Maker of Nets Sketchblog

Some recent published work came in the mail from @cicadamagazine and @humberliteraryreview. Beautiful covers too!

This is a comic based on a discussion on the Greek economic crisis with comic artists and activists, including Khalid Albaih, Elettra Stamboulis, Gary Embury, at the ‪‎Komikazen‬ International Reality Comics Festival in Ravenna, Italy in October 2015 during a workshop on comic journalism with American cartoonist Ted Rall.

A comic journal of my time in a Milano and a reflection of when I was last there, on my way to #Komikazen2015.

Finishing inking a comic on my partner's cancer for a queer and trans health anthology.

In a few weeks I will be a guest at the Komikazen International Reality Comic Festival in Ravenna, Italy, an annual comic festival that focuses on political non-fiction comics. This year the festival will investigate the way in which the current economic and political crises are represented through drawing. The festival features workshops, dialogues, exhibitions and demonstrations by many political comic artists from around the world including exiled Sudanese political cartoonist Kahlid Albaih, American editorial cartoonist Ted Rall, Turkish artist cemdinlenmis, UK illustrator and editor Gary Embury and many Greek artists who have been at the forefront of representing the ongoing political and economic crisis in Greece.

Salvage, a new comic that will be published in the Humber Literary Review (Fall 2015). A critique and exploration of salvage anthropology (see Douglas Cole’s book, Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts), back-to-the-landers and their contemporary equivalent, of Emily Carr (and Liz Magor’s dialogue on Emily Carr, “Beaver Man”), relationships between colonizers and colonized, the land and ownership.

New drawing as part of a series called Bird Words. Pen and ink on Arches watercolour paper.

I am selling a few recent comics and prints at http://makerofnets.bigcartel.com.

Preview of my new accordion folded comic, A Tide Table, to debut at torontocomics in May.

Working on a collaboration with Haida artist Robert Vogstad for Gwaii Haanas.

The Clam Diggers, a comic about clams, queer love, sinking into mudflats, and a bit of Agamben. Originally published in Plenitude Magazine Fall 2014.

Two West Coast bird drawings for REVERB Queer Reading Series Kickstarter.

Finished inking Part 2 of my story about Bill Williamson, a photographer, radical, hobo, Spanish Civil War veteran. You can see Part 1 on the Graphic History Collective website, as well as some other amazing stories like Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love, a community-based comic based on the lives of Filipina migrant workers and David Lester's story of his grandfather's experience of working and struggling as a longshoreman in The Battle of Ballantyne Pier.  

All winter the sea lions swim around like this in a tight swarm just off a rocky point on the side of the road so when you bike by you can call out hello and they respond with snorts and belches. Apparently when they first showed up people would call up fisheries alarmed because they thought they were tied together.