So Close You Can Almost Taste It...

MoCCA is this weekend! As in, tomorrow. I have a NEW COMIC done for it called Islands, from which the above panel was taken as well as 75 BEAUTIFUL COPIES OF DIMENSIONS, one of which you should really get because they are awesome!



I will be at table C11, which I have conveniently circled on this map for you. And along with me there will be an all star crew consisting of Tom Toye, Alison Dubois, Amanda Greenberg, Heather Benjamin, Laincoln Bostian, Tim Beckhardt, Leah Wishnia,Victo Ngai, and Robyn Ng. It's going to be epic! You better stop by!

Creature Feature

If you are in the Brooklyn area between now and December 8th you should check out this show because I'm in it! I kind of missed the boat on posting about this in time for the opening but its up for two weeks...

It's about monsters so obviously you should go.

It's at the Gowanus Print Lab.

Yay.

Pizza Face and Skull Head Do MICE

[10/15/10] Man, I thought I was on top of this but I think I took the post down to correct some stuff and never put it back up until now. Anyway...

So we had a pretty metal-tacular day this Saturday, if I do say so myself. The first annual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo was a smashing success and I had a pretty fun time do in no small part to the wonderful camaraderie of all of the folks there, especially our awesome table neighbors.

To our left the wonderful Mr. Tim Finn, who took the first and last photos in this post. Thanks Tim! (also Tom trying to reconcile the apparently itchy beard/mask combo)

and to to our right the exceedingly hilarious Adam Syzm of Good Show Sir.com and Noah .... (Noah, what's your last name?) whose abstract mini-comic series Decoder Ring is currently rocking my socks.

We also ran into many other familiar faces including fellow RISD Alum Jack Turnbull and CCSer Jen Vaughn, but unfortunately, I am horribly inconsistent and photographically documenting events, so you will just have to take my word for it.

However, in the grand tradition of posting stuff you got at comic conventions on the internet, I did take pictures of all of the fun new books I acquired over the weekend a sampling of which is below:

This was cool anthology of comics centered around a fictional '70s cult film of the same name. Fun format, fun stories. Props to Pat Barrett, Josh Kramer, Betsey Swardlick, and Ben Horak.

I know I'm a little bit slow on the uptake, but Chuck Forsman's Snake Oil was definitely one of favorite purchases of the weekend. I am currently cursing not having bought #4 as he suggested.

Along with comics I did a couple of print trades including these two beauties from Valerie Arruda.

And this jem from Ant the Knee. I am not entirely sure what is going on, but I think that's my favorite part...

So technically this is not from MICE but I am still super excited about it! Tom and I went to Armageddon back in Providence on Sunday to blow all of the money we had made selling comics on records and... more comics.... Anyway, giant anthology of monster comics including Mickey Zachilli, Michael Deforge, CF, and many others...

I did buy/trade/receive many more, but in the interest of keeping the post (relatively) short I will redirect you here were you can see everything else along with links back to the creators websites.

Thanks to Dan Mazur, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb and the nice folks at AIB for organizing this shindig, hope to be back next year!

You Know You Want It...

Come get it this weekend at the inaugural Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo!

This Saturday I will be sharing a table with the illustrious Tom Toye, super comic-er and one-half of the brotherly screenprinting duo Portal.

I have a new comic (type-thing?) as pictured above and some prints. Tom has lots of cool things including some snazzy shirts (one of which I will most definitely be purchasing), awesome prints, and some crazy fully silkscreened comics(!!!).

It will be spiffy. If you are around you should drop by. Its at Art Institute of Boston 700 Beacon St Boston MA.

Hope to see you there!

Senior Show!

So along with Catherine Chi, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Yue Li, Victo Nagai, Magnolia Porter, and José Suris IV I had my senior Illustration Show, "One of These Things Is Not Like the Other" back at the end of April. It was pretty well received and I was really happy to be able to work with such an awesome group of people. We made a jam comic together which I will post soon. I've posted some of the highlights from the show below but if you want to see more, there's a gallery. Hope you enjoy.

Wall o' Paper Telephones!

The Reading Room!

Silly Photos!

Surprise Killer Fish!

Jose's Iofur!

A Swell Bunch of Folks!

COMIXCOMIXCOMIX

MoCCA was early this year so I shared a table with a whole bunch of cool kids from school including zejian shen, tom toye, hiromi ueyoshi, leah wishnia, magnolia porter, sophia foster-dimino, sam d'orazio, heather benjamin, steven sugar, irene koh, and a.t. pratt. It was pretty sweet. Bet you wish you were there.