LIBERTY ANNUAL 2011

On sale today: this year's Liberty Annual, a charity book for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The 2011 issue was edited by Bob Schreck, and he hired me to draw two-pages written by Brandon Montclare. They are in color in the actual printed book, but here is the black-and-white art.

Buy the comic, support a good cause. More info here.

character doodle for upcoming project

For Women of Wonder Day 2011

Created for this year's Women of Wonder event, being held October 30. I will be appearing at Excalibur Comics in Portland from 12 to 6 as part of the day. Stuff is going on all around the country. Check the Women of Wonder site for more detail on this charity endeavor.

SPELL CHECKERS vol. 2 - on sale now! Plus, Portland signing Friday.

Hey, everyone.

Spell Checkers, vol. 2: Sons of a Preacher Man is on sale today. You can buy it at any comics shop, or via Amazon or other book outlets.

I drew the cover and all the flashback pages.



Oni Press has a preview of the first chapter.

The interview with the entire creative team that ran at CBR also has quite a bit of my art in their exclusive preview, which is different than the one at Oni. Check it out here.

Also, Nico and Jamie and I will be appearing at Bridge City Comics in Portland, OR, this Friday!

WHAT: Spell Checkers Vol. 2 Release Party with Jamie Rich, Joelle Jones and Nico Hitori De
WHEN: Friday, September 30 from 6pm - 8pm
WHERE: 3725 N. Mississippi Ave.

Bridge City Comics is proud to announce our Spell Checkers Vol. 2 Release Party on Friday, September 30, 2011 from 6pm - 8pm! This event is free to the public.

In attendance will be the creative team of Portland locals Jamie Rich, Joelle Jones and Nico Hitori De! They will be signing copies of Spell Checkers Vol. 2 but sketches will be left to the discretion of the artists. Come join us for a night of fun, comics, try to stump Jamie Rich at 80's music trivia!

Bridge City Comics will have copies of Spell Checkers Vol. 2 on hand for purchase during the event, as well as a copies of Spell Checkers Vol. 1 and assorted other titles from the creative team.

Bridge City Comics is located at 3725 N. Mississippi Ave in North Portland. Please call 503-282-5484 or e-mail info@bridgecitycomics.com for more information.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

My submission for next year's Monsters and Dames collection put together by Emerald City Comic Con.

Comics Underground - happening tonight!

I will be part of the second Comics Underground reading event happening in Portland, OR, tonight. Come on out!

For those who can't be there, you can read this short questionnaire with me over on the Cosmic Treadmill site.

Comics Underground is a staged reading—only the performers read dialogue from their own comics, with images projected above them. Performers provide their own soundtracks, sound effects, live music—whatever they want, really. It’s in a bar, it’s pretty informal, and the last one featured extemporaneous guitar accompaniment and broken-window sound effects courtesy of a bottle scrounged from behind the bar.

Here’s a bit more info on this edition’s guests:

• Writer Jamie S. Rich and artists Joëlle Jones and Nicolas Hitori De collaborate on the Oni Press-released mean-teen-witch comic Spell Checkers. They’ll be reading from the new volume, and Rich will also present some autobiographical work.

• Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has worked on a number of Marvel Comics titles, including the well-received Osborn miniseries. She’ll be presenting a comic from a recent anthology about New York venue CBGB, published by Boom! Studios.

• Artist Natalie Nourigat is a member of Periscope Studio and creator of Between Gears and Over the Surface. She’ll be reading some original autobiographical comics.

• Greg Rucka has written Stumptown, Whiteout, Queen & Country, The Punisher, and much more—as of right this moment, he hasn’t decided yet what he’ll be reading, but we’re pretty sure he’ll pull together something great.

New MADAME XANADU commission