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This Saturday is the Pinewood Derby Art Car show at the Pink Hobo Gallery. It’s going to be a lot of fun. Festivities begin at 7PM at 507 East Hennepin Ave.

I’ve been looking online at some of the cars that are already finished. To be honest, they look just amazing. These cars are clever, attractive, ambitious and classy. Like a really good date.

MY car is none of those things. I didn’t put nearly the time and care into my entry. I guess my car is more like a quick and easy date. In other words, it’s FAST.

Check out these slow pokes:

Mitch Loidolt’s car looks like he took a time machine, went back in time to the very first Cub Scout race, STOLE the winning car and then brought it back to 2009. Beautiful. But look at those wheels. SLOW. Next!

Kevin Cannon’s car is the car I wish I had made. That’s all I have to say. He’s a right bastard, and he can eat my dust as I race to the victory line.

Yui Tanabe’s racer looks like a real car. How do you do that? But you know what? Real cars like that are not good at racing. They’re good for driving grandmothers around. And grandmothers like you to drive slowly.

Brett Von Schlosser’s car is the kind of car a true racer like me worries about. I’m thinking he has buzz saws and an oil slick dispenser somewhere on that thing. I mean, I can see the weights under that car! That’s not regulation!

My car has a face wood-burned onto it. A face! Look at how the hair is blowing behind that face. It’s because that car is so damn speedy! Plus, there are two (TWO!) coats of shellac over the entire body. That is because everyone knows: shellac=speed.

Hope to see you at the finish line, suckers!

Swing by the Capstone Gallery (at FrameUps) this Friday and check out Comiopolis. A comics show featuring myself, and a few other folks I know:

Kirk Anderson
Ken Avidor
Shannon Brady
Kevin Cannon
Roger Lootine
Brittney Sabo
Andy Singer
David Steinlicht
Steven Stwalley

Zinefest photos! Getcher Zinefest photos!

(All photos taken by Sarah Jordet.)

Portraits of everyone were also taken. You can go here to see them.

As always, thanks go out to my lady Sarah for organizing such a great event.

Zinefest!

Prepare yourself. It’s coming. You can’t stop it.

Here’s some photos of the new poster by Tom Kaczynski (Illustration), myself (design) and Pat Callahan (printing). These bad boys will be going up around town over the course of this month. If you’re interested in having one, or know of a great place to put one up, just let me know.

Twin Cities Zinefest
July 11 + 12
zinefest.org

I’ll be here on Saturday.

Last night I found the time to stand around and watch some friends of mine print up a poster for the Intoxicologist Dinner that’s going to be at the Bulldog in North East.

What you see here is a true collaboration between Pat Callahan (concept/bulldog drawing), Jonathan Schuster (design/screen printing) and myself (background pattern/cigar smoking).

Pictured above is the poster and below is the menu. Kudos to Ray Roberts for pulling the thing together.

The dinner, an evening of 6 drink and food pairings, is June 16th.

Here’s some artwork I created for Sarah’s Make Better Books podcast.

I drew a TMNT cover for the COVERED Blog. Boy, I had a lot of fun drawing this.

Some trivia:

While reading the publishing info on the inside of the original comic, it says that the Tokka character (the evil mutant turtle on the far left) was “inspired by the drawings of Stephen R. Bissette.”

Cool.

It’s time for my first new mini for 2009. Mind-Mapping is very tiny at first, but unfolds to 6.5″ x 19″. I wasn’t able to get a photograph of it, but a part of this book actually glows in the dark. For $5 you can see it for yourself …

Click here to get yours from the Shop.

Next Saturday, I’ll have a couple pieces for sale at the Bird x Bird show at the Northrup King Building. The website has all the info about the event.

Above is a print that will be for sale at the show. It’s one color on 140# French paper in an edition of 25. You can get one for yourself for $7.

Here’s a little sketch-book comic I did:

Also, we sure to check out the MCBA Book Arts Festival this weekend.

Saturday November 15, 10AM – 5PM

Sunday November 16, 12PM – 4PM

I finally got to go and check out Hot Ink at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. It was pretty great. The huge banner is awesome.

Here’s a photo I took right before I was informed that I’m not allowed to take photos in the museum.