My New Etsy Shop: C.Cilla Spinner Rack

I set up an Etsy shoppe! Click & buy yer X-mas presents without leaving the comfort of yer computer!

Brooklyn Comics Festival!

This Saturday I will be at the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival, at table D-27, next to Radical Fortress! I will have these new tote bags (above) and T-shirts (below), plus The Heavy Hand, minicomics, prints, can coozies, and original artwork! Please stop by and take a look & say hello! why not bring some snacks? See you there, comics fans!

Seattle Art Shows!

I have some work on the walls in Seattle, go check it out!

I drew a VHS box (pictured above) for a show at Scarecrow Video, up right now until November 20th, the boxes are available for bidding in a silent auction!
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Handbound is an exhibition at Soil Gallery, featuring artists who will be at the Short Run small press show this Saturday. I sent a bunch of sketches & scraps from my studio along with finished comics pages & drawings, should be an interesting show!

Never Trust Your Shadow In The Dark

This drawing of mine will be up on the wall at Pony Club gallery in Portland, in the October show titled Witchipedia! The opening night is Thursday, Oct. 4th, go take a look & prepare for witchery!

Dylan Williams Lives Forever

We lost Dylan a year ago, still living with this void.
He was a mentor to many, including myself, though I'm sure he would give me shit for saying that to his face. I am so grateful for his friendship and encouragement, I can't measure them, and feel the echoes every day. We spent many hours comparing our home made paths through comics & art, showing each other the intersections and ignored detours, and laughing about the absurdity of this world we had chosen for ourselves. Dylan helped to solidify my views of my work and life to myself through his examples and arguments, I will always have inspiration from these conversations.
The Comics Journal asked me to draw his portrait a few days after his death, the first of many events since that would have me reaching for the phone to call & get Dylan's take on the situation, but stopping with a deep drop in my heart. I stayed up all night, looking at photos & drawing Dylan a hundred times, settling on this one, then methodically destroying the sketches until dawn. The drawing still feels right to me, and pulls me through my thoughts & emotions from that time.
This past year has put a weight onto his comics & writing that can be painful, but I am taking inspiration from the horror, and I am remembering Dylan as a man who tried hard to improve himself, his art & personal and professional life, with good humor and humility. The work we must do is always before us, and we can make the right choices, even if it is difficult. Thank you, Dylan.

San Francisco Zine Festival, Biological "Work"

Hello San Francisco! I will be at the SF Zine Festival this weekend, at table #129 B; I'll have Rattlesnake Dick, The Heavy Hand, Deep Shag Pile, and a bunch of xeroxed minis, plus T-shirts, prints, and original art, so please stop by, say hello, and buy some of my merchandise!

Spacecraft Succotash: Episode Wum

I have a new full-color comic story up on the Studygroup Comics website! It's a space fantasy, NSFW, psychedelic Stun Nuts'd seven page epic, digital comix made with glue & markers, read it on yer iPud!

El Reacharound!

I drew this artwork for the new CD from Portland's Audios Amigos! These guys rocked the world famous Kenton Club last weekend for the CD release party, the crowd went nuts! One special highlight was the guest vocals from DJ Hubba Hubba on this Funkadelic cover, check out what you missed, then go see them next time!

Olympia Comics Festival

Oh yass, this Saturday I will be at table #27 in The Olympia Center, alongside Tim Root! We'll have a bunch of T-shirts, minicomics, patches, The Heavy Hand, Hot Schlitzz, Barf Water, Rattlesnake Dick and much much more!
It's the annual Olympia Comics Festival, one of my favorite comics shows! Please come down (free admission to the expo!) & enjoy the day, grab some home made comics & art, say hello!

Stumptown Comics Festival 2012

Hey, Portland comics fans! I will be at booth 211 this weekend, with Revival House Press, Tim Root, Tim Goodyear, and Profanity Hill!

I will have this new X-rated minicomic, Deep Shag Pile (pictured above), and also a new 8 1/2 X 11 anthology zine titled Rattlesnake Dick, featuring contributions from Patrick Keck, Lucas Moseley, Ian Sundahl, Tony Remple, Elliott Drabek, and Ryan Iverson!

I will also have The Heavy Hand, new T-shirts & patches, various older minicomics, and original art & prints for sale. If you have seen some art I have drawn, and would like to purchase the original, please contact me & I'll bring it to the show.

On Sunday, at 2pm, I will be participating in a panel called "The New Underground", along with Max Clotfelter, Farel Dalrymple, Malachai Ward, Zack Soto, Angie Wang, Jason T. Miles, Jesse Moynihan and many more, freely discussing this marginal world of art comics and gag life. It's at the Oregon Convention Center, Saturday & Sunday, please come by and enjoy some comics business & comics baloney!

The Time To Be Happy Is Now

I started a Tumblr! I'll be posting more images over there from my archives, as well as new art & miscellaneous good shitt, click this link & bookmark, or follow, or subscribe or whatever you do...

Sparkplug Comic Books Fundraiser!

Sparkplug Comic Books is raising money to publish the three books that Dylan Williams had in the works before his untimely death. I have donated some small original color drawings as premiums to this effort.
I am eager to hold the new book by Olga Volozova in my hands, so please help make it happen. Dylan sent me some pages from this book when he received them from Olga, he was very excited to share them, and they are great! You must read her blog post celebrating Dylan. He is greatly missed, please lend your support to continue his comics publishing legacy.

Website

Click and bookmark my new website, cccilla.com!
It has my minicomics & original art for sale, and I will be adding more stuff whenever I can, like T-shirts & more artwork...

The Last Slice

This is one of three drawings I have contributed to the March exhibit at Pony Club in Portland, the Pizza Show. Opening night is Thursday March 1st, you had better get down there!

Kramers Ergot #8

It looks like Kramers Ergot #8 is finally hitting the shelves, go ask about it at your local comic shop or bookstore! I have an 8 page story in there alongside awesome cartoonists like Gary Panter, CF, Ben Jones, Johnny Ryan, and more! I think it's a solid issue of good art comix reading, plus some cosmic airbrush & digital art, and Oh Wicked Wanda reprints!
Here's a good review up at The Comics Journal website!

Feast On This

I have a drawing up on the wall at Giant Robot in Los Angeles for their Year of the Dragon show! Giant Robot has great art shows, lots of comics artists. Go check it out!

Puck Comic Party!

Now available! The Italian underground comics magazine PUCK has pulled together 170 artists to draw an exquisite corpsey type jam, and it's done! I am thrilled to follow Rick Altergott & Onsmith, and to have my panels taken after by the legendary Denis Kitchen! The whole book is filled with great gross stuff, not for the easily offended, and all in Italian! I did my own lettering for the translation, no computer fonts for me. Below is a sample of the anteprima booklet that accompanies the magazine; I'm proud to be in such good company.

1995

Back cover to The Diplomat #2, 1995. My copy of a Chinese version of Oh, Wicked Wanda!

1991

Man of the Year