BIG sale!

doing some Summer cleaning

Selling many drawings cheap and some not so cheap.  You can have a look here if you are interested in what I have to offer:  Click me! For pricing information email me at 

gea @ geaphiles.com

PictureBox's new site has started syndicating new True Chubbo strips,a collaborative comic by newlyweds Tomomi Fujimaru and Prison For Bitches contributor Ray Sohn. It's a hilarious strip about being in a relationship, with a heta-uma art & gag style that weirdly makes it one of the most romantic comics I've read; the sexual negotiating and interracial faux-racism teasing between Ray and Tomomi is rugged but also really cute & relatable to me. Is that strange?

This is must read stuff!!

Here are just a few strips to check out; I posted previously a longer collection of True Chubbo comics when it was featured on Viceland last year:

Also relevant is Ray's recent post, A Brief Survey Of Heta-uma Style Depictions Of The Penis, featuring Same Hat favorites Hanakuma and Nemoto.

This week marks the release of the final volume in the Scott Pilgrim comix era, with a busy burst of events in Toronto being orchestrated by The Beguiling... followed by a massive SP marketing explosion at SDCC leading into the Edgar Wright film release next month. It's sorta insane.

Turns out that two EAZB crew members got tapped to create works for all this crazy business.

• Michael DeForge created the Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour release party poster, which will feature Bryan Lee O'Malley and a whole street (surrounding The Beguiling) in Toronto hosting related events. DeForge will be at the event signing posters, I hear
• Hellen Jo was tapped to create one of four "gig posters" as part of an official limited edition Scott Pilgrim four-color silkscreen for sale at SDCC. Full details here.

I hope (assume?) both prints will be available afterward via ppl's respective sites?

PS: Did I mention that my sorta boneheaded local comic shop started selling copies of Scott Pilgrim last week before the official release date? I snagged a copy before Oni got wind of it and SHUT 'EM DOWN. (!!!)

The totally awesome Prison For Bitches (produced by EAZB's very own home team) finally made me give da Ladyz stuff a look/listen and I gotta confess I liked what I saw/heard. So much so I cranked out this picture. My apologies to Ms.Gaga, Xianxingzhe and the good people of Paramus.

From Michael's flickr:

i'm pretty sure i'm allowed to post this! i drew this for James Stokoe's excellent Image Comics series "Orc Stain."

I hear the 4th issue comes out this week; I've been loving most everything from this series so far and really stoked to see such a lush and ambitious (but straight-forward!) series coming out regularly. Oh shit, and DeForge is the one that got me into the book, how fitting!

Illustration dynamo HARVEYJAMES™ is selling commissions for the next two weeks at amazing prices. I'm ordering one today and you should too!  Here are the details from his livejournal post:
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Like the sign says, I'm taking commissions. I have a pricing structure that's going to please everyone, right here!

1 pencil drawing = $6.

then, you can choose any of the following optional extras:

+$6 to add inks
+$6 to add colour
+$6 to get the original drawing sent to you by mail
+$5 to add a packet of Black Lions stickers (cheap!)
+$13 to add THREE packets of Black Lion stickers

Drawings will be roughly 6" x 6", though I may go over that. I'm drawing SINGLE CHARACTERS only, or close-ups on any part of that character's body, like a headshot. Don't see that as a limitation, though! I can draw anything;

- A historical figure
- A caricature of you or of a loved one, perfect for a gift!
- Famous people.
- One of your own characters, redrawn professionally (or if you're already a professional, redrawn in a way that's fresh).
- The most imaginative thing you can think of, like a robot pirate zombie ninja werewolf.
- Your maths teacher, burping, picking his butt and mocking the disabled with his face.

Or indeed, anything you can think of. You want it? It's yours, my friend! Just send the money to my paypal address, harveyjames@catjams.com, and attach a note saying what you want me to do. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.

OFFER ENDS JULY 14th

It's time for another round of I DRAW YOUR SHIT, a series of posts where we all create fan art of a specific character or topic. This time, we're not tackling the character(s) of someone in the EAZB family... we're going to do fan art of Janelle Monáe!

Now, I contend that while Monáe is really amazing there's not quite enough cultural zeitgeist, global conversation and imagery yet to feed an entire fanzine like the Gaga-themed PRISON FOR BITCHES. But we're all getting really into her, and getting the urge to draw so she makes a perfect candidate for our latest IDYS!

EAZ friend Lamar Abrams has been posting tons of hilarious sketches and strips on his Flickr lately!

Angie Wang does Janelle Monae

I'll be going to the reception on Saturday to high five Electric Ant #2 (& Prison For Bitches) contributor Lisa Hanawalt, and also to try to buy an original piece. Will be awesome, definitely come check it out!

Giant Robot is proud to present Two Girls; One Show, a group art show featuring new works by Aiyana Udesen and Lisa Hanawalt.

Aiyana Udesen graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. She resides in San Francisco and works on art daily. When she is not making instructional diagrams about drawing celebrities, she can be found staring at her succulent garden, pondering the beauty in the details of nature. (She also is a founding member of an art gang called the Future Colors of America, along with Matt Furie and Albert Reyes.) For the show, Udesen promises "a bunch of '80s celebrity/small animal/crystal mash-ups," mostly in pencil and colored pencil, complemented by "some 'painting cats' pieces."

Lisa Hanawalt is a Bay Area artist transplanted to Brooklyn. The second issue of her comic book, I Want You, is about to be released by Buenaventura Press, and recurring themes in her work include anthropomorphic animals that are simultaneously cute and creepy, attractive and repulsive. For the show, Hanawalt is making approximately 30 drawings ranging from medium to postcard-sized and smaller, in watercolor, ink, and markers. "I'm continuing to work with the same themes I've been focused on for the last few years, and also dipping into the imagery of plane wrecks, car crashes and other modern phobias," she says. "A lot of these drawings will be in color, which is a new direction for me!"