I won first place in the annual ACP cartooning awards' comic strip / panel category!

Some of you may recall that this is the contest I second'd last year (behind William Warren, who also won the Charles M. Schulz award that I was a runner-up for last year).  I feel like I'm getting some closure this time around!

Also, big congrats to SCAD's student newspaper, The District, and everyone who helped to earn it a National Newspaper Pacemaker Award this year!  Well deserved.

Tales to Shock, and to Astound, and to Excite, etc.

By now, hopefully you've noticed that I've overhauled the blog--it's been a long time coming and I've finally had the time to make some of the changes I'd been wanting.

Some of you will invariably add yourself to the ranks of friends who have made sure to note that I am not quite this buff.  Well, we all need something to aspire to!  Now go take a flying leap.

Here's an alternate version of the display text on the header.  Magenta is just BETTER.

I've been learning Dreamweaver and am preparing to jump into the deep end and finally get my official, "real" website finished.  Not positive exactly how I want things to look yet, but I've been scouring the internets for information and mentally swiping all sorts of cool stuff that other, more talented artists have been doing.  I'm excited!

Bucking Up, South Style

Those of you who are in Savannah (or the Georgia area) should go check out the most recent issue of The South Magazine! Find out how to face terrors such as Caulrophobia (fear of clowns) and Trolleophobia (fear of being trapped behind a Savannah tourist trolley).

For those of you who aren't, The South's website is nice enough to let you peruse each issue in PDF form--check the link at the bottom left of the page. The emboldening begins on page 44. Why, yes, I have been waiting for some time to use that word.

At the Center of the World,There's a Statue of a Girl

Today has been a day.

Plans have a way of not working out, sometimes.  I guess all there is to do is make new ones.

Mean Old Levee; Taught Me How to Weep and Moan

A friend of mine from SCAD, Pranas Naujokaitis, just got screwed over real bad:

Inkdick (c) Pranas Naujokaitis

You can read all about it (as well as all of the other parts of his usually (slightly) less depressing life) in his daily webcomic, "Inkdick" at www.ghostcarpress.com/inkdick. He's taking commissions for drawings to try and make up the cost of the stolen iMac, so consider getting an autographed piece on the cheap from an up-and-coming cartoonist before he starts charging 100 bucks a pop for them!

And whether or not you're interested in that, there is absolutely NO reason that you shouldn't a) have Inkdick bookmarked and b) be reading it every day. It's one of my favorite webcomics, (and this is coming from a guy who normally can't stand journal comics).

Here is the comic strip and blog entry in question.

But the Sanitation Workers Really Didn't Approve

I loved doing this! I'm really starting to think that children's books are something I'm very interested in. Football heads, four-fingered hands, bulbous shoes, rich colors... what's not to love?

I think the best part about this project was finally coming to grips with using digital textures in a semi-effective way. I'm going to try to start doing a lot more of that in the future.

Instead of Kisses, we get Kicked

For those of you in the Savannah area (or coming back into town soon) I strongly recommend making a stop at the Red Gallery to check out the MFA Experience show. There's a number of amazing pieces from Jason Kofke's heartbreakingly beautiful "Everything Will Be OK" series, as well as a few really haunting portraits by a very talented painter whose name is, I fear, escaping me at the moment. And other stuff, too. It makes me really regret that I'm not going to have the opportunity to just walk around town seeing all of this great stuff for free after the next week and a half. Lord knows I don't take advantage of it like I should.


Also, BIG update coming soon. OH BOY!