LUCY BELLWOOD LIKES YOUR BOAT

Sincere sentiments.

(Due to popular demand, this image will be available as a postcard in the near future! Stay tuned.)

Little TCAF commission of Johnny Cash and June Carter.

After a sell-out weekend at TCAF, I’m suuuuper excited to announce that Baggywrinkles #4: The Plank is now available for all and sundry both online and in physical form! Download the PDF for free via Gumroad, read the rest of the comic on my site, or purchase a print copy via Storenvy. The possibilities are endless!

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS TCAF IS NUTS.

I’ve sold out of all my copies of Baggywrinkles (1, 2, 3, AND 4!) and Tales from the Fragment, but if you come back tomorrow I’ll have limited numbers of True Believer, t-shirts, prints, buttons, and some custom watercolor paintings.

Kicking myself for not bringing more stuff, but at least this means I can run around and meet all these other cool comics people tomorrow.

Hooray for Canada! Hooray for comics! HOORAY FOR TCAF!

Yo Toronto. I’m here. Come get excited about boats with me.

Also: SAY HI AT TCAF! There’s a small chance I’m switching tables with someone, but if nothing changes I’ll be hanging out at Table 148 all weekend. Join us at the Toronto Public Library Saturday and Sunday for (free!) epic good times.

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A beautiful pin-up by my friend Lucy Bellwood!

I was so excited to get to do this pin-up for Steve’s forthcoming comic Una the Blade. He’s assembled such a rockstar team of artists! Keep your eyes peeled for some printed matter at VanCAF later this month.

Finished the prototype for Baggywrinkles #4 at 6:14pm this evening. Went out to see Iron Man 3 to celebrate. Frankly, the way people imagine it must feel to be Iron Man is the way I feel when I make comics. I love this fact.

Books are gonna be ready tomorrow afternoon. Flying to Toronto Thursday morning. Partying it up all weekend at TCAF. Dying happy.

INKED.

Eh-heh-heh.

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Done on a quick break from inking the last of Baggywrinkles #4. TWO PAGES TO GO! SO CLOSE! 

Plunged into inking Baggywrinkles #4 this week. Gotta finish twelve pages before Monday so the comic can go to print in time for TCAF.

LET’S DO THIS.

Finally framed the pieces I’ll be showing at the Cloudscape Comics “Stratus” show in Canada next month! You can find these for sale at the Ayden Gallery in Vancouver from May 1st to June 2nd. I’m very excited to be exhibiting alongside fabulous artists like Laura Bifano, Steve LeCoulliard, Jonathon Dalton, and many more! You can find the full details of the show’s super-cool opening night party (which I sadly cannot attend), RIGHT HERE.

Also: Cloudscape is still raising funds to print Waterlogged, their 200-page anthology of nautical comics! You can nab 900 pages of digital comics content for $12 bucks. I have yet to find a better deal on the interwebs. Check out the campaign here.

Totally teared up in front of the delivery guy because I’m sick and bedridden and this was the sweetest thing OKAY?

(Thanks, Steve Lieber)

Today in summary.

Also: an excuse to try drawing a comic start to finish in Photoshop, because I have NO IDEA HOW DIGITAL COLORS WORK, YOU GUYS. SERIOUSLY. I’m starting a project with two badass digital artists (Bridget and Carolyn! They’re amazing! Go look at them right now!) and need to get this business sorted out STAT.

This involves finding a brush that’ll make my inks look less horrible, practicing color composition from film stills, attempting to mind meld with people who know what they’re doing, and shouting a lot.

Oh autobio. I don’t know why it only takes me a couple days to start believing I’ll never draw comics ever again. Gotta break that spell somehow.

(P.S. Are you all reading Sam’s comics? Seriously. This guy is dynamite.)

After drawing a bunch of lewd comics for the Portland production of Don Giovanni last year, I was delighted to get to work on this avatar for local librarian and Portland Opera resident historian Bob Kingston (@bobopera). He’s a man of many hats — can you guess what they all are from this portrait?

Also thought I’d throw together a process progression so you can get a look at how things go from rough thumbnails to finished art. You can check it out here.

Enjoy!