the reason i’ve been so absent from this blog- and pretty much the internet as a whole- is that i’ve been hard at work on my story for parable for the past three weeks. well, last night i finished it! here’s a sneak peak at the first page:

unfortunately, things don’t wind down for me just yet. there’s still a lot of work to do for this anthology so the blog updates may continue to be somewhat scarce.

in other news, you may or may not have noticed that my website got a bit of a re-design last week. finally got around to creating a links page and some banners, rewriting my bio, and moving some illustrations to the front page.

and for the sake of contrast, here is my drawergeeks contribution for last friday. the subject was sandman- spiderman’s sandman. i wasn’t going to do anything this week because of how busy i’ve been, but one of my coworkers expects me to draw something for dg every other friday and proceeded to tell me so when i came walking into work the day before. so i quickly drew this on a post-it note while my computer was booting up thursday morning.

thanks to our drawergeeks topic this week, robots, i had an excuse to illustrate one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands- the flaming lips.

i’m really excited because jen and i have been waiting years for the flaming lips to bring their awesomeness down here to florida and they are finally going to be here in april. yup. we already have tickets. :)

once upon a time, during the last waking hours of the orlando megacon a couple weeks back, a tired and brain dead me decided to do a little live interview. if you’re interested to hear what i sound like when i’m trying to describe an indescribable comic strip and in need of a long nap, click on over to the gigcast! they also talk a little bit about lunchbox funnies after all the important “me” stuff.

my idiocy aside, they do say some really nice things about cow & buffalo after the interview. a little too nice maybe. don bluth?! i wish! but still, some nice things.

here’s a direct link to the mp3.

i’m hard at work on my comic for parable this month, so i’m not sure how much other work i’ll have to update this blog with for a while. i’m going to try and hammer out these little seed panels when i can though cause well, they’re fun. so i hope you’re enjoying them. if not, well.. i’ll try to sprinkle in some other stuff here and there when i can. :)

speaking of pixies, remember that x-men character, piXie, i made up last year? (see a few of the sketches, here, here, here and here). i just discovered that she’s going to be an actual real x-men character. not my piXie mind you, but the similarities are quite striking. she even has the same black eyes! i guess me and marvel have similar (or in this case, THE EXACT SAME) ideas.

oh wait… i just found out she made her first appearance way back in june of 2005. so uh… my bad. they got it first. ;)

great character! i’ll be buying that issue! ha ha! oy…