blast from the past

 

I found these two pages of a comic that I was doing back in 2008? I remember this was after I graduated from high school and most likely from my freshman year at columbia? 

I had a vague concept of a storyline and I know that I stopped doing this comic because I had no idea how to end it. Its funny because you can definitely see an Anders Nilsen influence in it.

Continued progress

So I have spent a good portion of my summer so far working on some personal projects. Right now I am working on the cover art for the second issue of memories and delusions. Also I cleaned my work space so I now have a decent place to work on things. 

 

  

 some of the details. This will be a bit larger than the last zine measuring at 7" x 8.5"

 

Some of the content that will go inside. 

Lunch Time

This was the other comic that was included in Linework. I really had no idea what I was doing with this. 

more recent work

 

This piece here is my comic that I made for my final in my drawing the graphic novel class. It is an obituary story, I found this story from last year about a man who died from being gored by a mountain goat in the pacific northwest. 

This was also the comic that was included in the Hokin Honors Exhibit and it will be printed in Linework and anthology of comics from Columbia College students, alumni faculty and staff. I have seen the proofs and it looks really good.Be on the look out for that soon.

Printed and displayed

so this poster that I made was accepted into my school's 18th annual Hokin Honors exhibit. I hate to be all in your face about it but its pretty cool. 

 

Here are some shots of the display.

 

detail shot.

 

I think it looked good, its awesome this poster was included. Major props to Ivan Brunetti who wrote a recommendation for my work.

 

 

There was also my comic entitled the life & death of Bob Boardman that I made in my drawing the graphic novel class. I also shared this wall space with fellow cartoonists and classmates, Nick Drnaso, John Gregg and kevin Budnik who is not pictured in the photo above, but nonetheless was there

as well. 

 

Its a pretty stellar show, if your around campus check it out while you still can. 

Wanderlust cont...

 

The final installment of wanderlust. I think this was probably the most consistent story I made. The zine has two extra pages of other content that I will not post. You will have to hunt one down to see what it is. 

Also quimbys wrote a nice little write up about it, check it out----->Link

I so want to get back into the rhythm of making mini comics. Once school wraps up I will hit the drawing board. 

 This song has been on my mind all day. So good. spike jones at his best with that video too.

Wanderlust part 2

 

Part 2 of wanderlust. Wait for part 3 next week 

 

Also on a side note I am loving the work of Till Hafenbrak. The strong geometric shapes that make up the characters and settings of his work are really quite impressive, very bold and simple. His use of coloring is also quite nice, they almost remind me of silkscreen posters or graphics from the 60s. 

Zine Fest wrap up

 

Chicago Zine fest came and passed it was quite the trip. The two photos on the top are the views from my table. It was taken towards the end of the fest so there was less people, but let me tell you around 2pm or so it was packed. The second photo has brad (B-RAD as I called him) in the foreground we both split table 34. He also turned me on to the fugs. They made this song called nothing you can check it out here --------> link

 

I definetly enjoyed my time. I left with some awesome zines. Some of my favorites are in this photo. 

I must admit I am a sucker to comics and stuff with pictures, so all these are either comics or stuff with pictures in them. 

Just to name the list from top left to the bottom right: Movable Types: the tramp printers by Kara Sievewright, the velvet cave #6 by tuesday bassen, motte & bailey by krystal difronzo, Nice Tat by erik schneider, Hondo Saga by pete hillstrom, losing sight by ben bertin, postcard from rar rar press, wolfman Chicago's quest for real boots by nate beaty, good Minnesotan #4 a collection of various comics and work from Minnesota.

So yeah zine fest was pretty cool, lets see what next year brings.

wanderlust

 

Wanderlust is a little mini comic that I made for zine fest. To see what happens next you can pick this up at zine fest, or wait until next week when I will post the rest. 

Jacks Big Score

 

Two page comic that I recently made. Jack is a actually a combination of two people that I used to work with, I always wondered what their life was like outside of work and well the result is this.

continued

The third page in the watch me comic.

working on watch me

This past semester I made a small mini comic called watch me. I have posted pages from that on this blog so far, and I will post all of it eventually. But after finishing it I did not like the cover so much. I gave it to a few people and there are some mistakes. So I plan to reprint it, adding 4 more pages, one more single page comic, title page and maybe some endpapers? not sure at this point about the end papers.

 

what I am sure of though is the cover. The current cover was made half assed just to get something done on time for the class. I like things to make some sort of sense, and the text reads as if this comic was about melting meat parts, or some zombie trippy horror story. Watch Me is in fact about a high school gym class, drawing refrence to the tortoise and the hare. 

so I decided to make a long spread that will extend from back to the front cover. I think this is the best change I can make to this comic, making something more consistent with the actual story.

be on the look out for a much more finished and presentable copy.

it's late

and I am just finishing up my comic.

Part Two

 

Part two of my mini comic watch me. 

what I have been up to

This is my final for my course in drawing the graphic novel. A large 18x24 comic based on an obituary story. what you see here is my make shift light table I made by using this glass counter top of a wheely table and  a desk lamp underneath.

this is after several hours of lettering and inking.  I am using 3 types of microns a 03, 05, and 08 size.

almost finished, this was probably around 12-1 am in the morning, I was tired and I figured I could finnish the rest in the morning at school which I did.

This past week has been crazy, I spend most of my time in my room working on projects, both personal and for school.

What has gotten me through this week is my current addiction to watching breaking bad.

 

This is such a good show, chemistry high school teacher turns into drug dealer making meth with former student in a camper in the desert of new mexico. sounds like a show for me.  

lets hope my last week of school goes smoothly.

Watch Me

 

Page one of my mini comic based on the tortoise and the hare.  be on the look out of page two.

Linework & my comic

Linework is an anthology of comics that features Columbia college students, I received one because my comic was featured in it! it is really good, and I must admit that the format it quite glorious. Just look at the size comparison of it to a sharpie, its cover is printed in tyvek which has an odd but interesting feel to it.

My comic White Waters on the left and a sweet comic entitled Wait! by Nick Drnaso on the right.

some sweet back cover action.

Currently I think the only way you can get this is through my schools shop, shopcolumbia. I recommend hunting one down because it is quite nice.

Hidden Eggs

this is a small one page comic I did a while back, I was looking a lot of jim woodring at the time.

white waters

This was a comic that I was in an exhibit in my school. It was really the first completed comic I have ever done.

I want to do more comics, and hopefully have a mini comic zine out at some point.