Announcing the Fork Frenzy Shop

For those of you who are interested in buying some of my art work, I've put a bunch of it up on my new online store, ForkFrenzy.com. Fork Frenzy will host other content as well, soon, and hopefully grow into a colossal force in pushing culture and literacy to the masses. That's the goal, any way.

But getting back to selling stuff, all of the artwork is priced extremely low, and these deals will not last very long. Keep checking back though, because I'll be adding more depressingly cheap drawings and paintings over the next couple of weeks. I've also got a couple of books and prints there, too.

Erotic Mindflayer

I just drew this sensual Mindflayer for a contest over at somethingawful.com. You can find a NSFW version here.

I've Got Changes and Donuts

I just made some updates to the website. Most obviously I've upgraded the blog with a couple of new and awesome features. I've also updated the work section to include some newer work never before seen on the internets.

In other news, Danger Country #2 is outlined and is coming along, and I will possibly have a brand new project soon that I think a lot of people will enjoy. 

Puke Force

I'm really enjoying Brian Chippendale's Puke Force comics over at the new picture box site.

Things to come

For the next cover

Bound and Gagged art show and book

I have two pieces in this art show and book. The show's theme is one panel gag strips, along the lines of Marmaduke or Family circus. The opening and release is this Friday in Secret Headquarters. More info on the book and art show are below.

 

Book:

What happens when you as a bunch of cartoonists, artists and assorted weirdos to do one panel gag comics?

COMEDY! HORROR! NAVEL GAZING! ABSTRACTION! AND MORE!!!

72 pages of color and black & white comics by some of todays best underground and alternative cartoonists and artists:

Andrice Arp, Marc Bell, Elijah J. Brubaker, Shawn Cheng, Chris C. Cilla, Michael DeForge, Kim Deitch, J. T. Dockery, Theo Ellsworth, Austin English, Eamon Espey, Robert Goodin, Julia Gfrörer, Levon Jihanian, Juliacks, Kaz, David King, Tom Neely, Anders Nilsen, Scot Nobles, Jason Overby, John Porcellino, Jesse Reklaw, Tim Root, Zak Sally, Gabby Schulz, Josh Simmons, 

Ryan Standfest, Kaz Strzepek, Matthew Thurber, Noah Van Sciver, Dylan Williams, Chris Wright and MORE!?*

Art show:

We're having a BOOK RELEASE PARTY this Friday, September 3rd!

8 - 10 pm at The Secret Headquarters Comic Book Shop

Please come out to the book release party and art show.

See some art. Have some drinks.

Get your books signed by some of the artists.

For sale online:

Tom Neely's web site

Catts & Doggs

I just discovered these little gems while looking through some old files. They were the product of an afternoon with some friends playing a game whose name slips my mind at the moment. It consists of us pulling random titles from a hat, and then drawing 4-panel comic strips illustrating the title.

Bertino's Big Bang

Mike Bertino just started posting his new strip for the amazing Nobrow anthology today. The theme is big bang theories. I just saw a book by Nobrow for the first time, and it is truly a beautiful thing. It's getting more and more rare to see such attention to production quality in print books. My cynical side says it won't be around much longer, but my optimist side that however long this lasts, I'm definitely glad it exists.

Anyway, keep checking back on Mike Bertino's blog. He'll be posting a new page every day for the next week or so.

You can see part 1 here.

Brian O'Dell is a maniac

Brian O'Dell is this artist who is also my coworker. He is silent and soft spoken but in an intense way that puts everyone else in the office on edge at all times. He silently sketches unthinkable and impossible drawings in his sketchbook all throughout the workday and still manages to get more work done than anyone else. Anyway, I wanted to post this painting he showed me today, because I think it deserves to be seen. He is a craftsman to the ultimate degree, but this painting also makes me think about the vast endlessness of the even the most minute introspections. Does that make sense? Sorry, Brian.

His website is specialtheories.com.

Yoda at San Diego Comic Con

Finally got to do a Yoda sketch for Mike Baehr.

Danger Country reviewed by Tom Spurgeon



My very first review is in, and it is pretty positive!  This comes from Tom Spurgeon at comicsreporter.com:

Finally, the OTBP recommendation of the day again comes from the Sparkplug row -- Livon Jihanian's mini- comic Danger Country Vol. 1, which fits nicely into the new school of fantasy comics that everyone's enthused about these days. Clean art, compellingly-paced cartooning, nice little character designs -- what more could you want in a convention mini?

Can you spot the copy of Danger Country in this picture?

Hint: It's on the right

Comic Con is here!

Comic Con is here again! I'll be showing with I Will Destroy You and Sparkplug Comic Books at booth 1630. This Comic Con promises to be just the end of the first step to making this the most prolific year of my career, so I am very excited!

The most exciting part is that I will have the advance mini edition of Danger Country 1!!!!!!!! it's 40 pages of elves, wizards, and epic questing. It's part 1 of a 6 part storyline which will make hopefully make you cry. As a special bonus the back cover has the Dungeons and Dragons character stats for one of the characters, so that you can use it for your own home campaign!!!!!



I will also have these Danger Country posters featuring the Spiral City on page 22 in full color. I have to say it looks pretty amazing. It's 18"x12" and if you miss comicon, I'll have it available in my new upcoming online store very soon.





Finally, I'll have limited amounts of these hand printed lithographs from last year. I can't wait to see you there!

Funny Towne Humor Pump

For the next few weeks, I'll be a contributing blogger at the Funny Towne Humor Pump, which I guess is a blog about San Diego Comicon.

SDCC essential supply kit: part 1

Know your tools

Danger Country: in progress

Page 22

Bookshelf Porn: part two

Here are some more of my books. You may have noticed an increase in blog posts this week. That's what smartphones will do to you.

Danger Country: sneak peek #2

Inks

Bookshelf Porn: part 1

I figured since I love checking out other peoples bookshelves, the same might go for you.

Danger Country: in progress

Inking