When we were younger my friend Noni and I had this really romanticized idea of having a scandalous affair and having to sneak around incognito all kinds of places to avoid discovery. This was the outfit we imagined ourselves in, or at least something like the outfit I had imagined: a trench coat, big sunglasses, and a scarf over the hair.
So I made you guys a watercolor of the “incognito” look. I still haven’t gotten Owlex’s coloring quite right yet. I’ll keep playing around with it.
Many of you know that yesterday was Hourly Comic Day! I was going to post my hourly comics here but it seemed overly complicated and I got frustrated so now they have been posted on my blog if you would like to check them out. Didn’t know I had a blog? Well, I do. And usually I just use it to talk about comics I’m reading or thoughts I am having about comics but today I guess I’ll file this one under “comics culture” because seriously everyone was making these little hourlies. This was the first year that I did them and it was really fun!
So after seeing this year’s impressive exhibitor’s list for TCAF, I’m thinking I’d like to go. I’ve never been to Canada before, so it will also be sort of an adventure for me. A tame adventure I guess, but an adventure nonetheless. Is anyone else going? Any readers who have been before? Since I will be someplace completely foreign to me, it would be nice to see a somewhat familiar face, or at least have some advice on how to get around, where to stay, etc. Any help you could give me would be great.
Also, I am going to try to have my best to have SPAZ! #3 done in time for TCAF, but I can make no promises. Things have been slow going art-wise, and unfortunately my funds are really too low to take any time off work to devote to drawing. That said, is there anything else I could bring that people would be interested in? Obviously there will be a second printing of SPAZ! #1 and #2 but I was hoping I could make something else kind of exciting. Would anyone be interested in prints of my “Diets I Have Tried” comic? That one seems to be the most popular of the SPAZ! collection so far. What about something Owlex related? Any ideas would be appreciated!
In honor of my absolute favorite holiday, here are some pumpkins I carved of Bob & Em. This was really fun because I don’t think I’ve carved a pumpkin since I was a little kid. If you haven’t read my minicomics, Bob & Em are recurring characters in some stories loosely based on my life. If you’d like to learn more about Bob & Em you can buy those minicomics right here. I had thought about doing some kind of Halloweeny themed comic for the occasion, but I think I’ve decided that the fact that we spend a lot of time hanging out with dead guys in this comic is spooky enough. I hope you all are as excited about tomorrow as I am. There need to be more annual excuses to play dress up and eat candy.
Last week I met Casey Brazeal, a real nice guy who makes his own beer, plays in a band and writes a blog called North and Clark where he interviews people around Chicago. He was cool enough to interview me about Owlex and making comics on the internet. You can listen to it right here. I’m pretty excited because I’ve never been interviewed before, so this was really fun for me. Also, Casey has interviewed a bunch of really interesting people so if you have some time, check out the rest of his site too!
Here is a groundhog I drew for my friend Jaime.