destination toronto

the above image is for a show my little sister is playing in next friday. check it out if you are in thy bay area. the original of this business is for sale on my etsy store too. it doesn’t have the type on it or the background for that matter. the original back ground is just the white of the card stock. this drawing was inspired by a moebius’ drawing in his sublime 40 days in the desert. i left the book at my studio or i would post a jpeg of the original drawing. see if you can tell which one it is.

**so stumptown comics fest went pretty smooth and was a lot of fun. thanks to indigo and everyone else who helped put the show on and participate in it. this was the mini i made for stumptown.

i sold out of the forty copies i made exclusively for the show. but if you want to read the thing i have been posting a spread from it almost every day on my tumblr. just four more spreads to go and the whole thing will be on-line for your potential amusement or indifference. i also sold the very last of the copies of pop gun war: chain letter 2 i had. there might still be an issue or two at floating world if you still want one otherwise you might have to wait a few years for me to finish the whole dang book.

**next weekend (May 7th and 8th) i will be at will be at tcaf in toronto, cananda!

poster by the inspiring and amazing Jillian Tamaki.

very exciting to visit another country even just for a weekend. i think it’s really cool the show is held in the library too.

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Saturday May 7th,9am-5pm

Sunday May 8th,11am-5pm

Toronto Reference Library

789 Yonge St.,

Toronto, Canada

416-533-9168

Admission to TCAF is Free. which is another pretty great thing. i was going to try to have another mini comic made for that show, but if i can get it together at this point it will be a miracle. i will bring some copies of diamond comics to sell though, and hopefully  prints or some other sort of cool something or other.

**and for a few more days i still have some wrenchies pages up in the showPeople’s Art of Portland at Peoples’ Gallery – Portland OR, Downtown at Pioneer Place Mall, Third Floor, Suite 4005 700 SW Fifth Avenue The mall galleries (4 of them) are in partnership with PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and are open 4 days a week.

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**there are my pieces up at the pony club gallery downtown in the Everett station studios. 3 little watercolors of mine are up there and a bunch of great stuff in the show to see. both of these shows are up for only a few more days. and

**copies of diamond comics (#6) are available from floating world comics (#6) for $4 in case you weren’t one of lucky people who got one of the 5000 copies included as a FREE insert in the 4/14 issue of the portland mercury. i just saw that Erik Henriksen gave diamond 6 and my spiderman story in strange tales two a nice word. thanks. it seems like every time i see my work in print for the first time i find some big mistake i made. i can’t believe i didn’t notice this until i saw the flyer, but i brilliantly gave leon fireglove two right hands.

nice. yeah…maybe it will make some sort of sense within the story. i like how i didn’t notice that when i was pencilling or coloring it but it is the first thing i saw when it printed.  but it all printed great and all the comics look swell. the wraparound cover by Paul Pope is super neat. floating world is holding onto 1000 copies which will be sold at the store and through select distributors. Orders may also be placed directly by emailing jason@floatingworldcomics.com.

**this week on my etsy store i posted the last of the drawings from the book, Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar.  so if you feel like getting some cheap art please visit my etsy.

**and my pal matt hawkins is doing a kickstater. i am going to do a cover for his video game zine, so look for that soon too.

that’s it for now. be seeing you in toronto or on the world wide web.

stumptown comics fest and diamond comics 6

 

** big deal weekend. it’s portland oregon’s own stumptown comics fest. i will be there at booth D-3. on the map it looks like if you take a right at the entrance and i am just a few booths down. the show is at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR. i will be there the whole time, April 16th 10-6pm & April 17th 12-6pm, selling original art and comics stuff. maybe even a new mini that i was supposed to have the emerald city show. get into it.

here is brandon graham‘s super poster:

 

it is my favorite stumptown poster so far. and if you look close you can see my character sinclair in the middle sporting the charlie brown type shirt.

**there are a lot of events happening around the show including a big show at : People’s Art of Portland, Downtown at Pioneer Place Mall, Third Floor, Suite 4005 700 SW Fifth Avenue.

There is an opening night costume party thing for it on Friday, April 15 5-10 p.m. | FREE | All Ages. The mall galleries (4 of them) are in partnership with PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and are open 4 days a week. I have ten framed pages from the wrenchies up in that show. they are all in sequence and for sale. I imagine the show will be up all month if you can’t make it this weekend. I haven’t been to the gallery yet but their are pictures on the link and it looks like an expressive and fun space.

**i also have three never seen before pieces up right now at the pony club gallery downtown in the Everett station studios.

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if you are in the downtown area please stop by.  Featuring work from Trevor AlixopulosAndrice ArpZachary BaldusSean Christensen A.B.T.Farel DalrympleJason JFish Fischer,Julia GfrorerKC GreenChuck GroeninkMeg HuntJohn IsaacsonAmy KuttabBrian LeeJed McGowanBT LivermoreKaty Ellis O’BrienMare Odomo,Jennifer ParksJesse ReklawZack SotoHopskotch SundayCorey ThompsonSophie Yanow and more! this is also the spot where the after party the last day of the show is gonna take place. so check it out then if you are so inclined. i am selling my watercolors for a mere $75 each all framed up. the shows opening was on first thursday which i went out for and had a great time looking at art.   here are scans of my  art for the show.thanks to j-fish for the scans and frame job. click on them if you want to see them bigger.

 

**also in the same area and definitely worth checking out is the mind-blowing terada show at the compound gallery.  that guy sure knows how to draw. and the mike allred show at floating world is pretty dang sweet too. mike is himself no slouch in the drawing department.

**now for perhaps the biggest and bestest news of all the next full color issue of diamond comics (#6) will be available for the stumptown show. Featuring a wraparound cover and 1 page comic by ink wizard, Paul Pope! it is 28 pages, in Full Color, measuring 10.25″ x 13.5″, printed on unbound newsprint, for sale for $4. Awesome contributor list for DIAMOND 6: Paul PopeFarel DalrympleBendik KaltenbornLala AlbertJim RuggStanley LieberZack SotoSam HitiJonny NegronLane Milburn and Dash Shaw.  all amazing cartoonists. i have been wanting to do something for diamond comics since issue #1. i am very excited to be included in this one. 5000 copies will be included as a FREE insert in the 4/14 issue of the Portland Mercury coming out this week. floating world is holding onto 1000 copies which will be sold at the store and through select distributors. Orders may also be placed directly by emailing jason@floatingworldcomics.com. special special thanks to our sponsors that made this issue possible: Koyama PressTugboat PressGround Kontrol ArcadeStumptown CoffeeDrippy Bone Books, and Stumptown Comics Fest.

** and local portland journalist Doug Dorr asked me some questions. Portland Comics: Questions 32: Farel Dalrymple

**so that is all for this week. now i have to finish getting my stuff ready for the show. i hope to see you all there. by the way, the doc strange image at the top is a commission i just finished. here are two more that i recently  got done as well: