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Monthly Archives: May 2009

sunday, may 31 – comic jam at the Cartoon Art Museum

  Brian Kolm from the Cartoonist Conspiracy SF cell is organizing this fun comic drawing jam at the cartoon musem – I’m going to be helping out and hope to see you all! when? – sunday may 31st 11-5pm where?  cartoon art museum  655 mission st. San Francisco, CA (map)  I’ll have my latest copy [...]

Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco: Collaboration at its finest

Another inspiring Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco comics jam! Two people each collaborated on one story using index cards. The theme was loosely about starting a rock band! We’ll post the results later, but lordy, lord, our fingers were on fire! This is best watched as a slideshow really quickly!

John Gardner – “Personal Renewal”

“Personal Renewal” Delivered to McKinsey & Company, Phoenix, AZ November 10, 1990 “Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out [...]

Trailer for “Sleep Dealer”

Sleep Dealer Trailer

train ride comic

And it is laid out as a comic: large version part of my daily sketch challenge

solids zine

Someone at the Rock Paper Scissors Zine Library recommended Solids and  I fell in love with it instantly! A mystery mathematician goes through and methodically draws (by hand) all the formulas and shapes there are. It makes geometry sexy. I’m wondering if this is part of the alienation from automation and ease of use; perhaps [...]

living the dream in hell-a

part of the daily sketch challenge

collaborations: arm wrestling, dancing and more!

Here are arm wrestling experiments that mutated into singing and dancing adventures from the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco jams as well as the Rock Paper Scissors Zine Workshops. The activity of making comics is a loner’s world, and collaborations don’t occur so often. It’s a joy to be able to jam with other artists when [...]