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so as i'm moving along with my comics i've decided to cut down on my excess of internet glut

streamline myself if you will.

you can follow me on my personal website/tumblr

or friend me on facebook to hear up to the day news on drawing and events i'll be at

everything else is superfluous


but most importantly GO TO MY STORE AND BUY MY COMICS!!

heres a bunch of recent and random things i've been working on

RUB THE BLOOD

HELP ME PUBLISH RUB THE BLOOD!!!

this is a project i've been working on since last spring with Ian Harker (editor of Secret Prison)

COVER BY BALD EAGLES

RUB THE BLOOD is an Art Comix tabloid that explores the lasting influence (for better or worse) of the Early 90's Collector Boom comics of Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, etc. on today's most fringe underground cartoonists. RUB THE BLOOD features never-seen-before comix and artwork by:

PAT AULISIO (BOWMAN)

JOSH BAYER (RAW POWER)

WILLIAM CARDINI (HYPERCASTLE)

VICTOR CAYRO (KRAMERS ERGOT 6)

IAN HARKER (SECRET PRISON)

PB KAIN (PEELING GLASS)

KEENAN MARSHALL KELLER (GALACTIC BREAKDOWN)

PETER LAZARSKI (IMAGINARY MONSTERS)

BENJAMIN MARRA (NIGHT BUSINESS)

JIM RUGG (AFRODISIAC)

THOMAS TOYE (ILLOGICAL COMICS)

MICKEY Z (RAV)

DONATE NOW TO THE KICKSTARTER!

New Work

so im in a bunch of new stuff right now, check it all out!

Catch-Up is a literary zine with a thick ass comic section im in, based out of louisville.
the site says the issue is now available, how to get one im not entirely sure, there whole site is under construction, but i am told that it indeed does exist! i saw the pdf version a while ago and there are some amazing artists in there like Mark Hensel, Katie Skelly, Sam Gaskin, Josh Burggraf, Gil Gentile, Lane Milburn, Malachi Ward, and PB Kain amongst other.
stalk there site for further instructions when and where it is available

Hope Mountain vol. 2 hit the streets this weekend! i have a bunch of copies, even more are floating around a few bars, coffee shops, and galleries in philly.
another free tabloid, very elusive to find, 2000 in existence, ill have some with me at the various cons im going to this season
check the streets of rochester new york for some more. they posted the entire first issue online, im sure the second will be posted at one point or another.
check it out here

This above piece is from the new issue of BAM POW, the west philly based art zine.
again, you can't buy this baby online, theres only about 200 in existence and they are exclusively sold at various parties, shows, and art openings organized by the Chernobyl Collective Arts.
check out there site to go to one of there house parties any given weekend and pick up a copy!

and of course SUSPECT DEVICE!
the Josh Bayer edited anthology of all weird experimental nancy comics!
cover by Jon Vermilyea, featuring awesome comics by Box Brown, Mike Sgier, Liz Hickey, Sam Henderson, Dane Martin, Josh Burggraf and about amillion more people. this book is fucking amazing! and its easy to buy online! only $5!
BUY NOW!!

RETROFIT COMICS!

Retrofit Comics is going to be releasing my next full length comic book BOWMAN and for the kickstarter campaign i was interviewed in my studio about it. you can also see me play drums for a little bit at the end too.



donate now for any 4+ month aubscription plan (im month 3) on kickstarter and youll get a copy of BOWMAN sent directly to you!

Here's the official poster for the 2011 Philly Alternative Comic Con
below is the main layer detail of the guy. to color this i used 5 different color layers for the guy, 6 for the background and 3 for the mountain foreground and 1 for the type. a ton of scanning but i think it came out just the way i wanted it to.
the idea is a post-apocalyptic comic book salesman crossing the wastedlands selling comics.
tumble it!

NANCY

Josh Bayer, all around awesome dude, is putting together a book where he sends contributors random nancy panels and we have to incorporate them into our own full page comic. this was my first attempt. i didnt really like the way it turned out so i made and abstracted version of it below. im doing a few other ones that will be found in print when it comes out.

Crap Dawn 2

2 page comic i did for a poop-themed zine that may or may not ever get published called Crap Dawn 2 edited by Greg Labold

bowman preview

here are some early character design for the main characters in my for my current comic im working on, BOWAN.

below is a alphabet/language im making for a few of the characters in BOWMAN.
coming out november.

Lotsa Comics

the comic below was originally published in S! #7 based out of Latvia!

and this is from Secret Prison 4!

ALSO
i got a TUMBLR account, i've already flooded it with a ton of comics from the past 2 years and i plan on using it as my main website from here on out. Right now theres a ton of stuff to read including the full version of Amazing/Wow comic i did thats never been on the web! SO START FOLLOWING IT HERE!

Reptile Porn Preview

been keepin busy comic-ing a lot lately. got a whole bunch of stuff in the works. here is a small preview for a 2 pager thats going to be in an anthology (ill let you know the title when the formal press release comes out). one thing a lot of people are ignorant about is the fact that all of the worlds leaders, rulers, ceo's, and generally anyone is a great position of power are in fact reptilian and have been for thousands of years. our reptilian rulers have been running the show under our noses from the beginining of humanity. this particular comic is about 2 said reptilian leaders, and what they do behind closed doors. more info can be found on the reptilian agenda here and here
educate yourselves people!! WE ARE NOT ALONE!

BOWMAN

Sir Froderick

heres a 7" cover i just finished up for Sir Froderick. great uncategorizable hip hop coming out of Philly right now.
i interpreted it as a space dj and this is what i came up with.

NEW COMIC FOR MOCCA

come check me out this weekend at MoCCA fest in NYC! ill be at table L5 with Peter Lazarski, Mike Turzanski, and Tom Smo!

i will have the above new comic REVERSE OPPOSITE
as well FRESH and FREE copies of the tabloids HOPE MOUNTAIN and SECRET PRISON 4!!

SECRET PRISON 4!

SECRET PRISON is in need of your money to help keep it free and survive throughout 2011!!
donate $10 and you can get a copy of BOTH beat 'em up classics BARE KNUCKLE by me and URBAN FIGHT by Ian Harker
JUST DO IT

Hope Mountain News

My buds from upstate New York Peter Lazarski and Mike Turzanski put together a new free art tabloid called HOPE MOUNTAIN

i did the above piece and you can READ IT ONLINE FOR FREE

Publicatin and Multiples Fair

me and ian will be representin secret prison at baltimore's publication and multiples fair saturday the 26th! check it out if your in the charm city!

COMING SOON....

cover by Mike Turzanski

Secret Prison 4 Variant Cover

here's a screenprint that i made for help raise funding for SECRET PRISON 4
only $20! 11x17 black and red ink
Go HERE TO BUY NOW!

Even my mum can make a book 2

remember last september when i had 2 of my comics featured in an art show in Istanbul, Turkey? no?
well read about it here

anyways, the sequel show was up from last January until earlier this week. A copy of Math Fiction was there as well as Secret Prison 3! you can see someone reading MF at the 00:53 mark of the video

"even my mum can make book"#2 from futuristicdistortion on Vimeo.

you can also see a copy of MF below, 2nd row from the top 2nd book in, blue with the glasses hanging off them

go to the Bakkal Press site for more info on the show

X-Files

Kickass Annie

this is my version of Koyama Press' logo Kickass Annie
This logo has been drawn and re-drawn by some of the best and up-and-coming cartoonists around!
i am proud to take part in the logo re-envision!
you can see other artists renditions on the Koyama Press Flickr Page
Annie being Anne Koyama, publisher of finer publications
Anne is helping me and partner in crime Box Brown head to Toronto this May for the Toronto Comics and Art Fest
thanks again Anne!

Everything Dies

duh! i forgot to mention yesterday, me and my good friend Box Brown have been working on a comic together about my beliefs that is apart of his ongoing religious based comic series Everything Dies.
I'm just going to let the comic do the talking for me, then you can decide how actually crazy i am.
click the page above to go to his site and read the whole thing!

wee bit update

its a month into 2011 and what have i been doing??

sitting around mostly, but some art stuff too.

Next Friday ill be participating in the art show Refugee Reading Room organized by Amze Emmons at Space 1026.
this show will be highlight Amze's printing and paintings while have an installation of a post-utopian newsstand, on that newsstand you'll be able to pick up FREE copy of year three hundred million collected edition as well as secret prison 3.

also in early February i'll have a 2 page comic featured in the Latvian anthology kuš!
i'll be sure to post when it is available for purchase.

soon to be seen on the streets of Philly you can see an illustration of mine be featured in the upcoming free zine about the comedy and improv scene called Rube

In March ill be featured in a very exciting first friday show, i won't spill the beans, but it will be like nothing i've ever done before ever, meaning not comics, screenprints, abstract images, drawings, collage, or an installation (all of the mediums i've worked with in gallery shows). It will be at Mast Head studios.

I'll be in the newest issue of the Hive Anthology as well

Math Fiction 2 is in the works. some really cool people are involved.

i've also been thinking about some new and weird changes to the philly alternative comic con....more on that in a few months.

I'm going to be submitting to a bunch of different anthologies in the next month or so, i wont bother to drop all the names since its not a given i'll be featured in any of them.

i began writing out and planning my epic graphic novel which will be 2001: a space odyssey + kramer from seinfeld + characters from my previous comics + lots of abstract weird shit.

it's official i'll be going to TCAF in May! i'll be putzing around with Box Brown and Cyn Why.

oh and check out Me + Ian Harker + Box Brown's comic review/culture/inside story blog called 555 - COMX
So far i write reviews of dollar and 50 cent bin back issues (where have all the quarter bins gone??) and post vintage ads done in comic form. down the line i plan on writing better more rant like posts and recaps of art openings and comic cons. but for now you can read my reviews of Deaths Head2, Wacky Witch, and UFO Flying Saucers.

i think thats everything goin on for now...