Random quick recap of the past. Probably from February to July. OH GOD.

In no particular order, this is a doublebow that hannah and I saw from the top of our apartment building a while ago. This was right after a storm, I actually think it was raining. June and May were really rainy, like seattle, like 25 out of 30 days were raining. July was sunny.

Montauk:

I took Hannah to Montauk for her birthday several months after her birthday for a weekend. It was great. We walked around, she found a rope, and we ate lobster. We DID NOT find that monster! ugh!!!

Highline:

I went to the highline right after it opened some time ago and it’s great one of the best things made ever.

PS1 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM:

Went to the PS1 Young Architects thing for this year on the opening day and it wasn’t done. It is really bizarre like covered with fur. It’s like this awesome bantha party tent thing by tusken raiders/sand people architects (aka MOS.)


Theres that thing by the argentinian artist guy who makes those elaborate visual trick things, he made a pool in the kanazawa contemporary art museum by sanaa, and it’s great, this one in PS1 is really great too. Here we see Hannah and Maia at the bottom.

Shakespeare:

We tried to see 12th night and got there at 6:15am and were really far back in the line. Arriving @ 6:15am on July 3rd meant that we did not get a ticket, neither did like a hundred people in front of us. Ridiculous, usually you get in line super early in the morning and wait in line till 1pm get tickets and come back for an 8pm showing. I guess 6:15 didn’t cut it. Went to shake shack though afterward, and had a wizard people party.

Other things that happened were my birthday, we ate meat:

Also went to a handful of shows, saw KRALLICE which was pretty awesome, saw Blonde Redhead. Went to MoCCA, had like this awesome Scott Pilgrim week when Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5 came out.

You also probably know that I was a member of Meat Pallet a collective, which designed and built a putting hole for a putt putt course in Bushwick BK.

ALSO, WAY MORE SHIT HAPPENED.

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  1. Andy says:

    It’s about time! I’ve been sitting on the edge of my seat for like two months!

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PHONE SEX

 

Drawn on a small pad really fast.  Inked faster.

BEST COMICS OF 2011 LIST

These are the best comics I read on from last year.  Unlike music, I actually feel somewhat knowledgeable of what comics are new and cool (I read a lot of them).  These ranged from epic sized graphic novels to minicomis, to stories in anthologies, none of this is superhero related, oddly enough no manga.  So here is my list:

2011 BEST COMICS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

Pope Hats # 2 by Ethan Rilly (issue 1 is good, number 2 is amazing)
Forming vol 1 by Jesse Moynihan (this is the best webcomic on the internet, the print version is gorgeous)
Thickness # 2 anthology (both DeForge and Brandon Graham have great stories, excellent anthology)
Wolves by Becky Cloonan (best mini maybe of all time, unsurprisingly from Becky)
Orc Stain # 6 by James Stokoe (I love orc stain)
Big Questions collection by Anders Nilson (epic)
Habibi by Craig Thompson (Craig Thompson’s follow up to Blankets)
Optic Nerve # 12 by Adrian Tomine (I’m glad Optic Nerve is back, this one’s full color with two stories, and the letters, oh man I miss reading the letters, also picked up a Tomine print)
Hark A Vagrant collection by Kate Beaton (everyone should read these)
Lose # 3 by Michael DeForge (Probably my favorite creator I discovered this year, I bought all available books of his at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest – all his comics are amazing.)
Love And Rockets new stories vol. 4 by Jamie and Gilbert Hernandez (I love love and rockets)
The Speaker by Brandon Graham in DHP #7 (Brandon Graham’s story is enough to put it on my favorites list, didn’t care for much of the rest of the issue)
Any Empire by Nate Powell (Nate Powell’s follow up to Swallow Me Whole)
Hair Shirt by Patrick McEwon (I just picked this one up, really malancholy and beautiful)

 

P.S. – Favorite albums of last year: Wye Oak – Civillian; Fucked Up – David Comes To Life

FICTION – NEW YEARS

Happy New Years everyone.

This last year has been the most interesting one I can remember.  It started with the worst day of my life, and proceeded to be weirdly anguish filled and excitedly different at the same time.

Overall I’m very glad it’s over, and look forward to 2012.

I hope to make more comics (Paul and I are beginning work on an ongoing webcomic thing) and continue to focus on the architecture career, which is easily the most productive part of my life right now.

2011, good riddance and go fuck yourself.

Everyone stay safe.

I’m off to go drinking.

BAYHEM

BAYHEM! HAHA!

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TEETH

Here’s an additional 1 page comic that was made for the print version of Summer Oddity.  Available now at better comic stores in NYC, and Baby Grand.

Apologies to Paul Pope for the title text.

SUMMER ODDITY

Summer Oddity, a new comic for the baby grand art show, and summer in general.

It’s presented in its complete horizontal format, as it’s presented in the show.

Full comic behind the cut.

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