Lines & Colors article!

This was a really nice suprise. charley Parker, esteemed illustrator and Lines and Colours operator did this article on me on his site. Lines and colours is the best site that examines and introduces people to illustartors. I'm really complimented. If you've not been to this site before please take some time and explore it. It's more then worth your time.

Happy Anniversary Julie!

Barpanzer

Here's a full image of my Barpanzer drawing that I got from Tim Guthrie's blog (Tim's the owner of the piece)

Harry Silvio From Louisiana!

How's this for weird and cool? I just got an email from a Harry Silvio in Louisiana! He somehow heard about my Harry & Silvio comic and it turns out he's a comic fan.

Vanderbot

This is a piece I did for Jeff Vandermeer. A real honour, I'm a huge fan of his work.It's a visual to go with a proposal going out to publishers next week. It could be a huge deal for me. Fingers crossed.

Bibio; My New Favorite Thing.

I'm just loving this guys work, I've not heard anything else like it. What Bibio does is record sounds in the "field" like birds or wind or whatever and mixes that with experimental electronic music and a folky feel. Really lovely, compelling music.

Robosketch

Here's a sketch for a finished pencil digital piece which I posted on Facebook and Twitter and I'll post here soon. It's a butterfly operated robot. And his brains are flying away.

Vandersketches

Here are some exploratory sketches I did for a Jeff Vandermeer project. I love pencil and consider it one of my primary mediums. These sketches lead to some interesting digital experiments as well; trying to balance a hand drawn image processed and manipulated digitally. I can't seem to fully keep away from digital media, it's always exciting.

On the life front things are hurtling along. Henry is approaching 9 months (it's actually 5:30 AM here on the east coast and Henry is next to me in his play pen talking to himself, he's decided it's not too early to wake up)And we are quickly hurdling toward our moving date. I've been shipping books and winter clothes. Very much looking forward to the drive to Toronto.Jogging is still going well. The pounds are falling off and I enjoy running more each day. The only really irritating thing right now is the dropping and breaking of my iPod.However, it compelled me to go out and buy a brand new Nano.Probably the coolest thing I own.I spend my off hours refingng my play lists, which is funner then it sounds.

Haunted Liverpool

Wahoo! This awesome book arrived in the mail last week. I'm a big fan of John Reppion, an amazing British storyteller.He's best known for his collaborations with his wife, the incredibly talented Leah Moore. Together these two write some the best comics going. If you haven't picked up their new book The Trial Of Sherlock Holmes please do! It's some of the smartest, tightest writing in comics right now.

Also, Leah is newly pregnant! Congratulations guys!

Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie

I love this book. I don't want it to end because it's so much fun. The book is Of The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie by Alan Bradley. It's Mr. Bradley's debut novel and it one the Dagger award.Here's what the book says:

"A delightfully dark English mystery, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family.

The summer of 1950 hasn’t offered up anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce: bicycle explorations around the village, keeping tabs on her neighbours, relentless battles with her older sisters, Ophelia and Daphne, and brewing up poisonous concoctions while plotting revenge in their home’s abandoned Victorian chemistry lab, which Flavia has claimed for her own.

But then a series of mysterious events gets Flavia’s attention: A dead bird is found on the doormat, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. A mysterious late-night visitor argues with her aloof father, Colonel de Luce, behind closed doors. And in the early morning Flavia finds a red-headed stranger lying in the cucumber patch and watches him take his dying breath. For Flavia, the summer begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw: “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”

Great book. I really recommend it.