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September 14th, 2012

Digestate Anthology and Kid Space Heater 2 at SPX 2012

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: 2012, Birdcage Bottom Books, Cha, Digestate, Josh Burggraf, JT Yost, Kid Space Heater, Miizzzard, Small Press Expo, SPX, Victor Kerlow —

This weekend is the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. I’m not going to be there but JT Yost will be debuting the Digestate anthology there. Here’s the cover:

Cover by Cha.

I’ve got a four-page comic in Digestate called “The Miizzzard ATTACKS the Munchies.” Here’s the first page to whet your appetite:

JT Yost is exhibiting at Table H13 as his small press, Birdcage Bottom Books. He’s put together a handy map here that shows his table and the tables of all Digestate contributors who’ll be at the festival.

Also, from 1:30 to 2:30pm on Sunday Victor Kerlow and Josh Burggraf will be signing at the Birdcage Bottom Books table. Josh will have copies of his newest comic Kid Space Heater #2.

From Josh’s tumblr.

I’ve read a draft of KSH#2 and I can vouch that it takes the greatness of #1 and levels it up.

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July 17th, 2012

“The Miizzzard ATTACKS the Munchies” Preview Panel

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: Digestate, JT Yost, Miizzzard, SPX —

This past weekend I finished my contribution to the food-and-eating themed comics anthology Digestate, edited by JT Yost. My comic is a four-paged story called “The Miizzzard ATTACKS the Munchies.” Here’s a preview panel:

I may have gone overboard with patterns for my comic but I think it’s a fun one. Yost has put together a truly impressive collection of cartoonists for this book, check out his blog for a full list and sample images. Digestate debuts at this year’s SPX.

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July 13th, 2012

New Character Design for Frog

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: Digestate, Frog, JT Yost, Miizzzard, SPX —

Happy Friday the 13th y’all!

For my comic for the food and eating comics anthology Digestate, edited by JT Yost, I worked on a new design for my recurring frog character, check it out:

Frog has appeared as the Miizzzard’s psychopomp in my unfinished minicomic series Hyperbox, as the manifestation of a shamanic curse in Froghead Hangover, and was the star of the comic I drew in college for The Daily Texan. This is what Frog used to look like:

I also like to throw random frogheads into my drawings and paintings. Digestate debuts at SPX 2012.

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September 9th, 2011

SPX 2011: Secret Prison #5 Debut

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: Ian Harker, Pat Aulisio, Secret Prison, SPX —

Y’all are only getting one post this week because I was out of town for Labor Day weekend, hanging with the Kentucky branch of the GCPM. I’ll have more detailed posts about that for y’all soon, but right now I want to talk about the debut of Secret Prison #5 this weekend at SPX 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland.

As I’ve mentioned, I’m the co-featured artist for this issue, which means I drew the back cover. Here’s a shot of Ian Harker, the editor, holding up the published ish:

My comix hero, Tom Scioli, is the featured artist. He drew the cover and a four-page interior comic. The other contributors are:

Ian Andersen
Pat Aulisio
Josh Bayer
Sara Drake
Ian Harker
Victor Kerlow
Michael Olivio – This may be his website
Cody Pickrodt
Carey Pietsch
Josh Burggraf
Tommy Rudmose
Jim Rugg
Mike Sgier and Box Brown
Jo-Jo Sherrow
Anuj Shrestha
Otto Splotch

The issue will be at the free table all of SPX.

Also debuting will be a new mini by Pat Aulisio called “C’mon Man” that features his faceless guy and the bear/deer/lion god he rides.

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August 30th, 2011

Flower Hypercastle by Glade Hensel and Ads in Secret Prison #5

Filed under: Inspiration,Print Comics — Tags: Austin Books, Digital Print, Glade Hensel, Glademade, Gouache, Hypercastle, Secret Prison, SPX, Tom Scioli —

Hey y’all, sorry I made a mistake with my blogging and released an incomplete post early on Monday instead of today. Here’s the post that I intended to publish this morning:

Here’s a print that Glade made for our show at Austin Books (Speaking of our show, if any of y’all want to see our prints at Austin Books and haven’t yet, this week is your last chance! Tomorrow is the last day.):

This print is called “Flower Hypercastle.” It’s a digital print of a gouache painting. This past Saturday Glade and I just hung out at home, painted, and watched Mad Men. I spend so much time working on comics on the computer that I forget how relaxing and visceral painting can be. I’m going to try to make painting more a part of my regular art routine.

Something I’m excited about but haven’t mentioned on here yet is that I’m the co-featured artist for Secret Prison #5. It’s especially exciting because I love the work of the featured artist, Tom Scioli. Gødland is one of my favorite comics. I’m bringing it up now because it’s debuting at SPX in a week and a half and they’re looking for people to buy ad space before this Sunday, Sept 3rd. Here’s an information sheet (with a small preview of Scioli’s dope cover):

If any of y’all want me to draw your ad for you just drop me a line at mark p hensel /at/ g mail /dot/ com.

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August 17th, 2010

Secret Prison #2 Published!

Filed under: Print Comics — Tags: Kickstarter, Philadelphia, Philly Alternative Comic Con, Secret Prison, SPX —

Thanks to everyone who donated to the Kickstarter, Secret Prison #2 has been published!

If you didn’t pick a copy up at the Philly Alternative Comic Con, it’ll be available at SPX and various shops in Philly. For those who missed it, here’s another preview of my comic:

I think it’s one of the best comics that I’ve done yet.

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