Working on Comics

Hey, I've been drawing pages for a couple new comics that I can't show right now, but here's a character from one of them I was messing around with the color on.

See You Space Cowboy Zine

Hello. I made this picture for this zine. http://seeyouspacecowboyzine.tumblr.com/. Probably going to be putting up more stuff for zines while I work on a few comics I got hired to make.

This is Spike. IN SPACE.

Monsters of the Deep

Forgot to post yesterday. Here's a thing. I made it for a zine that will be coming out in the future. A zine from here- http://nessiepress.tumblr.com/. Looks like it will be cool. I marginally drew about lobsters, dig?

Markhor

Recently I read a book called "The Rifle in Cashmere." It is a hunting guide by a british man named Arthur Brinckman written about his time in Ladak, Punjab, and Cashmere in the 1850s. Mostly the mountains of Pakistan and India as far as I can tell. He went there with the military, but quickly turned it into a straight up hunting trip. It was an intensely interesting read because this guy does not think the same way as I do. Dogmatically, Brinckman lays out the dos and donts of hunting game and dealing with locals. I expected his point of view regarding the indigenous people; I am somewhat familiar with the British imperial narrative in that area of the world and he fits right in (I'm saying he was wildly racist). His moral code for hunting was unexpected. As a prize hunter he did not value the animals lives except in how they related to the skill of the hunter. Discussing only the act of stalking and killing these animals he slowly lays out a comprehensive set of ethics.

Anyway, the Markhor was one of the greatest trophies to Brinckman. I want to make a comic about the book at some point, but for now, with the text in my brain, I made a picture of a Markhor.

St. Louis

This is a piece I've just made for my Aunt. It's really meant to be seen in person, but I wanted to put it up here too. For Christmas I told my Aunt I would make her a drawing of anything she wanted; she has a tendency to hang up my pictures on her walls, and I thought she would appreciate one more. I assumed she was going to take a while to think about what she wanted, but no. Immediately she said "St. Louis."

I was a little thrown off at first. That wasn't really what I had in mind. I don't normally draw that. But it's a gift. My Aunt has always been crazy supportive, and not just with my art, when I was younger she would drive out to Philly and help around the house every week. She didn't have to do that, so if she wants a picture of St. Louis then that's what she gets. And I'm going to try to make her something good.

So I started making the thing and I realized looking at pictures of St. Louis why the city was the best subject for her art gift. Last year when I graduated from school in St. Louis, my Aunt came to my graduation and met her birth mother for the first time. She was born in Missouri and while she only lived there in the very beginning of her life it defined something significant about her life story. Recently, especially while making this picture I've realized how important St. Louis is to me.

I may have asked "Why am I in Missouri?" frequently my first year there, but St. Louis is a city with a specific beauty and history that I miss. I could spend a lot of time getting into why it is an important place, but really what's important is that I know it will continue to define how I live and what I make. So thanks Aunt Helen for giving me some time to reflect, and I hope you like your art when I give it to you.

Popshot Illustration

Here's a piece I'm making for Popshot Magazine. It will accompany a poem about heroin addiction that is good. I think it its done. Check out Popshot!

Comic

I'm going to put these up properly somewhere else when I put up whole episodes, but I'll just leave these here for now. The first two pages of the first episode of my new comic. Lots more coming.

Oh yeah: Edit: This is the whole first episode now.