Refreshing Rectangles

Had a wonderful time meeting all of my new best friends up in Portland, Oregon last week.

• I will be at the MADE bike show, August 21-23 in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be hanging round and slinging comics at The Radavist’s table. A fine hi-saying opportunity.
• I will be exhibiting at Cape & Cowl Con, August 30 in Alameda, California. I’m sharing a table with a couple excellent cartoonist friends, Tammy Stellanova and Sophie Yanow. No hi will go unanswered.
• This one is less about me: my friend Frederick Noland is touring for his amazing new book Major Taylor and I have the privelege of interviewing him at Pegasus Books in Berkeley, California on September 22. It’s a blockbuster book tour, but I suspect we can squeeze in a hi or two anyway.
• Calling In Sick magazine #18 is available for preorder now. I have a new comic in it. A preorder is a very advanced, special form of hi.
• My bike comics collection Out Riding Bikes You See Things is still piping-hot and fresh and available. When you order one I’m pretty sure there’s a form field into which you can type hi.

My new collection of bike comics Out Riding Bikes You See Things is here! Full-color, mag-sized, 36 pages of wildlife encounters, weird human encounters, group ride anxiety, philosophical wrenching, and more! Get it here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4545053439/out-riding-bikes-you-see-things-comic

Here’s another new comic for The Radavist about the anxiety of participating in the consumerist culture of bikes in my usual DIY cheapskate way. Yes, I bought another rusty, decades-old mountain bike project for $30. Am I doing bikes wrong? Read the whole thing here.

I’ve got a new comic up at The Radavist about my quixotic attempt to learn kickflips at age fifty. Read the whole thing here!

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.