New Chicago Comics at the MCA

In January I'll have about twenty originals spanning the entirety of Big Questions on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago as part of the show New Chicago Comics. Also in the show are Paul Hornschemeier, Lilli Carre and Jeffrey Brown. The show opens January 7th, as part of the museums First Fridays programming, with a reception from 6-9.

Look Around You

I have a print in a show opening in L.A. on Friday (see right). The magnificent Mylissa Fitzsimmons of Littlebird Gallery put together a print show at WHERE mmm (1519 Griffith Park Blvd) in Silverlake.

Tomorrow

Go to this:

to get one of these:

And listen to me chat with the inquiring Bill Kartalopoulos.
Or, even better, come watch a cage match between editors extraordinaire Sammy Harkham and Francoise Mouly, or between cartoonists fantastiques Lynda Barry and Charles Burns. Who will beat who in this clash of titans!? Come to Brooklyn Saturday to find out.

Prints and Drawings Store

When I was a kid I had a bad habit of not turning in my homework. Sometimes that was because I didn't do it in the first place, but just as often it was because once it was done the box in my brain got checked and I'd forget it at home or lose it. Over the last several years I have on occasion done prints of my work for shows or because someone was interested in an image but couldn't afford to buy an actual painting. I moved last Spring and found that my cabinet of flat files needed lightening. So I am now turning in my homework. Just in time for Christmas. Help me lighten my flat files.

Demons in the Spring

I'm doing a reading and slide show this Friday at 7:30 at the Book Cellar here in Chicago (4736 North Lincoln) for the release of the paperback of Joe Meno's Demons in the Spring. Also reading are Joe himself, and two of the other (brilliant) illustrators in the book, Nick Butcher and Jon Resh. I'll be doing a couple of stories about gods, one of whom has a peculiar revelation while walking around in Wisconsin. In keeping with the theme of my illustrations for the book, the theme of my primary contribution is aquatic. Below are two of the accompanying slides.

The end of the line

The last issue of Big Questions is at the printer, and is supposed to be out in time for the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, December 4th. In honor of the end, here's a glimpse of the beginning. This was in the first issue.


Click here for some other images, and some nice words about the whole big mess of a story that is about to conclude.

That election was F#$%ing depressing. So let's talk about Halloween instead

More pictures here.