Melanie Savage, and the Baroque Follies

I've been gestating new character ideas for some time now and they finally came to a head during my soul-crushing business classes in the form of Melanie Savage, a wannabe-children's book writer/health nut with a scruggy bike courier boyfriend, Rex. I'm sure she'll evolve bit by bit as time goes on, but I'm sort of happy with where she is now.

I've also got some test sketches from Renaissance portraiture for a comic I want to work on soon, and some sketches of people I made while shopping at the thrift-store.

Doubting Tommy

Another comic assignment I did for class that I'm considering for conversion into animated form sometime in the near future, perhaps in the pristine days when I am no longer brutally assaulted by schoolwork. Vaguely based on Johnny Cash music and 'All these Things That I Have Done' by The Killers. The style reminds a little of Scott Campbell's?

Peach Blacke comic

Just a quick comic I did for class about a character I wanted to write about for some time now- a living dead guitarist cowgirl who sells her soul to the devil (the the debbil, and folks in the south call him) an then wanders the earth and does that whole thing. I was finally given chance to fit my character into a class assignment, I saw my chance, and by god, I took it! God bless this great nation of ours!

A Guide To Dating Myself

A did a little comic for Tuesday Bassen's zine thing, the Tuesday whose blog you can find in the links section a little to the left of this post. I guess the comic is about dating me in some obscure capacity. I am way to bored and burnt out to explain anything, but even if I wasn't, I wouldn't know what to say. I think maybe that dating me is a pretty bad idea.

The Real Bush

I normally try to steer clear of overt political commentary/humor in my work, both because it totally dates a piece and comes off as compassionless, un-subtle grandstanding. I made the exception here, because I thought i might be able to offer something more than the normal divisive name-calling, I hope I'm right in assuming as much.

Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk 3

The final collection of pages from my Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk project.

Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk 2

More pages from the reptile-pitying, whiskey drinking, lady-seducin' (not in this comic) Space Kelly. Is he a boy or a girl? Why is she so angry? Is there another Skywalker? maybe.

Space Kelly: Here's A Smirk

Space Kelly is now an androgynous colony soldier on some Outer Rim Planet, plus a lovable cartoon. Plus a confusing comic project that I did.

Space Kelly and the Voctopoid/ Ghastly Yarns

A one-page Space Kelly comic and a horror comic set at my art school, which, in case you haven't yet guessed, is MCAD, The Minneapolis College of Art and Design. (because apparently those two things are completely different) These are both class projects done under the duress of deadlines, so let's not judge too harshly, eh?

The Scenic Route 2

The Last two pages of my period comic, 'The Scenic Route'.

The Scenic Route

After deciding to do a period piece, I settled on the oft-mangled prohibition era, and wrote The Scenic Route, partly inspired by Miller's Crossing.