Archive for the 'Comics' Category
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Here’s the little silly Tshirt I just got printed for ComicCon. Yoga! You might remember this piece for the SketchTravel project, I turned it into this strange shirt. It’s an organic cotton American Apparel shirt, screen printed with five colors. The printers had their work cut out for this one but they sure pulled it [...]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
I will be attending San Diego Comic-Con this year. I am at Booth #4800 with friends Ronnie del Carmen, Scott Morse and Jeff Pidgeon. This is an exciting year given that the Venice Chronicles is nominated for an Eisner Award! I’m also making a new t-shirt just for the Con … photos as soon as [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Hey there’s some nice Venice Chronicles news. I was nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Book Award under the category “Best Painter/Multimedia Artist”. You can read all the nominations details right here. Great to see some friends like Scott Morse and Kazu Kibuishi nominated. Also great to see one of my favorite books from last [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
I can’t wait for this book to be out. Miyazaki’s Shuppatsu ten is getting a US release by Viz in July. The book contains writings and essays about film-making and philosophy by MiyaSan. Read more about what the book contains in this wonderful post at GhibliWorld.com. And since we’re on the subject, I was [...]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I will be at Wondercon this coming weekend with friends Scott Morse and Bill Presing. Our booth is #1320. On hand I will have the Venice Chronicles, SketchCrawl t-shirts and a few of my older books. See you there.
I just realized Ronnie will be there with us too. Yay!
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Hey it’s the year of the cow! I owe you a drawing of one I think, everyone is doing it, but to tell you the truth I don’t have one so here’s a picture of me. That should do. So Happy New Year! I got a nice little surprise yesterday that made me feel good [...]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I am almost on the home stretch on these watercolors for the upcoming exhibition in Paris. Here’s a few recent iphone shots from my kitchen table, the last few pieces. By the way while in France Ronnie I will also be attending Angouleme’s Festival International de la Bande Desinée. We’re really looking forward to [...]
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
“Yuppi!” means “Yay!” in italian … strange word … but anyway the reason for my joy is that I just received in the mail Gipi’s latest book: “La mia vita disegnata male“!!! I read it last night from front to back and I was just blown away, what an amazing read! He weaves very personal [...]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
I ordered the new Gipi book a few days ago, can’t wait for it to get here. LMVDM stands for “La mia vita disegnata male”, “My life badly drawn”. Unfortunately it’s only out in Italy at the moment, but if you don’t mind that you can order it from Coconino Press, like I did. I’ll [...]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Here’s a nice review of the Venice Chronicles at Express from The Washington Post. Interestingly they review they book together with Drawn and Quarterly’s Burma Chronicles, I’ll have to pick that up. And on the VC topic below is a photo that friends Dani and James kindly took at Secret Headquarters, a wonderful book shop [...]
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