stay tuned

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, been busy with class and such.  I have lots of new pages to scan and post, but it’s going to be a while, probably Winter break.  Here’s an Ed Emberly style poster I did for Publication Workshop.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44499076@N06/4106853025/

layout for reading and writing workshop

A pencil rough assignment for reading and writing workshop, may reappear inked some day.

more diary comics

more soon

sorry i haven’t updated in a while… Here’s the cover (probably) for the next big chunk of comics story, Kingdom.

Will post the story when I finish, plus I have a backlog of drawings and random stuff to post, probably not til next weekend.

Comics take a long time.

One More Cathy

Just when I thought we were finished, Jason Lutes makes us do one more of our cartoonist’s strips in class.  Luckily, I can now make Cathy comics in my sleep.

AACK! Strips in the style of Cathy

Another project for Cartooning Studio, this week we were assigned newspaper comic strip artists both current and old-timey.  We studied the strips, then made our own autobio comics in their style.  I was given Cathy, by Cathy Guiseweite, and was not that stoked.  I was totally envious of classmates who got heroes of mine like Matt Groening, Tony Millionaire, and Bill Watterson.  But I took to the simple drawing style of Cathy, and gave it a little twist in terms of writing, and in inserting myself in the lead role.  People seemed to like these, and I had fun.  There’s one more strip coming, it’s on a different computer..

Congrats to Cat!

My friend and fellow White River Junction cartoonist, Cayetano Garza, just won an Ignatz award for his webcomic, “Year of the Rat.”  Check it out at http://www.magicinkwell.com , and pick up the new printed version too, available on the website.

Diary Comics

For Steve Bissette’s drawing workshop, we have to turn in a page of Diary comic per week.  Here’s weeks 2 and 3 (week 1 was deemed unfit for web publication).  Will update as the term continues.

Publication Workshop

Our first project for Publication Workshop is a 2-color silkscreened self-portrait, and an artist’s bio (which I chose to do as a comic, natch).  They will all be assembled in a class “facebook.”  The silkscreen process is kind of fun, but I’ve had a terrible time with technical difficulties.  I will hopefully finish tonight, after this massive web update.

Silkscreen Self-Portrait:

Artist Bio:

Character Design and Gag Comics

Here’s some work from my Cartooning Studio Class, taught by Jason Lutes and Alec Longstreth.  For the character designs, we were each assigned an animal, adjective, and occupation to develop a character.  I got Chicken, Miserable, and Superhero (a relatively sweet assignment).  For the gag comics, we had to come up with three single-panel gag comics.

Character Design:

Gag Comics:

Thanks for reading, Excelsior!