Pizza Hole

Some of what I drew today while watching Charles Burns talk. It was awesome. My favorite was when he talked about the source of a lot of his images of creepy openings and holes: which is an image of an intercom in Tin Tin that he saw before he could read, so to him it was just an ominous hole in the wall that talked.

Some of what I drew last week while watching R. Sikoryak talk, which was also awesome, and in 3-D.

Some guys and a pizza.

Count It

Joyteeth!

Wowie Zowie

I'm blushing.

This is a really, really nice review of my first collection of Freddy stories (buy it here!) and a mini from fall 2008 called Dear Bill (read it here!) from Rich Kreiner at the Comics Journal's most recent Mini-Comics Monday. Here's a quote: (man, does this guy have a way with words...)

"These comics by Melissa Mendes are the strip equivalent of haikus, rigorously trimmed distillations of concrete, evocative moments bespeaking clarity and insight. Like those terse, concrete poems, these cartoons achieve an air of untroubled spontaneity. But instead of reflecting upon the natural world, they preoccupy themselves with social and domestic conditions rooted in — should we be so lucky — shared experience."

Gosh. Thanks Rich!

Right now, I am working my rear end off on my thesis project at the Center for Cartoon Studies, which is a new collection of Freddy stories (and possibly more). Here is a little preview panel:

In other news, we're not going to TCAF anymore. It's kind of sad (TCAF is AWESOME!), but we're poor, and plus I couldn't go anyway because it's the same weekend as my little sister's senior thesis show at Hampshire College. Go Amy!!!

It's a New Lookin' Store!

Gawgeous. Love it. Fahbulous.

Soon to have an affordable, classy, $10 pieces of art available once a month, by Chuck or myself.

Dead Ed's a deadhead

Joyteeth!

I'm trying, trying to get better at coloring on the computer. But I think I still suck.

However, I forgot how awesome the Gratetful Dead skull and roses is. It used to scare the crap out of me as a kid when I saw the sticker on my Uncle's window. But now I think it's freakin' sweet.

RIP

JD Salinger died today at age 91. "Nine Stories" remains one of my favorite short story collections of all time.

Howard Zinn died yesterday at age 87. Reading "A People's History of the United States" totally changed my life.

Shiny Shiner

Joyteeth is still going!