Little Boxes

Meili and I started watching Weeds. It's a neat little escape fantasy for suburban drones like ourselves. Anyway, they started a bit of a musical meme with their opening song, Little Boxes, sung by Malvina Reynolds with her cute yet aged voice. Starting in the second …

More Newsies

Jon hit me up with some great reference photos, so I'm still tryin to get a feel for newsboy look - for a character who likes to go by the name, Kid Houdini.

Newsies

I'm brushing the cobwebs away, and starting some sketching again. Had a great weekend. Went to a Cloud Cult concert and met up with fellow webcomicker Tim Godek. Great music, great company, couldn't ask for better. Had some bar-b-ques, did yardwork, burned logs and fed …

Murder Ballad

I took the guitar out of retirement and tried mixing together some banjo/guitar stuff, and a song ended up writing itself. I made a murder ballad!

http://fabricari.com/music/murder-ballad.mp3

Here're the lyrics:

well, i'm the right man for this job
it really dun't matter …

Put Put

This morning I got to watch my son take his first ride on the bus to school. Dang, hard to believe how time flies. I have a lot of reasons to be happy, I just so seldom post it because I'm usually out living, instead of writing. This weekend we went Island hopping from …

Sketchbook: Vintage French Girl

Sometimes wish I had the patience to shade properly. (click to enlarge)

Fabricari: Ad Hoc, Still Available from Lulu

Howdy folks! I'm just about to unveil a new book on you all, but before I do, I wanted to drop a reminder that I'm still selling Fabricari: Ad Hoc for only 10 bucks. It's discounted to help you cover some of that ridiculous shipping. (Although, if you ship via Media …

Sketchbook: Surplus - A Book of Drawings

I have a new book available from Lulu today. It's 72 page collection of sketches and illustrations - mostly the finished stuff I drew while airing the webcam. This is probably the most eclectic collection of art I've ever produced. Included is a wide range of themes; …

Chris Arrant's Four Stories

A little while back I received a copy of Chris Arrant's mini-anthology in return for a promise to review it after I'd read it. Seems liked like a fair deal, so here goes.



Four Stories is a collection of, well, four stories written by Chris Arrant (

Purge!

I figure, while things are under contruction here, it's as good a time as any for blog purge! I'm rearranging the site to accommodate a better comics archive system, as I'm starting to diversify and draw more types of comics.

More Thoughts on Blog Purge

Over the last 3 years, this site documented a lot of my own emotional roller-coaster ride, fits of depression, and creative surges. As Adam and I knocked out page after page of Fabricari, Ad Hoc, I found myself wound up in the frenzy of self-promotion and hype. And …

Fabricari at 2007 Wizard World Chicago

Now that your "San Diego Comic Con" food coma has subsided, I can let y'all know the details about the 2007 Wizard World Chicago comic con! This will the first time I've exhibited at a larger comic con in years, my first in Chicago, so I'm actually pretty excited about …

Stickam

Enough of this funk, I have a script and a sketchbook. I'm gonna fire up the web cam and get some drawing done.

Jump-Starting the Sketchbook

I gotta admit, this holding pattern I'm in is killing my creativity. I'm in a terrible terrible funk. Of course, the only way out of it is to force myself to draw something, anything. I just finished a half dozen of what are probably my best pages ever. Usually I'd be …

Sketch, Hunter

Justin sent me a short postcyberpunk script to keep me busy between scenes on The Mystic, so I was warming up to the genre with this sketch. Again, I'm forcing myself to drop in the ink even on these doodles. Those little bubbles are supposed to be little mite clouds. …

Bang Barstal Guest Art

My buddy William is going on vacation and needed some filler art to post on his webcomic, Bang Barstal. I really dig the absurdity of this series, so, of course, I just had to draw something up.

Sketches from Wizard World Chicago

I had a grand old time in Chicago at the comic con. I met a lot of artists, hung out with friends, found some great new books and art, and drew some sketches:

I'm stealing this from my son.

Sketchbook: Lizard Monster

Banjo Frailin'

I think this is the first time I've got that frailing with the drone string down properly: http://www.fabricari.com/music/frail-n-wail.mp3

Don't worry, no singing, just harmonica for melody. :)