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Conceptual drawings for an animation project that hasn't entirely left the ground:

And these are a few drawings from Autoptic meetings earlier this year (and one of a colleague at MCAD, Kindra Murphy, from a meeting there last Spring): Zak Sally, Jenny King, Raighne Hogan (twice, in various stages of beard growth), Robert Algeo, Justin Skarhus and Jordan Shively. Somehow I never got around to drawing Caitlin or Tom. Next time.

WPR

Titles are useless: Interview at the Comics Beat

Q: So why is poetry useless?
A: [laughs] I don’t know if it is useless. The title says that, but I don’t know if we should trust titles to come to conclusions about actual things in the world.

An interview I did with Alex Deuben at Comics Beat just went up, here.

Also: check out those crazy storm-trooper boots Jason Lee was repping

I can't remember what made me think of this, but when I did I had to go looking. And lo and behold Thrasher has an archive of, apparently, every page of every mag they ever printed. Which means they have a jpeg of this spread from their April 1989 issue, when I was 15, in which my recipe for Gingerbread half-pipes was printed (re-written by Chef Boy-Am_I-Hungry) Merry Christmas.

Marc and Anders 2015 West Coast Tour Sketchbook parts 5-7

Victorian Picture Book Illustration

I was in Portland a couple weeks ago and found this beautiful little book at Powell's. It reproduces a number of entire books by several authors/illustrators, and despite having been printed in 1983 the printing and the colors are crisp, bright and gorgeous. The illustrations below are by Walter Crane, Richard Doyle and Eleanor Vere Boyle.

Canned Salmon Labels

Saw a display of these at the Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon.