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August 6, 2014
World of the Leather Space Man 13
New strip up on Hazlitt. Click on the image to read.
August 5, 2014
some ink drawings
20×31 inches, part of a series
August 4, 2014
En Tout Simplicité
Cover for En Tout Simplicité, the forthcoming French translation of Very Casual from Atrabile. They did all the design work on this one.
August 3, 2014
MallNation
Hey, so for the past year, Ryan Sands and I had been working on a cartoon called MallNation that was being optioned by Cartoon Network. We ultimately got as far as finishing the storyboard, but they decided not to move forward with the pilot. It feels pretty crazy that we got as far along in the process as we did, and I always enjoy working with Ryan, who is very patient about fielding the 300 stressed out e-mails I send him a week.
We found out we’re allowed to show artwork from the thing now that it’s been kiboshed, so here’s a brief-run down of what it was about. I’m happy we get to post work from it, so there is now tangible proof that I actually had a good reason for becoming a cranky hermetic shut-in for the past 12 months. Thanks to Phil Rynda, Katie and Curtis and everyone else at Cartoon Network, all our friends who helped us out along the way. Thanks especially to Ryan, one of my closest friends and collaborators. We have a bunch of other weird shit in the works together for next year.
MallNation is about the entire student body of an elementary school getting locked inside of an abandoned shopping mall as punishment for scoring lowest on standardized testing in the country. All the cliques of the school branch off into their different storefronts – the goths take over the arcade, the popular mean girls build a tent city out of expensive textiles in the department store, etc.
The three main characters (above) are all siblings who, on a fluke, were locked in with the rest of the students on their first day of school. Jules is the “responsible” one, Mira is the “punk” one, Davey is a boy with an oversized t-shirt.
Ke Gong-Liu, the jock; Daniel Isherwood, the goth leader; baby Danzig; Sanjay Lash, the hall monitor/mall monitor; Beth, who runs the mean girls
The show would be about the all the kids learning how to live together and get along with each other in this unsupervised, anarchic society. Episodes would feature the children squabbling over territory, exploring weird, uncharted parts of the mall, and working together to build something new and cool out of their situation.
Anyway, here’s some more art from the show bible and cherry-picked images from the storyboard. RIP/Long live MallNation
EDIT: Ryan writes some more about the project on the Youth in Decline blog!
Leather Space Man B-Side
I originally drew this for Hazlitt, but due to some formatting hiccups, it never made it to the site. Figured it was okay to post anyway:
Cats
Couldn’t sleep, drew some cats
August 2, 2014
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