Book Tour

I will be at the Boston and Providence stops. Won't you join me?

Girls and Flowers and Horror and Whatnot

Ugh, I lose at blogging. It is in no way represented here that I have been working on comics all year. But I have! And now one of them is finished.
For all the whimsy depicted here, this turns into a horror story. Find out how! "Imaginary Friend" appears in Dark Corners, a forthcoming anthology from I Know Joe Kimpel. It's set to debut at SPX and will then be available to order from the IKJK website and comic shops that stock this sort of thing (more on that soon).

Dark Corners also features horror stories by the very talented cartoonists Denis St. John, Jeff Lok and Mario van Buren, and some pretty spectacular drawings by Steve Bissette. Holy crap yes! This is pretty cool, eh Imaginary Friend?

Oh.

spineless

Behold! The imaginary friend story is still in the works, but in the meantime I have made a creepy loser collection. This is the almost-final cover:

This collects a whole bunch of my comics - old and new, including a couple of never before seen pages from Dead Air #3! Putting them all together is actually kind of uncomfortable...there are certain ideas that show up over and over again that don't paint the rosiest picture of the cartoonist. Lonely, self-absorbed girls, lonely, self-absorbed monsters, fun poked at consumer culture and also fun poked at people who poke fun at consumer culture...people who watch while their friends are devoured by monsters...

Here's a sampling of random panels, somewhat inexpertly scanned for full effect:








In any case I had fun making this. I think if it says anything about me, it's that I'm a Creepy Loser. From the bottom of my tepid, wishy-washy heart. 

I will have these at MoCCA and afterwards they will be available through IKnowJoeKimpel. The cover has shiny parts.