy" I mean I've been drawing and watching The Mighty Boosh. Oh, and I went to a party (it was nice) and had my first experience trying to drive on black ice (it was not).











































































































































These pages are from the last chapter. I just scanned in page 70 of "Basket Ogress". There is an end in sight!

Covers

I went to the studio after work this evening, and should have spent the time working on a comic I need to finish, or an anthology submission, or that animation project I was supposed to have finished two weeks ago. But, I'm not very good at doing what I'm supposed to do, so I goofed around working on cover ideas instead.

For a while I've been wanting to collect the painted comics I did for the (now defunct) BASH! Magazine with the other color work I've done into a mini. I'm no good at thinking up clever titles. The title on this cover idea might be too hard to read.

Also been thinking about printing up a Sir Christopher book. Jonch is pretty adamant that I should do a color cover, but I like just black and white. I checked out a few reproductions of medieval manuscripts out from the library for reference on this. They're pretty amazing to look at.





















Every year, Robyn organizes a mixed-cd exchange called "Diary Tunes". This'll be my third year participating, I'm really excited about it. My mix is always just made up of the songs that were stuck in my head that year, and I had thought that songs like that were called "brain worms". Turns out, it's "ear worms", so this cover might not work. But it was fun to draw. And I might be too lazy to do a different one.

Heading to Boston tomorrow for a Jason Webley concert (!!!)

Etsy Store

Hey! I finally caught up to the rest of the internet and opened an Etsy store.

It's been a while since I've sold paintings online. I used to sell pretty regularly on eBay, and my move from Olympia to Vermont was partially funded through those sales.

Any money I make (if any) from selling work on Etsy will go to pay off my medical debt from an emergency room visit in early 2008. I have insurance, but there was a $1,500 deductible that I'm slowly paying off. This is a lot of money for a cartoonist/library assistant (insert your standard rant about the problems with the U.S. health care system here).

More paintings will be added as they're scanned. Thanks for looking!

The first fourteen pages of Basket Ogress #2 are up on Flickr. Check them out!

Rob Clough was nice enough to review the first part of this story over at The Comics Journal. Read what he had to say here.