True Holiday Disasters

Here's my cover to this week's Riverfront Times. It's an opener to the annual holiday comix issue (read it here).

Sketch and alternate idea:

Happy Holidays! Stay safe out there!

Civic Duty

Tomorrow night (Friday, Nov. 16th 2012) I'm in this show opening at the Northside Workshop in St. Louis. It's called "St. Louis: A Collective Declaration" and is a show of banners / reimagined city flags by 18 locals printmakers.  It was my first attempt at screenprinting on clear acetate, and the results are interesting, I think. That is a white kitten fur static clung / embedded in that tentacle.

How Coffee Works!!!

!!! Here's an infographic (click above  to enlarge) I made about one of my favorite things for The University of Michigan's college of Literature, Science & The Arts magazine, the Spring 2012 "Food" issue.

I got to reuse a bunch of caffeine-addled research I did for last year's How Coffee Works / US Patent #597.7311.143 print.

The magazine's color palette:

2 possible graphic directions:

The blueprint sketch, which ended up being sort of a composite of the 2 ideas:

Lineart:

Final art in the magazine !!! Let's all go get some coffee.

 

Famous Fictional: Places & Things! Screenprint

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Famous Fictional: Places & Things opening last Friday night at Mad Art Gallery. It was really fun. Pic's of all the amazing art to come soon! Here's some nitty-gritty behind the poster. Sketches & Ink tests:

Final Digital Art:
Final three-color Print:

Detail:

Land Between the Lakes Sketchbook Nov. '12