totally so easy for me to stay up all night working on comic book things
and contemplate about how i must improve
have commissions due for a couple people
gotta send out packages of stuff to more people
also have to pencil a page of XXXXXXXXXXX project
must prepare for art show happening in a month and a half
must also prepare for emerald city comic con shennanigans
must sell that book / those books
must finish layered jacket 3 in roughly a month's time
after ECCC, a whole new dimension begins
sharknife 3 in full steam
try to bang that out quick, mebbe a 2013 release??
ideal situation, get shark 3 sealed up midway thru 2012, so i can start on a brand new project to fill the gap. hopefully some PENG, too!

WAAAAUGH. but on today, i have stayed up all night (ti's 8:30 am). and it's snowing outside. i guess a snow day is as good as any to sleep all day. i'll try to be outta bed by 2

livin the dream

Taken from Inechi's LJ. Think I did this last year, too...

1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Made my own t-shirts... Decided to start eating / being more healthy.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I think last year it may have been to finish Sharknife 2? I did that. Next year I'd like to finish the 3rd one, and make more comix. Mebbe at least 4 finished comic storiez.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no

4. Did anyone close to you die?
no

5. What countries did you visit?
none. need passport.

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
more involvement in the active comix scene.

7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
finishing Sharknife 2.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
same answer.

9. What was your biggest failure?
hmmm... nothing really. think I did ok this year.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
i got cut at the thai place i worked at. can't remember if that was this year or last year. oh yeah, that also goes for "things that happened first time this year"-- I GOT STITCHEZ

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I'm pretty into my RED PSP.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
hmmm... i dunno, mebbe my bud Brandon Graham who always knows how to calm me down when i freak out, and explain the bright side when comix seem bleak

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
ahahha UMMM some people

14. Where did most of your money go?
rent... layered jacket 2 printing, printing other stuff.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
fffffinishing sharknife 2. hahahahahaaaahaha

16. What song will always remind you of 2011?
cults "abducted", amy winehouse...

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier, for sure. finished crucial projects, moving toward bright future
ii. thinner or fatter? possibly "bigger" but i wouldn't say "fatter"...
iii. richer or poorer? about the same. got a couple good gigs tho

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
get passport, travel. more comix. more drawing in general.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
stay inside... be antisocial. but, y'know, you gotta get work done sometimes.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
family

21. Did you fall in love in 2011?
naaahhh... well, i got a pretty big crush.

22. How many one-night stands?
one, two, maybe three? one definitely glorious one.

23. What was your favorite TV program?
GAME OF THRONES!!!!!!!!!!!! forever and ever. Parks & Recreation close 2nd.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
naaaah

25. What was the best book you read?
GAME OF THRONESSSS!!!!!!! been listening to the audiobooks. oh, Ender's Game. Actually read that one.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
cults... getting back into the rapture... finally truly appreciating Amy Winehouse's awesomeness...

27. What did you want and get?
make stuff like t-shirts, prints, sustain off of my online store

28. What did you want and not get?
a true comix epiphany to catapult me to the level i want to be at...

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
i just watched DRIVE, which was awesome... but my choice has gotta be ATTACK THE BLOCK. that movie really surprised me with it's originality & good timez wit

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
got drunk with friends up the street. i explained how important it is for us to "build pyramids". a couple of friends reminded me of this inspirational speech the next day. I turned 29.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
having a awesome girl friend? maybe? having a solid creative team to enforce my creative goals...

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
blah. t-shirts, jeans, shoes.

33. What kept you sane?
friends, video games, good entertainment, ebt card, weed


34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
pretty into Amy Winehouse right now


35. What political issue stirred you the most?
i guess occupy was pretty entertaining.

36. Who did you miss?
my grandma. my friend Mark.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
i met some cool video game people at PAX. ummm... mmmm......... yeah

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011.
NEVER STOP TRYING!!!

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"I got the swag and it's pumpin' out my ovaries"
- Kreayshawn

Whattup, mufuckin LIVEJOURNAL?

Tweeting's ok. Facebook's too REAL. "Blogs" are meant to be professional and focused or whatever (OR AT LEAST I THINK SO). And Tumblr is great, but she's a slut. SO HEY. LIVEJOURNAL. I'm coming back to you for all-important personal ramblings and hand-in-hand guidance from those of you, the elite, who are still amongst us.

UM HEY.

So yes, as I stated earlier this year SHARKNIFE 2 IS DONE WOO. It's coming out early next year in MARCH WORLDWIDE in time for the Emerald City Comic Con here in Seattle. You should get it. It's pretty sweet. First book is also being reprinted so the NEW GENERATION that has MISSED OUT ON THE CLASSIC CRAZE OF SHARKNIFE-- will finally get their chance.

IN THE MEANTIME, I'M WORKING ON NEW COMICS.

I have a thing called SPEED DIVE. But in truth it's full name is "SHARKNIFE: SPEED DIVE" aka "SHARKNIFE: SD"



lul.



yeap. whaut?



wauugh!

So yeah. Things look a lil different here, NEH??? Actually, they are. Sharknife: SD is intended to be a spinoff / one-shot Sharknife side-story. Wiiiithhhh.... A new Sharknife? Yeah. I've had the idea kicking in my brain [for years], and now I'm like, doing it.

What's the deal behind a "NEW" Sharknife? Is there a reason? In fact, there is. It's something in store for future Sharknife tales.

The idea for this is for it to also be a standard-size comic book (PENG format). Wanted to give Sharknife more of a bigger SPLASH NO PUN INTENDEDLOL. But yeah, there's also lots of water in this one, unlike Sharknife past.

I've been pretty way into water in my comics recently. Here's the first page of LAYERED JACKET 3 which shows LJ surfing.



Yeah that top title thing is totally Brandon Graham inspired. You guyz seen his work he rulez? He's also one of the strongest proponents of Corey Lewis Surfing Comics, so I think this will be a good year for him in his enjoyment of SUCH!!!!!!!

I'm drawing SURFING in something else but I already forgot... Oh no yeah, there's some in Speed Dive. But it's different and kinda awesome. Actually it's the scene I'm on next. SWEET.

I have to finish LJ3 during January. Planning on doing a KICKSTARTER for it's printing in Feb, with a March debut. Sell it online and WHAT NOT. LJ1 + 2 sales online have gone well. I feel like my own mini comix publisher. So yeah, I'm really enjoying pursuing LJ. It's amazing how tough it is just to make ONE ISSUE A YEAR. Although in my defense I'm also working on various other craps. And actually, like LJ2, I usually produce an issue in like one month, relatively last minute so-- NBD, FORGET I LIVEJOURNALED THAT.

UHHHHHHHHHHH

So things in REY CAMP are progressing decently. Sharknife revitalization, the New Warrior (Layered Jacket) still going strong.

I am also bringing these kids back in a new mini-adventure about Hackey Sack:



Plans are somewhat vague, but PENG will be back, too. I believe there will be a reprint. Probably with this story (to start), and then the original comic, and I'm hoping to conclude it with another new PENG story. Probably about PING-PONG, called PENG-PONG. Which I've talked about in the past.

So a new PENG reprint would essentially be a mini-anthology of sports comix. The idea here is to pump it up so it can have a spine and be a "book" and all that. Although my tactile senses still prefer a sick matte-cover saddle-stitched jumbo comic issue (THB6 intha house), the archivability of a square bound graphic novel cannot be DISPUTED!

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So yeah, lots of SHIT knocking around in my realm. Sometimes it's hard to keep up with, hence why TYPING THIS ALL OUT HELPS. I know it's not always of SOUND MIND to "announce projects", but hey, THIS IS LIVEJOURNAL. LIVEJOURNAL DOES NOT PLAY BY YOUR RULEZ.

Plus, drawing these things studiously under a rock with no communication to the outside world is not congruent with my operations. I like you guyz knowing what I'm up to, a bit. I guess I play it up too much sometimes, or at least just with Double Z. But hey, GET HYPE, OR GET OUTTA MY FACE!!!!!! All I'm sayin iz, comix needs more hype anyway. C'mon nerds, get gangsta up in here.

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Ok, I think that's all I'll reveal about PROJEX for today... There is more. There is some brand new UNSEEN shit (unless you post on Gingerbox). But that may be pushing it and I'll save that for a later date.

Whattap Livejournal <3 <3 <3

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HELLOW WORLD

Been meaning to make a multi-purpose blog post of awesome, but have been so personally busy with so many different things and and and and and

SHARKNIFE DOUBLE Z IS DONE.



224 pages of beastly SHARK NINJA ACTION is ready to drop all up on y'allz. WHEN WILL IT BE OUT? I don't know for certain, but early 2012 is likely. Oni Press. w00t w00t

Went down to portland, debuted a new comic called "We Are the Broken Ones" (written by Vincent Lavious).



You can read it here.

SO WHAT'S NEXT? NOW THAT SHARKNIFE 2 IS DONE?

I am working on two short story comic projects at the moment.

1) "THE GOOD AND THE FOWL" - A completely random short story starring LJ (from Layered Jacket) and another one of my MAIN CHARACTERS (as yet unnamed).

Not up to read yet, but here's a preview thingy:



2) "SPEED DIVING" - Another pretty random short story. This one will be slightly lengthier than FOWL or BROKEN ONES. This one aint up yet, either, but here's a couple sample images:





No rest for the REY. STAY TUNED DUDEZZ

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Now to more personal LJ-SPECIFIC RAMBLINGS

YES LJ STILL HAS A LEGITIMATE PURPOSE

RANDOM

RAMBLINGS

BLEE BLAH BLEW BLEW COULDN'T DO THIS ON TWITTR OR TUMBLR LEST I LOSE FOLLOWERS!!! OH NOES!

anyway. whut? whut?

okay.

So yeah, finished SHARKNIFE DOUBLE Z. IT IS MONUMENTOUS, AINT GON LIE. sometimes i slip into the common SLUMP these days still-- but then i remember i seriously don't have to worry about this book anymore (aside from some post-production tweaks, likely) and it feel FUUUUUCKING GREAT. LIBERATING. ONE MORE YEAR OF MY 20'S TO CELEBRATE.

so far, i'm celebrating by getting right into new projects, as mentioned above.

GOOD AND THE FOWL is just a lil 5 page joke comic featuring LJ from Layered Jacket (and another fun cameo from another guy creation of mine almost forgotten). but im DOIN IT UP in the color process, so it may turn out looking way cooler than it has a right to. just finished drawing it, completely, yesterday.

SPEED DIVING i'm intentionally keeping kinda vague, coz it's more than what it seems. YOU'LL SEE

and now that GOOD/FOWL is done drawing, i'm getting into thumbing my next "serious" graphic novel. it's gonna be a 1-shot, roughly PENG sized (likely a bit larger). but it's an entirely new concept, characters, etc, than anything i've done before.

it has to do with pop stars and shit, so it's been fun digging up glitz & glamor reference.

if what i crave in my life beyond my "lust for comics" is glitz and glamor attention from attractive celebrities, I might as well make a comic featuring them, so i can manipulate them to my liking. EH? yeah. anyway, it's more than just pop stars. y'all will see.

so ya, my plan is to poop out some random short stories in POST-DUB-Z world. starting with FOWL, moving on to SPEED DIVING and then a big movement with new pop-star project.

FOWL & SPEED DIVING will be debuting on a new ONLINE COMICS SITE that will also see the return of GINGERBOX. all things which are very close to actual completion, and very actual ready usage for you. i'm very excited to get these things brought back. the world needs them.

it's been sunny here lately. here's a great summertime jam that my bud chad walker plugged me:



TIL NEXT TIEM

Ohhh mannn I'm excitedddd. I'ma be painting up the Emerald City Comic Con offices soon!!

So majOR.

I feel like I'm becoming almost a respectable artist again?? HAR HAR.

BETTER DO SOMETHIN TO FUCK IT UP QUICK

Oh wait this livejournal post should suffice. COME ON. Who even uses / takes livejournal seriously anymore? I'm not even serious right now, you guys. (I said "you guys" on the internet, I am referring to YOU ALL, THE INTERNET, specifically, so you know I'm serious). Stupid meandering LJ posts like this are seriously just another silly artform to me. I am currently drawing a buff fist in the form of this sentence, right here, right now. BAM

Although, I guess being attacked by Russian spies gives LJ some credibility.

Hey, don't doubt my credibility love toward LJ. My comic, Layered Jacket, the main character's initials "LJ" are IN FACT INDEED a loving affectation to this old site of documentation I love so well. Rolls off the tongue!

People have real diaries still! One of my best buds LUDROE has a diary! My diary has always been this site. So whateve.

Anyway, gotta go into pro-mode for this one. I know how to paint walls right? OH FUCK YEAH OF COURSE I DO. I'ma get my david choe on. All about yellow underpaint sketchlines, biyatches. Gonna need some magnums, phat paint pens, lots of red & yellow.......

I'ma do ir proper. 4 sho

What characters should I put on it? I think there will be four murals of varying size in total.

I'm thinkging............. Sharknife (YEEEP), Iron Man, Shadowhawk, THE MAXX, Scott Pilgrim.... SEXICA? I need a girl, so ya. Sex.

Prolly Wolverine, of course...

I wonder if video game characters will be appropriate. I'm sure a Mare Odomo-style ASH would be a cute fit.

OOO gotta get my MANG-ON, too. GOKU, for sure? Maybe he's a bit too obvious. Seeing Goku anymore, sad as it is, is like seeing Mickey Mouse or Ronald MacDonald. Which isn't a wholly BAD thing. I still fucking love Mickey, and Ronald... Ronald is ok. Sure. He has a red afro. Good chara dezigns. But ya, Goku is both a symbol of WORLD-CLASS QUALITY, but also a symbol of uhhh world-class selling out? Though I also don't consider "selling out" to be an insult. Unless you think being rich & provided-for based on your skills is an insult.

What solid manga character should I use?

GUTS?????

LIGHT from DEATH NOTE???? That'd be kinda subtle and awesome.

NARUTO??? Still borderline Goku.

OOOOOOOO YA IM EXCITED

and excited for OTHER THINGS

Hey SSSSUUPP!!! It has been a minute-- I have been up to a LOT since last post.



First of all, I managed to finish Layered Jacket #2: Space Drugs in time for Emerald City Comic Con earlier this month. It was a great time, and am happy to have met many of you!



The book turned out fantastic. I tout it as my "most pure comics project" to date. Meaning, I just had a blast with it, start to finish, pure base emotion and enjoyment.

The 28-page book is printed on CHERRY paper, and comes in two different cover colors-- MINTBERRY CRUNCH (a neon green) and SUPER BERRY (a bright red).



It has a double reversible cover, and also features some of my ZUBIES autobio comics, and the first ever print iteration of TIGERLILY.

Finally, but not least about LJ2; it has been nominated for the Stumptown Comics Best Small Press Award! Very stoked about that. Some sites cite the first Layered Jacket as what is up for nomination, but I believe it's actually the 2nd one. Maybe a combination of the two? They both technically came out within the last year.

Anyway, if you'd like to vote up Layered Jacket for the award, you can do so here! It would be much appreciated :]

MOAR STUFF:

SEEDLESS, my online comic about Space Grape Warriors from Outer Space started re-serializing recently!



SADLY, just 5 or so strips in-- I've recently hit a HITCH (meaning, I am bogged down with work), so Seedless Season 2 is on a bit of a break 'til-- let's say MAY. I know, I know, kinda sux. But I gotta do what I gotta do, and I promise the grapes will return with vigor! Anyway, check out what's there so far, to get an idea where the series is going! And as always, the first book is available in all it's candy-coated full-color glory!

REDESIGNING SUPER HEROES:

As part of my time wasting, I mean, PRACTICE... I have drawn a couple me-versions of a couple super heroes:

SHAFT from YOUNGBLOOOOOD



WONDER WOMAN from WONDER WOMAN

STAYING FROSTY:

Here are a bunch of girl drawings I made recently......!!!!







That last one is on a reversible Postcard Print I made recently, with Batwing Girl on the other side.

*** The Postcard Prints, and copies of LAYERED JACKET 1 & 2 will be available online soon. Please stay tuned for when that will happen. AND, if you are one of the few people who are still owed Layered Jacket from the original print run, go ahead and email me (at right) if you've changed address or anything, otherwise, yours will be sent out SOON! Sorry for the hassle ^^;;;;;;;;;;

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MVC3 RANT

Jill valentine looks dumb. Why did they make Jill Valentine all ninja badass all of a sudden? I know that was her "role" in RE5, but, shit, now that I see more of this (and Whesker, too) I'm starting to think 5 was a shitty game CHARACTER DESIGN-wise. Wesker is dumb as shit in his complete Matrix makeover (classic wesker in just a black swat suit with shades is way better xInfinity) and making jill a stupid mindless jump-kick, speedy badass wouldn't be so bad, if she didn't look/act/seem EXACTLY LIKE BLACK WIDOW, a marvel character that was just in a huge big budget movie, played by one of the sexiest actress alive, who should BE IN THIS GAME, TOO. srsly i was just watching the jill trailer and i was like "hey its kinda like black widow is in this gameOH WAIT BLACK WIDOW SHOULD BE IN THIS GAME BUT SHE CANT NOW COZ NEW STUPID SOULLESS JILL FORMERLY KNOWN AS VALENTINE IS IN IT INSTEAD". They shoulda just ported Jill's sprite (3D rendered, of course) from MVC2. With the zombies that walk out and Tyrant and all dat shit. The STARS version of Jill. or at least, for fucks sake, her miniskirt version from RE3???

i mean, are capcom confused? are we gonna see a GD vs game with MILLA JOVOVICH in it sometime soon? actually... that wouldn't be so bad. except that it would be shitty.

On that note, what is WITH Resident Evil, story-wise, anymore, anyway? BSAA? Blah blah what? that shit leon was part of? wtf HAPPENED to "STARS"?! I know, based on the storyline, they were disbanded for some dumb reasons? to like, protect themselves? it doesn't matter, STARS should be back. it was the shit. in RE3 when NEMESIS would hunt you down just muttering "STAAARRRSSS" alla time. that was bomb. now imagine him moaning... "B... S... A... A..." pfft. it looks almost cool in type but it would not be cool.

So ya, MVC3 DLC characters = DISAPPOINT. shuma gorath doesn't look very cool, either.

here's hoping they bring STRIDER back. and like, for fuck's sake capcom, BUY OUT the dude who has the strider copyrights or whatever and MAKE A NEW STRIDER GAME with no RED TAPE.

AND LET ME DRAW IT

i promise i won't even modify strider's character design coz he's basically a flawless character.

still, i love you capcom forever. i'm stern because i love.

oh ya, and in the end, MVC3 is still the shit, and i play it the most of any video game currently. so don't be fooled about that. it is a great game.

i haven't used this LJ in almost a month and all i talk about is video game?

i have a lot of awesome stuff i'd like to say, regarding comics and everything. i need to get it all out in one post tho. stay tun'd

AMERICAN SHONEN is now my CAUSE in my COMICS LIFE.

Guess it always has been, but y'know, I had to grow into it.

Now my fucking EXISTENCE IS CLEAR.

I just want to see global accessible comics like Dragon Ball, etc, being made in America (or the West in general-- or just, y'know, in places outside of Asia). And specifically, yes, I want them to be young characters, similar to super-heroes, but with creative powers / transformations instead of spandex. There are many specifics to the SHONEN feel, and I feel many talents emerging who are in line with those ideals. Sincere epic-ness & iconic marketable creator-owned characters not ending in "-MAN".

It's on. Someday, I WILL BE HOKAGE!!!!!!