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Paintings, Fall 2009 to Present

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This series of improvisational paintings were made as a respite from my more regimented comics work.

Water Phase, November 2012

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32 page B&W book with a color cover in which strange characters appear from unknown origins and disappear to unknown destinations against a watery backdrop. The technical specs (eg. the size of the original drawing, what material it was made with) were all set in repeating patterns that are out of phase with one another.

Anthology Pieces, February 2011-Present

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Polytech:
Comic strip made for Smoke Signal free newspaper.
Imagery was drawn from and inspired by the work of Paul Thek after seeing his retrospective. The title of the comic is also a pun on his name. Published: June 2011. Brooklyn, NY.

Fish Juggler:
Made for Open Space publication, "Seduce and Stab." Scenes from the aftermath of an imagined tragedy. Drawn March, 2012, Printed March, 2012. Published: March 2012. Baltimore, MD and Houston, TX.

Resonant Frequencies:
Made for "Sundays 5" anthology. Story concerns the drowning of a teenage girl and one man's memory of the event throughout his life. Published: April 2012. New York, NY.

All the Notable Events:
Made for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) anthology. Imagined scenes from the Oregon trail. Published: June 2012. Chicago, IL.

Sun Rag Dst. Ctr.:
Six page comic done October 2012 for the Happiness 3 anthology in which series of misfortunes are visited upon an adult man. Published: December 2012. New York, NY.

Lurking/Nocturners, June 2012

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Two-part, xerox-printed, handmade book in an edition of 200. The first half of the book is a hand-drawn list of all the adjectives taken from the H.P. Lovecraft story, "The Lurking Fear." The second half of the book is double-printed xerox images of a band of three wanderers passing through the woods at night.

The Amateurs (pt. 1), Summer 2010 to Fall 2011

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The Amateurs is a sixty-four page comic that tells the story of two butchers who arrive at work to find not only that there is no meat in their shop but that they've forgotten entirely how to do their job. When two female customers arrive the butchers decide to wing it; disaster and mayhem results.

The story is equal parts slapstick humor and body horror and touches on themes of adulthood, masculinity, and finitude.

The drawings were made from the Summer of 2010 to Fall of 2011. The book was Risograph-printed in an addition of 300.

The Amateurs (pt. 2), Summer 2010 to Fall 2011

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Mind Your Business Nutty Butty, Winter 2010

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An 18 page comic in which a young boy in Baltimore attempts to take revenge on his mother's abusive boyfriend.

Comic first appeared in Closed Caption Comics #9

Silence Country, Summer 2008 to Present

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I rode my bicycle across the continental United States in the summer of 2008, stopping at patches of roadside woods to photograph source material for this group of drawings. The photos were taken every third or forth step while walking in a straight line facing west. This group was taken in Kentucky, not far from Bardstown. It is the first chapter of ten that will eventually be collected as a book.

Boy's Night, Fall 2008

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Written and drawn in the fall of 2008. Published in Closed Caption Comics #8.

Boy's night is the story of three boys who sneak out at night to masturbate on their school's football field. When one of them is injured on the trip home, the two remaining boys are confronted with their shame over what they've done.

The Spirit World I + II, October 2007 to February 2008 (music May 2008)

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The Spirit World I is a 32 page comic with four-color screen-printed front and back cover. The drawings were made from a series of photographs taken (one photo every two steps) during a walk in the woods in Pennsylvania.

The book is an attempt to pare a comics narrative down its barest minimum.

This video includes an excerpt from an hour-long sound piece made to accompany the book. The music was made using Hyperupic (a computer program which converts images into sound and can be "tuned" to different scales and tonal ranges) and field recordings.

Spirit World II is a 40 pg. handmade book made up of landscape images in which no people are visible appropriated from horror films. The book tells the story of a day darkening into night and then dawning into day again. All the images are four color screenprints.

This video includes an excerpt from a 48 minute sound piece made to accompany the book. The music was made using Hyperupic (a computer program which converts images into sound and can be "tuned" to different scales and tonal ranges), field recordings, and altered guitar.