Home for the post-holidays

I have pretty much been living inside for the past few months dealing with construction of my show for Buffalo Arts Studio entitled Home that opens January 7th. I promise I have not been neglecting anyone for dire personal reasons unless you smell, then maybe I was. If you get some deodorant for the holidays then you will know for sure. I had all sorts of grand ideas that adapted and shifted into one I like quite a lot better and if I can properly wire things, should turn out great. I will also be teaching my very first workshop January 14th which I am both very nervous and very excited for.

In the two conjoining spaces will be artists Megan Greene and Balint Zsako, who are both from out of town so it will be a treat to see their work. Make sure you come check it out.

Tremendous shout out to the amazing curator, Cori Wolff  for dealing with me not being able to coherently form a sentence as well as being woefully tech impaired.

Future projects include a short comic me and Alex are shooting to finish in time for the next Buffalo  Small Press Book Fair in 2012 entitled Milk, Eggs, Hollowpoints. I would tell you a bit about the story but if I do I think Alex might cut me a new breathing hole. However, I do have big dreams of publishing it properly with a nice color cover, but we shall see the further along the deadline we get.

Also in the works is a blog we are working on that should be a great deal of fun utilizing old pulp novel covers and a great deal of imagination concerning both story and illustration.

Monster Time and January Adventures

This Friday 6pm-1am at 464 Gallery is the group show Monsters that I am adding two tiny watercolors and a large watercolor to. It should be a pretty fun event. If you have never been inside 464 or Blink you definitely check it out, the shop is adorable, the company is good, and everyone is really enthusiastic there.

If you are stopping by I hope you like old style monstrous harpies and none of that pretty women with wings nonsense that is knocking around nowdays. I don’t have any pictures yet, but when I snap some I’ll post them on here and rate them not safe for work because of harpy breast.

After my BAS show Home is hung and completed I am recruiting a very handsome boy who just happens  to be a terrific writer into working on a blog project with me using old pulpy novels. (When I say recruit I mostly mean make puppy dog eyes and hope he is done with his novel enough to spend some time with a whole lot of nonsense.) We will be writing short stories based entirely on the cover and back blurb of each book, and illustrating that story in various ways. Sometimes I may also beg the talented and fabulous artist Amanda Wood to do a guest appearance if she is so willing. So keep an eye out for that ridiculousness starting early next year somewhere between strange comics about birds and trying to avoid leaving my warm, warm bed.

Big Livin’

I have been a bit under the weather lately, which has led to me being a bit less than productive on things I know I should be attentive to (I am very sorry little blog). I came back though. Just in time to tell you about all the ridiculousness in store for this fall/winter.

October 6th 7pm Burchfield Penney Art Center:

I am releasing a free mini comic entitled Maybe in conjunction with this presentation/q&a I am not entirely sure I belong on but am really flattered to have been invited to. The other (amazing) panelists are: Alan Bigelow, Josef Bajus, Julian Montague, Hyeyoung Shin, Chris Fritton and Allison Wilton.

For this I will be discussing the zine-style comics me and Salvatore Sciandra have been making as well as future solo plans. Comics are still a learning process for me, so bear with me on this one.

Panel from "Maybe"

October 11

I donated a work to Buffalo on the Bowery, and incredible fundraiser event curated by one of my personal art-heroes Julian Montague and benefiting two deserving not-for-profits: PUSH Buffalo & Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. I highly suggest if you are in NYC at the time you take a look because it looks like it is going to be a really fun event with some amazing artwork.

A closeup of my donated piece: AHB-EHB

? October

I just know my deadline on this one, which is the 16th. I am in some sort of group show at 464 concerning monsters, mythology, and fantasy. For this I fully intend on painting some roundish, lumpy, and anatomically correct harpies. I think it will be a lot of fun to see the show done, but mainly because I was a giant nerd growing up and mythology always excites me.

January:

My Buffalo Arts Studio show. I will keep that a secret for now but it is my personal anxiety attack.

 

March (I think):

Hopefully the Solo release of  “Bird Stories” at the 2012 Small Press Book Fair. This will be a lot more labor intensive than the Elephant Guns and hopefully have a sweeter presentation. I can’t promise anything though. Comics are really hard.