Refreshing Rectangles

That’s the beautiful cover (by Chris McNally) of Calling In Sick issue 17, within which you will find a new 2-page comic by me. I just read the mag cover-to-cover and it delighted as usual. You can get it here now.

Stay tuned for news of a collection of my various bike comics that I plan to have out later this summer. There, I said it and now I must do it.

I’ve been working on a game project for a little while, that will come in book form and will be full of a bunch of art by me. Here are some examples:

Fun, huh?

Finally, here are some gaming miniatures I painted recently. This is a true zone out and relax activity and part of no larger project. I don’t even play miniatures games (yet?) and have no use for them other than to soothe via the satisfying production of toys.

This crab guy is what’s known as a kitbash, in which parts from different sources are stuck together to make a custom model. The crab itself was from a Dollar Tree bag of sea animal toys. I then bulked it up with putty, baking soda, and glue before sticking on the heads from various war gaming models.

Behold my toys.

My minicomic sending up aggro backyard hummingbirds, Hell-Bent for Nectar, is back in print and available here. A perfect little comic book morsel for the hummingbird lover/hater in your life.

Hey, there’s a flyer for a reading I’m participating in. Mill Valley Public Library, April 29 at 6:30PM, with Donna Almendrala, Rina Ayuyang, Justin Hall, Frederick Noland, and Sophie Yanow. Should be a hoot. Here’s the link to register:

https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/16420317

I have a new comic about an Alex Pretti memorial bike ride which you can read in its entirety at The Radavist.

That’s the start of my 2026 but also the start of a new comic by me up at The Radavist, the rest of which may be read here.

Hey, it’s been a minute but you know how the end of the year is, all that festivity and depression and freezing cold darkness etc. Plus, I started 2026 with the flu! Anyway, here are a couple new bike art items:

That’s a detail from my latest comic for The Radavist all about little things I noticed while riding my bike last year.

And then here’s an illustration I had fun with, now available on my Etsy.

Finally here’s a detail from another new bike comic, appearing in the newest issue of Calling In Sick magazine:

So that is a very bikey update. There will be further bikey updates but I’m hoping to diversify offerings more this year as well.

That’s an excerpt from a new comic about bikes and consumer angst. See the full 3-page saga over at cool bike website The Radavist.

Lately, rather than buying sketchbooks, I’ve just been making them out of trash. This was inspired partly by an old video I watched of Trent Holbrook making his own sketchbooks. I have some of the same problems with “real” sketchbooks as Trent mentions in that video:

• I worry about ruining a too-nice sketchbook with bad drawings.
• I tend not to finish sketchbooks due to distraction, or losing track of them, or wanting a new book, or whatever.
• I shy away from using them for the rough planning, note-taking, list-making, and other nitty-gritty parts of the art process for fear of sullying the beautiful art book aesthetic.

So I end up with all these dumb, constipated, half-finished, store-bought sketchbooks. And worse, it’s a deterrent to drawing. Making sketchbooks out of trash solves this.

All I’m doing here is cutting some scratch paper (in this case separator papers that were inserted into a job by a copy shop) down to 5″ x 7″, slapping them between any nearby packaging cardboard cut down to the same size, and putting two staples in the spine. I cut off the page corners for some crude rounding. That’s it.

I have no anxiety about cutting loose on these trash sketchbooks with dashed-off, ill-conceived, messy drawing, which, for me, is my favorite drawing. I also have no problem using them to jot down a shopping list of art supplies or keep score in a Magic: the Gathering game. I can jam them into any pocket and abuse them as I see fit. They were TRASH.

Some artists fill their sketchbooks with page after page of beautiful drawing and it’s inspiring to see. But for me, a sketchbook functions best as a place to barf out unformed ideas. I’m down here in the dumpster, and loving it.

They come in bunches, I guess, huh? The above is a detail from my first comic for the excellent bike site The Radavist, a site I’ve been reading and vibing with for a long time, so of course I’m excited to be a contributor. Read the entire comic now!

And then I also have 3 pages in issue 15 of the crucial bike culture magazine Calling In Sick! This issue is jam-packed with beautiful words and pictures. I recommend you grab it.