Thursday, November 15, 2012

SUCKERS launches today!








 From the department of "I'm lousy at self-promotion": my new webcomic series, SUCKERS, with my friend and amazing talent Jorge Coehlo, launched today at Trip City and I pretty much neglected to mention it to anyone before today. Despite what that might imply, we're actually extremely proud of this series! Quick pitch: When Corey White was eight years old, his mother told him his father had died and left them with nothing. When he was eighteen, his father told him different. But then, his dad’s a con man, so who’s he supposed to believe?

It'll be serialized monthly at Trip City. Jorge and I are both in this for the long haul, we hope some of you will join us for the ride...

And hey, while you there, you should check out some of the other consistently excellent content up at Trip City, like Jennifer Hayden's S'Crapbook, or Seth Kushner & George Schall's new Schmuck, or Jef UK & Zee's Just Super, or the sure-to-be-excellent (haven't had a chance to listen myself yet) new Trip City Podcast featuring Bryan Lee O'Malley and Sean Howe. Happy first anniversary, Trip City!

(Also, I just noticed my GLARING typo on the credits on that "cover" above... sigh. Hopefully I can get that fixed tonight...)

Friday, April 27, 2012

MoCCA 2012

Apparently it's been so long between updates here that blogger has a whole new back end interface. Huh.

Anyway, as anyone following me on Twitter just heard, MoCCA is this weekend. Here's the same information I just tweeted, but in the more long-winded format we blog-readering dinosaurs are accustomed to:

Personal obligations prevent me from attending on Saturday, but I'll be hanging out at the Top Shelf table on Sunday, giving away FREE minicomix by me and Connor Willumsen to promote the upcoming launch of EGG: Hard Boiled Stories as a "Top Shelf Digital Exclusive" series, which means it'll be available on on Comixology, iVerse, the Top Shelf iOS app, etc. Here's a look at the cover to the promo (which will probably be similar to the cover of the first issue):


(Full disclosure for any of the few fine human beings who've purchased any issues of EGG in it's original self-published print format: we will be re-publishing those stories, but we'll be shuffling things around so every digital issue will have some never-before-seen content, too.)

Also debuting at MoCCA is the Trip City Visitor's Guide, the first ever print publication from the fine folks at Trip City. Not only is it designed by me (blatantly ripping off Massimo Vignelli): 



...it also includes a new story by me and Jorge Coelho that serves as a preview of our new series that should be launching very soon at Trip City. It's going to be called "SUCKERS," and it's the story of a father-son team of con artists. I'm really excited about this one--it's broken up into easily digestible, readable-on-their-own chunks, but the overall story has a larger scope than anything I've yet written, and I can't wait to see Jorge bring it to life. And Jorge's work on the pages I've seen so far is next level stuff: even if the story's lousy, it'll be gorgeous to look at. ;)  

Plus, MoCCA is also an early opportunity to pick up your copy of Seth Kushner and Christopher Irving's Leaping Tall Buildings, which I was proud to design. And of course Top Shelf should have some copies of Liar's Kiss for sale which I'll happily sign on Sunday, or if you're one of those future people who reads their comics on the computer machine, Top Shelf is doing a crazy digital sale right now where you can get Liar's Kiss (and a bunch of other fantastic books) for only $4.99! Talk about value!

So... if you're in NYC, hope to see you at MoCCA on Sunday! If you're elsewhere, hope to see you on the interwebs in the near future!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011: Year in Review


Looks like I forgot to do one of these last year. Oops. Anyway, here's pretty much everything I designed, art directed, illustrated, or wrote in 2011 (apart from stuff that hasn't been announced yet.) In no particular order:


Liar's Kiss by me and Jhomar Soriano
















Sweet Smell of Success / art direction by me, illustration by Sean Phillips



Le Havre / art direction by me, illustration by Manule Fior



Three Outlaw Samurai / art direction by me, illustration by Greg Ruth



Godzilla / art direction by me, illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz












A Night to Remember / art direction by me, illustration by Gregory Manchess






The Killing / art direction by me, illustration by Connor Willumsen



Senso / art direction by me, illustration by Glen Orbik, type design by F. Ron Miller









12 Angry Men / art direction by me, illustration by Sean Phillips



Shock Corridor / art direction by me, illustration by Daniel Clowes



The Naked Kiss / art direction by me, illustration by Daniel Clowes



Jim Henson's Tale of Sand / design by me, illustration by Ramón K. Pérez


The Phantom Carriage / art direction by me, design & illustration by Christopher King



Four Feathers / art direction by me, illustration by Gregory Manchess




Diabolique / art direction by me, design & illustration by Dave Plunkert




Topsy-Turvy / art direction by me, illustration by Yuko Shimizo, type design by F. Ron Miller



The Mikado / art direction by me, illustration by Yuko Shimizo, type design by F. Ron Miller



Island of Lost Souls / art direction by me, design & illustration by Aesthetic Apparatus



EGG # 3 / stories written by me and drawn by Jorge Coelho, Robert Goodin, and (kind of) Leonard Starr. Cover by me.

Here's to a great 2012!!