(almost) SUMMMMMAH TIIIIIIME

Officially back and unjetlagged (at some point I need to make a post about the trip because I discovered A LEGITIMATE SECRET OF THE VATICAN THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW) the ladies Grace, Leigh and myself are jumping into full even planning mode for the FESTIVAL OF RIGHTS to be held May 26th at Gallery 5. Along with Worthless Junk Records, we've put together a line up of awesome bands and are collecting art donations for a charity sale all to benefit Planned Parenthood. Also: we may have a face painter! Greatest fundraiser ever? Yes. Greatest fundraiser ever.

Monday we got got our lineup 100% so on a pretty quick turnaround I made this riff on old Barnum and Bailey posters and have been distributing them around town ever since.(if you see a perpetually disheveled redhead wandering around town with a purse full of posters, THAT'S ME) Thanks to all the stores that let us put up flyers, hope to see everyone at Gallery 5!

WE WERE YOUNG, WE WERE PHYSICALLY FIT, AND WE WERE CHALLENGING LOGIC.

Welp, I'm less than an hour from heading to the airport with the family but I figured an update on two events happening while I'm out of the good ol' River City was warranted.

First off on April 30th at Ghostprint Gallery there's going to be a big art auction to help raise money for Kerry Talbott, a teacher in the Communication Arts department at VCU. He's had some really serious health problems in the past year and Patrick Godfrey from Velocity Comics has organized this event to help cover his medical bills. Kerry was my teacher for sequential imaging and a completely badass artist (seriously for a pretty soft spoken guy, when he brought in pages of a comic he was working on that entailed a zombified Jesus Christ wreaking havoc, the lapsed Catholic in me was both amazed and terrified of secondhand blasphemy) and I was really grateful to be able contribute to the show. If you're reading this and you haven't heard about it yet, you should totally go! There's going to be a ton of artists contributing (I'm really hoping nobody picks up all of James Callahan's work so I can snag it for myself when I get back) http://artmission.tumblr.com/

I didn't manage to get an overall photo before handing it over to Patrick, but here's a couple pics of what it...sort of...looks like....

Also occurring whilst I am away is that on April 28th, the Ten Thousand Villages in Carytown is having their annual spring fashion show. I created a poster, smaller handouts, and set up a layout for the program that incorporated all of the different fabrics that are new to the store this season. These clothes are crazy because all of the patterns are hand block printed so if you look closely you can see all the variations in the patterns. Plus, you know, free trade and all that...so it's ethical too! I'm on my laptop right now and will put the full poster up when I get back to RVA but for now I'll just put up what the program cover looks like as it's similar to the layout of the full sized poster.

 Okay, i really need to go and pack...

Flyers

I recently did a flyer and a patch design for Bitch City and a flyer for Riot Squad's April Fools Show.

Dirty Dino 5: Live and Let Dinosaur

Thanks to all the stores/coffeeshops that let me leave issues (Strange Matter, Velocity, Crossroads, Globehoppers, Plant Zero, Lift, Black Hand, Chop Suey) and to mah boo Aaron Mitchell for folding assistance.

Dirty Dino Rock: Love in the Time of Dinosaurs

In honor of Valentine's Day, a new love themed Dirty Dino Rock! Hard copies are available at Crossroads, Strange Matter, Velocity Comics, Rumors, and Globehoppers.

 A HUGE thank you to anybody who's told a friend (or friends) about Dirty Dino Rock, anybody who's gone out of their way to email me letting me know what they think, all of the places that let me drop off issues with an extra thanks to the nice guys over at Velocity. I've also put up all four issues up on DirtyDinoRock.tumblr.com so people can read it there as well.

Dirty Dino Rock III: DINOS IN TIME

the only ornament you'll ever need

Another month and another new Dino Rock! I decided to devote this issue to the story of a single character, a man whose tale could not be contained by a mere one or two page spread, a man who would be legend...or something...whatever.

 Thanks to all the places that have let me drop off issues; if anybody is interested in picking up physical copies they're at Lift, Empire, Velocity Comics, Crossroads, Rumors, Strange Matter, and Globehoppers. 

And check out towards the bottom of the blog, Blogger's got some bells and whistles regarding Facebook and Twitter (AND LEST WE FORGET THE GOOGLE PLUS) so if you like this or anything else on the blog, spread the word? (And also I'm just curious to see if that function actually will work)

Dirty Dino Rock 2

"Well, it's October...and we all know what that means..."-Hank Kingsley.

What it means is a new Dirty Dino Rock! Yay! While visiting friends in New York, I dropped off as many copies of both old and new Dino as I could, so hopefully people are reading them on the subway right nowwww! Thank you David and all your friends who suggested places to go (OHTHEPLACESYOU'LLGO), and bleebleeblah, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO (and once again in the same sequence that they appear in the printed version):

HALLOWEENIE

Corey and the guys in Bitch City are throwing an Epic Halloween Party and from the sound of it, it's going to be the most Epic Halloween Party since the opening five minutes of Nightmare before Christmas, which technically was more of a parade...so...BITCH CITY:1, TIM BURTON: 0.

There's two versions of flyers for the party, one by me and one by Dustin Davis so check your FACE for either one COMING SOON TO A PHONE POLE NEAR YOU.

Also, apologies to my father who recently asked when I was going to make something appropriate to show the aunts and uncles when they ask him what I'm doing. This is certainly not that.

A REAAAAL HUMAN BEEEING

I'm still coming off my Post Ryan-Gosling-Stomps-Things-To-Death-And-Drives high from watching Drive so I'll keep this brief. I just finished drawing-printing-stapling a mini comic that's available at Velocity (and maybe a few other places yet to be decided) and is totally free (as opposed to partially) Rawn Gandy over at Velocity was super nice and helpful and gave me a copy of both his and his wife's comics and didn't laugh me out of the store all of which was appreciated. And because the comic is totally free I'm posting it below in it's entirety because why not. (note: the comics are posted in the order that they appear in the mini comic)

And if you're by Velocity be sure to check out Rawn and Meg Gandy's comics! 

image courtesy of team8press.com

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go buy a Scorpion jacket and FLIP A CAR.