(No relation to the other Tiny Showcase)

Long-time listeners may recall me mentioning a future group show that I was setting up, a show in which I hoped to include artists from all over the world. Well, I realized what a massive undertaking that would be, so I scrapped the idea and decided to only include people from my school, PNCA. Here’s the poster I made to get the word out. This probably took far longer than it’s actually worth, but I do so love to lettering (and drawing myself on items that will be seen in public).

I also made this little plush robot over the weekend; mostly for fun, but also as a prototype for some other plush bots I’ve got in the works.

I think I’ll sign all my future plush robots this way.

Here’s the final for my current Intermediate Illustration class project on slang. Gouache, charcoal, and collage on panel.

Click to read it ALL!

On Saturday, October 20th, I participated in the 24 Hour Comics event at my school, PNCA. I was one of the organizers of the event, so I also had to show up early, spent the entire first hour trying to write some ideas down while making and replenishing coffee for our 25 or so participants, and was taken away many times to check an re-check our coffee and snack supply. I drew my pages on 5″ by 4″ paper scraps I had and there’s only one panel per page, but I’m still surprised I finished at all, let alone in 17 hours and 20 minutes.

We had a really good crew of participants, and I think about half of us finished, many of those finished comics coming from first-timers. I didn’t take any myself, but there should be some pictures to post in a few days.

I did pass out restlessly for about two hours between 5:30 and 7:30 am, after making a giant pot of coffee for those still working, but otherwise did not get to sleep until 8pm on Sunday night, 37 hours after I woke up on Saturday morning. (Click the image or link above to read my entire, hairy comic)

At about 1:30 last Thursday afternoon, a 19 year old PNCA design student, Tracey Sparling, was killed when her bike was hit by a cement truck as both vehicles accelerated at a green stoplight. Bike lanes are on the far-right side of the road; in some intersections that means it is on the inside of a motorized vehicle that might be turning right at the same intersection. It seems that as the light turned green, Tracey drove straight as the cement truck driver turned right, directly into her.

Even though I did not personally know her, as a PNCA student and Portland biker myself, I felt it necessary to attend a memorial bike ride for her on Friday evening. It was a somber but awe-inspiring experience, as nearly 400 bikers showed up to slowly pedal the 15 blocks to the Ghost Bike that marks the site of the collision. I grabbed the above photo from BikePortland’s Flickr which, I would estimate, was taken about 15-20 minutes before the final crowd arrived, and it still only shows a portion of the riders there at the time. I can be seen about 1/3 of the way in from the right, in the green helmet, black jacket, and ripped, paint-stained pants, sitting on my bike.

My buddy, Matt Grigsby, is a fan of the Peter Pan, and is passing a sketchbook around school for his friends to fill, so I made him a drunken, swarthy, belligerent Captain Hook. I think he sort of looks like Al Pacino.

Click for a larger view

This is a comic illustration that I did for Portland State Magazine, the alumni magazine for Portland State university. The article it runs with is about workplace communication differences between the Baby Boomer generation and Generation X.

Stumptown is over and I finally found the time to update the RCC site. I added: two new members, nine comics, two sketchbooks, five buttons, and RCC logo t-shirts! “Business Casual” will ONLY be released in a limited edition (100) version with a two-color, screen-printed, “tri-fold” cover. Almost half are gone already, so if you want one, now’s the time to snap one up for only $3 (or $5 for non-US).

If you happen to live in the Portland, OR metro area, “Business Casual” is already available for sale at Tender Loving Empire and Reading Frenzy, and will be for sale at Powell’s, Floating World, and Cosmic Monkey very soon.

For those of you living in the Los Angeles area, a few copies of Baby Otto and Business Casual can now be found at Meltdown Comics.

We also debuted our second group anthology Creature Feature at Stumptown. It contains 11 two-page works from various RCC members, each revolving around a monster or creature of some variety; perfect for Halloween! As per usual, the first printing has a limited edition (40), three-color screen-printed cover on super-shiny black paper.

BUY BUSINESS CASUAL
BUY AN OTTO ZEPLIN 1″ BUTTON

CLICK TO GO TO THE RCC STOREFRONT

(Probably larger than actual size)

One more 1-incher after this classy gent.

(Probably larger than actual size)

Remember these, guys? Things got so busy and crazy and post-filled in the weeks leading up to Stumptown that I nearly forgot that I had three more one-inch robots to post. Ta-daaaaa.