Blog Archive
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Catching up with the Zeppelins
For the past week I’ve been hunkered down working on a children’s book pitch to hopefully make to some publishers. Here’s a peek at the cover that I’ve been working on. I had to choose between two stories that came to me one night. I arrived at these primarily based on the principle of catchy titles. I reckoned the stories would flow from there.
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Appreciating Tove Jansson
I would like to share with you the recent documentary that was put out by the BBC on the incredible life of Tove Jansson.
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Sumi
This comic was produced for the Time Parcel Service anthology in the Winter of 2012. I tried reverse engineering the landscape depictions from Kevin Huizenga’s Case 0003128-24, found in the collection put out by Drawn and Quarterly, Curses. I was exploring the idea of how it was that Basho arrived at the following haiku.
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IKB
This comic was produced for the Time Parcel Service anthology in the Winter of 2012. This story is about one of my favorite anecdotal stories in the life of Yves Klein.
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Introducing The Nowsills!
Two weeks ago I hunkered down for 12 days and made a full color 32 page comic book with a group of students at the Center for Cartoon Studies. The idea was to step back into time to the year 1966 and try to produce a Teen Musical Comedy that would outsell the titan of the time, Archie Comics. Thus were born the Nowsills.
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Massive Music to ink by
WRCT Pittsburgh, my radio alma mater, is putting together their annual Massive Music Weekend broadcast. The fine folks at 88.3 FM will be curating 120 30 minute blocks of the finest musical selections that they can get their greasy paws on.
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The Nancy Gif Experience
A fellow CCS student and friend, Luke Healy, and I have started putting together a collection of Nancy gifs that channel our love for Bushmiller’s world. We’ve just started, but we hope to go far!
Here are some peeks at the animations that you can find at the Nancy Gif Experience.
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Crinkled Dailies: Week 2
Last week, I wrapped up an intense project here at the Center for Cartoon Studies. I , along with 5 collaborators were to time travel back to 1966 and create a teen musical comedy that abided by the Comics Code and that would sell like hotcakes, knowing what we 21st century cartoonists knew about the medium.
I had the privilege of working under the invaluable editorial guidance of Steve Bissette with fellow students Simon Reinhardt, Eleri Harris, Ben Evans, Alexis Dexter and Aaron Shrewsbury. It was a doozy of a project, but everyday was a genuine pleasure to work with these folks. Here’s a peek at the cover that we came up with for this 32 page issue of the Nowsills!
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Noise to work through
I thought I’d share a pairing of experiences that I’ve recently enjoyed combining during late night drawing, particularly when silence doesn’t cut it.
My friend, Sal Farina, has coded some neat visual toys for Mac OS X. He’s a real lover of textures and patterns.
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