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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Super*Market LA today



I almost forgot to mention that and I will be exhibiting at super*MARKET L.A. this afternoon (Sunday, the 30th).

I'll have copies of The Blot, my 3 giclée prints, some shirts and other stuff available for sale.

My pal Levon Jihanian will be joining me with some of his mini-comics, prints, shirts and other things.

super*MARKET will be at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood noon to 6pm

(above illustration by Martin Cendreda)

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Don't be confused...

That's by some other "Tom" whose work uses some oddly similar imagery.

This is me:

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Weekly Comic Strip: #11

I'll take this opportunity to mention that I'll be at Super*Market LA this Sunday at Meltdown Comics. I'll have copies of The Blot, my prints, and maybe some other stuff for sale. The awesome Levon Jihanian will be joining me with some of his mini-comics and prints.

Here's this week's strip.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Weekly Comic Strip: #10

Tomorrow night, Thursday the 20th, there will be a closing party for the Igloo Tornado show at Black Maria Gallery from 6 to 9 pm. Come out to that and you can see the originals of these strips.

Here's this week's strip:

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Weekly Comic Strip: #9



People keep telling me these are depressing. I promise there will be some "happy" strips in the future.

Next Thursday there will be a closing party for the Igloo Tornado show at Black Maria Gallery from 6 to 9 pm. Come out to that and you can see the originals of these strips.

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Friday, March 07, 2008

Hydra Head Poster part 2

Here's the finished poster with lettering and color by Aaron Turner.

If you want one of the silkscreen posters, you'll have to catch them at SXSW or at the Hydra Head Store after the festival.

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Weekly Comic Strip: #8

I almost forgot it was Wednesday!

Here's this week's strip:



The first 15 strips are still up at Black Maria Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. They are also for sale through their website. The originals are 12 by 30 inches on heavy archival 500lb watercolor paper.

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Hydra Head Poster

This time a year ago, I was busy in my studio working on the final art for The Blot. While working on the book I listened to a lot of music. But probably the band I listened to the most during this period was ISIS. The tone and mood of their music felt very similar to what I was going for with my story, so it was inspiring to listen to them while working on my own art.

After I published the book, I was sending out review copies and I tried to figure out a way to send a copy to ISIS. But I figured any mail I sent to them would just end up thrown in some unread pile of fan-letters. So, I gave up that idea. Little did I know that Aaron shops at the same comics shop that I do, and we happened to meet by chance and all my metal-head fantasies were crushed as I found out that he's a comic-book geek like me.

Since then we've become good friends and now I'm happy to say we're doing our first collaboration. Here is the drawing I just completed for a Hydra Head Records show at SXSW later this month. Part of the drawing was inspired by a painting I once saw by Francisco de Zurbarán. Aaron is going to be doing the design, coloring and text layout for the poster, and then it will be a limited editions silkscreen sold at their shows. I'm looking forward to seeing what Aaron does with the image. In case you didn't know, he's also the art director and designer of most of the Hydra Head albums and he's quite good at that.



I'm still working on the Melvins Comic Book (another project for Hydra Head). I'm a little behind schedule, but it will be done later this month.

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