Tree

This is a comic I've been working on in the Chapel Hill Drawing Group. A better edited version of it should be in our upcoming mini-comic. I'm hoping to make this the first in a series of comics following this soldier as he builds the world.

Russian Lessons

Lately I've been practicing Russian, drawing cats and inking with brushes - this is where they all come together. I've had this plan for a while to put together a Russian Tutorial mini-comic. It will be something along the lines of a Children's Picture Dictionary, though more specific to things relevant to my life - like the parts of a cat, for example.

This is a photo of the real Koshka Lyra - much stripier than her snowy white comic counterpart. But her eyes are just as giant.

Where Comics Come From.

The Laundrymat

February 28,2010

This is my summary of the Paperhand Puppet Intervention's winter show, Love and Robots. If you live in the greater Chapel Hill area and have not yet gone to seen the new Paperhand show, Islands Unknown, at the Forest Theater - you should. It is beautiful.

This is also the final installment of the February comics. Note that somewhere near the end of February I started to lose steam and did not make a comic everyday. Oops.

February 23, 2010

...and yes, six months later, we're still using the same broken clock.

We are swiftly approaching the end of my February comics - which means I need to get cracking and scan some newer stuff.

On the plus side, since writing these comics I have learned to use an Ames lettering guide, fancy pants nib pens, and even rulers! So you, the fine reader, can look forward to comics with readable text, varied line weight and straight lines. It only gets better from here... or something.

February 20, 2010

Who are these Russian hotties?:

Victor Tsoi (Learn more about him here)

Vladimir Mayakovsky (Learn more about him here)

Yegor Letov

February 19, 2010

Sorry for the lapse in posts. I went on vacation, which also ended up being a technology vacation (no phone, (almost) no internet). I got to see my friends get married; I got to meet my brother's lovely new girlfriend; and Majka (my dog) made a BFF out of my parents dog, Boise. Majka also discovered the wonder of giant backyards where she could dig all she wanted. It was puppy heaven. Beautiful.

On our epic, 18 hour trip back from WNY to North Carolina we stopped in Pittsburgh. We had lunch at my old house with my favorite former housemate, met up with some old friends, and went to the new Copacetic Comics. If you've never been there - It's the best comics shop ever. The owner is so friendly and has read just about everything in the store, and gives great recommendations. Even in the old location that was the size of a closet, it was by far the best stocked indie comics store I've been to. Now that they have a reasonable amount of space - it's wonderful, and worth the stop in Pittsburgh. We loaded up on new comics. Kirill was excited to find Bar Miki, a new Finnish comic (as he is learning Finnish). I picked up Ten Thousand Things to Do by Jesse Reklaw, 3 Stories by Alexis Frederick-Frost, and Neptune by Aron Nels Steinke.

Oh, Pittsburgh, how I love thee.

February 18, 2010

February 17, 2010

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February 14, 2010

February 13, 2010

February 12, 2010

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. I'm posting two today because Blogger was having issues yesterday and not letting me post.

The following is a sad but true tale of what happens to cats who hang out next to bathtubs.

February 11, 210

February 10, 2010

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February 1, 2010

Okay Folks. Here it is. I've been planning on doing this for 6 months, but the planets have finally aligned. I'm going to start by posting the series of comics I made for Fun-A-Day NC this past February. Fun-A-Day is a neat project where you make one of something everyday for a month. I chose comics. One thing that makes Fun-A-Day especially interesting is that the focus is on quantity not quality. Since it is soon to be February's 1/2 birthday I will celebrate by posting my daily comics from that short and gloomy month. The comics are small and hard to read, but if you click on the image it will enlarge. I couldn't figure out how to post the images directly to the blog and larger. Perhaps it's not possible. I'm still learning how to scan and to edit my comics in GIMP and Inkscape, so the quality will hopefully improve as this experiment continues.