NEWS CRAP

6/28/09: Perhaps you will be interested to know that my play, Sometimes, will once again be staged by the wonderful Sarah Fask on Friday Night at the Baltimore Museum of Art during: WHARTSCAPE

6/23/09: Got some new shirts. My roommate, Connor, put them all on. Except the ones that were way too small.

Check out this completely professional photo shoot!

6/21/09: Just updated the "other work" section with my most recent play, Sometimes, which was recently and beautifully realized by Sarah Fask in the 10-Minute Play Festival. Maybe it will happen again at Whartscape? Who can say.

6/11/09: Hey guess what? I have some comics in this new free comicspaper that's being published by the dudes at Desert Island in Brooklyn! It is appropriately titled Smoke Signal and features 46 artists holy crap! You can get it there for free or order it for the mere price of postage. Plus if you go here you can see an awesome video of machines making it and think about nerdy comic book people going to a factory to videotape their comic being printed.

Beautiful cover drawing by Travis Millard

6/10/09: Here's a bitchin' review from Optical Sloth! Thanks O.S.! O.S. stands for Optical Sloth.

6/9/09: I updated the illustration page and the contact page. Send me a message! Thrilling! How was MOCCA? I was at work.

6/6/09: Thanks to everyone who came out last night! And very thanks to my pals who put on a real spectacle of a comedy show! What a gas!

6/5/09: BOOK RELEASE TONIGHT!! In preparation, check out this really nice and pretty in-depth review of my book on High-Low! Thanks to Rob Clough for all the niceties!

AAAAND the new book is now in stores! CLICK HERE FOR STORE LIST

BOOK RELEASE TONIGHT! SKETCH COMEDY SHOWCASE! COME ON! Plus my book will be for sale at the one-night-only fantastic discounted price of $8.00 even! Yowza! 9PM at the Zodiac for FREEEEE!

AAAAND New Shirts for Sale! I made some new shirts. Once again, these are one of a kind so pick yers fast! STORE

5/30/09: Here's a real nice review of my book on Book By It's Cover! P.S. Come see my play tonight!

5/24/09: My new play, Sometimes, will recieve it's world premier at Reality & Revenge: Green is a Color (A 10 Min. Play Festival) this weekend at the Annex Theater! It was directed by Sarah Fask and stars several delightful associates of mine. More plays written by Benjamin Beast, Lola Pierson, Lexie Mountain, Bob O'Brien, Connor Kizer, Rjyan Kidwell, Erin Gleeson, Anna Fitzgerald, & Evan Moritz and directed by Justin Durel, Ben Pranger, Kaitlin Murphy, Lola Pierson, Connor Kizer, Rjyan Kidwell, Tim Paggi, Matt Wellins, & Evan Moritz! SATURDAY 8PM & SUNDAY NOON ANNEX THEATER = 419 E. OLIVER ST. $5

5/18/09: Hey check out this write-up and interview i did about Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit with Impose Magazine! They are rad dudes, and I'm pscyhed to be in this Purchase College sandwich with Dan & Jeff:

5/11/09: My new book, Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit is now available for pre-order! 42 pages of Aperiodic Comics + previously unseen material, all in a full-color, charming perfect-bound paperback volume! It has an index!

This sucker'll be released June 5th, just in time for summer gift-giving season! More information about that in the future. All pre-orders will be shipped on on May 26th, so you'll get your copy before it's in stores! What an amazing opportunity!!

$12.00 store price includes free domestic shipping & handling!

5/1/09: I been makin' some cartoons. FCBD tomorrow!

4/27/09: I'll have a contribution in Mutant #0, the Free Comic being distributed by Atomic Books this Saturday, May 2nd aka FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! FREE! 3620 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211!

4/26/09: NEW BOOK SOON! Innaugurating in a new era of aperiodic comics, I've finally collected the hits into a self-published book called Important Comics: A Collection of Unquestionable Merit. It'll be released in June, download the press release here!

Also, you need Ed Schrader's latest release,The Choir Inside. It's the 2nd album to be released by Wham City Records and i did the cover art! All of these suckers are individually silkscreened in a limited edition. And if you haven't heard Ed Schrader's music yet you are really wasting your life. I MEAN IT!

4/23/09: NEW BOOK SOON!

4/1/09: Here's an interview on Creative Content i did about Wham City! What an incorrectly structured sentence.

3/26/09: Pictures from So Many Organs are up now. You can look at them.

3/1/09: Thanks to everyone who came out to the Non-Motivational Speaker Series on Thursday! I think it reminded us all of the true power of powerpoint -- update: here's a link to a video of the thing, thanks brian!

And due to popular demand, there are now copies of B and C available in the store again.

2/26/09: I'll be speaking at the Non-Motivational Speaker Series tonight at the Happy Ending Loung in NYC. It's at 8pm and it's free! Also, here's an interview the throwers of this event, Gelf Magazine, did with me.

2/21/09: B and C are now online for reading in video form. I did it that way because i am lazy!

2/19/09: So Many Organs will be open until March 1st! Aha!

2/18/09: New store items! I now have one-of-a-kind tshirts, sweatshirt, & scarf for sale, and also some new 1" pins. Soon I will have a fancy new book too. Check out the store! The first seven (7) orders will receive a weird screenprint/digital comic thing I made for no particular reason! What a deal!

2/16/09: So Many Organs is being extended at the Current Gallery. I'm not sure about the new closing date, but i'll post here when i know!

2/9/09: Penned, an exhibition of pen and/or marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them, will be traveling to Lump Gallery/Projects, NC. March 6 - 28! Come see a receipt I drew on, as well as some other fine drawings. Check out the Penned Flikr page here.

ALSO I will be a speaker at this thing called the Non-Motivational Speaker Series in NYC on February 26th. It's at the Happy Ending Lounge and I think it's free. Come watch me be confused in front of a group of drunk people!

2/6/09: I decided to finally finish the first chapter of my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy project and in glorious celebration I've posted it here. Thrill to it!

1/23/09: So Many Organs is open as of today! The show is definitely strange and I think interesting. Will you agree? Who knows? Current Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday 11-3 pm, opening hang-out Friday, January 30th at 7PM.

1/14/09: Here's some more sketches from So Many Organs:

1/7/08: Hey, I'm havin' an art show with Liz Donadio and Ryan Syrell! It's called So Many Organs, and it's at the Current Gallery from January 23 - February 13. The reception is on the 30th at 7pm and will feature no bands whatsoever. Please note the flyer and description to the left. You might also do well to note the sketch below.

(This is what my big cardboard shapes will look like.)

1/5/09: In order to commemorate this glorious new year, I have constructed an IMPORTANT COMICS FACEBOOK PAGE! Become my fan so I don't feel like complete shit.

AND I just did some scanning so now you can see the specific pages of After Hours Magazine which pertain to me! Download the PDF here! Also, if anyone reads in Japanese, I will send you something nice in the mail if you translate this shit for me!

12/17/08: BALTIMAS!V BALTIMAS!V BALTIMAS!V BALTIMAS!V

11/23/08: There should still be a few copies of The Regular Man Issue 3 lying around Baltimore, although I personally am all out. Here's where you could find em: Atomic Books, El Rancho Grande, The Golden West, Holy Frijoles, & The Charles Theater and maybe garbage cans near those places.

11/10/08: Come see Jurassic Park, it's probably going to be your last chance! Note flyer below and go to whamcity.com tours page for more info. Also you can download the script and just sit at home and read it instead!

11/5/08: The Regular Man Issue 3 is out now. Find it at your local Baltimore free item distribution centers. Or also read it online here and now. It's about how depressed I am! It's free!

10/29/08: Here's some little thing i made while not going out with my friends...

10/29/08: Hi. Sorry I haven't been updating, my computer has been broken and after fixing it, the Apple Store has stolen my power cord and won't give it back. So i remain in a comprimised state. Hopefully my imposing friend Connor and i will be able to wrestle it from their tight little hands tomorrow. Anyway, there's some extra comics in the aperiodic archives to make up for this horrific absence.

10/15/08: Here's some little thing i made while not hanging out with people...

10/3/08: Here's some little thing i made while not watching a movie...

9/30/08: There's no real reason to post this here, but I applied for the Xeric grant and I'm excited to recieve my letter of rejection! If you know or are someone associated with this foundation, give me a grant. You may also give me a non-Xeric-Foundation-related grant. What I'm saying is, I am now accepting donations.

9/26/08: Hey, B and C will be for sale at Desert Island in Brooklyn, NY shortly. It's in the mail! Also i guess i'll be going to SPX next weekend, cause why not right?

9/24/08: Well, everything's going as expected. Locus 5 is out, you can get a copy here. Printed in a limited edition of 300. Read a dorky interview with me and see some real good art by people other than myself! I drew the cover!

9/10/08: HOLY CRAP!! I WON THE COMICS CONTEST! So this means i'll have a year's run of a weekly comic in the Citypaper. One of the judges is quoted as saying, "I expect a lot of people to disagree with this choice." This rules. Thank you, The Citypaper!

8/4/08: HEY LOOKIT: I have some flyers in this awesome book of Baltimore music posters by Baltimore artists. Curated by Elana Johnson! You can get one at the release or pre-order here. Release party at the Creative Alliance Sunday, August 10th w/ music by Beach House, Viking Moses, & Cass McCombs. Everything's coooooooooool.