November 26, 2007

This is Wally and I back in Charlottesville on Saturday night...we were celebrating Devin's birthday at Ten. I love his sheepish expression and my weirdly snotty expression in that second panel! Silly.


This is about my lack of art in the past month. Artistic constipation. I was going to draw glitter coming out of my head in the second sequence, but figured I've made enough jokes about that topic already.


With all these comics I've been making lately, I wanted to reconfirm my previously-diverse-repoitore. And I really like how this watercolor turned out! It's about how sometimes you simply have to put your life on pause, during certain crunch-times or whatnot.

November 24, 2007

This comic is simply about working the Macy's install, because all you had time for when you came home was to shower and sleep. You try to wash off the erasable part of the day, and then start again in the morning.


Ummmm, yeah. This one is about second chances I suppose...

November 12, 2007

I drew this little silly comic on a (drawn) napkin because it's a scene from the bar after work with the other Macy's zombies. I just found it so funny, but maybe I'm just retarded. (That's Bones on the left, then Eric and Matt)



There have been these words that had been fluttering around my head lately: self imposed isolation. He had used this to describe me in one of his stories...it's both a compliment and a critique. The other night this nomadic thought finally found a suitable visual home during my rainy walk home. For me it summed it up perfectly, and I smiled under my anonymous-black-umbrella. I also drew in my new awesome boots...I just wanted to point that out because I'm vain.

November 7, 2007

This comic is about how sometimes when I'm out with people I sort of withdraw. (Ever been out with me when I'm drinking and I'm tired? You might have seen this...) I suddenly become overwhelmed by social interaction, and I shut down for a little bit...until I snap out of it and hop back in. I know, it sounds weird. But this comic here shows how that feels like to me. (The people there are simplified versions of my co-workers Billy, Dustin, and Amanda)



There's actually gliltter on this comic, although it's hard to see in this scanned version! I just had to draw this because all week I've just been tossing on glitter, sprinkling on glitter, and blowing on glitter to these Macy's sets. And glitter gets everywhere. Normally my appearance sparks involuntary laughter whenever my coworkers catch a glimpse of me. Daniel is the one who called me a magical hobo...he was right.

November 3, 2007

Here's me on the subway: coated in paint, glitter, fake snow, and dirt. Filthy...physically exhausted...but so happy.



When the subway gets really crowded, sometimes you end up standing in the middle of the crowd where you can't reach any bar or pole or wall. Then it's hard to keep your balance when the subway moves. When this happens to me, I pretend that I'm riding the subway like a surfboard. That I'm surfing. So in this watercolor I'm hidden in the subway crowd on the top, then it fades to the water at the bottom.