Just want to signal boost a project by my old friend Brett Warnock. It’s called Kitchen Table Magazine, and has some very cool artwork by some of my favorite artists. Get in on the ground floor.
YUM
Eat Street Diners Club #4
A preview of the next installment.
Read MoreConvenient
Learned this week that if you type “sheets.new" or “doc.new" into your browser you’ll get a new Google sheet / text document.
Give to the Max
Give To The Max day is Nov. 15th!
Local artists will be live streaming their work and taking sketch requests from donors. All proceeds will go towards securing the venue for Autoptic 2020!
Help us continue to foster independent art by donating and sharing the Facebook event. If you can't participate on Nov. 15th, that's fine. You can donate early right now by going to MNGive.org.
Confirmed artists who will be live-streaming (via Facebook) their work:
Eat Street Diners Club #3
This month the club goes to Revival.
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A PREVIEW:
Ten Movies
Travel Log
South Korea
Just a few weeks away from the big trip.
Holy Hannah: Chapter 11
The Church of Love & Devotion's paradise comes to an end in the 11th Chapter of Holy Hannah. Read it for free.
Eat Street Diners Club #1
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Free comics: eatstreetdinersclub.com
Inspired by Blackbird Restaurant
Thank You
Thank you to all the (1,300) attendees and (100+) exhibitors who took part in the Autoptic Comics Festival this last weekend. It warms the heart.
Eat Street Diners Club
I’ll be debuting my new project at Autoptic next week—The Eat Street Diners Club. This 12-page restaurant-adventure was printed in Risograph Blue and can be yours for $2.
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Autoptic Events on Saturday, August 18
On Saturday, August 18, join visiting guest artists and local legends to kick the 2018 Autoptic Festival into gear at Moon Palace Books! There will be panels and readings throughout the day hosted in Moon Palace’s amazing new event space.
Saturday | August 18 | 1 – 8pm @ Moon Palace Books
Craig Thompson Spotlight › 1 pm – 2 pm with Eric Lorberer (Moderator)
Supernatural Comics Hour › 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm with Tim Sievert (Moderator) + Zander Cannon + Madeline McGrane + Leda Zawacki
What’s Next for YA Comics › 4 pm – 5 pm with Maddie Gonzalez (Moderator) + Melanie Gillman + Ben Sears + Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Destigmatizing Stories about Mental Health › 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm with Sage Coffey + John Porcellino
Autoptic Comics Reading › 7 pm – 8 pm with M.S. Harkness + Jessica Campbell + Jesse McManus + E. Eero Johnson
Portrait
Was happy with how this portrait turned out. Capturing a likeness is a challenge for me, so I'm not above cheating a little and working over a photograph.
Autoptic Festival
If you know me, you know I've been helping out with the Autoptic Festival this year. We're getting close! Here's a map that will help you navigate all the satellite events. The fun starts Friday August 17.
AUTOPTIC COMICS FESTIVAL
Sunday—August 19, 2018
10am – 6pm
Graduate
Here’s a bit of digital artwork that wasn’t selected for a project. Imagine a logo in that upper left corner.
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure was on TV when I was in High School and too young to appreciate its charm. I learned later that David Chase (Sopranos) worked on the last two seasons of this show. I mostly remember the commercials and that people thought it was smart.
I wasn't expecting the theatrical, Freudian hilarity of this network (!) TV show.
Osamu Tezuka
Oddly most of the manga I've read have been biographies of comics creators. Most recently, I made my way through the tome The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime. Tezuka was a uniquely driven creator who lived a sheltered life.
His series Black Jack, is a fun adventure story like none I've ever read and also makes the most of his medical background. The art is beautiful, but after reading his biography I wonder how much of it was actually drawn by his assistants?