Mostly ghostly

on March 30, 2011

Did you know that Set to Sea was the Lynd Ward Prize honor book for 2011? It’s true. It didn’t win the big prize (that went to Duncan the Wonder Dog), but it was the only runner-up, which isn’t too shabby.  The Lynd Ward Prize, to my knowledge, is the only award the give the grand prize winner straight-up cash, which is something I would commend to all of the other comics awards out there. I don’t get the cash, but they are flying me up to Pennsylvania for some sort of ceremony – and most excitingly, I think I end up with a set of those snazzy “Library of America” Lynd Ward novels.

I’ve already sent off the first batch of kitty postcards to all the folks who submitted a photo of their cat a few months back. Don’t miss out if you did!

Here’s a sketchbook comic about a dream I had last week:

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The spoils

on March 18, 2011

Papercutter #15 is out now, you can see ordering information over at Tugboat Press! I did that cat picture for the back cover, here’s a picture of the front:

I have a 9 page “romance comic” in this issue, written by MK Reed. Here’s the first page:

I just got some comp copies in the mail, and they look great! There was a surprise in the package as well – a stack of postcards!

I figure anybody who had their cat exploited immortalized for this illustration should probably get a record for perpetuity. So if you submitted a pic, send me your address (drew @ this website dot com) and I’ll pop a postcard in the mail for you!

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Papercutter 15

on March 9, 2011

Remember when I was soliciting cat photos for a mysterious upcoming project? I used every single submission for this: a painting I made for the back cover for the soon-to-be-released Papercutter #15. Please click on the image, it keeps going.

Papercutter #15 should be available any day now, I think Greg had copies at Emerald City Comic-con. I’ve got a comic in that issue, too – MK Reed wrote it and it was quite an experience to draw. It’s also about cats. I’ll post up some images from that in a little bit.

(p.s. – please don’t ask me which cat is yours, I totally lost track)

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Hey there.

on March 2, 2011

Apologies for the long silence. I’ve got a couple projects simmering, one of which is for the upcoming Fluke anthology (which Patrick Dean is editing this year.) The Fluke festival is coming up fast – It’s April 23rd! Here’s a panel from the story I’m working on:

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Happy Holidays!

on December 23, 2010

I’m about to get out of town, and probably won’t post again till early January. In the meantime, here’s a holiday card that Eleanor and I put together back in 2007. It was a little paper theater that you could cut out and assemble. If you want to make your own, here’s PDFs of the front and the back. Happy winter!

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