This week the AMATEURS website went live. The comic isn’t ready to go up yet (Jeremy and I are still working on creating a buffer of pages), but we made a short teaser for the project, which is what occupies the space at the moment. Part of me has wondered if making a preview for [...]
So this might seem a little bit last minute, but I’m going to be heading to Vietnam at the end of the month and in hopes of raising some extra money and cleaning out my art shelves in the process, I’m going to be holding an auction here on the blog for some original art [...]
As I mentioned before, I haven’t really been posting here the last couple of weeks because I’ve been getting SaveApathea.com, the website for Americus, ready. We plan on going live next Monday, jumping right into it with all of chapter 1 up and with chapter 2 starting then. We’ll be posting new pages every Monday, [...]
Some big news – First Second has asked MK and I to serialize Americus online. Details are still being hashed out, but we’re hoping to have the website up and ready to go around the middle of July. I am pretty excited, though I’ll admit it’s kind of funny too. I think the standard approach [...]
So May is Asian American Heritage Month and every year for the Asian Reporter I do an illustration to accompany their featured section on the subject. Every year I set out to do a nice conceptual image that illustrated heritage, but every year I end up doing some sort of collage image. Is it possible [...]
So I’m hoping, er scratch that, DETERMINED to get the 10th page of chapter 9 of Americus done today, which will mean that I’m halfway done with the final chapter and also only have 10 PAGES LEFT! Woo-hoo! Here’s a set of two panels from chapter 9: Also, I did some work for the Willamette [...]
First off, we FINALLY finished the calendar! We’re going to be posting all the information on how to order it and what not later today, so stay tuned. In the meantime I wanted to share the cover, which I took the task of designing this year. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. In [...]
So I finally started my calendar illustrations for this year. You might remember one of these characters from my calendar illustrations from a couple of years ago. Anyhow, here’s some quick process images, starting with pencils & inks: I don’t have the coloring quite done yet, but I’ll update the post if I can get [...]
Starting Wednesday, September 2nd, the boys at brownpaperbag will actually be POSTING ON A REGULAR BASIS on their blog at the brownpaperbag website! Every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY you’ll get process notes, doodles, interviews, ramblings and other entertaining and insightful interneting from the boys at brownpaperbag! Besides the pleasure of being wowed and bedazzled by [...]
some big news: First Second will be publishing Americus! MK and i signed out contracts last week. i still have a lot of drawing ahead of me, but it’s nice to know it has a home. the book won’t be out untl 2012, so don’t hold your breaths. oh, and here’s some more illustrations that [...]