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.

Summertime Goodness

I haven’t updated in ages because I didn’t have too much to share. I have been working on a challenging and interesting commission as well as  a small series I will hopefully have the first piece ready for in time for the Hallwalls member’s show.

This weekend as most of Buffalo knows, is Garden Walk weekend. My good friend (and patron) Gordon Ballard has asked me to do some nature-related doodling in his garden for the weekend (10-4 Saturday & Sunday).  The garden itself is an insanely gorgeous little botanical wonderland that represents more time and effort than I can even imagine. Come stop by and say hi as I get steadily drunker and focus on improving my insect anatomy. I plan on catching a few live subjects as well as working on some tiny watercolor blocks, so if nothing else, just to see what I’ve got in my canning jars a few hours in will be entirely worth it.

Another thing I have going is volume #2 of Elephant Gun. Me and Sal just completed it and will be releasing it August 1st at the Broadway Market during the infringement artist sale. It is a light-hearted split, mostly stories about animals in my half, but one or two personal stories I tossed in the mix.

A cruddy cellphone snap is unfortunately all I have just now.

The first volume turned out really well and I think if you liked that one, you are going to love this one. I hope to see you at any of the three upcoming events!

Spring 2010 Updates

Things went surprisingly well at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair this weekend. Me and Sal sold out of all 30 copies of our split comic and I sold a few sketches/panels that were comic related. I was really surprised at the diversity and size of the crowd, it was a pretty great experience. I think Sal and I will definitely be making a second one.

pigeons don't know anything about grammar

Thank you everyone who came out to support my first attempt at comics. I really appreciated it.

I am working on putting together some packages together but rewriting my statement is stressing me out a little bit so I have been putting it off like a bad term paper.

I have a few big projects I am more than excited to start working on and have started arranging my studio to accommodate working on larger pieces. One of the projects might placate everyone who has been asking to see things backlit in a big way. I won’t ruin the surprise until I have one completely finished though so you can just imagine what that might mean.