Nevada Power

cover for Las Vegas Weekly.

panic!

Illustration for Willamette Week in Portland.

All the things that are scarier than swine flu: bike accidents, spiders, bacterial infections and republican whack-job glenn beck.

Sort of crazy dimensions for an illustration, fun stuff.

comics marathon

spent the last week finishing up 7 pages of comics for 2 different anthologies, in a blur of coffee, ink and white gouache.. Doesn't help that I have an insane process where I redraw the pencil sketch for each page at least 5 times through a light table before even thinking about ink.

probably not going to post the full "living in filth" story on the blog, I want y'all to dish out the 10 bucks when I finally getting around to putting out another comic!

free comic book day

I contributed some "dirty dish" strips to this mini anthology Mutant! free at Atomic Books this weekend, available only from May 1st thru May 4th either at the store, or comes free with any website order.

I was psyched to see I'm being published alongside all these great people including my new favorite cartoonist Noah Von Sciver who draws awesome comics about working at Subway with guys that just got out of prison.

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Mutant! #0 The debut of Atomic Book Co.'s new comic mag. Featuring new, rare, unseen and/or previously-unpublished work by: Julia Wertz, Laura Park, Brian Ralph, Ben Claassen, Erin Womack, Dina Kelberman, Robby Rackleff, Noah Van Sciver, Eamon Espey, Dustin Harbin, Brian Dubin, Ben Steigler, Jordan Jeffries, Ryan Onorato, Billups Allen, Adam Meuse, James Williams, Hawk Krall, Benn Ray and Zach Hazard Vaupen!!

atlantic city

"hey, you want to do an illustration about giant hoagies, dive bars and pawn shops in atlantic city?"

Wait, am I dreaming? For a NY Press Gut Instinct column.

get your own damn salt, fatso!

second page of my new "living in filth" comic.. if you missed the first page, it's here

cbgb's for roctober magazine

Roctober needed some art related to early 80's NYC punk / hardcore, thought CBGB's was deserving of an illustration especially since I've been listening to old hardcore and thrash nonstop for the last few months. I ended up spending just as much time looking at old show flyers on flickr than actually drawing anything.

So obviously I wasn't there in the early 80's but spent many weekends at CBGB's in the late 90's. There was always the best, craziest lineup of bands, some emo band opening up for disassociate (grindcore) followed by two "hawdcore" bands from long island in basketball jerseys, old biker/gg allin type dudes doing drugs with runaway squatter girls in the bathroom, lots of fights and drinking 40's from the bodega across the street. The bodega is still there, probably the only thing left.

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Roctober is a fantastic magazine by the way, one of the few zine-style newsprint publications to survive both the bankruptcy of tower records (who carried a lot of semi-undergound music & culture magazines) and the supposed "death of print".

They're covering a lot more than rock these days, with lots of really in-depth interviews about everything from soul to truck-driving music, and tons of good comics and illustration. Also pages and pages of record and book reviews that's way more diverse than the same 3 hipster bands you read about every day on the internet.

Individual issues of Roctober are available from Atomic Books