AEIOU in French

Here's a preview of what AEIOU looks like in French, from the website digibidi.com (In France, comic books are known as 'bande dessinée', or 'BD' for short, hence, digital bande dessinée, or digibidi).

Creative Time

This month, my contribution to the art project Creative Time goes online, a strip titled "Not If, But When". You can read about the Creative Time comics project here, and there's also a short interview with me up.

Free Comic Book Day!

Today is Free Comic Book Day, so you can go to your local comic shop and get some free comic books from almost every publisher (while supplies last, I'm sure). A lot of stores will also have events and signings... if you're in Chicago, I'll be at my local shop Darktower from noon until 3pm.

College Paintings

In "Funny Misshapen Body" there's lots of depictions of paintings I made in college and art school. This panel shows one of my favorites, which was sold and then given to my friend Brian. I think it was called 'Raketenflugplatz,' and was loosely based on n old World War II photo, I think. It was painted with acrylic on canvas.



And here's another one from Brian's collection, which I'd totally forgotten ever making.

Tack till Stockholm

A huge thank you to everyone that helped me out while I was in Sweden, especially Johannes Klenell, Mats Jonsson, and Fredrik Stromberg... there's a lot more to add to that list, but despite feeling much less jetlagged back home today than when I arrived over there, my brain is still a little mushy. If you'd like to see what my mushy brain looked like in Sweden, you can watch this interview I did the day I arrived.
I came home with a ton of great books, most of which I can't read. Fortunately Top Shelf will be putting out translations of several of these books next year, including Mats Jonsson's "Hey Princess" and Kolbeinn Karlsson's "Trollkungen". In the meantime, you'll already be able to read Niklas Asker's Second Thoughts in English.

Sweden

Tomorrow I'll be headed to Sweden for the Swedish Small Press Expo , and the release of Fumlig (the Swedish translation of Clumsy). Meanwhile back in the US, the NHL playoffs have started, and my favorite team the Red Wings happen to have a large number of Swedish players, so somehow it all seems to fit. I also entered the Red Wings'
Beardathon for charity.

Last season, fellow cartoonist and hockey fan Rob Ullman and I made a bet on whose team would win the Stanley Cup, and when his Penguins lost Rob was forced to suffer the shame of wearing a Chris Osgood jersey at Heroescon last June. Rob was a good sport, as you can see here.

CHIRP

If you're in Chicago this weekend, check out the CHIRP Record Fair. They'll have a limited number of shirts and signed posters with my design for sale, as well as records, CD's, show posters, books, zines, and lots of other good stuff.