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2008
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APRIL |
STEP ONE - Here's a quicky how-to animation (that's a YouTube link) I put together for good ol' Andymac, screenprinter extraordinaire. If you like doohickies and fangled machinery, click. W!T!S! - I have a weird Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! comic appearing exclusively in the latest issue of I Want Your Skull, one of the finest skull-centric publications currently available, with the possible exception of Oprah Winfrey's "O". |
MARCH |
GALLERY SHOW: I did a poster of Heavy Metal Parking Lot (one of the finest short video pieces ever ever) for the SUPERTRASH FEST art exhibit sponsored by Fantagraphics Books: Feb. 1-3, 2008 at Portland's gigantic Bagdad Theater. MY ART, EXCEPT BIGGER AND OUTSIDE: I'm pleased to announce that a mural design of mine has been chosen by the Easthampton City Arts organization. It won't be going up 'til spring/early summer I reckon, but I will definitely be posting photos of the work in progress. So check back here: Easthampton Mural. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback so far! SOME NEW WORK: Just finished up a CD digipak layout for a super new album from Ricky Lee Robinson. I think the artwork came out super, too. Because of my immense obvious talent? Sure! Also, just finished up a dandy poster & brochure for The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, and a rockin' poster for that very funny smart gentleman named Lewis Black. P*A*W! - I updated my CD layout portfolio page, adding two old Pop*A*Wheelie CD layouts I had neglected to put on there previously. I think they're good! The best! The band, I mean. |
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FEBRUARY |
SHIPPING: I just did the math and realized I was losing more on shipping than I previously thought. Therefore, prices have been raised a bit, so I am only losing a dollar or so per transaction instead of like, $3. I'm apparently not a very good businessman. Click for updated shipping rates. COFFEE!: I finally got the WFCR fundraising coffeemug I designed in the mail, so I took some photos for like, posterity n' stuff. It came out swell. |
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JANUARY |
ME IN 93: Here's a song from my first band playing our first real show. January, 1993 in Manchester, NH. I cut some extra footage over it in After Effects cos I was bored. OH, BOY: Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! celebrates its first year of publication. And it hasn't been canceled yet! (knocks on wood veneer Ikea tabletop). I totally got spell-checked on the word "canceled". It looks wrong to me. It just does. NEW-LOOKING WEBSITE: If you've never been here before, then this pronouncement is wicked meaningless. But if you are a regular visitor here - dare I say a fan - then you must me totally impressed, right? Don't worry though, all the content is still the same. Booooorinnnng. |
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DECEMBER |
GALLERY SHOW: "Screen Printing 101" features screen printed art works from local and national artists. Live music will be provided by Explorers Club during the opening reception. Where: 52.5 Records, 561 King St., Charleston, SC When : Opening reception November 30th, 7-9PM. To hang through December 31st. Artists include: print mafia, leia bell, dan grzeca, strawberryluna, johnny pundt, chuck keppler, cricket press, adam turman, crosshair, angryblue, jeral tidwell, mike klay, standard design, sei rey ho. See the poster by Chuck Keppler. 15 PEOPLE LIKE ME: on stumbleupon. Does that count as "news" or "sad"? |
NOVEMBER |
FLYWHEEL - I did the cover art for this week's Valley Advocate story on the Flywheel. I think it came out swell. WHISKEY! TANGO! 72dpi! - I just wasted my morning making the Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! website wider and therefore more legible, hopefully. That dot pattern I use looks great in print, but I've had a bitch of a time making it reproduce well online. Closing in on the strip's first birthday. I wonder if anyone reads it... |
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OCTOBER |
BIG THING - Here's a big 16x10 foot backdrop I designed for a children's play. YINZ OR ADVERTISEMENT - Some new photos up in the gallery shows page of receptions and shows which I was part of yet did not attend. WTF - Ye ol Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot comic strip on webcomicsnation. I swear I'm not a dumb guy, but that site is incredibly not user-friendly. I do it in the name of self-promotion, but I don't friggin get it. To be honest, I don't even like referring to my comic as a webcomic, because apparently I'm snobby. But it's on the web, and it's a comic. So there I go. NSK - The rock show rocked. You missed it. |
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SEPTEMBER |
LET THE DRUMMER HAVE SOME - I am proud to introduce to you all one of the finest drummers in the land, Mr. Sturgis Cunningham. He can rock it. He can jazz it. He can hit the things with the sticks in rhythm. That's his website, finally. LATEST POSTER - I'm psyched for the Mission of Burma show coming up this week. BROKEN LINES - Got a red-hot one-sentence review over at Bookslut. I'm not bitter because it is, after all, a positive sentence. But I'm not sure it was worth the $7 investment of the promo book plus postage. Heh. UPDATE: Well, the reviewer is selling his promo copy on his blog for two bucks. I wonder if he'll PayPal me the profits... hmmm... maybe I am bitter... OH MY GOD THE BAND - No-Shadow Kick is gearing up for our big 2007 East Coast tour, beginning and ending on September 28th at the Valley Wormfest. First show since June of 2005. Our rehearsals are coming along swimmingly. Check out the poster. COOP - Misc. stuff for sale: I've got some old (well, 1995) offset coop love anthology posters for sale in the Gigposters Classifieds. |
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AUGUST |
FINALLY! - The Turn It Up! animated tv ads are finally done! Check em out in the animation portfolio section or on the Turn It Up! freelance page. Or, if you want to leave me dumb comments, then go for the YouTube ones. MYTUBE - I finally got around to chucking some of my After Effects work on YouTube, even though the compression looks like ass. I mean, I'm no perfectionist, but christ almighty. I also uplaoded the same video files to MySpace video, and I gotta say, they look way better. But in the spirit and grand old tradition of self-promotion and ego-fulfillment, I shall leave them up in both places, and promote them right here in this paragraph. POSTER SHOW: PART TWO - I've also got some posters appearing in YINZ GOT POSTERS!, a gallery show happenin' at AIR in Pittsburgh. Stuff will be hanging/for sale in like, September, I guess. Other better artists featured include Strawberryluna, Adam Turman, Dave Witt, Guy Burwell, Hero Design Studio, Lonny Unitus, Nate Duval, and the all-powerful, omniscent Tooth, along with a bunch of other cool-type folks. POSTER SHOW: PART ONE - I'm gonna have some posters hanging in a, uh... poster show at 52.5 in Charleston, NC. There'll also be prints for sale. Which is cool. Because I enjoy money. There a few blurry photos on the gallery shows page. NEW PAGES - In my neverending quest to fill up every spare moment of my mostly already-filled life with meaningless chores, I have added two more deep-level, top-secret pages to the ol' site: one is some random stuff from my sketchbook, and the other is a bunch of my posters and flyers that I don't think are anywhere else on here. To what end? you ask? Indeed. Also, please note the latest addition to the poster page - a flyer for a fundraising record fair benefiting Flywheel Art Collective in Easthampton. It's coming up in September. You should go. WHISKEY! TANGO! FOXTROT! PROMOTION! - Whoever added WTF to Tapestry Comics, thanks. I'm not even sure what it is, but it's apparently popular.... And speaking of online comic traffic crap, I signed up to the Webcomic List awhile back to try and get some readers, and they have some mysterious strange ranking system which has me regularly bouncing between being in the #600-ish range down to the #2800th position. I mean, I don't care (It's out of 9500+ titles so I don't feel too bad about it or anything), it's just...errr... mysterious. And strange. .... and last but not least, some WTFs will be appearing in the next issue of Letter X. |
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ACTUAL ARTISTIC TALENT - I thought I'd take a break from talking about my own work for a sec here and talk about some good work for a change: Susan Paradis, my high school art teacher (and Mister Reusch's, and Rob Zombie's, among many others) finally has a website that I threw together for her. Excellent children's book illustrations. Susan Paradis' website STOKED! - Here's a new Turn It Up! radio ad, featuring the vocal talents of myself and the amazing Sturgis Cunningham (currently on tour with Martin Sexton). Also, a colorized version of an older print ad is in this week's Advocate. One of my favorites. LOOK AT THAT! - Here's a new "feature" at good ol' Standard Design. A list of graphic design/motion design junk that I think is pretty cool, aka things that i think are really nice. To be updated irregularly, I'm sure. Or maybe I'll devote all of my energies to it instead of, you know, doing work. COMIX FOR SALE: Broken Lines and Famous Fighters are both now available at opticalsloth.com. I honestly don't know the difference between "comics" and "comix". I suspect it may be the result of the adoption of pinyin over the older romanization system of Wade-Giles. REUSCH! Mister Reusch has been Bloggerin' his old MassArt sketchbooks. Amongst the fine, awesome, scary, fucked up cool work is a funny drawing of me "rockin' out" 1990 NSK style (like, the seventh drawing down). Also, there's a story (Boundaries) from 1995 or so that he illustrated and I wrote. It was published in The Boston Phoenix. I love that lil' fella. |
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LAST MINUTE Turn It Up ad for the Green River Fest, which as a side note, will feature the lovely and talented and awesome Neko Case. REVIEWS, LAUDITORY COMMENTS, OH GOD TOM WE LOVE YOU, ETC: Famous Fighters, voted one of the most beloved independent comic books of 2006, has just received a late and weirdly off-topic but okay-with-us review. Read it at the official website. Just got another good review for Broken Lines, too. |
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| MAY |
LET'S TALK ABOUT ME: here's an e-mail interview I did with katie mcneill over at blogcritics.org about good ol' broken lines. I like e-mail interviews. They give me REVIEWS: I just got around to organizing all of my comic/CD/whatever reviews from over the years onto one big archived page of reviews. |
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SKULLZ N SHTT: I've got a page in the latest issue of Ryan August's limited-edition zine/book/life-changing tome I Want Your Skull. It's a perfect gift for anyone who loves skulls and/or dislikes flesh. BLOWING THROUGH THE GUTTERS OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: I did a pretty all right cover in this week's Valley Advocate, and last week I did a spot illustration for a Kurt Vonnegut essay. See 'em on the Valley Advocate freelance page. Also did a swank new ad for Turn It Up. I THINK THE IDEA OF A NEWS LINK WITH REGULARLY UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT WORK AND PROJECTS WOULD INTEREST ME: A young lady in Texas rates this busy vintage website a "3".
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| MARCH |
BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN: After four or five years of sporadic work and one or two years of saying "it's almost done", I am very pleased to say that Broken Lines: Book One, the first installment of my illustrated novel, is finally available for purchase and readin'. Check out the website for picture galleries and more info. Buy it in the Standard Design store. For more shipping options and also to see a ten page online preview, you can check out lulu.com. Anyway, hooray for me! A PLACE TO PUT BOOKS: Not really art-related per se, but I built what I must admit is a pretty kick ass bookcase for my living room, so I am showing it off here. GOOD CAUSE, ETC: This year's Spring Gala fundraiser for Safe Passage is coming up. I made the poster. |
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FEBRUARY |
TURN IT UP: Did a couple new print ads/flyers. i like 'em. MEAN PEOPLE DO NOT SUCK - Standard Design art prints for sale over at Diesel Fuel Prints STANDARD DESIGN - on answers.com |
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JANUARY |
WHISKEY! TANGO! FOXTROT! - A new weekly comic strip o' mine will be gracing the pages and website of the valley advocate starting Jan 17 and updating every Wednesday til they cancel me. It's like The Family Circus, but not as edgy. Here's the official WTF page for it. Leave a mean comment! THE BONE UNDER YOUR SKIN: I've got a page in the premiere issue of i want your skull - available right now! |
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NOVEMBER |
"LAZER". WITH A "Z". THAT'S RIGHT. I won the LAZER 99.3 TV ad contest. Thanks to those who rocked the vote. Click the link to see some photos from the announcement party shin-dig and a nicer-than-youtube compressed version of the ad. The YouTube version is still available if you feel like leaving a witty comment about my lack of skill. You dick! |
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OCTOBER |
FAMOUS FIGHTERS! After a slight delay in the release due to an unforeseen postscript printing error, ze book iz here! (note to self: even seeing the proof can still not mean a god-damned thing) Matt and I are pleased to be getting a wonderfully diverse mix of reviews. Check out www.famousfighters.com to read 'em. These comic book guys take stuff wicked seriously sometimes. ROOOOOSH: I made a quicky lil dog-centric website for good ol' Mister Reusch. Check out dogs by reusch. LETTER X: Here's an interview I did for the latest issue of Letter X magazine (192k PDF). And here's the cover I made for that issue. If it doesn't seem to make sense, that's because it doesn't. |
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SEPTEMBER |
FINALLY HERE!!!! Famous Fighters Issue #1 is now available! It will topple nations and crush oppression and oppress the new nations that rise from the rubble of the old nations it previously toppled! Check out the famous fighter website for some truncated previews and a bit of hot exclusive-type of stuff. It's a comic book. It's 52 pages. It's five bucks. Purchase one, won't you? THE MELVINS: here are a few process pics by strawberryluna of her printin' up my ol' new Melvins poster. It came out totally super-awesome. Allison did a bang-up job on the halftones, mazn. Also, Standard Design on Expressobeans LINKY-DINKS: Random crap: I discovered I was on the my morning jacket website, and I also found a very nice flattering little review/shout-out on music biz academy (I didn't write it, honest!). And here's the above-mentioned Melvin's poster on themelvins.net |
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AUGUST
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WOOD: Just launched the water street furniture website. ME BIG CHIEF: I made a "movie-style" poster for the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's aimed at middle school/high school classrooms and is available exclusively here. It's 24x36 and laminated, for ten bucks. It came out super-cool. 24x36 is like, big. here's a better graphic of it. FARM AID: Here's the final design for my farm aid poster, to be printed by Andy at diesel fuel. Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young. As this is for charity, I will not be selling copies of these, so please don't ask. |
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JULY |
BRAND NEW TIU: I just finished up a new chinese propaganda-themed website for turn it up cds. Be sure to check out the archive of print, radio and TV ads. They're funny, yo. TWO AWESOME THINGS I ADORE: the amazing screw on head from Mike Mignola and an excellent music video from Muse, knights of cydonia. COMMERCE & CAPITALISM: I have some posters for sale on the newbury comics site. OLD NEWS: It just occurred to me that I never mentioned tom-n-dave.com and the wonderful Standardtastic stickers you can purchase there. Whoops. Bad marketing skills. That site has been up since early 2005. And here is an awesomely unkind review of my incredible genre-defying comic book Failure, Incompetence that I just found on Google (it's from Jan 06). purchase your copy today! |
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JUNE |
MONKEY: I have a lovely art print of a monkey available exclusively at philaarts.com. Check it out. It has a monkey on it. I think it came out really cool. MISC. GARBAGE: Here's a humorous informal chatroom survey I found floating around on my hard drive. RECENT WORK: Lately I've finished up website work for the franklin county bar association, the amazing TOOTH and his ramenroyale site, chuck keppler and a Flash thingy for people's bank. And...errr.... Standard Design. Recent posters include erin mckeown (printed by strawberryluna), the lovely neko case and high on fire (printed by diesel fuel). The capitalist within me is compelled to mention once again that these posters are available in the Standard Design store. Forgive me. |
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MARCH |
CELLPHONE: Now you can totally download my recycled artwork onto your cellphone: standard design cellphone wallpapers at startmobile. I'll be totally jealous of you if you buy one because I can't since my phone is so cheap. Ha! ATTENTION WEIRD POSTER COLLECTORS: (I mean you're weird, not the posters.) I just recently (re)discovered that a bunch of my posters are cataloged at expressobeans, which is sort of weird and neat. You can actually WATCH their value diminish. AMAZING. |
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SEPTEMBER |
RIME: Issue #3 of letter x is out. I've got a 2-page comic about Ol' Cap'n Grampy in there. |
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AUGUST |
ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD: I'm pretty psyched to be included in Frank Kozik's sourcebook/coffeetable book pandameat published by Last Gasp. I have copies for sale in the ol' standard store. |
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JULY |
EXHIBITION: Several of my rock posters will be on display at The Atlanta Museum of Design's graphic noise exhibition. Some photos I swiped from the gigposters forums can be seen here. |
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JUNE |
BIG NEWS PART I: I'm very pleased to announce the release of my comic collection failure, incompetence. You should buy it because laughter is the best medicine. Or so I've been told. BIG NEWS PART II: I'm ALSO very pleased to announce the release of my band's third CD, Spatializing Sound in the Time Domain. I sang, played bass, co-produced and did the cover art. Learn more about it and give a few tracks a listen at noshadowkick.com |
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MAY |
NEW WEBSITES: I had the opportunity to collaborate with Clay from gigposters.com to help him redesign my favoritest website on the internet. Another recent cool web project was for chindogu gallery. |
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My rancid poster was chosen for inclusion in the art of modern rock. If you look way, way in the back of the book, there's a teeny tiny little rectangle that's a reproduction of a rock poster. Right below THAT one is mine. I'm so effin' proud. -- I just got around to making a little tribute page to forty-3 cos I was bored. -- I was interviewed by gigposters.com and one of my old flyers was chosen as poster of the week. |
