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HERE FOR EVENTS CALENDAR::
7/26/10: Whoa. Whartscape. Thanks to all who came! I'll have pics of my play up soon (hopefully). Check this review of The Regular Man #10 on The Comics Journal!
7/21/10: LOOK AT THESE PUPPETS!! These puppets are tearing shit up. WHARTSCAPE! What will happen?? NOBODY KNOWS! I KNOW! MY PLAY! WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN MY PLAY????
7/11/10: I'M SO EXCITED! LOOK AT THESE PUPPETS!! Come to this art show or you're totally blowing it big time. Me + SHOWBEAST (and possibly me + others!) Opens Thursday, July 15 at the Bunting Center, MICA
And my new play, Getting Nailed Down, will be directed by Ben O'Brien and make it's world debut at WHARTSCAPE, THURSDAY JULY 22 at the CHARLES THEATER. Come to it! It's got an all star cast!! Tickets will be available at the door and advance at whamcity.com
7/8/10: Man it's REALLY REALLY HOT. I'm gonna have video work in this show on Saturday! It's the grand re-opening of Baltimore's beloved Current Gallery and it will be a grand affair. Grand!
6/22/10: New review of Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit on Avoid the Future. BOO YA!
6/6/10: New review of The Regular Man Issues 8&9 on The Comics Journal. BOO YA!
5/22/10: Just uploaded some stuff to the comics page, including Coffee (from Mutant#1) and Help Me Finish This. Check out the completed version of Help Me Finish This by Tehani Harris! Genius! I'd love some more completed versions, definitely download the PDF and send in your results!
5/19/10: Listen, I made some greeting cards. With my friends from the Un Saddest Factory. The title of this project is Two Wrongs Greeting Cards and you can get em through our new etsy store! We have two varieties of sentiment at the moment, with more to come! Are you someone who makes mistakes in life? Then these are the cards for you! See? (p.s. don't worry, they're available in both genders, in case you were wondering about that.)
5/13/10: FIRST OF ALL i hope you've been listening to this podcast because Brian is really pulling out all the stops and you won't be sorry i can 100% guarantee.
Secondly, another local celebrity, Lexie Mountain, has interviewed me and it's up on her blog, Human Pyramids! You can learn all about me and lots of other awesome Baltimorers who are doing great things and making this such a bitching place to live. Thanks Lexie! Thanks Baltimore!
5/5/10: SO: I'll have a big new painting at this show called either No Face No Problem or end.pea.bend.perch or both and either way it's in Toronto on May 20th. It's at DoubleDouble land and if you live anywhere near there you should go and i wish i could go myself. There was talk of skyping me and Lesser in for the opening but i'm not sure if that's happening anymore. But maybe you'll see a giant projection of us eating snacks while staring back at you.
And also i wanted to tell you that i remixed my art for Wicked Eats the Warrior into the art for this cassingle that Nuclear Power Pants just put out called Uh Oh Maxi and it's on Really Coastal and here's what it looks like and i'm listening to it RIGHT NOW and IT SOUNDS GOOD so YOU SHOULD BUY IT!
And in case you were wondering The Regular Man #8 is out and about.
4/22/10: CHECK OUT MY PODCAST! NOW I TOO HAVE A PODCAST! Now, in case you don't have access to the Citypaper or the internet, but somehow have access to podcasts, you will be able to experience my weekly City Paper comic audibly as described and interpreted by my friend, Brian Durel. We hope you will join us as we learn more about each other and ourselves. PODCAST
Also be forewarned that i will have a new minicomic available for FREE in Mutant #1, available at Atomic Books on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: May 1, 2010! Other Mutant #1 contributers include Eamon Espy, Ben Claassen III, Benn Ray, and more others. It's a big free pack of minicomics! What a day!
4/14/10: Fake Heads Anthology! OUT NOW! I'm in it! Even though i'm not in their art collective! Thanks Fake Heads!! Look at this awesome cover by Isam Prado and be convinced. You can see samples and buy this bad boy at fakeheads.com an at the comic book store!
Another thing i'm in that could conceivably be called an "anthology" is this tiny little comic of many pages all about Fleetwood Mac and for some reason called Toot. It can be found in this quarter machine at Cake Shop, NYC. Thanks to Andy Bodor for asking me to be in this like 2 years ago! I can't wait to get one!
4/8/10: Speed Lines is this weekend! Come out on Saturday at 12:30 to see me try to draw a comic panel under while being terrified of onlookers! I'll have books for sale too! More info here!
4/1/10: This is NOT an April Fools Day post and I'm actually pretty embarassed that i didn't participate in any April Fools prank at all today, but that's ok, i get a lot of pranking done on regular days. Anyway, i just wanted to tell you that i'm going to be in New York on the 10th for a 45ft. public exquisite corpse-style collaborative comic that's happening in Washington Square Park care of NYU! It's called Speed Line. Come over and check it out if you wish. More info here!
3/25/10: Ooooo checkitout Rob Clough reviews Regular Man 6 & 7 on The Comics Journal! Thanks Rob!
3/11/10: Pssst The Regular Man #6 & #7 are out now! Available via subscription! Whoooooo
3/9/10: Many updates! Updates updates! Update the 1st: Smoke Signal #4 is available at Desert Island (Brooklyn) and via their online and they have once again given in and included me although to be honest i'm not even totally sure what i have in there. Let's find out together!
Update the 2nd: My book is now for sale on Little Paper Planes! Very excited. Thanks LPP!
Update the 3rd: I've added some close ups of my lil 40 champions guy to the other work page.
Update the 4th: I'm gonna be at this print fair put on by the wonderfuls at Open Space the 27th and 28th! It will be fun i know it and you know it.
I guess that's everything i can think of at the moment! Back to watching The Simpsons incessantly.
2/26/10: Forum of 40 Champions opens tonight 5-9 at the ministillation gallery in the Creative Alliance. Here's a work-in-progress shot of a few of the champions in their natural environment.
2/18/10: HOLY CRAP a guy I don't know named Andrew Gibson got a tattoo of a drawing I did!!!! This is from the back cover of Ball of Design, a wonderful album by my old friends, Dufus. LOOK! IT'S REAL!!!
Oh and also i'll be in this art show at Creative Alliance. Opening reception is Friday, February 26th 5-9. Gamers take note.
2/10/10: I did the cover for the Valentine's Day issue of the Baltimore City Paper this week. WARNING: All the gossip is now long outdated. (click the image below to see a larger version)
2/7/10: Holy crap, checkout this amazing review Rob Clough at The Comics Journal gave The Regular Man! Woo hoo!!!! Thanks! - 2/8/10: On a related note, I also made his top 50 comics of 2009 list! Look for an interview in TCJ at some point . . .
1/25/10: If you have, know, or are a child who enjoys mail, i submit to you: Uncle Envelope. It's a monthly subscription service where kids recieve minicomics, papercrafts, and other cool stuff in the mail and i have the honor of being this February's minicomic artist! Yes, i have actually drawn 16 pages of comics without swear words.
In fact, the dialogue in this comic, titled Help Me Finish This, is only half-there. I have invited the kids to complete the conversations and color or scribble out or finish the comic however they see fit. Hopefully some of them will send me some images of the results (per my request)! I'll be posting said results at importantcomics.com/helpmefinish! Help Me Finish This will be available via Uncle Envelope through February 2010.
In other news, Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit is now available at OK Comics, Leeds, UK. Fancy!
1/15/10: HEY LOOK you can now SUBSCRIBE to The Regular Man! 12 issues delivered about once a month straight to your hot little hands for only $15! Click the link to the left or visit the shop to make it happen. Sadly, this means I will no longer be posting RM issues online. But I WILL be mailing a few to various comic stores around the country, and in fact I just realized that when I went to do just that only moments ago my fly was down the whole time! Great! Anyway, here's a tantalizing peek at Issue 5.
Also note that Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit is now available at Kilgore Books (Denver) and Criminal Records(Atlanta). Yay!
1/13/10: HEY LOOK I'M SYNDICATED!
1/12/10:HEY LOOK I'M A GENIUS!
Thanks to January editor Lauren Bender for giving me an excuse to make outrageous claims.
It may also interest you to know that you can now read issues 1 & 2 of Smoke Signal in their entirety online. What an age we live in!
1/7/10: My palsy-walsy Lizz King is an amazing musician and she's FINALLY putting out her album (it's been six years comin!). Come to the release party at Windup Space tomorrow if you can! Also check this flyer feat. a comic i did of one of her songs:
12/20/09: It's holiday time! That means Baltimas!!!!! The fifth installment of my annual collaborative Christmas album. Suck it up! You can hear past Baltimi at whamcity.com
(if you don't see the embedded player below, click here)
12/7/09: The Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival was rad. Here's a picture of it kind of! and also Smoke Signal #3 is out! Cover by Anders Nilsen and it's FREE and it's by Desert Island, NYC.
11/29/09:Cool review of The Regular Man #4 and other minicomics from SPX on High Low. CHECK IT
11/19/09:Pictures from Funny Games are up on the other work page! Also here are some pictures from Space Jam, which will be up at Union Gallery until December 13th so if you're in the area definitely stop by and play a round of Things Who.
I am really excited about the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival coming up on December 5th! A star-studded event presented by Desert Island and Picturebox, and featuring all the awesomest dudes and also me! It's FREE so you can't really justify not coming. Also the new issue of Smoke Signal will be debuting there. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY RESIST THIS EVENT??? Go here for more info: www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com
poster by charles burns duh
ON THE VERY SAME DAY, I will be showing various videos at the Transmodern Festival 2010 Fundraiser, December 5th at the H&H, Baltimore. Go! Transmodern! Festival! Fundraiser!! It will be hosted in part by my good friend and colleague, Connor M. Kizer. Need I say more?
AND on an entirely different day, specifically December 11th, i'll be showing some animated gifs in this show called Fake Future at the Museum/Gallery/Gallery/Museum in Cincinnati! It's about the future!
11/10/09: I'll have new work in a show at Union Gallery in NYC this weekend. The show's called Space Jam and the opening's Friday the 13th. Come play Things Who in my installation! More info here and here!
Also, Toronto happened and it was pretty nuts. Screaming! Dancing! Vietnemese Food! Thanks, Toronto! Pics and stuff will be up soon on whamcity.com.
10/22/09: Two more art shows coming up in the next couple weeks! Wham City in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Canada) is a 4-day exhibition at the Deleon White Gallery and House of Everlasting Joy in Toronto. There will be a gallery show, theater, lectures, videos, a round-robin show, and a free brunch! Also apparently we will get to watch The Critic! Canada!! click here for more info
AAAAAND the next week I'll have a video and an installation in the window of Union Gallery in NYC. The show is called Space Jam, the opening is November 13th. Come play Guess Who! click here for more info
10/16/09: Funny Games opens at Load of Fun tomorrow! I have 6 new beautiful paintings that will please you to no end, and apparently some other people are also involved. Come on! & go to the show a block away at the Windup Space! Friday night double-header! Sploing!
10/5/09: New shirts! These are all hand-printed on American Apparel 50/50 tshirts, in Men's & Women's cuts. Sizes S, M, L. Check it oooouuuuuut!
10/2/09: Well SPX came and went, and I didn't realize beforehand but Rob Clough from High-Low named me one of his 12 artists to check out! Thanks Rob!