TCAF

I'm going to be in Toronto this weekend for TCAF, with super advance copies of Poetry is Useless (not in stores until July). I'll be on a panel on Sunday talking with Jason Lutes and Bob Sikoryak, and signing both days at D+Q.

Grand Canyon Sketchbook part 4

On Drawing

linesandmarks.com just put up some images as a teaser for an interview we're doing later this Summer, including a few newish things of mine, and a little preview of Poetry is Useless. If you haven't been over there, it's a beautiful new site about drawing. Their opening salvo also includes Albrecht Dürer, Julie Mehretu, Charles Burns and Marcel Dzama. Pretty fine company, and a really nice expansive way of looking at this art form which is so close to my heart. Sometimes I make comics, sometimes I do illustration, sometimes I make diagrams and sometimes I make 'paintings'... but everything I do is drawing. Drawing is everything.

If you click through to the interview preview page you get to move a little magnifying glass around on Adam and Eve Sneaking Back into the Garden to Steal More Apples. Most of my work is probably ripping off Burns a little bit, but here's a painting I did several years back inspired directly by Dürer's various takes on St Jerome and the Lion (which also might be the first time I depicted Adam and Eve – that's them by the tree).

Grand Canyon Sketchbooks, part 3

Grand Canyon Sketchbook, part two

Joshua Tree/Grand Canyon Sketchbook, part one

Going Behind Enemy Lines

I'm going to be reading at North by Northwest at Lunalux for AWP on Friday. It's mainly a poetry event, but they are open minded and asked me anyway. I'll be reading some work from my upcoming book Poetry is Useless. The space is at 1618 Harmon Place, over by Loring Park. A bunch of awesome people are reading including Mary Austin Speaker, Chris Martin and a bunch of folks from Factory Hollow Press and Monk Books.