Naples

Just got back from trip to Bologna, Italy, for Bilbolbul. Am still sleeping on a weird schedule from the jet lag. After the festival Heather and I traveled around the country a bit. I fully intend to put a bunch of stuff up here from the trip, but to start here are some photographs I took from the train on the way into Naples:

Bilbolbul

Here's a card for a show I'm going to be putting up next week in Bologna, Italy, for the Bilbolbul Comics Festival. The show is in conjunction with Kevin Huizenga and Paul Hornschemeier and we're going to be doing a panel conversation on Saturday March 8 at 11:00 at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. I'm putting up multiple originals from almost every book I've done, along with several painted covers and a few stand alone drawings, all of which show a lot of the cutting and pasting and general indecision that goes into the process I go through in putting comics together. If you happen to be in Italy next week, come by and take a look.

Some Drawings...

...I've done recently as gifts and thank yous and a few that I've done in anticipation of a show I'm doing with Paul Hornschemeier and Jeffrey Brown at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris next summer.

ANDERS TO LITTLE KIDS: "STAY THE $%@# OUT OF MY WAY"

Last summer a filmmaker friend of mine by the name of Kyle Obriot undertook the making of a film. It was to be a "day in the life" of the artist. Pre-production included the purchase of gold-lame stretchpants. Unfortunately, the film sort of fell by the wayside. A small fragment, however, has recently come to light and may be worth a look. Click here to view, click here to download.

Sketchbooks

I've been keeping these little red moleskin datebooks as sketchbooks for the last several months, after getting one for Christmas last year. They're nice because they fit in my back pocket. Easy and unobtrusive. I've posted drawings and strips from them at the Holy Consumption for several of my most recent installments of Sunday Services, including the upcoming one. I recently did a mini interview about my sketchbooks and my work generally with Julia Rothman for her blog Book By Its Cover...which is worth a spot on pretty much anyone's bookmark list. You can see the interview and some other images here. The image above is a drawing I did of a nice girl I know named Heather. The one below is an audience member at a panel on comics criticism at SPX in Bethesda last October.

The USA: A History in Art

Following are images from another book I came across while I was looking for material for the Button Installation (See post October 19). These are from a book called The USA: A History in Art, which I found at a thrift store. In a few days I'll post a few images from another book: The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia.

Beauty contest entry

This is me soon after a fall I took while skateboarding recently. I bashed in two of my front teeth pretty good. As luck would have it there happened to be an oral surgeon at the park with his son who was kind enough to take a look and pull my teeth back into place for me on the spot. Below is a picture of me about to land the same trick a couple of years ago.