I generally don’t do a lot of illustration work for hire, I’m too slow and I’d rather spend time drawing comics. I also have an innate fear of the word “wedding” so I don’t really know how this project came to fruition at all but when Nick and Jenny asked me to do their wedding invitations I couldn’t turn them down.

I think it had something to do with the use of the words like “viking” and “starfish” in their description of the project. I was already on board when Nick told me about Le Tigre, a midget in a tiger suit.

Congratulations to Nick and Jenny, I wish you many happy years ahead.

Here’s a larger version.

We all thought about this when we were kids right?

• Comic – The Ceiling

I participated in Hourly Comics Day this year. The idea is to create a journal comic for every hour that you’re awake and the result is a rough-hewn mini biography for the day.

Here we go…

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Comics have been temporarily displaced by commercial work and an avalanche of other distractions but I’ll be back at it next week.

The above image is part of a commissioned piece I’m working on. It’s been a great project but way too time consuming. I’ll share the rest of the image once I’m finished.

This week we’re all scrambling to prepare for the JUMP Society Film Festival. Locally made short films on a sesame seed bun. Delicious!

It sucks to get parking tickets and I’ve long advocated the removal of windshield wipers as a solution. No wipers, no tickets. Right?

• Comic – Parking Tickets

I like the car I drew for this comic but it doesn’t have nearly enough rusted dents to do justice to Aaron’s jalopy.

I like the idea that if you knit a big enough sweater Mothra might appear. That’s the world I want to live in.

• Comic – The Summoning

I’m giving away the whole show, I never was good at keeping secrets. This one was an experiment in using contrasting colors to create an illusion of depth.

Far out man.

… I’m imagining this one on a giant canvas with a resin coat.

We’ll have new prints on display at the Ruby Room this Friday for Gallery Walk. Hope you can make it!

I used to read a book called “Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum,” it must have been an influence here.

• Comic – Autumn Installation

I penciled and inked this comic with actual pencil and ink and then colored it digitally. I don’t get quite as lost when I’m penciling with a pencil but I still haven’t found the overall tools or workflow that really suits me. I think I might want to learn to watercolor or try to save up for a Cintiq but it’s probably not the tools that slow me down. I just need to learn to draw better and faster. More sketching!

I’ve had a few holes in my comic update schedule but I’m going to try to get caught up so I can end the year with 52 comics. I feel like that was probably my New Year’s resolution last year. I don’t think I wrote it down anywhere which was a good idea, shackling resolutions with paper and ink is never as fulfilling as giving them the freedom to grow and evolve in the open fields of memory.