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Next week: ArtBeat at PCC!

I’m pleased to announce that I’m the featured artist this year at Portland Community College’s ArtBeat, a yearly event dedicated to celebrating the arts.  It lasts a whole week – this year they’re hosting 80 events that span three campuses – and everything is free and open to the public.  I’ll be speaking Monday through Wednesday.  Come on down!  More info here.  And here’s my lecture schedule:

Monday, May 10th
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Rock Creek Campus

Tuesday, May 11th
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Cascade Campus

Wednesday, May 12th
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Sylvania Campus

Mon, May 3 2010

April

Sun, May 2 2010

Wildwood

Lately, Colin and I have been toiling away on a series of illustrated novels.  Not the letterpressed ghost story previously mentioned on this blog that may or may not ever see the light of day.  Nor the picture book about a talking cat that has been shelved again for the time being (sorry).  But a really fantastic, epic series of middle reader books that we’ve been working up to doing for about ten years.  Needless to say, I’m super excited. We’ve found a great editor for them and the first book in the series, Wildwood, is due out in fall of 2011.  The above is an illustration from it.  More info here.

Fri, Apr 30 2010

March

Mon, Apr 5 2010

idle hands are the devil’s workshop

Embroidered pillows for our book room:

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Tintin and Snowy

Tintin and Snowy

Sun, Apr 4 2010

on April 30th

One day we’ll look back and laugh at a health care system so dysfunctional that we had to organize benefits to help our friends pay their emergency hospital bills.  Ha ha!

In the meantime, come see the Decemberists and Michael Hurley in Astoria and help artist, gardener, and human extraordinaire Jessica Schleif put a good dent in her medical debt.  It’s not fair but at least it’s fun.  More info here.

Sat, Apr 3 2010

An Ambitious Project Collapsing

I fight the urge to repost everything I see on this blog.

Wed, Mar 31 2010

Bertha, the Child-Flower

Here’s my submission for A Journey Round My Skull’s Raymond Roussel illustration contest.  The assignment was to illustrate a passage from Roussel’s surrealist poem Locus Solus that was cut from the final book.  You can read the passage here and see the contest results here.  Big ups as always to AJRMS.  If you’re into wondrous, esoteric book art, it’s the greatest.  (And BiblioOdyssey is the second greatest.)

Mon, Mar 29 2010

Google image search: old post office

Wed, Mar 24 2010

Panorama!

My contribution to the funny pages of The San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney’s gigantic, miraculous one-day-only newspaper.

Tue, Mar 23 2010