Water Socks

Since I just did an auto-bio comic focused on my past (for Sweaty Palms) I wanted to do one looking at my present. In a way it’s a small attempt of holding onto where we are right now as a family. The cliche about kids growing so fast is so devestatingly true.

I wasn’t too concerned with plot with this one, I was looking instead to capture a moment in time.

The lecture I’m listening to in the comic is by Michael Puett, a professor at Harvard.

The book I’m reading is The Complete Works of Zhuangzi by Burton Watson.

I first read about Zhuang Zhou ( or Zhuangzi ) in the McSweeney’s magazine The Believer. The May 2013 issue. It’s an “interview” with him. It’s really funny and worth a read if you’re interested.

Lastly, I also read Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh’s excellent book on Chinese philosophy while I was working on this comic, It’s called The Path.

Sweaty Palms

Here are some pages from my story for the anthology Sweaty Palms.

To be continued in Sweaty Palms! Please consider supporting the Sweaty Palms Kickstarter. It’s going to be an incredible book with comics from some amazingly talented cartoonists!

Irie’s Gift

I started this comic about a year and a half ago for DoubleThink Comics. I wanted to do a simple fantasy story with a main character my daughter, Sadie, would like. I got started quickly but after sitting down to work on it one night I couldn’t bring myself to make a single mark. I couldn’t bring myself to work on any comics at all for the next six months or so.

During that time I started thinking a lot about what I was doing, in terms of comics and illustration, and why. I got really into Shigeru Mizuki, Kaoru Mori and Satoshi Kon’s manga. I remembered the comic one day and decided to use it to test out some of the ideas I’d been having. I ended up completely redrawing most of what I had done with redesigned characters and rewriting most of the dialogue.

So, after working on it off and on for a year like that I finished tonight. I learned a lot making this one, I hope you guys like it.

Sweaty Palms

I’m almost done inking my contribution to the Sweaty Palms anthology!

U.F.O.

Mark Your Books

I’m making a series of bookmarks for the Dartmouth Library. Here are the first two.

OK Robot!

I finished the rock poster I’ve been working on! Below is the poster with all the info in place. Design by Cayetano Garza.