SPACE 2017 | Vagabond Issue 5

Issue 5 of Vagabond Comics is available for pre-order, we'll be debuting it at SPACE this weekend in Columbus. It's a great issue featuring 10 comics altogether, and a fantastic cover by the amazing John G. Below you can see John's cover and my contribution to the issue.

Update

First off, I'm super jazzed to announce that I had the pleasure of contributing to the fifth annual Comics Issue of Cleveland Scene, along with four other amazing Cleveland-based comic book artists. You can read mine and the rest of them here!

Secondly, it's been a minute since I've posted anything here, so some quick updates:

It was an eventful autumn for Vagabond Comics. In October we were fortunate enough to table at Comique Con, a fantastic show in Dearborn celebrating female comic creators. In November at Genghis Con we released our fourth issue, titled Roots. This issue marks the one year anniversary of the anthology and features nine autobiographical comics (you can buy your own copy at the Vagabond storenvy page). We were also featured in a couple articles on Cleveland.com and even got to sit in and talk shopping locally on the NPR show, The Sound of Ideas.

Lastly, this new year is already shaping up to be a good one, so stay tuned for more! For now, I'll leave you with my contribution to the most recent issue of Vagabond, a true story about childhood disappointment.

RIPExpo and Other Things

Hey all, this coming weekend I'll be in Rhode Island for RIPExpo! Sequoia and I will be selling issues 1-3 of Vagabond and some other stuff. If you happen to be around, come find us in the Providence Public Library.

Closer to home: Thursday evening Carol & John's comic book shop is celebrating Wonder Woman's 75th anniversary and I'll be there along with several other fantastic local female artists selling some prints and other small goodies. They'll also be having some great giveaways and signings with artist / writers Phil Jimenez and Cameron Stewart. Worth checking out! More info on the event here.

Vagabond: Issue 3!

Hey all, I'm pleased to announce that the third issue of Vagabond Comics, "Summer Spooks" is now available for purchase at vagabondcomics.storenvy.com! Features eight tales of summer spookiness, including works by Hazen Becker, Julia Simmons, Zach Sabatino, Charles Brubaker, Morgan Sylvester, Lindsey Bryan, Sequoia Bostick and myself. And get a load of the gorgeous cover illustration by Hazen! Everyone did a really great job with this one, definitely worth checking out.

Maine

Woo! Leaving bright and early tomorrow for Maine, we'll be tabling at the Maine Comics Arts Festival on Saturday! We'll be selling the usual including the first two issues of Vagabond, and I'll also be debuting a brand new mini comic.

Free Comic Book Day

Thanks so much to all who came out this past weekend to get sketches at Carol and John's! Here's to another successful Free Comic Book Day. Above was my submission to the show this year, a watercolor Rocket and Groot piece.

CZF 2016

This weekend! Sequoia and I will be at Chicago Zine Fest, once again selling both issues of Vagabond and some other stuff. If you happen to find yourself in the area on Saturday, come find us at table C19!

Also, a much belated but very sincere thank you to all who came out to SPACE a couple weeks ago, it was a blast!

SPACE 2016

TOMORROW is the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo at the Nortland Performing Arts Center in Columbus. Sequoia and I will be there both Saturday and Sunday (table C22) selling the first two issues of Vagabond as well as some other goodies. It's free to get in and there will be a ton of awesome exhibitors, so definitely come check it out if you're in the area!

Vagabond Issue 2

Get excited, Vagabond Issue 2 is coming soon! We'll be launching it at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo in Columbus April 9th, but it's available for preorder NOW (where you can also purchase Issue 1 if you haven't already). 

We've got a good group this time around, featuring work by new contributors Clare Kolat, Zach Sabatino, Lindsey Bryan, and Julia Simmons. Also including returning champs, Sequoia Bostick, Luke Graber, Fabienne Duteau, and Salem Powell. Check out their work, they make good stuff!

ALSO excited to say that I'll tabling with Sequoia at Chicago Zine Fest at the end of April, and also Maine Comic Arts Festival in June! More info on that later.

Holiday Show

Here's hoping you all have been having a fabulous holiday season! In honor of the new Star Wars movie and the season in general, here's a quick cover I did for Carol & John's Comic Book Shop holiday art show and charity auction, which is TONIGHT. There's gonna be beer, food, and fantastic artwork from talented folks, so definitely check it out if you can!

Genghis Con was a blast, thanks to all who came out! For those of you who missed it, I'm pleased to announce that the first issue of Vagabond Comics is now available for sale online! You can get it at www.vagabondcomics.storenvy.com. Check it out!

Tomorrow!

Genghis Con is tomorrow! Goes from 2-7, Sequoia and I will be at table 3 with Vagabond Comics Issue 1, a brand new NotDog and some other goodies for sale. If you're around Cleveland, do check it out as there's some really great folks involved and it's bound to be a good time. Hope to see you there!

Poster by: John G

Vagabond Comics

I would like to announce that at Genghis Con this year, Sequoia and I will be debuting the very first issue of Vagabond Comics! As previously alluded to, it's an anthology that us and a few friends put together featuring 50 pages of content and six unique stories. We are looking into setting up a place to buy it online in the near future, but in the meantime we'll be putting more information here. It was a ton of fun to make and it involves some seriously talented people, so I do hope you'll check it out!

New Stuff

Hey! Here's a new little comic I finished about a month ago. It's going to be part of a small anthology that some friends and myself recently threw together, which I am pretty pumped about because there's some neat stuff in there. I'll have more information on that soon, but until then here is Shell for your viewing pleasure.

Genghis Con 2015!

I'm delighted to announce that Sequoia and myself will be tabling at Genghis Con once again this year, that will be November 29th at the Screw Factory. Can't wait! And keep checking back here every so often in the mean time, as we've got some new stuff in the works. More soon!

Poster designed by the amazing Derf Backderf

SPACE

WOW it's incredible just how terrible I am at keeping this updated. Anyways, I just wanted to give you a last minute heads up that I am going to SPACE... the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo that is. So if you happen to find yourself around Columbus this weekend, maybe stop by the Northland Performing Arts Center and say hi! It's going to be a pretty big show with a ton of talented people, definitely worth all of the five dollars that it costs to get in.

On a completely unrelated note, I made an Instagram not too long ago. It's mostly just sketches, doodles and other strange garbage, and it's still pretty fresh, but it's pretty much the only social media avenue that I've been relatively active on lately. So check it out, or heck, follow me even if you feel so inclined.

Next Up:

This Saturday, I'll be tabling at the second annual Big Comic Book Show at the Pickerington Public Libray. There will be around 30 other artists participating, as well as a couple comics related classes and workshops for kids. Should be fun, yeah?

Had an amazing time doing sketches for Free Comic Book Day this weekend, thanks to everyone who came out! It's an honor to be included in such a supportive community of artists, and to be a involved in such an awesome event. Can't wait till next year!

Tonight? Tonight!

Happening tonight! 

Starting at 10 p.m., the Free Comic Book Day event kicks off at Carol and John's! There will be tons of stuff going on, and tons of awesome people drawing and selling things. The festivities go until 2 am and start up again on Saturday at 10 am. Heck, I can't even begin to go into detail about everything that's happening, so definitely check out their page here.

I'll be there both tonight and Saturday, drawing free covers and selling some small things such the Groot sticker below. So come say hi!

Free Comic Book Day

Wow wow wow it's been a little while! I've been keeping busy? Trying to? Here are some watercolor illustrations I just completed for a DC comic themed art show at Carol and John's Comic Book Shop, featuring Batgirl and Harley Quinn. The original artwork as well as a limited number of prints will be available for purchase May 1-2 for their Free Comic Book Day event, which I will post more about soon!