Mashed Potato

Here's a little something. A while back, I had an idea to do a series of illustrations based on wacky 60's dances. This was as far as I got, but you never know--I might take another stab at some in the future. What's next--the monkey? The frug? What about the boogaloo?

Banjo Pigs

Here's a drawing I did for the popular Dueling Banjo Pigs blog last year. I liked the image so much I used it for a promotional postcard a little later on.

Torture

I love the online illustration community, but I also love that my hometown is home to such a great local illustration group as well: the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators.

The latest edition of the PSI newsletter (which you can download at the website above) has a little feature where members write in with an answer to the question "What keeps you going while working?" I was asked to submit a little cartoon to illustrate the feature, so I drew this:

Downloadable Love

Now that it's closer to the big day, here's that Valentine I drew a couple weeks ago--in downloadable form! If you are too cheap or too snowed in to get out to the card store, just print this one on cardstock, fold in the middle, and you're good to go. You can even trim the edges if you want it to have a full bleed for that more professional look. Have a great holiday, everyone!

Basketball

I've got basketball on the brain lately! Here is a finished spread for a picture book dummy I'm currently writing and illustrating in my down time.

Cragmore

This blog is really mainly intended to show off my illustrations, but this week I was honored to receive a few nice awards for my comics work as well.

The comics review blog "File Under Other" named my comic CRAGMORE as one of their Favorite Mini-Comics of 2010. Same with the site "Midnight Fiction," which called CRAGMORE one of their Favorite Mini-Comics of 2010 too. Finally, I got the great news that the Small Press and Alternative Comics Convention (SPACE) in Columbus Ohio awarded me their annual SPACE Prize.

I'm really proud to be recognized in this way so I just wanted to say thanks! If you'd like to read the beginning of CRAGMORE and see what all the fuss is about, I put the first 20-some pages online starting right here. Thanks!

Below is a possible cover design for the collected volume, publisher TBD

Groundhog

Well, when I wake up in the morning it'll be Groundhog Day. I went to Punxsutawney one time to watch Phil climb out of his hole and doom us all to another six weeks of winter. Every year it seems like he sees his shadow, and this is how I imagine it going down: