Painting

A little one.  Miiiight be a preview for a Xeric cover...

The End and the Beginning

So

I've decided to stop printing the first Freddy mini-comic. For a good reason! I just finished redrawing it for my Xeric application. The book that I'll print next will have all the stories I've done so far, plus some new ones. If I get the Xeric it'll be all fancy, and if I don't it won't be as fancy, but it'll still be there.

And I'll be at SPX! September 11th and 12th! With my buddies! It's my first convention with the new Freddy comic! I love SPX. I'm so excited to party in the hotel all weekend longggg....

Also here's a sample from my story for Robyn Chapman's new Anthology "Make".

Movin' On

Joe made this invitation for our last BBQ in White River Junction:

Come by if you're in the area!

Coffee...poop...and thankyous

My ol' employers, New Harvest Coffee, and Cosmic Cup Coffee in Easton, PA, are hosting a coffee conference (also known as a barista jam) in Providence, RI in October. I'm designing/drawing ads for them for Barista Magazine (click to read the whole magazine online...our ad's on p.40) , and a t-shirt too.

The illustrious Robyn Chapman, cartoonist and editor, and also the glue that has been holding CCS together the past couple years, is putting together an anthology, which I am in along with a bunch of super talented people. It's called "Make", and it's about poop. http://makecomics.wordpress.com/

And here is a thank you card I made.

thank you, everyone. You are all awesome.

Comics Camp 2010!

This past week, at the Gallery at the Vault in Springfield, VT, I led a cartooning camp for 10-14 year olds. It was so awesome.

I've been teaching and doing workshops for a couple years now, and I was starting to feel like it was getting harder, not easier. (I've mentored before too, which I love...it's completely different from leading a whole class though).

This past week I realized it just takes one really great group of kids to make you realize that you can actually do it, that it's fun and rewarding, and that maybe, just maybe, you could do it again sometime.

This group totally blew me away, they were excited and did everything I asked them to do, and we had a blast--on the last day, we had a mini comic convention...they all had traded their comics with each other, then they sat behind tables while parents went around and asked them about their comics. It was the cutest greatest thing I've ever seen.

Soon I'll put up a more detailed list of what we did at the camp.

For Harvey

I just read Anthony Bourdain's blog post about Harvey Pekar. You should too.

Someday, Cleveland, I'll visit you, and eat at Sokolowski's University Inn.