Saturday night I attended (and performed) at Scott Beale’s Laughing Squid Lucky 13 Party. I got there early with my friends Irina and Mike to do the soundcheck and get ready for the show. During the down time, Mike and I decided to print some inserts for my mini-comics and hand them out during the [...]
Cupcakes have totally jumped the shark, but I don’t mind ’cause they are so fun to draw. I feel like I’ve been ignoring my drawing side this year, so I decided to get some practice. I don’t do much computer art, but I’ve always wanted to create a style that sort of mixes my pen [...]
What would you do if critics repeatedly chided you as a “misogynist”? Dave Sim, Cerebus creator and publisher of one of the longest running independent comics of all time, decided the best way to handle such a situation was to send out a form letter requiring anyone who wished to correspond with him to fill [...]
I was very lucky to have seen Scott McCloud’s presentation at Google last year with my friend Jason Shiga. During Scott’s 50 state tour of the US, his daughters Sky and Winter McCloud, produced a series of video blogs and interviews (called “Winterviews“). Sky was the camera girl/editor, while Winter was the “on air talent”. [...]
This may be the first of a new form of internet piracy. Darren Di Lieto, of Apefluff and The Little Chimp Society, has recently written about a new book called “Colorful Illustrations 93°C” that illegally reprints the art of dozens of well known illustrators. Furthermore, it appears that the bulk of the book’s content is [...]
For the next week, $2 of every album that I sell will be donated to the marvelous 826 National. 826, a nonprofit founded by Dave Eggers and his McSweeney’s cronies, is dedicated to teaching creative writing, screenwriting, publishing, ESL, and numerous other classes to students. I have been volunteering at the 826 Valencia (also known [...]
One day, the yo-yos decided they were tired of being toyed with.
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Today I voluntered to help teach cartooning to kids at “Mayor Gavin Newsom’s March Gladness in the Mission” at Garfield Park. Here is the comic I finished right before Mr. Newsom came around to our both and shook hands.
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At our last San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy, I suggested we try our hands at recreating the popular “Fail” meme in cartoon form. Fail images capture excruciating moments of failure, typically punctuated by the word “Fail” in a bold font.
Below are a few of our pieces I worked on at the meeting, you can see all [...]
Lately, I’ve been trying to experiment with coloring my illustrations using photoshop. Ever since my earliest photoshop coloring attempts, I’ve tried to use actual scans or photos of the objects I’m attempting to color (ie, instead of coloring a pair of blue jeans blue, I actually scan denim and place it in the image). [...]
