I’m a cartoonist living in Portland Oregon.
If you like this blog you can read my recent graphic novel The Chairs’ Hiatus for free.
One thing I realized while making the book is that we usually think of the story as “Boy vs Giant,” but it’s actually “Boy and Supremely Powerful Creator of the Entire Universe vs Giant,” and seen like that, you can’t help having a bit of sympathy for Goliath.
— Small Human Ordinariness: An Interview With Tom Gauld | The Comics Journal
Source: tcj.com
Butt Shimmy
From James Kochalka’s SuperF*ckers cartoon, here’s an animatic clip from the episode “Sh!tstorm MotherF*ckers.” That’s David Faustino as Jack Krak and Ted Biaselli as Wonder Kyle. SuperF*ckers premieres on Cartoon Hangover late this summer. What do you think?
(via kochalka)
Source: superf-ckers
I’ve been watching lots of Adventure Time recently and can’t wait for the first episode of SuperF*ckers.
Pocket Club!
This is a collaborative comic by myself and Pendleton Ward. Pen is best known for the TV show Adventure Time. We both have new series coming this year from Cartoon Hangover… Pen’s doing Bravest Warriors and I’m doing SuperF*ckers.
Source: kochalka
There should be a word for that feeling you get when an older person — and not much older, so quickly are things changing — shames him or herself by telling young people how to live. I’d vote for Bedeutungslosigkeitschmach, or “irrelevance shame,” (made up with the help of Google translate) or perhaps Rünschmerz, the horrifying gut pain one experiences watching Andy Rooney. Whatever it’s called, Franzen brought it in buckets.
Source: New York Magazine
A few weeks ago I got to sit next to cartoonists Melinda Boyce and Aaron Whitaker from Gingham Ghost and I just got a the chance to read Melinda’s fantastic first issue of The Melinderly.
It’s a shockingly beautiful book. It’s sweetness and vibrance makes me excited to be alive.
Looking through her other comics can help give you a sense of her work, but really the best thing to do is just subscribe.
They are doing a subscription service, which means you can send them $40 and throughout the next year you’ll four, 36 page issues of funny, full color comics mailed to your door. It’s pretty cool.
I just subscribed, and you really might want to as well!
Source: MelindaBoyce.com
You know what’s cool? Infinite canvas webcomics by Eric Erbes, especially ones designed for the iPad. (via Random Bonus Ramble | iPad Webcomics | Eric Erbes)
Source: ericerbes.com
break into comics. smash and destroy comics. murder comics. burn all the comics to the ground
Source: twitter.com
I just redescovered this old episode of The Show with Ze Frank from 2007. Jonathan Coulton sings Ze Franks songs. I’m so happy that Ze Frank is producing episodes again.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a preview of my next book. Here’s another page in progress.
Hey everybody! The downloadable PDF version of The Chairs’ Hiatus is now available for free! All you have to do to get it is share a link to the story on Facebook or Twitter. If that’s not your thing you can download it for the new low price of one dollar and help support the story that way.
Anyone can, of course, still read the main story in your web browser right here.
I was honored to do a second poster for the truly unbelievable group The Whirlwind Company. These folks are some of the best performance poets you will ever find. I can not give a higher recommendation. Take a look at this performance calendar, because if they are coming to your area I swear you will not want to miss it.
I’m including the poster I did for them last year, since they are part of a set.
![iwdrm:
“The population census has got him down as “dormanted”. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as “deleted”. […] Information Retrieval has got him down as “inoperative”. And there’s another one - security has got him down as “excised”. Administration has got him down as “completed”. … He’s dead.”
Brazil (1985)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_let5asucR91qe0eclo1_r5_500.gif)
“The population census has got him down as “dormanted”. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as “deleted”. […] Information Retrieval has got him down as “inoperative”. And there’s another one - security has got him down as “excised”. Administration has got him down as “completed”. … He’s dead.”
Source: iwdrm
My first ever drawing of Warren from The Chairs’ Hiatus along with what he looked like in the finished product.
It seems like the more exciting interesting things are coming from companies that didn’t exist, or people just getting the wherewithal to do something on their own and collaboratively figuring out how to do it.
—
John Siracusa Hypercritical #61: I Ran Out of Bombs Long Ago
I couldn’t agree more.
Source: 5by5.tv
Another drawing from an old sketchbook. I find myself feeling this way often.
