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  1. MARS!

    MARS (a play about mining) has come and gone, sold out for all three nights at the Center for Performance Research. Thanks to Superhero Clubhouse for the opportunity, and to Ray Jones and Clay Rodery for participating.


  2. This. This.
brianmichaelbendis:

Snoopy by Moebius.
This. This.
brianmichaelbendis:

Snoopy by Moebius.
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    This. This.

    brianmichaelbendis:

    Snoopy by Moebius.

    (Source: oncomics, via theairtightgarage)

  3. Name: Clothes
    Artist: Abigail Kiser

    Everything is better with a soundtrack. The multimedia Superhero Clubhouse show MARS: A Play About Mining will include live music, and this track is a demo recorded as part of the process. So, as Clay Rodery, Ray Jones and I continue to work on the art for the projections we’re receiving a stream of insight into what everyone else are working on, which makes it pretty impossible to run into a creative block. Enjoy, and check for tickets to go on sale. The show will be open for just a few days in March.

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    This week I received a package from Joonhee Lee: catalogues from Kookmin University Museum’s Conversation II, 2012 International Young Artists exhibit. My piece, based on the relationship between Shere Khan and Mowgli in Kipling’s The Jungle Book, is on page 34.

    Thanks to Joon for the opportunity to exhibit.

    From the introduction by Choi Tae Man, director of the museum: “By just fastening up the collections by treating them as antiquities of the past, the museum cannot be said to have fulfilled the role of a museum that the modern society requires. This is why not only the academic investigation study on the historical meanings of the collections are important but the efforts to socialize them are needed … a meaningful attempt to demolish the boundary between life and art through new artworks that have been interpreted modernly.”


  5. Logos set the tone, and this project has a little of everything, so I created this in the hopes of keeping it all open to us: fantasy, history, space travel, coal dust, and comics.
Superhero Clubhouse is known for producing plays with a strong environmental message. The live-action, multimedia performances of Mars: A Play about Mining, inspired by the cultural history of Appalachia and the future race to inhabit Mars, will start March 2013 at the Center for Performance Research and will incorporate traditional narrative, modern dance, live music, and projections.
Creative team:Tom Coiner — playwrightJeremy Pickard — directorAdam Miller — composerAdam Weinert — choreographerme — graphic artist Logos set the tone, and this project has a little of everything, so I created this in the hopes of keeping it all open to us: fantasy, history, space travel, coal dust, and comics.
Superhero Clubhouse is known for producing plays with a strong environmental message. The live-action, multimedia performances of Mars: A Play about Mining, inspired by the cultural history of Appalachia and the future race to inhabit Mars, will start March 2013 at the Center for Performance Research and will incorporate traditional narrative, modern dance, live music, and projections.
Creative team:Tom Coiner — playwrightJeremy Pickard — directorAdam Miller — composerAdam Weinert — choreographerme — graphic artist
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    Logos set the tone, and this project has a little of everything, so I created this in the hopes of keeping it all open to us: fantasy, history, space travel, coal dust, and comics.

    Superhero Clubhouse is known for producing plays with a strong environmental message. The live-action, multimedia performances of Mars: A Play about Mining, inspired by the cultural history of Appalachia and the future race to inhabit Mars, will start March 2013 at the Center for Performance Research and will incorporate traditional narrative, modern dance, live music, and projections.

    Creative team:
    Tom Coiner — playwright
    Jeremy Pickard — director
    Adam Miller — composer
    Adam Weinert — choreographer
    me — graphic artist

  6. Cyber-bully vector cartoons

    Earlier in the year I donated some vector/logo sketches to a company working to educate teachers about how to handle cyber-bullying. They’re meant to function broadly, so the content is generalized and the style is clean enough to be applied to different things at different sizes. I kind of want to recycle this first guy, below. He’s kind of the sad, classic bulldog. Had to do it once.


  7. Michael DeForge makes me feel ashamed for not keeping sketchbooks, for zoning out, for getting distracted. Why does his artwork make me feel like I should be exercising? Something to do with the energy level careening from it. 
kingtrash:

The new issue of Lucky Peach has a feature where different artists reinterpret the Chinese takeaway box. Here’s my contribution
Michael DeForge makes me feel ashamed for not keeping sketchbooks, for zoning out, for getting distracted. Why does his artwork make me feel like I should be exercising? Something to do with the energy level careening from it. 
kingtrash:

The new issue of Lucky Peach has a feature where different artists reinterpret the Chinese takeaway box. Here’s my contribution
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    Michael DeForge makes me feel ashamed for not keeping sketchbooks, for zoning out, for getting distracted. Why does his artwork make me feel like I should be exercising? Something to do with the energy level careening from it.

    kingtrash:

    The new issue of Lucky Peach has a feature where different artists reinterpret the Chinese takeaway box. Here’s my contribution

  8. What if Le Petit Prince were a real boy? I think he would let it swing in the wind, à la In the Night Kitchen. What if Le Petit Prince were a real boy? I think he would let it swing in the wind, à la In the Night Kitchen.
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    What if Le Petit Prince were a real boy? I think he would let it swing in the wind, à la In the Night Kitchen.

  9. On Narrating

    This is nice.

    templetontwins:

    Anyone can tell a story.  And doesn’t one’s heart sink upon hearing a person described as “a storyteller”?  I know mine does.  That is what inspired me then, and it is what inspires me now: to offer the world an alternative to storytelling, in the form of narrating.  You naturally agree with this, I’m sure.

    (via chroniclebooks)

  10. Yesterday I found out that my friend and former classmate Brendan Leach just won the 2012 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for Pterodactyl Hunters, released by Top Shelf. I read it in 2010 and loved it then. I love it now. I even wrote the back jacket copy for it.
Read more about it at SVA’s MFAI blog and see the full list of nominees from the Small Press Expo.
Preview/buy the comic here!
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Read more about it at SVA’s MFAI blog and see the full list of nominees from the Small Press Expo.
Preview/buy the comic here!
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    Yesterday I found out that my friend and former classmate Brendan Leach just won the 2012 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for Pterodactyl Hunters, released by Top Shelf. I read it in 2010 and loved it then. I love it now. I even wrote the back jacket copy for it.

    Read more about it at SVA’s MFAI blog and see the full list of nominees from the Small Press Expo.

    Preview/buy the comic here!