Some books of Cheryl's, part 2

Pedestrian Errors was printed offset in a small edition of maybe three or four hundred, around 2000 or 2001. There's actually a video that accompanies it, which I may try to track down as well.

Empty Words

The revised and expanded edition of The End is now out for real. Today a little interview I did about the book with It's Nice That went up, with some excerpts. I'll probably do a few posts of outtakes and process things – the book's own biography that I mention. But first I'm going to take the moment as an opportunity to remember Cheryl. She made tons of little hand-made books of all sorts: sketchbooks, her own work and in this case a sort of reconfiguring of a selection from John Cage's Empty Words. She made several versions of this (I actually made a small screen printed edition the year after she died). More of her work is here.

Pierre Feuille Ciseaux 4

In October of 2011 I was part of this really wonderful and unique comics residency in France called Pierre Feuille Ciseaux (Rock Paper Scissors). That was the third incarnation of the event, and it went into a hiatus in 2012. But Zak Sally, Julien Misserey and Barbara Schultz have brought it back. It's being held next August here in Minneapolis, in the week leading up to the Autoptic Festival and will be hosted by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The list of participants is... um, amazing. And international. I'm going to be helping organize an exhibition of some of the artists work, and helping facilitate the festivities a bit (oh, and I got to draw the little graphic, too). Can't wait.

In the Process

Monica Choy sent a bunch of artists little hand made accordion books to draw in a couple months ago. Here's a little snippet of what I did in mine.

(There's a little bit more of it on the banner thing on my  facebook page.) They're all in a show that just opened at Hellion Gallery in Portland. Go see.

"Tyranny is always better organized than Freedom."

Below is an illustration I did this week for a really nice multi-faceted piece by Philip Roth, in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times. It's a remembrance of a former teacher and friend who'd been a casualty of anti-communist witch hunts in the fifties, among other things. A few alternate versions follow the accepted one below.  

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A few last sketchbook spreads from Luzern, including the view from my room at the Hochschule, and a drawing of Stefano Ricci waiting for an enchilada.

Une Histoire Drole

If you feel like hearing what I sound like dubbed into French, this just went online. It's from an interview I did about Big Questions at Angouleme. The only parts I could understand were "histoire drole" and "metaphysique" and "minimaliste". Which just about sums it up, I guess. Especially with the revving motorcycle at the end. I'm going to close all my interviews like that from now on.