Here are some ink and watercolor drawings from this week, done in the evenings after dinner while watching the Tour de France. I did these as a batch which made me feel smart, because I usually don’t and get annoyed by the stop/start rhythm of waiting for a piece to dry. Working on these four, one was usually dry enough to proceed whenever I finished another.
It’s been a weird, fluid time for my work. In an effort to juke my cycle of disillusionment with comics/burning passion for comics I decided to spend the summer designing card games. I like games and I like the idea of making something that might bring people together across a table. It’s tough though! Nothing to show yet, but an engrossing challenge at least.
Here are a couple water-colored ink drawings I finished recently. These are much larger than I usually work, I don’t have them right here to measure but, I dunno, the size of a pizza box?
I also made this one-of-a-kind hat/coat rack thing on an old Ishod Wair pro model skateboard deck.
I used to do a lot more woodworking, and when I did it was usually upcycling scraps and scavenged junk. Nowadays it’s more when the mood strikes me, or like when I notice that my hats are all over the floor.
Continuing to do some new editions of recent photocopied minicomics that almost no one saw the first time around. Here’s HOW IT’S DONE: my caustic deliberation on the daily creative routine. Mostly wordless, a quick comic that I guess I’m a bit proud of? New color cover. It’s available now at my Etsy shop.
The weather is nice which means I can get my tools out and start ruining chunks of wood in the side yard. The first result of the season is this sculpture. Like all the best sculptures you can also keep spare change in it. Find out more.
Here’s a new minicomic collecting my illustrations of The Moscow Rules–the rules for Cold War undercover agents working in hostile territory. Ten rules illustrated plus a little rumination on their provenance and effectiveness. Get it now for a mere 3 declining US dollars at my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4302054138/moscow-rules-mini-comic
That’s the start of a 4-page comic I made about my longest bike ride, which appears in the latest issue (#14) of Calling In Sick magazine.
I also made a sticker for Calling In Sick, also available on that excellent mag’s website.
I’m recently back from a trip to Paris and I kept a comics diary sketchbook of the entire trip. If you’re interested in reading the result I’ve broken it into two posts with a little extra commentary over on my Patreon, which is completely free to join.
One of my favorite things about Paris is the quantity of amazing book stores, especially the comics shops. I can only sort of read French, plus books are heavy in the luggage, plus money, so I tried to show some restraint. Here’s what I came home with:
