Damn Fine Coffee! A Twin Peaks Fan Zine - Kickstarter!

This new spot for The New Yorker's Bar Tab column features an enthusiastic patron of Winnie's, a karaoke bar in Chinatown. You can read the article online here. Thanks to my AD Deanna Donegan.

I’ve been watching Jimmy work on this and LEMME TELL YA. This issue is hilarious and it’s gonna be killer! you can get your own copy by supporting his Kickstarter. Please check it out and reblog!

HOLY SCRUNGE EVERYONE! It’s official, Fight Frogs 2: Never Stop Frog Fighting is officially an official thing and it’s going to be debuting at this year’s Small Press Expo!!! Not only that, my Kickstarter for the book just launched like this very second! WHOAAAA!!!

This new book has more sweat, more veins, more punching, MORE EVERYTHING! The Fight Frogs meet their ultimate challenge in a new gang of 80s frat boy muscle-head sharks called the Shit Sharks and stuff goes CRAZY.

Please take a look at the Kickstarter and support this book getting made! You can get copies of the book, screen prints, patches, original art, and more. In all seriousness, this is my favorite comic I’ve ever made and it’d be awesome to be able to share it with you!

Click here to pledge!!!

Queen Emeraldas.

This warm and cozy illo for Wassail, an amazing-sounding Lower East Side cider bar, appeared in the Bar Tab column of the New Yorker’s April 10th issue. You can read the article online here. Thanks to my AD Deanna Donegan!

oh maannn, you were in NOBROW???? *follows* I have such love for that magazine. Someday all the issues will be mine. ALL OF THEM! :D

I was! And yes. They are awesome. Good goal!

What kind of paper do you use in gouache?

I enjoy certain brands of cold-press watercolor (Canson's good) and print-making papers. Arches and Stonehenge are lovely for it. It depends a little how you work of course (more water, more weight to the paper) but I work fairly graphic, with less water, so I go with something around 100lb. You need a balance of appropriate weight and tooth. If your paper or board is too smooth, like hot-press watercolor or bristol, your gouache won't have anything to grip.

cotton candy magic wand pin! I made a super-limited set of these hard enamel pins that will be available at SPX on 9/19!

It's been so long!  I've missed you all!  Sorry about the lack of posts.  Lately inspiration has been a little bit scarce, but I thought I'd jump back on the horse with a new kaiju painting!  This is Agasukeron, one of my favorites.  These colors aren't exactly true to form as far as the figure goes, but I do love some pink every now and then.

Here's a tip: don't paint with gouache on top of reg'lar old acrylic without some sort of matte medium between the two!  For some reason my brain turned off and I thought I'd save some gouache by painting the background here in acrylic.  Mistake!  Ended up using more gouache to keep my colors solid and even.  So don't be a noob like me: all gouache, combo gouache and acrylic gouache, or make that acrylic a decent surface to paint on.

sk8rs (Taken with instagram)

This is a Gummie Bear Wizard. You may not have heard of them before. They’re jolly and shy, and they mostly stay indoors and eat gummie bears all day.

For Daniel Krall’s ultra-cute, ultra-colorful “Technotwonic” show.