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3/19/12

Here is a preview of my comic, Spring, which will be featured in the first-ever issue of Three-Armed Squid. It will debut at the MoCCA Festival in April.

3/15/12

The ides of March.



I profusely apologize for the lack of posts. I'm working frantically on a few things at once but no one thing is finished enough to show you fine folks.

Some upcoming dates of importance! I will be in not one, but TWO, festivals in April. First up, Kim and I will be at the Bust Magazine Craftacular and Food Fair on April 14th selling our wares and debuting our first ever collaborations! Kim and I join forces again, along with our Three-Armed Squid fellows Estrella and Alden, at the MoCCA Festival on April 28th-29th. I will be debuting a few new books and posters on each date (This is what has been keeping me away from you). We hope to see you there!

2/16/12



Working, working, working…

2/9/12



Greetings from February! How time has flown. I'm currently silkscreening the cover for my Pulpo comic, as well as putting the finishing touches on a comic for the first ever Three-Armed Squid anthology I'm producing with a few friends (see here, here and here). It's going to be a busy couple of months as we all prepare for our MoCCA debut as a foursome. I'll have some more previews of Pulpo in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned!

1/17/12

Happy 2012!

I'm almost done working on my Pulpo comic (hurray!) but there is still much to be done. In other news, I recently applied to the SVA MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program. I won't know whether I got into the program until April, but I have a good feeling about it. Now all attention can be paid to preparing for MoCCA (which is also in April). More updates soon!

12/27/11

I'm off work this week and have been putting all this free time to good use. So far I inked over the pencils from my Owl Maiden print and finished an ink wash portrait of my aunt (above). Once I have access to scanner at work, these will go up on my website (Upgrading to Mac Lion rendered my scanner useless). The next couple days I'll be knee deep working on several comics at once. My goal is to finish pencils on all of them, plus some pages inked.

In other news, I've temporarily closed my web shop on Big Cartel. Long story short, Paypal is a silly, silly thing. But fret not! I've decided to open a shop on Society6 for prints of the non-handmade variety. Alas, I need to rescan a few things so these prints will go on sale some time next week.

12/19/11



A watercolor portrait for a friend.

12/12/2011

Howdy! So here is what's been going on the past few weeks…

My book Llama! Camel! (edition of 16) has been fully assembled, complete with book jacket. How fancy. (Forgive my oddly-framed photos…)



Here is another project I worked on in November with Shalimar Luis which was hush-hush until recently. We collaborated on this baby shower invitation for our mutual friends Monica and Tom. The cards (edition of 75) turned out beautifully and everyone really enjoyed them. Hurray!



Lastly, I finished printing my Owl Maiden posters (edition of 30) this weekend (finally). The colors look completely different on white paper, which is fun. These posters and my Llama! Camel! book will be available for purchase on my web shop soon.



I still have much work to do. I'm wrapping up a commission (which I am hoping to silkscreen over the weekend somehow) and putting the final touches on my Pulpo mini-comic. WHY TIME GO FAST?

11/22/11

It's on to the next one: a second printing of my Owl Maidens poster.



I'm concurrently working on a mini comic and a super awesome commission. Hoping to get some serious work done on both projects over the Thanksgiving break.

Happy gobbles!