TCAF Roundup

I had a fantastic weekend at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, truly the most diverse and talented line-up of cartoonists at any convention in North America.

I especially enjoyed spending the weekend with fellow Top-Shelfer Matt Kindt who stayed at my place. Matt and have so much in common, and get along so well that and I only wish we lived in the same city. We had fun sketching and drawing together. Here are two of the characters from my upcoming Vertigo series Sweet Tooth. The first is pencilled by Matt and inked by me. The second was pencilled by me and inked by Matt. The results are odd, kind of a mishmash of our styles, but they were lot of fun to do. Check out Matt's blog to see me doing his characters and a few of my drawing that he painted over.

Essex County #12 On Wizard's Top 25 Indie Graphic Novels!

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GET READY FOR TCAF!!

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is next Saturday and Sunday at the Toronto Public Reference Library at Bloor and Yonge. It is without a doubt one of North America's finest and most diverse comic book shows, and is free to the public!

I will be appearing, signing and doing sketches both days and can be found at the TOP SHELF table along with Matt Kindt, Tim Sievert and Brett Warnock,

In addition I am part of an exhibit at The Harbourfront Center running from Friday May 8 to June 21. The exhibit deals with the process of creating graphic novels and will feature displays by myself, Adrian Tomine, and Mariko Tamaki among other international cartoonists.

For more details on this and more vists TCAF's website!

Toronto Comicon This Weekend

I'll be appearing at the Toronto Comicon this weekend, sketching, signing doing commissions etc. I will also have original art for sale as well as preview art from The Nobody and Sweet Tooth.

Other guests include Bill Sienkewicz, Doug Mahnke and Chris Sprouse.

Toronto Comicon
Fan Appreciation Event 2009
April 18-19, 2009
Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building Hall G
222 Bremner Blvd.

Hours
Saturday: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am - 5:00pm

VICTORY AT LAST!

Well, my hockey team The Flying Burritos and I have been playing together for five seasons now, and this weekend we finally overcame our collective demons and emerged as the Exclaim Cup Champions at the Exclaim Hockey Summit of The Arts.



It was a HARD fought tourney with five games played over three days, and we had to beat The Montreal Ninja Tunes, The Bi-Town Billionaires and The Dartmouth Ferries to make it to the Championship game vs. The Gas Station Islanders yesterday. Nerves were high as we took the ice in front of a healthy-sized crowd of friends and family, but in the end we beat them handily 3-1 and claimed the trophy.



I had a strong tournament with 3 goals and 2 assists, and the we had a lot of fun, drank a lot of beer and played a lot of good hockey. Way to go Burritos!

First Look At The Nobody!

Newsarama has posted an exclusive 6-page preview of THE NOBODY!

ART BRUT ALBUM COVER

I recently finished doing the album art and sleeve design for UK band ART BRUT's forthcoming album, Art Brut Vs. Satan.



You can read more about the album and how I hooked up with frontman Eddie Argos here at PITCHFORK MEDIA.

The album is due April 20th.