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The Beggar seems the sort of person who sees one kid having a bad day in a supermarket and judges the whole entire household
2021-09-21 13:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostScotch Egg ‘zine update
I’ve put together two of the three mini-comics I intend to send out in my first Scotch Egg bundle. I spent this morning finishing up the third, and largest of the initial set of zines. The packages will be going out in October. I’m really pleased with how they’re looking, and am really enjoying this new project. More updates to come!
2021-09-20 14:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s hard to imagine
Many of the images from this strip are drawn from “The Good War on Terror”, an comics adaptation of an essay written by Chris Hayes that I created for The Nib in 2018. The politics of late 1990’s are something I come back to again and again, and that strip probably summed up my feelings on the topic the best. This one is about where I think the politics of today have to go for us all to have a fighting chance.
2021-09-06 02:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We Thought This Was Over
Trying to take a trip right now feels batsh*t insane, I don't know what to say. We planned it when it felt like this was going to be the summer of getting back to normal life. I don't know when we're going to get there now.
Today it's seeming likely it's not coronavirus, we took him to his doctor this morning, they said there are all sorts of viruses around that normally circulate in the winter, and they're seeing something like this, kids getting fevers for about a week and nothi...
2021-08-21 13:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Scotch Egg Press - first update
Thankyou to my new "Scotch Egg Press Comics Subscription" backers! I am thrilled, and I greatly appreciate the support. I apologize for a few small hiccups I had rolling this offering out, I also appreciate your willingness to bear with me as I iron out all the details on this. It's a new thing for me, I expect there'll be a slight learning curve, but I am extremely excited about the basic concept, and the places that I think this project will go.
I wanted to make a sho...
2021-08-09 12:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post
My cartoonist super-power
I recently listened in on a cartoonist’s shop talk discussion, and it’s striking how many of us are doing yoga these days as a method of not breaking our bodies down being sat hunched over the drawing table all the time.
2021-08-04 17:22:16 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement! New quarterly minicomics
A big announcement today, I'm launching a new quarterly minicomic program. Every three months, you can receive from me in the mail, a brand new personalized minicomic or zine. There are two "tracks" to choose from, my brand new autobio zine, The Voice of Youth, or a Comics Essay alternative.
The Voice of Youth will feature diary comics and autobio strips, the Comics Essay track will be different each issue, each one containing thought-provoking meditations on politics,...
2021-08-03 15:20:30 +0000 UTC View Post“The Move!” in color
It took me a year or so to really get comfortable working on the iPad Pro, I feel like I’ve settled in to a style I feel good about, and have found the brushes and pens I like working with the most. “The Move” was an older comic that always cracked me up, drawn when I was a little less satisfied with how things were looking, so it was a treat to redraw it and colorize it. Sometimes that’s just fun to do.
2021-07-30 16:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostRound Here
George Michael and Andrew Ridgely met at school, made friends, and in their teenaged years became one of the biggest pop acts on the planet. On one of his last albums, PATIENCE, George Michael basically wrote a little autobiography of his own, a song called "Round Here", talking about his parents, where he grew up, meeting Andrew, going on to do what he did.
Wham! were my sister's favorite band when we were little, and the two of us would fight about them all of the time,...
2021-07-19 16:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post
New Tier: Freddie & Me "radio edit"
In 2008 I published my first significant work, Freddie & Me: A Coming-Of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody. A 300+ page memoir ostensibly just about my lifelong obsession with the band Queen and their legendary frontman Freddie Mercury, but really the book is about much more than that: childhood, family, siblings, high school, romantic jealousies, creating an identity for oneself, and really, really, the book is about the nature of memory. How we construct and reconstruct it, and the stori...
2021-07-08 14:46:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In a funk
Sorry, this makes no sense. I’m in a bit of a creative funk right now, which probably has to do with a lot of change happening, I finished up the sequel to The Fifth Quarter, haven’t settled on what I’m doing next, and school just wrapped this week and summer vacation began. I’m the kind of artist/person who does very well when they’ve got a defined task to do, and less well when they don’t. So, here’s some nonsense I’ve had kicking around my head having to do with the cartoon...
2021-06-18 19:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
