Yesterday, I was part of four artist show at Tender Loving Empire. Along with a few prints from the Weekly Print earlier this year, I showed some customized test prints (more on those on Monday), but TLE also let me paint the title of the show on their wall. I probably could have had more pieces in the show had I not painted the title so large, oh well.

This is the second time I’ve been able to paint the wall at TLE, and I think it needs to happen more, and not just there. Big lettering is so fun!

My group, the Robopocalypse Comics Collective, will be releasing our next group book in late July; it’s going to be a coloring book! Each member created 2-3 pages of the 26 page story, which was written by Terry Blas. The book will tell the tale of three kids and their victory over some robots gone bad.

I was bored at my studio last week, so I decided to color one of my three pages. This will be the second page in the book, when the robots are still friendly, and helping to rebuild society after a regular apocalypse.

More info as the release date nears, we’re even having a release party/art show for it in early August!

PORTLANDERS: First Thursday Show!
If you’re in the Portland area, I will be showing my work, this First Thursday, July 2nd, as part of a four-person show at Tender Loving Empire. I’ll be showing a bunch of prints, and test prints, and there’ll be snacks, and two bands, you should totally show up!

Here’s a stupid little comic. This is in no way a comment on my ACTUAL roommate, who is actually quite a lovely person.

The good people over at Letter Cult have listed my “No Hurries, No Worries” print from earlier this year as one of their Best of the First Half of 2009, alongside many other amazing examples of hand-lettered and custom typography. I’ve been working a lot on my lettering for the last year now, and I’m really proud that something I made got picked to be shown alongside the work of people who inspired me to get better in the first place.

I still have some copies of this print left, if you’re interested, they are for sale right here.

One of my LiveJournal friends, Phil McAndrew is having a contest; the entrance fee being a drawing of yourself at the age of 100. Here’s my entry: me, stumbling around on my replacement knees, still fiddling around with the banjo with my arthritic hands.