Matt Wiegle

On Fridays I sometimes make Science Friday comics for my uncle- this is one of them

Sally Madden's Gray Is Not a Color, published by Retrofit.  I think my favorite Retrofit comic of 2012, tied with John Martz's.

This comic was in one of the books- it is a story my friend Sandra told me on a long car ride.

summer colors

Five outfits from TCAF, drawn from memory

We’re at table B-12. See y’all at TCAF

Taken a page at a time, Road of Knives is easily enjoyed as a showcase for the detail-driven art of its participants, for their inventive and almost fractal approach to creature design, and for their shared facility for both eerie atmosphere and kinetic combat. But when read as a “story,” tracing the drawings from one artist’s contribution to the next (that’s Wiegle and Cheng in tandem above, for example), new values emerge: a wild sense of humor rooted in totally unexpected shifts in the action (you never know when we’ll be whisked away to another region or even dimension, where some new creature or character is observing the action through dark sorcery, only to be attacked itself and start the cycle anew); a perhaps unintentional but still inescapable sense that life is governed by the arbitrary and capricious whims of a “Duck Amuck”-style demiurge; and the meta-message, expressed through the implicit trust between the participants, that the way forward is to have faith in your fellow travelers not to fuck things up.

Pro Tip: Next time (nest time) hard boil the eggs first, too scary with raw eggs. Photos taken by Matt Wiegle.

Drawings for upcoming window display at Desert Island. 

I used to draw items walking from right to left for money

We’ll be debuting the book at TCAF, and it’ll be available at the Hic & Hoc store and elsewhere soon thereafter.