Deepchord, Lanterns. At last!

The first release from Astral Industries is a physical object that exists in our reality for real now! A double record set with an hour of excellent music from Deepchord, gatefold packaging, and a giant poster. Can't wait to get mine in the mail. I should be getting started on the second release soon too. Such fun work!

Small Works Show

Friday evening, June 6th, I'll have three woodcuts on display as part of a Small Works show at The Brunswick Gallery at 223 Railroad street in Missoula, MT. I can't wait to see the rest of the show. There's a lot of great artists involved.

Mystery Mark Mask

Mystery Mark is in the making! I've been working away on the final series of illustrations for the book. I'm crazy excited with how the story is coming together. At the same time, an amazing group of talented people are working on the performance side of the project. I've never been part of a project this big before. It's a good feeling. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mysterymark/mystery-mark

Missoula Summer Made Fair!

I made this poster for the Summer Made Fair. It's a really great event and I was happy to be asked to design this for them. I'll be there, June 29th with a table of my work!

Mystery Mark making

The Mystery Mark Kickstarter is in full swing. There's a new video up showing some of the process. There's a lot of great talent involved. It's fun to be part of a big project like this.

Mars themed group show in Brooklyn, NY.

I've made three new woodcut art pieces for Grumpy Bert in Brooklyn, NY. There's going to be a talk by a Mars expert at the show opening. Wish I could be there. Card Image by APAK!

ink forest

Stayed up last night and drew some trees.

Mental Navigation sketch book

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Mystery Mark, Kickstarter.

Mystery Mark is a big, multi-dimensional collaborative project I've been making art for. The end result will be an illustrated book, a live art installation piece and a puppet theater performance by Viscosity Theater. They're doing a  Kickstarter to help make it all happen. It includes a lot of great prizes including prints and shirts from me! It's been a great experience working with this group of intereting and passionate people.

Deepchord, Lanterns, from Astral Industries!

Here's the cover I drew for the first vinyl release from Astral Industries. It's an extra fancy double album with a gatefold cover, out at the end of the month. Can't wait to get my copy in the mail. Great music to draw to.

Gridlords, Seattle

I'm going to be part of an exciting event this June in Seattle with Gridlords! It's going to be a night of comics readings, theatrical weirdness, and story telling of all kinds. I'm excited and honored to be a part of it. If all goes well, I'll also be debuting a new comic called Gnome Activity!

Best of luck to you.

Awesome mom!

Mothers Day card I drew for my wife, featuring my current family configuration.

Mystery Mark!

Here's a little sneak peek at a collaborative, multi-dimensional story/art project I've been making drawings for. It's been really fun. I'm working with some talented and interesting people on this. Mystery Mark! 

Lucky Spirit Animal

A new hand made, one of a kind woodcut piece just became available over on my Etsy Shop.

Werewolf of the year!

I've got a new woodcut up for sale on my Etsy Shop.
This Werewolf just found out hat he's won Werewolf of the Year. He totally deserves it too. He's a great Werewolf and he's been working really hard at it for a long time.

Emergence, from Neoglyphic Media

I got copies of the new comics newspaper published by Neoglyphic Media in the mail yesterday! It turned out nice. Here's the cover, by Cullen Beckhorn along with the spread and a detail from the stream of conscious, straight pen to paper comic I made for it. These kinds of publications feel really valuable to me, and they're given away free! Fun to be involved!

definitely a time crystal

draw, draw, draw

Things are piling up. There's stores and drawings forming all over the place. gotta release something soon so I can keep the flow going. I tend to go deep into my work and then realize I need to race back and keep my ship from sinking out there in reality. Balancing acts. Keep an eye out for new art objects.

at it

Back into the woodcuts again.

stream

Sometimes while I'm sitting at my drawing table, a sentence or a word will bounce around inside of my head and I write it down on the big piece of paper that covers my drawing table.

Emergence: Art Comics Newspaper!

I have a page in a new free art comics newspaper published by Neoglyphic Media. Can't wait to get my copies in the mail and give them out to people!

Mind Melders!

I love sitting with friends and doing collaborative drawings. Mind Melders Magazine is going to be a place where I can collect and document the kinds of things that can only come about when artists and writers spontaneously respond to one another on paper. It can only be contributed to by sitting down with me and working on it in person. All contributors will receive a certain number of copies once the zine is printed. This will probably take awhile, but it's nice to have a little side-project like this that has to do with relating and exploring with others.

Mind Melders Magazine

I started a new publication last night with the help of my friend, Sam Kulla. It's called Mind Melders Magazine. You can only contribute to it in person, so hopefully I'll see you around.

signature

Every publication sold through my Etsy Shop comes with a little original character drawn inside.

Gnome Activity!

I finished a new mini comic! As soon as it's been printed, I'll be making it available through my etsy shop and various distros and stores. It's fun to be self publishing more again.

tiny ghost on a bit of road.

so excited!

Here's another tiny panel from The Understanding Monster, Book Two. I'm excited to finally have this book out in the world this Fall. But before that, I'll be releasing a brand new, top secret mini comic I've been working on called Gnome Activity, Number One!

WildWalk

I made this paper mask for walking in the Wild Walk Parade to kick off the Wildlife Film Festival here in Missoula, Montana. I ended up misplacing it after the parade, so if you find it, please wear it.

Hey!

They're on the march! The Understanding Monster, book 2! Out this Fall!

self portrait

The silhouette of my head reflected in the glass that frames a drawing I made.

It happened by accident and startled me when I noticed it, so I took a picture.

overflow

This is a tiny section of the paper that covers my drawing table. It gets marked on, spilled on, and doodled on as I work. It's always fun to take note of it's natural progression.

spring evening photos

Now that all the snow is melted, I've been romping in the yard a lot with my 2 year old son. He likes it when I throw stuffed animals in to the air as high as I can and catch them. I took a couple of pictures and they ended up being strangely haunting.

PIX shirt!

The Shirt I designed for the Pittsburgh Indy Comix Expo is now available over at the SockMaakies Shirt Shop. All proceeds benefit PIX, an excellent and wonderful expo!

Trip Magazine #8

I'm excited to be included in this big thick book of international artists and writers, from the Quebec based publisher, Editions Trip, due out in May. I did a 10 page comic especially for it. Cover by Tin Can Forest.

presenting an egg.

Spaceman Shirt!

I've got another new shirt available over at the SockMaakies shirt shop. I'm excited to be working with John F. Kelly's shirt company.

?Mystery?Mark?

I'm excited to be working on this secret collaborative project. The end result will be both a book and a theater production. I'm not going to say much about it yet, but you can check out the official facebook page for updates.

New T-Shirt!

This image is now available as a shirt from John F Kelly's t-shirt company, SockMaakies. He specializes in shirts featuring art by cartoonists. I'm happy to be working with him.

LineWork NorthWest

LineWork NorthWest is a new, exciting indy comics show that's happening in Portland, Oregon. I won't be making it to the first one, but some of my publications will be featured at the Gridlords table alongside some of my favorite artists/people. Check out the beautiful poster by Sean Christensen!

The Alternative Library, Bellingham

The Alternative Library in Bellingham, Washington is up to all kinds of great stuff. And look! They carry a bunch of my work in their shop. When my newest comics finally come out, I'm hoping to pay them a visit and do an event.

Want to read a comic?

I don't usually put up entire comics on the internet, but now you can read my story, Norman Eight's Left Arm over at Great Comic Book Hero's. It's from my long out of print 2009 comic, Sleeper Car. It was also included in Best American Comics 2010.

Slide show reading at PIX

Here's me about to launch in to a very strange slideshow reading and talk as part of an evening of presentations and panels at The Pittsburgh Indy Comix Expo. Photo by Jessica Heberle.

Pittsburgh City Paper

Nice little feature about my Toonseum show and PIX!