Changes

I had drawn about 100 pages of "Funny Misshapen Body" when I decided things didn't feel right, in terms of chronology, narrative, drawing style...after some internal debate I decided to completely start over, changing the arrangement of stories from strictly chronological (the finished section covered high school) and instead arranging stories by subject matter. Some of those stories from the 100 pages got dropped entirely, while others were re-drawn to varying degrees. Here's an example of a page as it was first drawn on the left, and how it ended up looking in the book on the right.
If you're in Michigan, there's a new exhibition of comics artwork - all Michigan creators - at Eastern Michigan University's Ford Gallery . Four of the unused pages are up in the show, and there's an opening and discussion tonight.

Coming Soon

Here's the cover to "Funny Misshapen Body", which should be in stores this week or next. It's stories from high school, college, and art school, basically about how I ended up becoming an artist, or more specifically, a cartoonist.

Earth Hour

Saturday is Earth Hour, so turn off your lights at 830PM.

New Comic Book Magazine Day

As long as I'm posting about interviews lately, today is a perfect day to mention the new issue of Wizard magazine hitting the stands, with a full page interview with me written by Kiel Phegley, and previewing "Funny Misshapen Body." It also mentions some up and coming artists, like my friend and fellow cartoonist Jeff Lemire. And then I think there's a bunch of stuff about Witchblade, Superman, and SpiderWoman. I'm not sure, I haven't looked through the whole thing closely yet.

All For Swinging You Around Comics

A couple weeks ago, I sat in with the guys of the Around Comics podcast, to talk mostly about 'Funny Misshapen Body', which should be out next weekish. They're a pretty funny group of guys, so check out their extensive list of back issues. I mean episodes.

Walking

Here's an early screen test from the animated video for 'Your Heart Is An Empty Room' from the Directions DVD from Death Cab For Cutie.

DOOM

I was always a bigger fan of X-Men, but Fantastic Four was another favorite comic growing up. I just did an interview over at Doomkopf, and you can see the full version of this drawing (based on the Secret Wars cover) on the Covered blog.