“Lunch”

Here’s a two-pager for an upcoming zine from John Malta

been leaning hard on 6 panel grids on a few projects, lately

open country page 3

“The Seed Stirs”

Here are pages 13-15 of a graphic novel that I started last year, gave up on, restarted, gave up on, restarted and gave up on then decided to forget about for a while until I had a clearer idea of how to rewrite it. Here’s the only sequence that turned out okay from the thing. I’m not sure why I decided to letter this so huge – it looks super ugly.

I threw out the original art, deleted all the files so I wouldn’t be tempted to ever puss out and use them for anything. Only low res JPEGs left!

Smoke Signal/Kuti Kuti split

New Smoke Signal/Kuti Kuti split issue for sale!

http://desertislandbrooklyn.com/store.html

I have a color page in here, and the line-up for the whole issue is pretty great (David Mazzucchelli!) Smoke Signal and Kuti Kuti are two of the best zines going right now, so I’m excited to see them team up.

Also, this came out today:

“Rescue Pet” – Part One

The first installment of a four part series called “Recue Pet” is being printed in this month’s Maisonneuve. Each installment will be two pages long.

http://maisonneuve.org/pressroom/article/2011/mar/10/our-spring-2011-issue/

The issue hits stands tomorrow!

“Open Country”

some pages from a new comic i’m starting – “Open Country”

radical dads CD packaging

front cover, back cover, inside panel left, inside panel right

More Hear Hear posters

unused CD cover art

This was going to to be a CD cover. After approving the initial sketch, the band was a bit iffy about the final drawing – we went through a few variations of the illustration before they ultimately decided not to use it as the cover. Ironically, the new cover is going to be an rejected poster illustration I did from another gig a few months ago! It’s sort of like musical chairs.

Anyway, these were my favorite two of the variations I sent them. Maybe one day they will find a home (I am open to suggestions, as always!)

Stumptown and Doug Wright

The finalists for both the Stumptown Comic Art Awards and 2011 Doug Wright Awards were announced today, and I was nominated for categories in both!

Stumptown Comic Art Awards (click here for the whole list)

Best publication design
• Zack Soto, StudyGroup12 #4
• Brecht Evens, Night Animals
• Michael DeForge, Spotting Deer
• Jason Little, Motel Art Improvement Service
• Elizabeth M. Pusack, Pretty Ugly

Best new talent
• Michael DeForge
• Adam Hines
• Emi Lenox
• Sarah Oleksyk
• Julia Gfrörer

And the list of Wright Awards finalists:

Best Book:
• Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press)
• Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
• Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf Productions)
• Streakers by Nick Maandag

Best Emerging Talent:
• Aaron Costain, Entropy # 5
• Alex Fellows, Spain and Morocco (www.spainandmorocco.com)
• Keith Jones, Catland Empire (Drawn and Quarterly)
• James Stokoe, Orc Stain Volume One (Image)
• Tin Can Forest (aka Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk), Baba Yaga and the Wolf (Koyama Press)

The Pigskin Peters Award (which recognizes non-traditional and avant-garde comics):
• Indoor Voice by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver (Drawn and Quarterly)
• So I’ve Been Told by Maryanna Hardy (Conundrum Press)
• Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
• Wowee Zonk #3 edited by Patrick Kyle, Ginette Lapalme and Chris Kuzma (Koyama Press)

It is a tremendous, tremendous honor to be nominated alongside so many talented cartoonists. I am also especially happy to see so many Koyama Press books on the Wright Awards list!