CHLOE - BIg Update

For a number of reasons, I've decided to post the rest of CHLOE online in a single update. The entire 132 page graphic novel is now available for free! Nonetheless, you are encouraged to buy a copy of the actual book and help me continue drawing comics! Enjoy!

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - THE END

I believe this is the last page of the book. I may change the artwork for this page for the print edition. I haven't decided for certain. Let's wait until we get there.

I'll be spending the next few months preparing the book for the color edition to be released this Spring from Fantagraphics Books! I'll also be focusing on some top-secret side projects and commissions. 

Despair not : I do have more C&E stories planned. I am also outlining another graphic novel. I may also attempt tackling Ectopiary again. Who knows what I'll do? 

Thank you all for your attention. Please buy the book when it comes out, and tell your friends. Treat each other with compassion and think for yourselves!

My best to you all!

CHLOE - Page 106

This does occur.

FANGORIA REVIEWS THE SQUIRREL MACHINE

A surprisingly lucid review of my book by Fangoria Magazine. My twelve-year-old-self is thrilled!

Book Signing, October 6

On Sunday, I'll be participating in this book signing event put together by my favorite comic shop, The Million Year Picnic.

Event runs all weekend from 10am - 6pm. I'll be there at 2 o'clock. The location is Harvard Book Store Warehouse, 14 Park Street, Somerville, Ma. More info can be obtained at: http://www.harvard.com/events/summer_warehouse_sale/

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 65

Some ingrates can only grumble.

CHLOE - Page 105

Kids say the darndest things.

MORE PENCILS

Here are some more pencils from the current C&E story-line, and some side projects. I've been thinking about setting up a page on my website and selling these for $10 each. Anybody interested in buying one?

COCHLEA & EUSACHIA - Page 64

Here is the latest page of my comic. My apologies.

CHLOE - Page 104

For some, television is an excellent social lubricant.

PRELIMINARY PENCILS of C&E

To decrease costs and tighten my comic pages, I've taken to pencilling the figures and other elements separately on cheap xerox paper, then using a light-box to transfer them onto the more expensive drawing paper before inking. As a result, my room has become cluttered with loose sheet of paper with pencil drawings of bald C&E's in a variety of poses. 

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 63

Surprisingly, I managed to complete this page on time. It didn't turn out as well as I hoped. I think it will work better in color. Let's wait and see.

CHLOE - Page 103

I don't think I ever got along this well with my own father.

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 62

Regular updates are back. However, the next page may take two weeks before posting. You will see why.

CHLOE - Page 102

Chili is easy to draw when you're in a rush.

Developing Pimwit's Resurrection

Work on the house has momentarily ceased, so I am currently working on the next page of C&E. In the meantime, here are some scans of pencil sketches Pimwit's revenge-suit.

SQUIRREL MACHINE Softcover Edition Back On The Shelves

My indescribable and strange novella graphique THE SQUIRREL MACHINE is available once again! You are hereby required to buy at least one copy immediately! Rush out to your local comics merchant or order one here!

THIS

This is the reason why comics production will be slow for the next few weeks. My father's run-down shack (which I currently occupy) needs some work which cannot be ignored. I hope to get it done before September.  Between this and my crappy day-job, I will have little opportunity to sit at my drawing board for a little while. Please have patience, friends, while my own is being dwindled.

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 61

This is why you should never piss off the wrong people.

CHLOE - Page 101

Sprung from the tiny nut-house into the larger one. The first panel from this page apparently inspired the tattoo posted below.  Due to my poor record-keeping skills, I no longer have the name of the person  who got this tattoo. If he/she is reading this now, perhaps they will speak up and resolve this mystery?

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 60

My dying computer and internet problems delayed posting this update last week. I am particularly proud of this page. I hope you like it, too.

CHLOE - Page 100

It just occurred to me that in all of my graphic novels, the main character vomits at least once during the course of the narrative. Perhaps it's a natural response to being cast in a comic by Hans Rickheit.

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 59

This is how I perform all of my home-surgery.

CHLOE - Page 99

Is that what it looks like?

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 58

I can never find my own stapler when I need it.

CHLOE - Page 98

EST-induced hallucinations may be in vogue among your friends, but I urge you to JUST SAY NO.

C&E FAN ART by NICK MULLINS

Nick Mullins is one of my favorite living cartoonists. I find it inexplicable that no publisher has released a collection of his work. I am very grateful to have received this wondrous illustration. I urge you to visit his blog www.nijomu.com immediately!

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Page 97

My own hearing problem causes me to frequently ask people to repeat themselves. I don't understand why they get so offended sometimes.