Neptune on Good Reads

Neptune is now up for anybody to review on goodreads.com That is if you're interested in letting me and other people know what you think of it.

Big Plans 4 at Buyolympia.com

Big Plans 4 is now up for purchase from the good folks at
Buyolympia.com. This book collects the story "The Intruder," which I serialized on the Top Shelf 2.0 website this past Spring and Summer. Also there's an additional side story with my Wolf-man character.

Back from the printers

Not quite in time for SPX or APE but Big Plans 4 is finally done. This is probably my favorite of the series so far. The printing is super-fantastic and it's on a much heavier paper stock this time around. Ordering information will be coming soon. If you're in Portland I should have it to most of the shops within the next week or so.

Neptune reviews

Here are some different reviews of Neptune. Check them out if you're interested.

Readaboutcomics.com

Optical Sloth

Poopsheetfoundation.com

High Low

rejected material

I rejected this material from Big Plans 4 because after I created it I realized that it was a little too egocentric, contrived and uninteresting to anybody besides myself.

This is the most recent commission I've done and the first gouache painting I've ever made. I think from now on I'll use gouache to color instead of using colored pencils like I previously had.

This is Where I will be

New Powell's Books Ad in this month's Ms. Magazine

The Super Crazy Cat Dance has been featured in an advertisement for Powell's Books in this months Ms. Magazine. The image is quite appropriate I think, to go with the feminist articles. The Super Crazy Cat Dance is also the Powell's Facebook profile photo.

Big Plans #4

Here's the cover to my new book. The next step is the printer so expect to see it out in time for SPX.

Neptune at Buyolympia.com

You can now buy NEPTUNE from my friends at Buyolympia.com.

COMICS READING

Come see me and Theo Ellsworth read from our new books at Powell's in Portland on Monday, August 31st at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Theo Ellsworth and I collaborated on this poster which I feel turned out pretty awesome. Theo's new book is a 32 page comic called "Sleeper Car" published by Secret Acres. I can't wait to read it myself.

Neptune Art Show at Ristretto Roasters

For the month of August I'm having a solo show at Ristretto Roasters. over in the Beaumont neighborhood in NE Portland to promote my new book (3520 NE 42nd Ave @Fremont, Portland, Oregon 97213 hours: 6:00 to 6:00)

I have about twenty pages of original artwork from NEPTUNE on display but not for sale. Plenty of copies of Neptune are, however, available for sale at the store.

Old podcast you never heard

For an old interview podcast with me you should listen to THIS HERE RADIO PROGRAM. It's interesting since it was done about two years ago and so much has happened since then. Check it out.

The final part of THE INTRUDER is up now

Start reading PART 4. or start from the beginning of the story HERE. You'll have to select each part separately.

Watch my Lewis and Clark Graduate School Podcast linking comics and elementary education

Neptune at San Diego Comic Con and Portland Zine Symposium

Neptune will be back from the printers most likely tomorrow just in time to debut at the San Diego Comic Con this week and the Portland Zine Symposium. Look for Neptune at the Sparkplug table at the San Diego Comic Con but alas I won't be there. I will be in Portland for the Zine Symposium signing books in-between my publishers Tugboat Press and Sparkplug Comic books. I will be doing a reading on Monday, August 31 at the downtown Portland Powell's books along with the amazing Theo Ellsworth who will be debuting a new issue of Capacity published by Secret Acres. Exciting news. Do me a favor and BUY NEPTUNE OR PREVIEW HERE NOW from Sparkplug Comic books. This is pretty much the best book ever and it's just a coincidence that I happened to make it. Two years out of my life for you!

collage for "art" class

While I at first was reluctant to work on my collage assignment for my Teaching the Arts in Elementary school class I eventually ended up with a piece that I really like. I spend so much time focusing on my line work and working with pen and ink that I rarely get a chance to expand my focus. Now I know why those old Julie Doucet collage covers were so great. Collage doesn't just have to be filling every blank space up with random cut out crap.

Dog Mountain!

Today Ariel and I conquered Dog Mountain and now our bodies have fallen apart. Dog Mountain is about a 4 mile hike straight upward on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge and totally beautiful.

i recommend

One of the most important documentaries I've ever seen. You have to see it. Watch it in two parts on Google videos or just rent it like I did.
PART 1.
PART 2.

more old comics

Here's a strip I did about a year ago for Not My Small Diary.

Press Check!

This is probably not exciting for you but it is for me. Just got the press check for NEPTUNE and everything looks good. I can't wait until it's all done.

I recommend

This new documentary about the largest community garden in the U.S. is kind of like this year's "Who Killed The Electric Car." While you might walk away from this film with a feeling of devastation, you should see this film because it will make you want to do something good. The film is filled with amazing and beautiful real people and their fight to save their community. See it.

If you still haven't seen it

The father of Blaxploitation and and champion of Independent Cinema, Melvin Van Peebles and one of his earliest films is totally amazing. In Big Plans 3 I drew him, and came within close proximity of him at the Academy Awards but failed to mention this. I only mentioned his son Mario because he had just made "BAADASSSSS!" that year which dramatizes his father's making of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Looking at those drawings above reminds me that my cartooning has come a long way. And that poster for "Sweetback" is totally amazing.