Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Blew It


In the winter of 2012 I was pulling myself out of a 6 month Agoraphobia bender.  One of my plans to get better was to go to the Pourhouse Cafe and draw for 3 hours everyday.  All 50 pages of Blew It were drawn there.  I would come up with all the times that I blew it in the last relationship I was in and then draw the scenario.


I think everything I do is funny, even the sad stuff, but this is the first book I've done where everyone who reads it assures me that it's funny.  It's gotten a lot of laughs.


I was out of my league, out of practice, and 8 years older.  (forgot the tattoos a couple times I guess)

Said all the wrong things.






That Boy Girl Feeling


I drew 'That Boy Girl Feeling' while living in Arizona in the winter of '05.  It took about 3 months.  It was my first semi-autobiographfical comic book.  It's about a weekend with a new girlfriend in my early 20s.  Its embarrassingly naive.  70 pages of painful storytelling.   

You've Changed


You've Changed was the 2nd book I drew.  It was about 50 pages, done with a brush, in the winter of '04.  It's 4 stories about animals in failing relationships.  I made about 50 copies of it (full size).  I then redrew it for some reason in 2006.  This version is the only book that I've done with 12 panel pages.  I inked it with a tiny Rapidograph Pen size .25.


I took out the story about the spiders and since the pages had 12 panels I condensed the book to 16 pages.  Never printed it though.  I also wrote a screenplay for a short film/teleplay called You've Changed in '02.  I also wrote a song called You've Changed in '04 and recorded it in '05 in Arizona and put it on 'Hey Hey Hey Now' .


TROUBLE



Trouble is a 12 page wordless comic I drew in the fall of 2012.  I came up with the idea from a nightmare I had.  I had gotten into Lynd Ward's work with the epic stories told through bold wordless images.  I thought something like that would be the best way to tell the story.  I want this to be a movie.  A terrifying movie.  Lars Von Trier could direct it.