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Here’s my contribution to the SketchTravel book. Relax, breath deeply and read …
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Hey hey! Good friend and long time co-worker Bill Presing, the Nazi Smasher himself, has started blogging! Daily Peril is the nice title of his brand new online journal. About time Bill!

I received yesterday the SketchTravel book from Lou Romano, as you can see. It’s quite an amazing sketchbook already filled with spectacular paintings and drawings and it’s not even half way through its travels to all the participating artists. SketchTravel is an idea by friends Dice Tsutsumi and Gerald Guerlais, the basic rule is that [...]

Just re-read this and dang … it’s a fun read. It’s been so long since I worked on it that it’s almost like reading someone else’s work. The details and plots that lay ahead in the story came all back to me … fun stuff … I really need to get back to it as [...]

Paprika, the latest film by Satoshi Kon (Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), just opened in a few selected cities this weekend and hopefully more widely soon. I saw this movie a few weeks ago at the San Francisco Film Festival. I really enjoyed it. While I still absolutely recommend seeing it, parts of it maybe fell [...]

Our SketchCrawl/Maverix fundraiser was really quite the event. Not only the Drawing Marathon and the Art Auction made for a wonderfully enjoyable weekend, but more importantly we raised a sizeable amount of funds for a meaningful cause. The tally of our benefit is now up around 13.000 dollars! The nice folks at EmergencyUsa are truly [...]

Uploaded four new pages of comics. Ronnie is even guest starring in these! Read it all here. The new pages are in chapter 4. As a flickr set here.

Wow, quite the weekend. Saturday’s SketchCrawl was fantastic, we had glorious weather in San Francisco. We had roughly 80 artists joining us to draw away around the city. We started at Embarcadero, then headed up to Coit Tower through Filbert Steps, then down to North Beach and we finished the day in Chinatown. It felt [...]

What a great day and what a big turn out, we had around 80 friends join in to draw around San Francisco!
It’s not too late for donations to Emergency. If you want to help us in this fundraiser effort you can donate online here. Whether you are sending checks or making online donations please let [...]

It’s a big weekend coming up. Last night we prepped the walls of Maverix Studios where we’ll hold the auction on sunday. Pieces are still coming in and we’ll be hanging the show tonight. Here below, an awesome donation by Steve Purcell! You can see an extensive gallery of more pieces here.
In brief:
Saturday 19th [...]