jumbly junkery

Hey. You guys should check out Mixapp and come listen to music with me online. (assuming you're not already on mixapp). It's like sharing a playlist and listening to music in the same (virtual) room... people can queue up different stuff and rearrange them and the like. There's also a chat attached to each room that people are listening in. Only works on macs/iphones/ipods(?) for now. It's still in private invitation beta testing, and I think they want more users/feedback. (Just don't be an ass, ok? This is me vouching for your invitation).

Life has been so busy lately! Taking this crazy class on Wednesday nights starting at 10pm and I usually don't get home til 3:30 or 4am or sometimes even 4:30 in the morning. Throws my entire schedule off like having a wheel with some really heavy off-balanced lump in it that just lurches the whole wheel when it turns around.

But besides all that, I have a new painting for sale on my etsy store.



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I also am happy to do commissions if anyone has any requests. Email me at wormulus[at]gmail[dot]com or else message me here or something. I promise my prices are pretty reasonable and I could be convinced to be negotiable. We're moving this summer to a new apartment and it'd be nice knowing that I could help contribute to the whole first month rent/security deposit business and not just rely on completely depleting all of our savings. It'd also be nice to have some external motivation to make things I wouldn't otherwise make.

I can do stuff from messy mixed media like this

and this

to cartoony

to photo-realistic (but that would cost more and is definitely less fun for me)


I also do band posters for a pretty reasonable fee if you know of any bands needing promotion for a coming event. I really love doing posters like this.

OH! one more thing!! I have new stuff for sale at my Etsy store!!! Several new originals as well as Jumbly Junkery 6 (Jumbly Junkery 7 will go on sale there soon. I'll probably post it on Thursday). Check it out, and if you can, help an artist out:



( See more of what's there! )

I should totally post about MoCCA. So here goes.

I shared a table with Jess Fink (finkenstein), Phil McAndrew (heroprotagonist), Kristin Hogan, Jonathan T. Russell, and Always Comix. Crowded, but it seemed to work out ok. Especially ok considering just how price gouging the entrance fee is! GEEZ. And they're raising it a ridiculous amount, too.

I agree with the complaints about it being 1) hot, and 2) poorly organized. They seemed like they didn't have their shit together AT ALL. SPX, you've totally won me over for organization, fun, and location. MoCCA... I only go to you because it's NYC and I live here. However, due to the fact that I split the table with so many people, I actually did manage to make a meager profit. Into the Hello Kitty bank it went! (yes, my piggy bank is actually a Hello Kitty bank).

I traded for some awesome comics. Erin Griffin's "Ramona and Imogene" and her newest "Peaches gets Pinched"... both wonderful and great. So cute. So nicely made. Sally Bloodbath's "Girls Don't Make Passes at Boys with Moustaches"... also great. The only book I actually bought (I only get $30/wk allowance and I'm trying to, oh, I don't know, save up for that honeymoon we never took) was "The Moth or the Flame" which I've been meaning to buy for, like, forever. I really wanted to get "Mourning Star 2", but no such luck money-wise. boxbrown's "Unsyndicated Press" was also great. OH! And a great surprise and wonderful treat was piratecore's amazing bundle of stuff. I feel honored to even get one! I'm sure I'm forgetting things (both great and small), but please forgive me because...

I got the nerd flu. Yes. I left MoCCA and that night had a fever and a sore throat. It lingered. I think my fever is mostly gone, but I have a super sore throat.

One last thing about MoCCA, though, I went to the Frank Santoro and Gary Panter talk (which was incredible, I thought), and left having drawn this:



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On to other things. I've been busy at work for my intensive graphic design portfolio class. I did this today, sickness and all. I think it's a start in the right direction:

Rob Clough did a review of Jumbly Junkery 4-6. Check it out!

Just as some shameless pre-MoCCA self-promotion, look! I'm today's guest strip on The Daily Cross Hatch!

Also, here are some of the covers for the new Jumbly Junkery (#7) drying in my kitchen. MoCCA will be their grand debut!





Oh man. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spent yesterday screen printing those covers and then stapling them to the insides. Box of comics to bring is all packed. Will have Jumbly Junkery #4, 5, 6, and 7, and also this 24-hour comic I did, "!". I will also have some block prints for sale... one of a robot, one of he-man, and one of she-ra.
For example:

Can't seem to find the buttons I made last year. Weirrrrrd. Small apartment and I STILL lose things. Oh well. I can always find/bring them to SPX.

Also, I will have my sketchbooks from years past with me if you want to see them. I'm always happy to share! I'm starting moleskine #9 just now. So that means 8 past ones to browse through.

Excitement!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have my table assignment now, #328. Be sure to stop by!

RABBIT RABBIT!!

All I really have to say is
1) wtf. where did May go?
2) I'm so excited/nervous about MoCCA. A comic to debut there, and another older, yet also yet to be to a convention. Jumbly Junkeries abound! 4, 5, 6... AND 7. Whoa.
3) I'm also excited/nervous about this intensive portfolio class this summer.
4) I hope it stays this cool weather-wise. No repeat of last year's 100+ degree MoCCA adventure.
5) I went fishing this past weekend. It rocked. Only thing that sort of sucked was having to clean all the fish. Fish fry, though, today... fantastic!

I have been crazy busy the past few weeks. Birthday. Jury duty. Cleaning the basement at church so we can move in a letterpress. Uncle-in-law visiting. Etc. But that hasn't stopped me from updating my website every day, no sirree! Currently now there's 6 (or 7 depending on when you're reading this) pages of a 17 page comic that I set to comics.

The poem is by this guy Christopher Smart who was rather insane and wrote this long poem about God and things, and within this poem there's a section about his cat Jeoffrey. I drew it several years back (started in 2005), and finished coloring it last year. I had thought I might print out some copies, but then I was like... maybe I should just go ahead and share with you guys. So... here you go. Check it out.

In response to this entry by Harvey James on LJ. You guys should make one if you're interested! It was fun!