TCAF!

This weekend my frail bodifice will be wobbling in the wind (what, the wind of chanSHUT UP) in the Wowee Zonk Small Press Room. A million thanks to the great A.Koyama and WZ for inviting me! Sophia will also be in the same room selling her stellar triptychs (also done on Ryan’s trusty risograph). You can identify me by my massive nose, round glasses and a mild air of despair. Also, now I have hair on my face!

I’ll also be in Montreal for a week after that, and then for another week in New York, so if you live in one (or more?SHh) of these places, please feel free to drop me a line.

For those of you who are not going to teacalf, but were kind enough to support my Kickstarter—bromancalf is coming to you! I’m on a demented mailing spree today and tomorrow, so hopefully you’ll get some comics presently. If not, as soon as I return!

PS. Some of the things I’m bringing.

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Some of the stuff I’m bringing to TCAF this year. I’ll be in the Wowee Zonk Small Press Room, more details later this week!

PS. The Calvinosupplement flap in action.

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As my most ardent instantgram followers must know, I recently got obsessed with a lock that someone put on a fence (Ina Coolbirth Park) and made a short mini-comic about it.

I’ll bring some copies (risographed by Ryan Sands) to the opening of I See What You Say (Sunday, April 28th), a fantastic show at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum. It features some of my favorite illustrators & cartoonists, and I also painted a lion & a bird on a wall. Bring your children, so they can sit next to a flat animal and draw things!

PS. If you’re the one who put that lock on that fence—please get in touch with me, I’d like to know why you did that.

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Here’s a constrained strip: took a 9-word line from a frustrating autobio thing (that I soon abandoned altogether), put it into the first panel of a 9-p grid, deleted a word in each subsequent panel and rearranged the words trying to make up a slightly different phrase each time (sometime compromising grammar, sorry). Then I drew the beloved bird gent to link the resulting phrases into a sort of story. Now that’s proper entertainment.

Anyway, it’s the last strip of YZ3, which I will soon start printing. If you missed my kickstarter, you can get it at TCAF (details later).

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Like  anyone who’s ever been asleep I strongly believe that my dreams are better than your dreams.

Reading Georges Perec’s demented dreamdiary La Boutique Obscure (lovingly translated by Daniel Levin Becker) inspired me to pay more attention to my nocturnal life, so I’m trying to keep a semi-regular diary now. I very rarely remember the dreams, most of them too bleak and depressing even by my standards, and yes, I die daily. I could never keep a daylight diary, mainly because my life is of no interest to me, but the vagueness of dreams and the difficulty I have in remembering and piecing their disjointed bits together is great fun.

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Ina Garden in a garden, in a garden… In a garden.

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A spread from Yellow Zine issue 3, which you can still pre-order with lots of bonus things until next week. Some of the limited items are already gone!

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Largely inspired by this photo of the poet clutching a fluffy dog.

Part of Yellow Zine 3 which was recently funded via Kickstarter thanks to YOU the reader! Some limited rewards are already gone, but you can still get other exciting things in the next 24 days.

Amused myself with a simple constraint: in the 3x4 grid the panels are moved to the leftside top-to-bottom until they’re square in the final row.

I then tried to put together a strip that would (hopefully) take advantage of the layout and colored the three layers accordingly.

Will be in Yellow Zine 3, currently being Kickstarted! (In the video you can see the layers magically merging together)

Here’s a romantic picture I drew for Box Brown’s Retrofit Subscription Drive. Give him money and I’ll draw a comic with a scandalous title. Also, boks by Sophia, Ze and other lovely people!

Valentine’s Day, love is in the air, second best way to get rid of it is by supporting my Yellow Zine 3 Kickstarter.

Small update: I won’t be printing last year’s Calvino collaborations for the supplement, instead it will be a brand new adaptation (probably of If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler).