Sleepy Conquistador
Just a doodle, still finishing up a few larger projects that I can’t show yet.
Come To My House This Weekend!
This coming weekend, my roommate Meghan and I will be taking part in the first Portland Art Open. We will be opening our apartment to the public on Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday, and turning our apartment into our own personal gallery space. We’re in the process of cleaning and taking down our various knick-knacks and other works that usually adorn our walls and will soon be hanging our work.
If you’re in the Portland area, you should totally stop by and hang out for a bit, we’ll be holed up all day and could use the company if no one else shows up. We’re trying to sell some things too, but honestly we’d just like to have a good time and have people show up. If you check out the link above you can get more information as well as check out the other artists taking part.
Our address is 2315 SE Stark St. We’ll be open these hours:
Friday: 5pm-9pm
Saturday: 11am-6pm
Sunday: 11am-6pm
Studiomate(s) Needed!
Are you an artist in the Portland, OR metro area? Are you also perhaps in need of a shared studio space? Les McClaine, Jon Siruno, and I are losing our current studiomate at the end of the month and we are on the search for a replacement. The space is a bit messy in the photo, yes, but we’ll tidy things up if it’ll make you feel more welcome.
Our studio is in a building near 19th and E. Burnside (mere blocks from Columbia Art Supplies for all your art needs). With four in the studio, rent is $93 and change per month, plus a small amount more for insurance. I don’t have the square-footage calculations right now, but depending on some re-arranging possibilities and the space needs of any new studiomate, there may be a chance of fitting two new people in the space.
A mini-fridge AND a microwave? What luxury is this?! You could soon be heating up your Hot Pocket right next to those Jonny Crossbones original pages! Think about that!
This is the desk of our exiting studiomate. It will be leaving soon, but most of the space seen in this photo (but not my bike) would be yours, if you’ll only join us…
If you have any questions, or are interested in coming to see the space in person, let me know.
For A Better America!
More than a month after it ended, I’m finally ready to announce the winner of the Baby Otto Theme Contest. Volume 7 of The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin will be all about Otto’s presidential bid! I can’t tell you how much I look forward to figuring out what’s going to happen four volumes from the current one on which I’m working!
The winner is one of radrobot.org’s LiveJournal friends, and she has already received her first two free volumes. Thanks again to everyone who entered the contest!
Slump
I’ve been in a real art rut lately; I’ve got it pretty bad and it’s been going on about two weeks now. I just feel absolutely useless and I’m not really sure what to do about it, but I drew this tonight while sitting in my studio, unable to work on anything else.
In other news, I’ve totally figured out the winner of the Baby Otto Theme Contest (Wait, did I mention that already last week? I think I did) but I’ve been too out of it or lazy to write an official post about it. I’ve notified the winner already, so if you entered the contest and haven’t heard from me, I didn’t pick your idea, sorry. There were close to 100 entries and quite a few of those were in serious consideration. There are a few contest entries that I think will work very well for single days or short multiple day storylines, so you might see some of them in future volumes. I’ve kept track of who gave me what idea and if I end up using your idea for something, I will probably send you a free copy of that specific volume.
Also, shortly before my current slump, I did essentially complete the writing and thumbnail stages for Baby Otto #3, so once I get back on my feet again, I’ll start inking the next 25 days of Otto’s life.
Serious, Guys, He’s Real!
I’ve been working on a painting for a recent show on and off for the last few days. Today, while waiting for various layers of paint to dry, I drew this stupid little doodle. Don’t have much else ready to show lately.
A Self-Publisher’s Valentine
These cards were pretty popular at the Portland Zine Symposium and I’ve got a bunch left, so I put them up on Etsy for cheap! Each one-color print was hand-pulled onto a 3″ by 6″ piece of 230# black paper. Let that special zinester, or self-published comic artist in your life know just how much you care for them, as much as your long reach stapler…
As you probably know from my post a week or so ago, this print is also available in t-shirt format, but I still need to take some better pictures and figure out the best venue in which to sell them, but hopefully they’ll be up for sale tomorrow, somewhere. The shirts come in unisex sizes S-2X (printed on Gildan, usually runs a little bit big), in both light blue and bright green, and with or without the text, and they’ll only be $12. If you’re really interested in a shirt, feel free to email me before I put them up for sale and we can work something out.