Failure : Dodgeball

My friend and fellow artist Karl Stevens recently documented one of our epic dodgeball games in his weekly comic, "Failure." I'm honored to be immortalized in one of his comics!

You can check out Failure in the Boston Phoenix every week, and the Dodgeball episode is available in this week's issue! Pick one up!


And don't forget to check out Karl's brilliant drawings and paintings at www.karlstevensart.com

(Also pictured in this comic : Alex Carlson, Fish McGill, Cheryl Pace, Jamie O'Brien, and some other awesome people!)

Boston Phoenix : Rapture Pets comics

Pick up a copy of the Boston Phoenix today!! I have illustrations in it with cute animals living in the torturous hell that is Earth after the Rapture. SO kawaii!

More about the Rapture at the Boston Phoenix website.

First Night of Spring

And it's still really cold outside. :( But it's going to warm up really soon!

I haven't posted in AGES (5 days) so I'm here to update you on my art-doings.

First off, I've decided on what my promo keychains are going to look like. They're inspired by my new severe obsession with eyeballs with wings/hats/legs. I'm going to draw a million of them and color them and post them here. Hooray!

Second off, I had to make a comic for Andy Fish's comic class at Emerson. We had an hour to illustrate a girl playing basketball and getting shot by a vengeful deer. This is my translation. Yay for graphic violence!
Third off, this is the beginning to my new NEW promo postcard. It's just in the inked stage, but it'll be really cool when it's done! I promise!

Look out for new stuff soon! I finished my fourth degree project piece as well and will have that posted up very soon.

Toodle-loo!

Ok, Last One Maybe.

I leave you with this.

I'm going to go do some ACTUAL ASSIGNMENTS NOW, I think.

Comic Crazy

As Lindsay put, it's "Allison and Lindsay's Adorably Retarded Adventures."

Featuring Andy Fish and Alycia.
Enjoi.

Strip for Lindsay.

GET IT IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO STRIP FOR LINDSAY.


Based on a silly class discussion in Degree Project featuring Lindsay Small. I'd brought her back candy and cookies from an Asian Market, but they made us become really disruptive (at one point I spilled a whole pack of candy on Alycia's chair and it was LOUD).

But Linda, if you read this, believe me, this is a SEVERE exaggeration of you. Lindsay and I were being brats, and we think you're lovely, so please don't kill me for making this strip. Your character needed some spicing up. *love*!


(PS This is the first comic strip of anything I've ever done. I have a ways to go.)

More comic stuff.

Top half of the first panel of my comic. Once I have a more legible storyboard, I'll post it up. As for now, I'm happy with this image. I'm planning on doing this in black and white, but I may or may not change it to color for the summer issue of Detour.

Gonna have a meeting with Andy Fish for some direction (and to fill out paperwork that is do VERY SOON!!!). I have the first few pages planned out. Now I just have to.. create them.

While I was in Portland this weekend, I picked up an issue of Tank Girl (half-tones *drooool*) and another graphic novel called Muzz. I like it so far. It has weird creatures and delicious linework. Casablanca Comics in Portland has been alerted of the arrival of the new Detour with help from Jared, so hopefully we'll see them on the shelf there soon. If not, heads will roll.


I put my hair back today. A lot of people noticed and said they liked it. <3
I hope it doesn't snow on Wednesday.

Comic: Character Study 1

(Please full-view!)

So I'm making a comic. It's based on a story from my childhood about chasing down the ice cream man because he would never stop for me at my house. Jerk.

The basic story goes like this: Allison is sitting at her desk at home afterschool, bored, when she hears the delightful jingle of the ice cream truck. Her head shoots up, and she runs to her backpack, tearing it apart and dumping it out looking for every last bit of change. As the jingle comes closer, she darts outside, just as the ice cream man is rounding the bend.

Upon seeing just Allison outside of her house as opposed to a gaggle of kids, the ice cream truck driver decides it's not worth it to stop, so off he goes. Allison stands there, confused, but determined to get her ice cream. She leaps off the ledge of her yard and starts to run after the ice cream man, who has sped up a little to avoid the guilt of not stopping for her.

Allison leaps over small fences, cuts through yards, runs along ledges, and braves barking dogs to cut off the ice cream man at the corner before he gets onto the main route and will be too fast to catch. So she gathers every last bit of energy, pumping her legs and fists, quarters and pennies sweaty in her palm under the hot California sun, and jumps off the wall of a neighboring yard (dramatic action shot in the air) and lands close to the ice cream truck. She is now running side by side with the truck, pounding on the side of the van to stop. With a heavy sigh, the driver pulls over, and Allison does a little jump for victory. As she drops her sweaty change onto the aluminum window sill, faded peeling stickers of ice cream all around, she asks for a double cone with two scoops of Oreo ice cream. The Ice Cream Man serves her begrudgingly, looming in the darkness of his van and speeds away.

Allison triumphantly takes the first lick of her ice cream and begins her journey home.



This will be a test of my figure drawing capabilities, as well as using more dynamic compositions to tell a story. I'm really looking forward to getting this all together. I'm planning for probably 8 pages, and I bought comic layout paper and everything! I'm so excited! <3

So wish me luck. I'll have the priceless guidance of my wonderful Andy Fish, and maybe I can include this in the summer issue of Detour if I finish in time. :)