Winter Hiatus

Just letting you, the internet, know that I am leaving Vermont to visit my family over the next month. I won't have access to a scanner so I won't have anything to update the blog.

I hope your winter is full of snow! I'll leave you with this picture of me on one of the last days of fall, because it's all I got.

CCS Year One Assignment: Bibliomancy

This comic came of random passages from a collection of E.E. Cummings poems during my first semester of school. Right now, having just finished my first semester of my second year, the art makes me cringe. Not to mention some storytelling flaws, but, it's important to remember where you come from.

CCS Secret Santa

My class had a week to create secret santa drawings/comics/holiday cards. I got James Sturm and made him this comic about what would have happened if he and Jason Lutes were friends when they were little.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Christmas, but this was really fun.

Thesis on my mind ...

Winter Sketchbook, Part 2

CCS Year Two Assignment: Thesis Synopsis Posters

These posters are going to be hung up in the Center for Cartoon Studies gallery soon. The exhibit is for the seniors to display our thesis summaries that will accompany the presentations we are giving the whole school over the next few weeks.

CCS Year Two Assignment: Dream Comic

We were asked to create a comic based on a dream we had. Like all our assignments we were given certain perimeters and guidelines. I used it as a chance to play with color and texture. 

Character Designs

I've been writing and editing the script for a long formet story I am writing for my CCS thesis (yet to be named) and doing these character sketches:

Winter Sketchbook, Part 1

Fall Sketchbook, Part 5

Fall Sketchbook, Part 4

concept sketch for my thesis

Fall Sketchbook, Part 3

Fall Sketchbook, Part 2

Fall Sketchbook, Part 1

Hey! Huge Fez Zombies!

A Halloween story, which I dedicate to my daddy.

Birthday Zine

For his 23rd birthday, his friends created Mr. Josh Lees, CCS first year, a birthday zine full of illustrations. You can check out his comics, including his ongoing web comic Bello Fortis, at josh-lees.com.

Here is my contribution:

Fan Art!

My friend (and classmate) Ian Richardson did some fan art for my comic Hey! Huge Fez Zombies! that I recently turned in as an assignment.  

Hey! Huge Fez Zombies!  will be posted on my blog on Halloween night, and over at my tumblr it will be updated a page an hour from 3am to 6pm.

Catching Up

SPX and MICE were pretty awesome. I have a whole bunch of lovely swag from both. MICE was pretty crazy because it was my first time tabling and selling my book, The Third Dominion, which is a update, completed copy of my final project form last year. My table mates kept me from being too nervous, so thanks, guys!

left to right: Laurel Lynn Leake, me andAllie Kleber at MICE (not pictured: April Malig and Sasha Stienberg)

Small Press Expo

Hey everyone! I'm hopping in a car to drive (or be driven) to Bethesda, MA for SPX. I won't be tabling, but I will be wandering and trading. If you see this chick, cut her a break and trade with her:

Have a happy SPX!

CCS Year One Assignment: Anthology story

Last December my class broke into four groups to create an anthology. Our assignment was to come up with a theme and presentation that would tie all our stories together. My group's anthology is called SCIense, and was an exploration of the five senses (there were five of us) through the use of technology. It turned out pretty cool, we had a screen printed cover with a translucent overlay and bellyband. Unfortunately some of our copies fell apart due to lack of experience perfect binding by hand. Oh well, now we know.

I experimented by cutting down my bristol board and doing on panel at a time. Which kinda worked out. Also I did the text separately and dropped it into Photoshopped word balloons. Which did not work out.

So, on to the story: We Hear.