Mother's News

My buddy Jacob Berendes edits this awesome publication in Providence called Mother's News...it's a free newspaper with many kind of information and hilarity in it...and the past couple months he's been putting comics in, and I've had a gag comic in it in the style of Family Circus. Jacob named it Mercyful Fate (also the name of an 'extreme metal band' from Denmark, AWESOME). Here are the past three gags...

Wha Happened!!???

So I did something real dumb and deleted all the photos from Google in google plus. So that's why everything looks screwed. I am taking this opportunity to redraw stuff, so it might be a little while. Yuk.

Talkin'

Mike Dawson just interviewed Lucy Knisley, Steve Seck, my ol' buddy Joe Lambert, and myself for his podcast on The Comics Journal called TCJ talkies. This episode is focused on CCS. It was really fun to talk to Mike, afterwards I was like "oh my god I can't believe I said that oh my god I sounded so dumb" but then I listened to it and I think it's pretty good. I giggle a lot. Being interviewed is weird. I suddenly forgot everything about CCS. But then listening to the interviews made me miss it. A lot.

I made a poster

if you're around here you should go! Jo Dery and Sophia Tintori are both awesome...

Summah

Hi

This image just came to me suddenly while I was sitting at my desk...as a kid I collected images from magazines and stuff that I liked in a journal, and there was this one from Smithsonian Magazine, a portrait of the Wyeth family, that I absolutely loved. It's one of those images that stays with you forever and pops up occasionally. I was able to find it on the internet. Hopefully someday I can find that journal again...

I can't post the photo here because it's stealing, but here's a link to it.

How awesome is Andy's face? Don't they all look so wild and wonderful? It's the family of my dreams.

In other news, Charles Forsman is working next to me on some new Wolf pages that are unbelievable. Look at this.

That has been inspiring me, and also a recent visit from Max de Radigues and his girlfriend Thalie, and Joseph Lambert and his wife Becca, really inspired me to try working on something new and longer. So that's happening. I bought a new sketchbook and everything!

Werewolves!

I just finished a story for the upcoming latest Werewolf Anthology, third in a series of stellar collections.

It'll be debuting at MECAF!

Here's a preview of my story. I had a lot of fun drawing it...

Progress Report

Hi Strangers,

Working all day on the 'puter is sort of burning me out of the internet. Which is not a bad thing I guess.

I've been drawing Freddy pages:

I'm trying something new this time that I'm really excited about. I'm not penciling nuthin'.

Just drawing straight in ink, looking at thumbnails. I kind of feel like this is how I'm meant to draw. I've been thinking about Lynda Barry's Marlys strips a lot. I don't know what her specific process is with these, but there's a life in them that I love, that seems like she just drew it straight from her brain. Sometimes I feel like I only get Freddy's expression right the first time, and the more I draw it over and over, the more detached I feel from her.

So that's what's happening.

In other news;

I'm a total Gleek now, like seriously obsessed, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Ask Chuck. I talk about the characters on Glee like they are real people.

My favorite color is green

And our cat eats doritos.

Love

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Devil's Lake

Minty Lewis and I have comics in the newest issue of Devil's Lake, a really great literary magazine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

http://english.wisc.edu/devilslake/index.html

Mine is "Bird", which you might have read already, but it's still cool to see it somewhere new.

And Minty is amazing. She and Damien Jay just had a baby, Sally, who is supah cute! They're one of my favorite cartoonist families ever.

We're off to NYC tomorrow for MoCCA! I'll have that new collection of the journal comics, and copies of bird, and "Kids"! And then I'm taking a week off, and going up to White River Junction for a Lynda Barry workshop...omg I'm so excited. OMGOMGOMGOMG.

But I have to pack for a whole week. HOW DO I DO THAT? I've forgotten.

I feel like blog posts always have to have pictures, so here's one of me with my Memére and Papa. His birthday was this past week. Uncle Sully from my Freddy Stories is based on my Papa Mendes. Papa Charlie. He's the best.

love

Stuff!

KIDS!!!

SUNDAYS!!!

MOCCA!!!

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