Giant Robot Group Show

This Saturday I'll be showing with three other awesome artists at the GR gallery in the East Village. I'll have a combo of super new and recently made prints, totalling to 14. A huge thanks to Mark Gilson and Eric Nakamura for including me in this, and helping me out with all my questions. All the info is on the postcard below. Stop by and say hello!! Do it!

New Prints!

Gallery Nucleus just put up two new prints! (Also added to the site are some sweet new James Jean prints.) Thanks to Kevin, whose last name I don't know!

Book City Jackets

Book City Jackets just released their 3rd edition of artist book covers, which has one of my images on it. Just in time for the holidays! Thanks to Jeremy Schwartz for putting it all together.

Cincinnati Magazine

I've been a blogging fiend this month!! Just barely met another deadline yesterday for the December issue of Cincinnati Magazine -- 3 simple spot illustrations for an article about pesky bugs. They will appear in the magazine in the style of trading cards(think Garbage Pail Kids), listing fun facts in various categories.

The bugs they chose were head lice, bed bugs, and crab lice. Though the research for crab lice was less than pleasant, I loved the concept of the whole thing. And on the plus side, I already knew a ton about bed bugs, being a Brooklyn resident and all. Thanks to AD Grace Saunders and writer Ian Aldrich, for giving me the challenge of cutening up these little critters. (I do wish I had taken more time to think about the colors, but I guess sometimes you just have to live and learn that salmon = no.)

Bed Bug:


Head Lice:


Crab Lice:
(Supposedly all the Beach Boys had them in 1963. Unfortunately, my Beach Boys/Pube Lice sketch was not chosen.)


6.5 x 10 Woodcut, ink

McSweeney's

Last week I was asked to make an illustration for the upcoming McSweeney's Quarterly, accompanying a letter by Zev Borow. I've been a big McSweeney's fan for a while, so this was an extra-great assignment, even though it was a fast turnaround -- Friday to Sunday, from sketch to finish. So that was pretty much my weekend(that and watching Rosanne Barr get sweet revenge in "She Devil"). The issue comes out next month, and will take the form of a full-scale newspaper. More info can be found on their website. Major thanks to Brian McMullen for contacting me. It was tons-o-fun to make, and I got to try out a new technique!

Sketch:
(It makes more sense in context, I swear.)


Final:


10x17 Woodcut

Ridiculously limited editions of 3 in the black outline and 2 in brown.

Der Freitag

Just finished 3 prints for a special illustration-heavy issue of Der Freitag, a publication based in Berlin. It will be distributed at the Franfurt Book Fair and Illustrative Festival this week.

The deadline was pretty tight: 3 pieces from sketch to finish, in under 48 hours! I liked the challenge, but it did feel extremely rushed. (In the future, it would be great if someone is around to stop me when I decide it is a good idea to start carving a German village at 3 in the morning.) The subject matter was China(the guest of honor at this year's fair) and the growing status of its publishing industry --- popular translated literature, cheap/bootleg books, etc. Which = pandas reading things. Thanks to Janine Sack and Corinna Koch for including me in this project.






Too lazy to put sizes. Woodcut.

(Also, for anyone who is interested AND Spanish-speaking, here is a brief interview with the nice folks over at My Buffer Guest, a Barcelona e-zine.)

The Believer

Hey! The October issue of The Believer is finally out, which includes 8(?) of my black and white illustrations. Big, big thanks to Andrew Leland for running all the pieces and putting up with my constant badgering. (And thanks also to Ed Park for helping me badger.) It's really awesome to see the work next to Charles Burns and Tony Millionaire's drawings, as well as Louis C.K.'s offensive ranting. Go pick up a copy, or see the images for free here. Or see them for free in a bookstore! Plenty of possibilities.



Other life things that have happened in the past month:
-Moved to a new apartment in Bed-Stuy. (No more treehouse)
-Started the new school year of Little Dumplings, a preschool I teach at in the UWS.
-Witnessed my cat transform into a bloodthirsty mouse-catcher.

Currently:
-Working on new series of prints for an upcoming show
-Eating mooncakes

And also:
MSHVB artwork appears randomly on iPod ads?