Phantom Chins strikes again!
If you spy them around Chicago, you might notice that F Newsmagazine's December issue has not one, not two, but three covers that you can use as wrapping paper this season. I'm pretty proud of that -- here's my pattern.
November was a hectic month. I did the staff illustrations for F Newsmagazine, revealing our inner animals. Drew up some strong female protagonists for Bronte Mansfield's "Short Skirts and Subtext." And I wrote this stocking stuffers piece on minicomics for the holidays. In non-F News news, I worked on some of the print collateral for Creature Comforts, an exhibition opening at the end of the month that looks at the relationship between animals and ourselves. It involved a lot of screenprinting, glue, and velvety transfer (more on that later). And I was in SAIC's holiday art sale, where I sold out (!) of some of my comics and prints and debuted "Sigils of Trouble Sleeping." Second printings to come!
For a somber piece by Caleb Kaiser on the parallel between the Boston Massacre and Israeli PM Netanyahu's war on stone-throwing.
Now that the weather's getting chilly, ramen is sounding better and better. Here's a list of 5 places to go in Chicago, by Steven Ford.
An illustration for Molly Youngblood's piece on Art Feeds, an organization that offers art therapy programs for children in places that have been struck by natural disasters.
In F's October issue -- Megan Byrne wrote and I illustrated this comic about a letter by cartoonist and SAIC alum Louis Ferstadt, written in 1922.
Source: fnewsmagazine.com
Made this poster calling for comics over at F. We had it risograph printed, which prints one color at a time, so during the drawing phase, I separated out some of the shading and linework that would be unique colors. I kind of like how they look when abstracted from the whole. As for riso, you've gotta love that fluorescent pink.
This is one of the pieces I finished for (and sold out at!) CAKE. Letterpress, wood type, polymer plate, and screen print, all in a tidy little accordion fold book. This and two other pieces will be part of the words|matter show at Arts on Elston, here in Chicago, October 3-29.
Here was my contribution to the Push & Pull Steamroller Spectacular! (Smaller images come from Spudnik's archive post.) Picked up my block a couple of weeks ago, along with a print that Spudnik kindly made.
Sometimes you make a synaesthetic gif of Miley Cyrus vomiting her new album Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz. Rosie Accola wrote a review that says more over on F.
I had a running routine a few years ago that lasted about four weeks.
Tried transferring this onto muslin, but it didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. I liked the matrix, though.
Tried out transfer dyes and the heatpress for the first time on Wednesday in Beth Hetland's Fibers course on comics.
Tried screenprinting on flowers this week. It was difficult, and some of the ink peeled off if I wasn't careful. Messy, but want to try again. I'm pressing these in a book now.
"What" is the question.
For Rosie Accola's piece on Melanie Martinez and popstar spectacle on F Newsmagazine.
Some of my cyanotype experiments from last weekend's workshop at Spudnik with Veronica Siehl. Figuring out how to turn these into a comic.