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Haiyan benefit sale/auctions

I also contributed some work for these eBay auctions that Rina Ayuyang is running, the proceeds of which are being donated to the American Red Cross for Typhoon Haiyan relief. There’s some incredible work up for auction from a pretty wide range of creators.

My lot is a stack of comics, zines and anthologies from the past few years. A lot of these comics are out of print and some of them were only printed in editions of 50 or 100. Included are:

Lose #1, 2, 3, 4

kus # 7, 12 (anthology)

Cold Heat Special #7

Flu Drawings

Loose #2, 4 (sketchbook zine)

Cody

Famous Walls (silkscreen zine – from 2008 or 2009)

Incinerator

Gags (xerox zine from 2008 or 2009)

Open Country #1, 2 (serial that I abandoned midway through, destroyed all the artwork for and then threw away all the unsold copies of, except for these two)

Drawing Restraint catalogue (gallery catalogue from a show I participated in while I was in high school – featuring work from Shary Boyle, Royal Art Lodge, Pablo Pudlat, others)

Spotting Deer

SM

Horrible #1 (Zach Worton, Patrick Kyle, Chris Kuzma and Michael DeForge)

I’m also including a finished sketchbook I drew in over the course of a few months. I’ll rip out all the embarrassing pages before I send it. I normally throw my sketchbooks out, so here is rare a chance to own one in all its food-stained glory.

I’ve seen a few people on eBay try to sell a few of the comics in this lot for much higher than any of them are worth – I’d much prefer you bid on an auction like this, which is going to a cause that’s important to me, than to hand over your money to some other creep. So yeah, bid here.

I also have two pieces up for sale at my friend Krystle’s Sari Sari for Yolanda event this Saturday. Each drawing is 8.5×11. The event runs 5 – 10 pm at the Drake Hotel.

I don’t generally like putting up original art up for sale, but I get questions about it from time to time – this auction and the Sari Sari event will be one of the few opportunities to buy any of that sort of thing from me.

more Lose 6

The Pit title card

design for the title card for the Adventure Time episode “The Pit”. Nick Jennings painted the finished version here!

World of the Leather Space Man 4

Read the newest instalment of “World of the Leather Space Man” on Hazlitt

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 32

Every week

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Ant Colony bookplate

Stranger cover

The Stranger used an image from First Year Healthy for their cover this week

lose 6 page

warm up

Comic Arts Brooklyn

 

So this weekend I’ll be tabling at Comic Arts Brooklyn!

Mt. Carmel Church

275 N. 8th St

Brooklyn, NY 11211

November 9th 2013

11 AM to 7 PM

I’ll be between the Wowee Zonk and Koyama Press tables and will have a bunch of new comics for sale there.

The big news is that preview copies of Ant Colony will be available for purchase at the Drawn and Quarterly table! The book doesn’t properly get released until January, so if the world explodes in December, this will be your only chance to hold a physical copy of the book. I’ll also be signing with Lisa Hanawalt at the D+Q table between 2 and 3 pm. All the other D+Q festival info is here!

Other debuts I’m bringing with me are

Ant Colony Trading Cards

Kid Mafia #4

Loose #4

Loose #5

Flu Drawings

Not quite a debut but still sort of fresh will be Butler Comic #1 and Rain Comic #1 by me, Patrick Kyle and Mickey Zacchilli. I think I also have a comic in the new Smoke Signal issue, which I’ve heard is dropping then also.

Unfortunately, the collaborative drawing zine that P Kyle and I made for Perish Press didn’t get printed in time.

I’ll also be participating on this panel discussion:

Discussion:  The New Generation: What We Like

The Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Saturday November 9th, 12:30 PM, free

Moderated by Columbia University’s librarian for ancient and medieval history and comics Karen Green, four upcoming artists—Michael DeForge, Lisa Hanawalt, Joe Lambert & Katie Skelly—discuss specific works that inspired them to become cartoonists.

In it, you’ll hear me drop mind blowing revelations like, “Dan Clowes was an influence” or “I enjoyed Peanuts as a child.”

Afterwards, I will be skipping the official after party singing karaoke at an undisclosed location. See you there unless the plane I’m about to board crashes into the ocean bye!