I’m this amazing Sammiches book put together by Star Gods press:
They’re having an exhibition opening and book launch tonight in Vancouver. Here are the details:
Here’s the Facebook event, if you prefer.
March 8, 2013
Sammiches Exhibition and Book Launch Tonight in Vancouver
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March 5, 2013
Hyperbroadcasts: Staple 2013 Recap, Rough House Release Party, and Farewell Books Kickstarter
I ended up going to Staple for a few hours on Sunday. Here’s a shot of Vortex on the table I was sharing with Raw Paw, Douglas Pollard, Alex Webb, Connor Shea, Tyler Suder, Gillian Rhodes, Brendan Kiefer, and Matt Rebholz:
Cartoonists pictured left to right: Alex, Doug, Gillian, and Brendan.
The Rough House book, which we debuted at the show, looks amazing. Tons of great comics, printed in an assortment of two-color pairs on a Risograph, wrapped up in this offset cover by Doug:
Here’s a shot of Aaron Whitaker’s hilarious contribution about drunken snacking:
Aaron’s story is called “The Disappearing Food Truck.”
There’s going to be a release party tomorrow night at Farewell Books (the shop that’s taken over Domy’s former location). All the details are here on Facebook, I hope to see y’all there!
Speaking of Farewell Books, they’re raising money on Kickstarter to give their store a strong start.
A photo of the beautiful new shelving in Farewell Books, taken from their Facebook page.
Domy Austin was really important to me as an artist and lover of comics. It gave me a place to sell my work, get to know other like-minded Austinites, and flip through rare minicomics. This kind of space is vital for the creative community of our city. Plus Schmaltz sells delicious vegan sandwiches in the backyard. Travis Kent and Mikaylah Bowman, the owners of Farewell, know how to run a progressive book store and gallery from their days as Domy staff. I’m confident that they’ll make Farewell a fantastic resource for locals and visitors. Please help them out.
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March 1, 2013
Staple! 2013 – Update
It turns out I’m going to have some copies of Vortex #1-3 at the Brendan Kiefer / Raw Paw / Rough House table at Staple! 2013.
Here’s a production shot of the Rough House anthology.
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February 26, 2013
Staple! 2013
STAPLE! 2013 is this weekend. The Gold County Paper Mill won’t be tabling this year (all our Texas members are going to be in the same wedding).
However, I’m going to have a four-page comic in a new book called Rough House. Here’s a preview of my contribution:
Rough House is a two-color risograph-printed book of Austin (or Austin-related) cartoonists. I don’t have a full list but fellow contributors include Brendan Kiefer, Gillian Rhodes, Aaron Whitaker, Connor Shea, Doug Pollard, and Tyler Suder. The book will be sold at the table of its publisher, Raw Paw.
I hope that STAPLE! is a blast, I might stop by to check things out on Sunday.
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February 22, 2013
One Final Fuel Quest Preview Page
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February 19, 2013
Another Fuel Quest Preview Page
Here’s another cut from my eight-page, full-color comic Fuel Quest:
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February 15, 2013
Read the Complete Fuel Quest at Study Group Comics
My eight-page full-color comic Fuel Quest has been posted in its entirety on the Study Group Comics site:
The story features Hyperverse mainstay the Floating Crystal Witch, who’s hoarding magical power on an alien world of rhino toads ruled by a spider queen. Here’s the first page to whet your eyeballs:
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February 12, 2013
Fuel Quest is Finished
I finished Fuel Quest this past weekend. Here’s another preview:
I’ll let y’all know when the whole thing is posted.
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February 8, 2013
Final Day of Reblog Contest
Today is the final day of the reblog contest over on my Tumblr. Here’s a shot of me working on the prize, a 6×9″ black-and-white ink drawing of the Miizzzard:
I’ll announce the winner next week. Thanks to everyone who’s liked and reblogged so far!
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February 5, 2013
Reblog Contest Continues; Miizzzard Pixel Art Animation
Thanks to everyone who has participated in my Tumblr reblog contest so far! You can still enter your handle in the hat until Friday, February 8th at midnight CST. Just reblog this Tumblr post advertising the four digital prints I’ve added to my store to raise money to get to my table at TCAF. I will randomly select one person and mail them a 6×9″ ink drawing of the Miizzzard on smooth watercolor paper.
I don’t know about y’all, but my muse is fickle. Whenever I have work to do (right now, Fuel Quest, Vortex #4, and some freelance web development projects), I always get super stoked by the idea of a side project that’ll just derail me. Lately I’ve been reading about pixel art and game development, dreaming about making some small adventure games set in the Hyperverse. I’m contemplating how to best harness this excitement while still keeping my momentum on my current projects going. I think I might institute something similar to Google’s 20% time – give myself a couple of hours each week to work on whatever I want while reserving the remainder of my studio time for my main projects. How do y’all balance having fun with new projects and previous commitments?
The reason I’m bringing this up is because I spent far too much time this past weekend making a small pixel art animation of the Miizzzard walking:
I followed Derek Yu’s very helpful tutorial on making sprites. I liked how this let me scratch my desire to make a GIF without all the effort of more traditional animation. Also I get to indulge the perfectionist part of my brain that agonizes over the placement of every pixel.
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