Light & Ideas

My good friend Dylan Jones and I started yesterday on a collaborative project which in the future will manifest itself as a music video (my animation / Dylan's music). We spent about an hour jamming -- Dyl playing, me drawing, and both of us talking in between about the concepts which tie everything together. The theme is "ideas," in particular ideas as represented by the symbol of the lightbulb ("Eureka!" cried Edison). Our protagonist is some sort of inventor/big thinker with a lightbulb shaped head, and some of Dyl's recordings come from the sounds of actual bulbs in action.

A proper place for our project on the web is in the works, updates will follow! In the meantime, enjoy some sketches:

Colder than a witch's --

The Point of Ideas / Don't Smurf On Me

M I X

News! I'm excited to say that I, me, myself, and three of my good friends Beth Hetland, Ian McDuffie, & Lale Westvind will be sharing a table at the upcoming first ever Minneapolis Indie Xpo (MIX)! Click the image below to check out the website and learn more (there's a sweet little statement of purpose animation on the home page):


I can't wait until August 21 to meet all the other super cool comix creators and hang out with three special people at a cramped table while we sell our innermost thoughts in toner ink. See you there!

Goodbye Xerox Candy Bar

Margin doodles

Disappearing act: "Perfect Hair"

BFA Installation View: Ber Bentin RIP

Under the Sea with Pizza Shark

Good Morning! (I M N D T V)

Link <-- to my first ever TV spot!

Over the Shoulder, Tale of Genji Scroll

Pizza Shark Grows

Cool is Creepy / Creepy is Cool

Pizza Shark In Progress

Character Portrait

All About Disillusion

Congratulations to Eryn and Ashley for this glowing review of their show Disillusion (which I have a couple pieces in) from Ann Arbor dot com: follow that link!

Also check out this post at Play Blog, written by Ashley, which describes the vision (or is it just an illusion?): oh, hey, another link!

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MIOK print

In case you've been wondering about certain recent posts, I've been uploading quite a few images from a body of work related to a new comic I'm working on called MIOK (read the letters separately), a short story following the character Miok (pronounced 'my-oke') as he struggles with self doubt in an increasingly complicated life.


I just finished a long night of printing this print (!), which will sit on the page opposite the Chapter 1 page, based on this digital image that I created earlier this week. It's made up of 10 separate layers and will probably get a few more by the time I'm done with it.

It'll be shrunk down and probably simplified a bit for the sake of the book (the image, which isn't even totally finished, is about 12" x 12" on the paper and the projected size for the book is 11" x 11"). I will be making one hardbound artist book version of MIOK and also reproducing it in some other form.

- - - "ecstatic" doesn't even come close.

There are no words capable of describing how excited I am about this - - -