So, METRO Magazine chose me as one of their 2012 Keepers. It’s very flattering, and I think I’m the first comic book artist they’ve ever chosen for the award, so that’s pretty cool. They also asked me to do small comic strips about all the other winners, which you can find over on their web site. I figure I’ll post them here at some point, but for right now, head over there to check them out.

Also, please check out the work of all the other Keepers:

• Stephen Yoakam
• Tu Dance
• Amanda Natzel
• Marlon James
• Anne Ulku
• Is/Is

It’s a really cool and talented group, and to be considered among their ranks is really an honor. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the editors of METRO figure out that they consfused me with someone else…

I’ve been working for the last week or so on stuff that I can’t really share yet. BUT! I am also trying to learn video editing, so I took a little break today to whip up the video above. I’m a die-hard Planet of the Apes junky, so I thought I’d try my hand at pairing one of the best movie moments of the year with one of the worst movie moments of all time…

Anyway, I should be able to post about some of those mystery projects in the coming weeks.

Happy New Year’s!

 

We are now open for business! I’ve started to put some print comics for sale up on the store page. And by some I mean just one. Hum. It’s my newest, and I think it might be my best, (but maybe not…). Anyway, head over to the official in absentia press store to buy a copy. More books will be posted for sale as they become available. Cha-CHING!

My newest comic, Hum, is now up to read! I decided to make it available in PDF format, since it was intended for print, and I didn’t want to mess up the spread layouts just to turn it into some sort of HTML5000 future proof web comic thing. But, yeah, head over to hum.inabsentiapress.com to check it out.

So I’m a few days late in posting about this, but the crew over at Fancy Pants Gangsters were out at MIX last month, and they compiled a whole ton of great interviews with a whole host of great creators from Minneapolis. I’m in part two, but if you dig comics, self-publishing and supporting a local scene, check out as many of the interviews as you can tolerate! You can find them all here.

The image above is really just a detail of a work in progress. More on that later…