lo-fi & country fried

I haven't had access to a scanner for a couple of weeks, but here are some recent images from my sketchbook that I took with my cell phone...

MoCCA

Hey ya'll.

I'm gonna be in NYC for the MoCCA comic convention. You can find me at the Top Shelf table, where I'll be selling my wares:

-Smaller Parts
-M'Lady Serene: Tales of Achilles
-Trubble Club vol. III

and giving away my free MoCCA mini of all new, unpublished work. Jinkies!

See you there.

Grant

New pages

TC III

Now for sale at Quimby's.

dancing in my new room to old records

Here's a finished page from the comic I'm working on right now for the second volume of Shitbeams on the Loose...

Dirty photocopy...

Upside down text on opposite page is a short play list I made while sitting at the Two-Way after having listened to the songs I'd picked on the jukebox and deciding I really liked the order (haha): 1)Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen 2)Clap Hands - Tom Waits 3)West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys 4) Suspicious Minds - Elvis

During my recent move I found this little handmade sketchbook I'd designed for a New Years Eve date with a girl (and destiny, har har). Originally I'd made two and then gave her one of them, which had her name on the cover, so that we could compare notes later on. The NYE party we went to actually doubled as a music benefit for the then-young Skeleton News. The show ended in an actual riot/looting when someone in the last band started quoting Network:

"I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE"

It was a beautiful moment, and he got really, really into it. So into it, in fact, that he ran to the window himself and opened it and stuck his whole upper half out the window as he screamed it at the top of his lungs. Everyone threw up their arms and shouted out and then someone else threw a beer bottle through the glass of another window and then someone else threw their beer bottle and then it was absolute mayhem. I touch briefly on this in the sketchbook.

Do you remember Mad Balls? My roommate April got this card for her birthday and I am absolutely in love with it...

idears

Here are some rough drafts of the artwork I'm working on for John Bellows' forthcoming record. The Dirty Barfield drooling through his lower teeth was an early version, although the current concept is to have him really spewing with a die-cut vomit-shape and turnable vomit wheel. The artwork is simplified here, as this is just a mock-up to give me an idea of how to actually make it...

This is a short zine I made for my current show at Atomix Coffee. It's basically just images from my sketchbook laid over the flowery cover of a ruled notebook I've been drawing in. I'm very interested in pattern right now and this has given me the idea to have characters floating over pattern fields, which is probably gonna happen in my next comic What Happens in the Mood Ring Stays in the Mood Ring...

Here's a very rough sketch for my current 8-page comic I'm Just About to Loose My Mind Honey Honey Yeah. Below that is the incomplete first page of the same comic...

Some sketchbook pages where I'm playing with text and pattern and the phrasing of certain words. Also some ideas for the scuba suited alien that's in the Loose my Mind comic...

broken ruled

Drawing in a ruled notebook right now...

Some of the lyrics to Time by Pink Floyd. When I heard it on the radio recently I realized how incredibly depressing it actually is...