"don't wait for me."

walter's bad day.

heres a sneak peak at a new picture book i am working on tentatively entitled 'walter's bad day.' i wouldn't say it's a children's book but it is kind of all ages. who knows if i will ever finish it. it is mainly an excuse to work on my chicken scratch.

sold out!

i have pretty much sold out of copies of steam city #1. i did a small print run, only about 50 or so books, mainly due to the high paper & print quality i ended up going with. i maybe have one or two copies lying around that aren't spoken for so if you really want one, e-mail me and maybe i can hook you up... maybe...
i am tentatively going to do an ashcan edition printing soon (zine size) to sell at picnic this september if i get in. it would not be in green, but rather grayscale, with a color cover and would sell for $4. would that interest anyone?
i am also working on the free online version except i have no idea how to do that yet!

ripping off gorey.

i spent all morning ripping off edward gorey. and a poor job of it at that! i don't know how he did it.
this is a gorey-ized page of a little story i'm working on tentatively called 'walter's bad day.'

3 postcards.

i just put three new postcards up on etsy. two are those ones you might see below and then a postcard version of mignola koala with those wolves. whoo! they printed out really nicely. they are printed on 100 lb butcher white durotone paper by french paper which i think might be my new favorite paper by them. it's off white and has a spotty waxy kind of finish for a nice humble yet well crafted look.

update: you can get 2 cards for 4 dollars here.

grant 1.

this is the first (and really bad!) drawing i ever did of grant zebra. spring of 2006. i don't think i even knew what a zebra looked like! little did i know then that i would waste the next few years of my life trying to get him and his friends out of my brain. at least it's not a panda.

spoons!

when i was laying out steam city #1 i was doodling a lot of kind of light hearted advertisements of my friends' businesses and this dear frances spoon ad is one of them.

colored in.

walter postcard.

this is another postcard i just finished inking. i was going t color it but i have to go to work in 20 minutes. the next few postcards are also going to be of character 'portraits' from steam city. i'm kind of playing with the idea of a sort of trading card/postcard kind of things with a tiny little bio on the back. this will also be a postcard by next week.

everybody loves postcards.

this is a new postcard i made. i'm going to print them next week when my paper order arrives and then they'll be for sale... i'm making a whole bunch of postcards for the fall. i've had it with posters! nobody wants posters. everybody wants postcards. postcards rule! i've also had it with a few colors. lots of colors! like i probably could've colored this with 4 colors and it would've looked ok. i probably could've even done 3 colors. but i wanted to give grant gray pants instead of black pants! and i wanted to give the tick birds orange beaks and yellow noses. so there!

(ps. if anyone wants this or anything else as a poster, just let me know! i'm not above making them!)

golf course illustration.

i have an illustration in the current issue of port city life (above). it looks nicer on paper.