I spent most of the day designing & illustrating a cover for the zine that I’m making with the students at my residency at Roosevelt High School. 

You can read more about the project in the post I wrote over at my blog. 

paperalligator:

Better get my signing hand ready to edition these prints for the St Johns Bizarre this weekend!

Check it out! Meg did a bang up job with these prints. 

Little peek at some illustration work I am doing this week.

As you can see, I need to dust my scanner. 

I forgot that May is Asian Heritage Month! Here’s a piece I did for the Asian Reporter for their Heritage issue that came out today.

Again, more Photoshop fun using shapes and as little line as possible. 

I did this illustration for OHSU magazine back in February. It was the first time I had knocked out all my lines in an illustration. I’ve been playing around with that more with my Photoshop experiments, but when I did this image, I inked the drawing like I normally do and then colored the lines in while  I was coloring the piece in Photoshop. It was a pain in the butt, but I like how it turned out. 

I’ve included what it looked like without the linework knocked out to give you a sense of how different the illustration looks. 

fancyscrams:

I was fortunate enough to get a spot on the BARTKIRA project (details here) (also, tumblr tag). Slow going so far, but I wanted to post this behemoth panel I finished pencilling yesterday.  As happy as I am with how it turned out, my arm still feels like it’s going to fall off.

Concern for life of limb doesn’t get pages drawn though.  More to come!

Whoa! Mr. Rainey dusts off his drawing tools and does good! Looking great!

faitherinhicks:

Guys I will be at Stumptown Comic Festival this weekend!!! I’m very excited, so excited! (And slightly nervous. Am I cool enough for Stumptown? Probably not but whatever!)

I will be at table O01 and will have some things for sale, copies of Friends With Boys, Bigfoot Boy and The Adventures of Superhero Girl. I may have original artwork and prints, but I’m not sure at this point. Depends on what I can fit in my luggage. I would be happy to sign/draw in any books you bring with you. Dark Horse Comics will have copies of The Last of Us: American Dreams issue #1 for sale, and also additional copies of Superhero Girl. 

Here’s my schedule:

Saturday:

2pm- Signing with Dark Horse at the Dark Horse booth. Bring whatever books you want, and there will be copies of The Last of Us:American Dreams #1 there.

Room B111, 3-3:45pm

Making Comics for Love & Money

Transitioning from making comics as a hobby to a full time job is a terrifying journey Faith Erin Hicks made over 5 years ago. Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl) and fellow artist Becky Cloonan will share what they have learned while making that transition, the importance of art related day jobs, making comics for yourself, the enduring question of art school, attracting editors, and what you might have to give up to make comics your career. 

(Me n’ Becky, talkin’ up some comics, aw yes.)

Sunday, Room B111, 3-3:45pm

Looking Past the Target Audience: Gender, Race, and Geek

Conflicts over exclusion, and identity politics, and what makes a “real” geek have exploded into the mainstream media. Creators, curators, community leaders, and critics on the front lines including Rachel Edidin, Andy Khouri, Scotty Iseri, David Walker, Faith Erin Hicks, and Sfé M. examine the fight over geek identity and barriers to diversity in geek communities and media; and propose concrete steps toward a diverse and inclusive geek culture. 

(I hope to be educated a bit by this panel! Should be interesting.)

Please come say hi to me! Who else will be there?

Ahhhh! I’m so excited to meet Faith in person! And all of the panels she’s on look so great! It is going to be an amazing Stumptown this year folks!