Hey all. As you can see, I’m trying to update this site to be more in line with how I originally wanted it to look. I’m still struggling, which is normal, but hopefully things will get a lot less clunky ’round these parts.

I’ve just earned my MFA from the the center for cartoon studies and I’m rarin’ to start getting things out there after such a long absence from the internet.  Hopefully soon I should have this stuff mostly fixed up and I can make some awesome announcements about what is coming next. Also I should have a couple posts on MOCCA (which happened during the fog of graduation) and the ceremony itself, which was wonderful.

Thanks for sticking around!

You guys remember that kiteboard I posted in the previous post??

I MADE THE FINALS!! I’m one of 12 board designs out of literal  hundreds. Super pumped about this. PLEASE go vote again by “liking” my image on the BEST Facebook Contest Page. (Even though you were already awesome and voted once). You can vote here.

If you think it’s worth it– (and you do) please, please share the link and get as many people as you know to “like” this. It means a lot to me, not only from a “it is cool to win stuff” perspective, but also from a “I am marketing myself to BEST Kiteboarding as a possible designer for the future” kind of way.

Thanks friends–

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=334438686594656&set=a.308279979210527.70756.156263964412130&type=1&theater

Look what I made for Best Kiteboarding’s latest “pimp my board” competition. It looks like one of the few “non graphic-designy” boards they have up. It’s very interesting to me to consider how a board will look 20 feet up in the air from shore or in a photo as opposed to how it will look in person. I think this one is more of a “five feet away max” board, at least on the bottom. Since I’m still plugging away at my thesis (in fact, the woeful lack of updates is a bit of a testament to how much work I’ve been doing on the book) I haven’t been doing as much work painting and designing surfboards/kiteboards/etc, so this was a real joy to take a day out of the schedule and work on. Since I was so late into the comp, I had to do the whole thing in a day, and I’m thinking now I may keep the lineart and repaint the bottom of the board in a much brighter monochrome so that the brush textures show through better and so that it gets a lot less muddy. Still, nice to be able to think about water sports again. The way this winter’s going, Primavera seems awfully far away…

For a while when I thought we would actually get snow, this comic seemed ridiculous. Now that it’s full on winter, we have nothing but wet and dark and cold sans snow, it seems more poignant. There’s no lettering on it, but the idea is that Jack Frost is also a sort of “Sleeping Beauty” –and without her waking, there’s no snow and no real winter. Problems arise when it turns out that Jack isn’t as nice as sleeping beauty, and prince charming gets to be the first snowman. At least the rabbits of this mythical forest have conscience. 

So, while I haven’t posted in a while, that doesn’t mean I don’t have stuff. I’ve cut apart pieces of some crude diary comics I did during the weeks of traveling during Christmas and Hogmanay. I was going to redo these to be more legible, but I’ve put myself on  a new “page a day” plan, which should have me with a mostly finished 80-page book by March. That won’t end my crazy workschedules, but it should allow me to do more single page and gallery work in addition to a couple of new comic stories burning their way through my brain.

Charlie the dog is not a pickpocket, as far as I know. He's pretty nice though.

security sucks and I wasn't used to bright sunlight

Chalk another point up in the "embarrassing things I've done" column.

So, this blog will probably change a lot, but I’ve gotten about as much done on it for a while as I’ll be able to. That means I’m just going to start posting on a schedule, about once or twice a week. I’ll work out the schedule and get back to y’all.

My portfolio should have some new comics and thesis pages posted after our Fall semester ends in a few days.

I’ve been mostly unconcerned with the internets while I’ve been an MFA candidate at school, and I doubt that will change much in the coming months, but I still do draw and sketch a lot. Hopefully with an update I’ll be able to post a lot of the prep work and stupid sketches I’ve been working on during the day.

Anyway, welcome. Check the twitter and my facebook (I don’t know how to link this?) for updates, or you can RSS. You should be able to RSS without any buttons right now, unless I ruined something in the code. Or, if you’re like me, you can just spend time in the morning checking all your favorite websites.

Coffee and sites, man, coffee and sites.