Stumptown + stuff I got at MoCCA!

I am exhibiting next weekend at Stumptown Comic Fest in Portland, OR! You can find me at table e-5 (map here) where I will have all of my screen-printed books, poster prints, totes (while supplies last!) and much more. Stumptown 2011 will also mark the debut of my brand new book, titled "hot + cold" Be sure to stop by and take a look! And if you love it it will be available for purchase. :)

my new book!

Here's some of the swag I got from MoCCA Fest 2011. Highlights include Ray Sohn's Pyramid Lake, Eamon Espey's "Death Deals", some of the "diary" series by Gabriel Bell, a bunch of square mini comics from the Finnish comic collective, screen-printed + b&w mixed minis from Alabaster, a fully screen-printed little book gifted to me by Jake Armstrong titled "What me and Tommy saw". The newest Secret Prison. Sammy Harkham's "Cricket"! Which I wanted but missed during Brooklyn Comic Fest back in December. And a Noel Freibert comic "Mr. Cellar's Attic" with screen-printed cover. :) "Secret Victories" by Victor Kerlow. Plus these precious letter-pressed coasters by Nick Iluzada! I don't even use coasters but I had to have these, I don't even know if I will use these as coasters, but they are super sweeeeet!

This was my biggest purchase at MoCCA, a screen-print poster by Sakura Maku. I've loved her work for a long time now, and I am really happy to have this!

what's cookin' at the printshop

New book in progress + Spring conventions

Some exciting news, I will be exhibiting at Stumptown and TCAF this year! I've been extremely busy trying to push out my newest silkscreen book, titled "Hot + Cold" and hopefully I'll have some copies ready for both conventions.

Here are some progress photos of the drawing separation for my book. This is the biggest that I'll be printing, so I'm really nervous! I'm basically printing the entire book on each single uncut piece of Rives BFK, double sided, which I will cut up with a Guillotine and put together as a book afterwards. It will be 5 color processes, approx. 4.3"x6" and 24 pages (half accordion).
I'm hoping to get all the separations done in 2-2.5 weeks, and all the printing and book-binding done by beginning of April.

Still working on the top accordion. So far I have the color separations done for 1/3 of the book.

close up of some line work.

Thanks to my roommate Wade for the photos!

Brooklyn Comics Fest + TINY too show!

Be sure to check out the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival coming up this Saturday!
I will have my new silkscreen mini accordions for sale at my table as well as tons of other goodies- some copies of "rainbow & i" and "pink lemonade", lots of prints and tote bags.



Where: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
On N 8th and Havemeyer st. in Wiliamsburg
When: December 4th, 12-9PM
free! to get in

I'll be the one eating asia dog all day long!



I have some new pieces in a one-day show at Gallery Meltdown, the space behind Meltdown Comics in LA. The show is called "TINY too" featuring artwork 3" x 3" and smaller!! So I did 3 teeny tiny paintings for it. They are titled "Lemon Drop", "Lemons in the Sky" and "Lemon Sea"

catch this show for one night only
@ Gallery Meltdown, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd. LA
December 11th, 6-9PM

Alternative Press Expo 2010

photo courtesy of giantrobotmag's flickr

I had a wonderful time this year at APE in San Francisco! I was there with Jon Vermilyea. We had a full 6 days in which we spent walking over the Golden Gate Bridge like last year, and sipped on some salted caramel hot cocoa at Ghirardelli Square, which has become sort of a tradition for us. We ate In-N-Out burger and Mexican burritos every single day. :)

The convention was very successful. I enjoyed talking to people about the silkscreen process (which is in itself a hard thing to explain). I had the privilege of meeting Anne Koyama of Koyama Press for the first time, she came all the way from Toronto and she is awesome! I got to hang out with the talented Cat Lauigan, and chatted briefly with Lisa Hanawalt (actually ended up running into her at the airport on our way back, boarding the same flight!).

Plenty of after parties and post hang outs ensued, Ryan threw his annual party which had a much bigger turn out this year than before. Had post drinks with some of the Canadian comics family at Elbo Room, and dinner the following night at Taste of Formosa with a bunch of rad folks, including Hellen Jo, Calvin Wong, and Aaron Mew. All in all, an amazing trip. :)

APE and Oakopolis art show

APE is bigger than ever this year! So big it moved its entrance to the other side of the exhibit hall, and the exhibitor list looks two times bigger than last year's and the year before! I found out my table placement and it looks like I have pretty much the same/similar table spot as last year, even with all the additional tables, which is great. :)

I'm in a show called "The Art of Comics" at Oakopolis Gallery in Oakland. The show will have two openings, October 1st and November 5th, part of the Oakland Art Murmur. They will have my "rainbow & i" books as well as the rainbow prints hung on their wall, revealing part of the process in making the books. This will be an interesting show, so if you are in the bay area, please check it out!

Here's what I did at the print shop today. Tomorrow I will be printing on tote bags for the very first time, wish me luck!

Today at the print shop...