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First game of the season is tonight! Are you ready? We are! Hope you had a Merry Christmas. Go Blazers!

I have some great news to share! I’m teaching a comics class at the Oregon College of Arts and Craft here in Portland this spring! It’s called Crafting Comics: Narrative & Technique. It’s basically an intro to comics. Anyhow, I’m super-stoked. I have always wanted to teach comics, but I thought that it would be important [...]

A tiny thing that stresses me out: Thank you cards. I always feel like I should make a new one every time I want to send one out, but it’s always a much longer project than I think it will be, or I just get lazy and don’t make it and then don’t send it [...]

Here’s a commission I did for someone that was reading the Americus blog. She wanted some image that had both Doctor Who and the new Sherlock in it. As always, I struggle with spotting blacks and giving things a sense of form. I think this is a good example of how even just doing the [...]

Ah! Things have been really quiet here the last month or so, but not because I haven’t been busy! A bunch of Americus events have been going on back to back and I haven’t really had a lot of downtime in between. So I’m going to take some time now to catch everyone up and [...]

Ah! I’m leaving for DC in like 6 hours, but I wanted to do a real quick post before I left. Besides Americus, and the Lorian Gendarme Guidebook for Adventuring Standards, I’ll have three other mini-comics. I wanted to share the cover designs that I scrambled to come up with the last two days. I’m [...]

Okay, so I’m spending the week wrapping things up for SPX. MK and I will be at table H-16, next to Tugboat Press and Alec Longstreth! Come by and say hello if you’re there! The secret project that MK and I have been working on for the show is pretty wrapped up, so the rest [...]

[Reposted from SaveApathea.com] Americus is out! Yay! Head to your nearest bookseller and get you one! I spent most of Tuesday afternoon hanging all 200 pages up at the Basil Hallward Gallery on the 3rd floor of Powell’s. It was pretty awesome to see the pages up on a wall instead of in a stack [...]

Again, sorry I haven’t been posting here at all this month. MK and I have been really swamped getting our secret SPX project together and then we’ve been doing lots of odds and ends getting ready for Americus‘ release next Tuesday. With everything that’s going on, I’m just going to post some news tidbits: • [...]

So I know that things have been a little quiet lately, but I swear I’m working. It’s just for a secret project that MK and I are getting together for SPX, and I don’t want to spoil any of it. That, and we’ve been filling out a shit-ton of promo stuff for the Americus release. [...]