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!

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!

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!

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...

1995

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

1991

Man of the Year

Kiss

Planetary Motion VII

Planetary Motion VI

Planetary Motion V

Planetary Motion IV

Planetary Motion III

Planetary Motion II

Planetary Motion I

Nice To Meet You

Hello blog followers! I'd like to remind everyone that is attending the Small Press Expo this weekend to consider voting for my book The Heavy Hand in the Ignatz Awards (category Outstanding Graphic Novel), I would appreciate it!
Also, The Heavy Hand will be for sale at Tom Neely & J.T. Dockery's table, H10, along with other Sparkplug Comic Books Ignatz nominees.
The Expo website has added previews of the Graphic Novel nominees if you'd care to take a look.

Guitar Solo

I have contributed a painting (not pictured here) to the September show at Pony Club gallery in Portland. The show is curated by Emily Nilsson, and the FaceBook page for the show is at this link. The opening is Thursday Sept.1st, from 6 to 10, please come down and take a look, you won't want to miss Tim Goodyear's Neil Diamond triptych!
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The Heavy Hand was selected as a Midnight Fiction Favorite for 2011! There is also some mention of Tim Root & myself tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium in the regular part of the website. Thanks Richard Krauss for the write up!
Over at the Comics Journal blog, Dan Nadel gives an endorsement to The Heavy Hand in his list of recommended Sparkplug Comic Books to purchase. He calls The Heavy Hand "One of my absolute favorite graphic novels of the last few years. Fucking brilliant and damned brave. Essential to any comics library. Seriously." Thanks, Dan!

Space Legs Half & Half Junk Odyssey

Long time no blog; I was on vacation & came home to some comics deadlines, but now I'm back, with some good news! My book The Heavy Hand was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel! I'm truly excited to be selected from among all the great comics out there these days. Thanks to the nominating committee, and if you attend the Small Press Expo, please vote for The Heavy Hand!
Also, check out a couple of links: Sean T. Collins reviews The Heavy Hand on his website, and Brett Warnock gives his thumbs-up on the Top Shelf blog! Thanks a lot for the good words, guys.

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UPDATE!
My friend Jacob Schraer has posted a notice of my Ignatz nomination, and I gave him a Hot Dog Holiday strip to accompany the promotional linkfest, click & check it out!

Idertification Card

Henry Chamberlain has reviewed The Heavy Hand at the GeekWeek site, go check it out!
I am going on vacation, so no posts for a short while, and orders will be on hold temporarily. Thanks to everyone that has been checking the blog & ordering my stuff! Above are some sketches from my last trip to Japan in 2007.