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So long, radrobot.org…

All my new blog posts can now be found at blog.bigtimeillustration.com. Please update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, etc. The new blog is Tumblr based, so following me if you are also a Tumblr-er would be good too!

For the last couple of years, I have wanted to integrate a blog into my portfolio website. I hadn’t been posting much here lately, so now seemed as good a time as any to make the switch. I’m not taking this site down just yet, and all older posts will remain here.

Once again… blog.bigtimeillustration.com

Stumptown Comics Fest 2011 is upon is this Saturday and Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. I’ll be there, as Banner Year Press, of course, at table A-5. Stop by and say hey if you’re there!

Also, I’ll be teaching a workshop on planning and self-publishing a multi-artist anthology. It’s Saturday afternoon from 4-4:45 pm in workshop room A103.

For more info on Stumptown, go here: Stumptown Comics Fest

This coming weekend (September 11-12), I’ll be in Bethesda, Maryland, tabling at the Small Press Expo. This is my third year in a row as an exhibitor and my second sharing a table with L. Nichols. We will both be at table B3, come say hello.

See you there!

As I mentioned in my last post, for the past few weeks, I had been in California, assisting at a kid’s art camp. The children ranged in age from 7-12 years old, split up into three classes by age. One day, we had the youngest class drawing different tools and implements. As I was walking around the room, I noticed that this one little girl wasn’t drawing any of the tools in front of her, so I looked closer and found that she was drawing me instead!

I think it’s quite the likeness. And, according to her, those are NOT snake tattoos on my arms, but I am, for some reason, holding snakes.

Things like this made the last few weeks very enjoyable.

Here’s an illustration for last week’s Portland Mercury. For those not from Portland, there is a restaurant downtown called Greek Cusina, and they have this giant purple octopus climbing out of their second floor corner window…

They are currently suing the city over some fire code issues. I love being able to draw fun stuff like this for money; it’s wonderful.

I got back from the Alternative Press Expo late Sunday night/early Monday morning. I spent the weekend in the clouds as it were; on the left, there was Vancouver BC’s Cloudscape Comics collective, manned by Jeff Ellis and Jonathon Dalton, and to the right the brothers Dayton, Brandon(not pictured) and Damien of Whistling Cloud.

Here’s my table setup on the second day. People really dug my new blank journals with my old screenprints as covers. I only came home with a few of those, so I’ll have to make more, and they’ll be up in the store soon too.

I also brought more prints than I usually bring to shows, which is good because they were a big seller for me. It sounds weird to say it, but I feel like I could go back to APE next year, and not bring any comics at all, but just fill my table with printed matter and stationery goods and do just fine - if not better - because there would be more of a focus to my table. Between comics, t-shirts, prints, to-do lists, journals, buttons, and moustache wax, I felt like some people were a little confused as to what exactly they should be looking for from my table.

This woman came by on Sunday fully decked out in Mighty Boosh merch, most of it homemade. I demanded to take a picture of her homemade Boosh bracelets, featuring even minor characters! There’s a shot of her other wrist on my Flickr.

Highlights of the weekend: Green Monk by table neighbor Brandon Dayton, Wuvable Oaf #1 and the Wuvable Oaf Kitty Undies t-shirt from Ed Luce, and Tiger Bee by Katy Wu.

Also, KRK Ryden bought the last copy of Baby Otto Volume 1 that I brought, which was cool; it was his last purchase of the show!

I got a ton of compliments on my moustache (many from women with their boyfriend/husband, who had to turn around as they were walking away to secretly mouth their approval at my stache!). San Francisco is an amazing city, but way too clean-shaven for my tastes. A message to the heterosexual men of San Francisco: grow some facial hair, it’ll do you some good!

Sorry for the kinda bad photo, the official ones will be better, but I’m excited. A friend and I are launching our own line of moustache wax under the brand, Man’s Face Stuff! He’s a natural perfumer and amateur scientist and has a fabulous moustache. Neither of us were happy with the hold, waterproofing, or scent of the various waxes we had tried, so why not make our own? He started making wax as a birthday present for me last year, then I came by to help him during future product testing, and eventually became a partner.

For a start, we will both have a signature scent, his is not formulated yet, but “Gin and Tonic” is mine, and then of course we have classic unscented beeswax.

These are two samples for an upcoming show, the wax isn’t officially for sale anywhere yet, but if it’s something you might be interested in, let me know.

Indigo Kelleigh, Les McClaine, Jon Siruno, and I share a studio space on the east side of Portland called Tranquility Base. We are currently looking to move studio locations soon and some of the better spots available would be more than big enough to accommodate another person (or two). We’re just four illustrators and cartoonists looking for some good studio space for around $100 a month, and we’re looking to make it five (or even six), now wouldn’t you like in on that?

If you’re an artist in Portland looking for some studio space, let me or one of the other guys know and we can go from there, OK?

Hey, I realize I haven’t posted any new comic projects as of late, but Baby Otto #4 is in the research stage, and I have a short one-off book in the early stages as well. Anyways, I’ve gotten better at getting my comics out to the world a bit more recently with the help of a distribution rep. Some of my books are carried by Global Hobo Comics Distributor now too.

All of my books are, of course, still available from me, but if you happen to live near some of the shops below, they should be for sale there too, unless they’ve sold out.

Minneapolis, MN - Big Brain Comics (been a while though, so they might be gone)
New York, NY - Jim Hanley’s Universe, and Forbidden Planet
Berkeley, CA - Comic Relief
State College, PA - Comic Swap
Baltimore, MD - Atomic Books
Portland, OR - Floating World, Reading Frenzy, Tender Loving Empire, Powell’s (Burnside and Hawthorne), and possibly Cosmic Monkey and Guapo

Maybe more? That’s all I can think of right now.

And just so this post isn’t completely devoid of pretty pictures, here’s this week’s Weekly Print piece. Only 49 more to go!

In the last few days, I have received both a large box of black and army green t-shirts as well as some different screenprinting ink for fabric that I’ve been wanting to try out, just white and red at this time. I threw this little mockup together based on a few things people have requested on t-shirts, or I have thought about putting on t-shirts, or just plain took out of my sketchbook as a basic idea that would get finalized later.

My question(s) for all of you reading this are:
A) Would you even realistically purchase a shirt from me? (Probably in the $15 range)
B) If yes, which of the designs below would you be most interested in purchasing? Or if there is another design you’d like to see too, speak up.

The two shark designs might be a hassle to print, but I think I could pull it off if this new ink works the way I want it to. Also I don’t have blue ink, nor do I have blue shirts for the “KILL” shark, but I threw it in there because I received a few requests for it on a shirt and would not be disinclined to purchase the required shirts and ink if that one’s a winner.

I’m in enough of an experimental screenprinting mood right now that I might even do a few of these many designs anyway, or would do a pre-order to do a specific design if someone definitely wanted one.