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As promised last week. Baby Otto Zeplin has returned. I’ll be posting a page from volume 5 every weekday for the next 25 days.

Volume 5 is the midpoint of the Baby Otto Zeplin series. I have some modified plans for the rest of the series, which I’ll post about soon, but for now, I will just say that I am very inspired and joyful to finally be working on these comics again. I feel like life threw me a lot of distractions (good and bad) over the past year or so and it really took a toll on this project more than any other.

I just finished up painting some holiday windows at a print shop in Portland. These are just two of the six windows I painted; I forgot to bring my camera on the later days, so will have to go back soon to shoot them.

These are all painted on the inside of the windows and include a lot of lettering, all of which had to be done in reverse.

And a close-up of the snowman using a letterpress to make a flurry of snowflake cards.

I was asked to create a piece for the “Portland Poster Series” through Society6.com. Each artist was asked to create a Portland-themed poster that displays a bit of trivia about Portland, or something that symbolizes what Portland is to them.

It’s for sale as a large, high-quality print through Society6.

You can see what prints have been uploaded so far right here: Portland Print Series, and if you happen to live in or near Portland, all prints will be hung in a show at 19Ten Gallery in North Portland, which opens on Saturday, March 6th. More on that in about a month.

The Independent Publishing Resource Center has recently acquired an additional room, directly across the hall from the rest of the Center. I volunteered to paint a lettered piece above the door in the new room, which will be used as an art gallery, classroom, and for perfect binding, which I supervise. I spend at least one day a week in this room, so it was important to me to be able to leave my mark on it a little bit.

It’s still a work in progress, but it’s at a nice pause point right now, so I thought I’d share.

That’s right, it’s got gold leaf! I spare nothing when it comes to the IPRC. Just a few more spots to brush away.

The gold is clean and the lettering can begin. I used a mix of latex and acrylics.

Lettering blocked in.

Outline ribbon, add shadow, erase pencils, sign, date, and we’re good! Sometime soon, I will fully finish it by lettering “Portland, Oregon” in the upper corners, but I like it where it’s at now too.

The two larger spots on either side of the door are currently being painted by the wonderful Lori D.

For the entire time I have lived in Portland, this building in my neighborhood, once a convenience store, had been in great exterior disrepair; this included the ghost image of the sign for what was most likely the original tenant of the building, dated 1891. A few months ago, I noticed workers preparing to repaint the exterior of the building, and I was worried because it’s on a much-used bike route of mine and seeing even the remnants of old, hand-painted signs always warms my heart. Much to my surprise, when they repainted the rest of the building, they repainted the original signage as well!

I had never seen that done before, and certainly would not have assumed they would do it with such a basic sign like this one, but it made me happy and I thought it deserving to be part of Typo Friday this week. Has anyone else seen an old sign get repainted when the new tenants refurbish the space?

Man’s Face Stuff took part in our first official show on Sunday, Crafty Wonderland, at the Portland Convention Center. There were somewhere around like 300 vendors, all selling their homemade wares. 7,500+ attendees showed up during the eight hours of the show, and we, and our giant moustache, were situated only a few tables away from the entrance doors; prime real estate. We split a booth with Dane, a friend and chocolatier who happens to make chocolate moustaches on a stick, amongst other delectable delights, so our tables went quite well together. Dane’s website is www.pinkwhitebrown.com.

But BT, what’s that sign look like from the other side?

How about that friendly face? You’d be hard pressed NOT to buy wax from a fella like that!

We converted an old kid’s school desk I already had as our little wax stand and it worked perfectly. Fun, fun times at Crafty Wonderland. We’re hoping to take part in the next CW show in May, this one was a blast and a half.

This Friday, I’ll be showing two big-ass paintings and a bunch of prints that I’ve created over the last year at Skeleton Key Tattoo. Show starts at 7pm if you can make it. There’ll be drinks and snacks and even a free tattoo given away as a door prize. I showed at Skeleton Key almost a year and a half ago and they invited me back for another go! Pictures of the opening next week.

I’ve been getting a little press lately too. Baby Otto #1 just got a good review by Rob Clough over at High-Low.

And Man’s Face Stuff was featured in a “beard and moustache gift guide” over at Erin Dollar’s site, I Made You A Beard. For those of you who don’t know, Erin makes beards out of felt and yarn so everyone can share in the beardly goodness, and she’s super nice, so head on over to her site and get some awesome gift ideas for the beardo-lover in your life.

And speaking of awesome gift ideas, I’m still running my 15% off discount for any purchase over $20 (not including shipping) from the radrobot.org store or from radrobot.etsy.com.

Most of the letters I post on Typo Friday will be of the hand-drawn variety, but in the last week I’ve taken two letterpress classes at the IPRC, and I’m sort of in love with setting metal type, so I thought I’d show you what we came up with during the Intro to the Poster Press class last night. The teacher, Michael d’Alessandro set and printed the green, wooden type while showing us how to use the table top poster press. Then, each student got to set a small chunk of text and/or imagetype and that was locked into the press bed and everyone got a go inking up and rolling the paper over.

I did the eagle, ZAP, and stars, as if you couldn’t guess, so here’s a close-up.

Remember: 15% discount on orders of $20+ (before shipping) from the radrobot.org store or my Etsy shop.

After years and years of learning various forms of printmaking, I finally took a letterpress class at the Independent Publishing Resource Center on Thursday. I am, of course, completely enamored with the letterpress process already, and will be taking another IPRC class in letterpress poster printing later this week. There’s something about having a century-old hunk of cast iron under your control that just feels so much more heartwarming than say dragging a squeegee across a screen, not that I don’t still adore screenprinting. Anyways, everyone in class got to typeset and print a small saying and/or image, and here is mine. They are about the size of business cards in real life, printed in reflex blue on gold and recycled brown cardstock. Fun fun fun.

I’ve been working at a personal goal to fill my Etsy shop with 50 items before the end of November and promote it more to see if I can increase my views and sales, and it is paying off. I’m up to 48 items already and my Whoa Dang! t-shirt was featured on Alexander’s Designs blog this week. Go check it out and remember to support your local independent artists!

Also, check out this video. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a stop motion mural animation by Mike Nowland and Carson Ting, but what’s super rad is what happens right around 1:10. That dude totally looks familiar.

I’m adding a new feature for Typo Friday posts. When ever I see some lettering or signage that strikes my eye around Portland, I will try to snap a picture of it if I can and share it with you folks. For the first one, I thought it appropriate to start with one of my favorite signs in town, and a favorite store as well, the Portland Outdoor Store on SW 3rd. It’s a huge store, and you can still buy all manner of western and outdoor wear here, in fact I just bought a new belt and shirt when I stopped by to take these pictures. Enjoy!

The store has been around for a while and the original painted signage on the building is starting to fade a lot.

Close up.