illustration
Friendlies, here's a few more dog drawings. I'm working on another project for Oakland Animal Services with Victoria from Milkfed Press: stand by for deets!
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Friendlies, here it is: the annual end-of-year 2-color freakout/12 x 18" poster for the Crampers. Lassie as vehicle for the spirit of music. Available at the shows and at the shop (soon). xm 
stay tuned...
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Friendlies: I'm attempting a little experiment over here. We (the royal we) have created a monthly inbox zine called Wertzeen. If you sign up, it will arrive, like a magic mist, in your email inbox. Once a month, and no more than once a month. It is a zine without the paper: a zeen. We’ll keep you informed not just of our illustrative scribblings and meanderings but also of the happenings of the Bay Area creative community. It will be good fun, and it means you no harm. It is free and easy. If this interests you, click on over to this page.
I'm posting issue #001 tomorrow, and I can't wait.
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Here's one from the archives : a gocco-printed portrait of antony.
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"I told him that's crazy! I have to race in twenty minutes!"
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Ghosties: if you know me at all, you know that I do indeed love the Halloween. I have a couple (and by a couple, I mean two) of these ghost stuffies left for sale. Get yours here before it evaporates, like a mist, into the dark night.
Here's a few spooky goodies from the archive:
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Friendlies, I've been working pell-mell on a new project with author Betsy Franco. We collaborated previously on a kid's book about cats, then a kid's book about dogs. Guess what this new one is about?
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.. and when I say LOVE you best believe I'm in LOVE L-U-V. A one-color poster design for the Oakland Museum and Oakland Pride. I'll be with the OMCA's "mobile unit", teaching folks how to screenprint their own take-away posters at the Pride festivities. We'll be close to the intersection of Broadway and 14th. Come say hi!
Oooh, Sheila E. Love her.
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friendlies, our little uke band special ghosts (it's andy, isabel, and yours truly) is playing the burlington hotel on july 18th. if you haven't been to port costa yet, it's time to treat yourself. be sure to have dinner at the bull valley roadhouse before the show.
here's a flyer, and some images of isabel and i screenprinting little stuffed ghost pillows for sale at the show. thanks to bloom press for hosting.
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'cuz they love you, like it or not. put down the roundup.
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Howdeeee! Campout X approaches. Here's an illo/logo based on some weirdo Tree-of-Life imagery (thanks due to Jonathan Segel for the idea). xm
Friendlies, I unearthed these 2008 CVB posters a few weeks back and put them back up in the shop so I thought I'd unearth the video of me making them in the basement. In the most hoopty sweater-and-haircut combination possible. See also the final poster and the sketch for the Cracker record that inspired the poster. Enjoy.
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Here's to our favorite goth queen. Accept no substitutions. May she reign indefinitely. Screen print by yours truly.
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Dear Friends of Music, this is a project that I've been working on for a while now, and I'm glad to finally see it on paper. David Lowery from Camper Van Beethoven asked if I'd consider making the song The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon (one of my favorites) into a kid's book, and I thought it was a great idea for a poster as well as a book (the book is still to come!). Well, a bunch of hours of sketching, drawing, and printing later, here she is. Have a gander, and if you'd like, head over to the shop to buy yourself one. Printed with love by yours truly at Bloom Press in Oakland with the kind assistance of Nat Swope.
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Dear Friendlies, I had the pleasure with working with Ron Rifkin at the Design Office and Daniel Swafford from the Montclair Village Association in creating street banners and this mural dedicated to sweet little Montclair Village in Oakland, California. Yesterday was the dedication ceremony. More about the mural (and the kind folks who made it happen) here.
Here's the completed illustration. This image was used for banners that were (and are!) flying over Montclair.
This is Pam Consear from Rare Bird and the Skyline High Art Club, who spent weeks and weeks painting the mural.
Ta-daa!
Guess who came to the Dedication Ceremony? That's Daniel, Ron, and I, plus Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Councilmember Libby Schaff.
Here's a new poster design I just completed for our friends at Thingamajigs. This should be a fun event. There's a great video about this event here. See you there. WOOSH! xxm
