more screenprinting: zines: no illustration to be seen.

Finally returning to my old habit of keeping this blog well maintained and topical, although it's so much more I'm Sorry You Can't Really Can't See or Participate In This Unless You Live In Toronto Type Content then the Pure, Unadulterated Drawings Of Weird Crap one would expect from me.  I'm sorry about that.  I do have pictures, I draw them and everything, still, but while the sadly neglected animation set takes up my studio, my scannner has been relocated to the projects. (Projects, in this case, is the shelf where I keep my art supplies, too far from the USB ports on my computer to maintain that sort of intimate, every day relationship they both so desire.)  Plus, many of the images I've made over the last year ended up being put in zines instead of on the internet.

I have news on that front, though!  I am reprinting many of the zines I spammed the world with at TCAF.  So far I've reprinted Scared of Skin Sack & the Whole Human Meat Mess, which in the following illumination is the one of the top left:

I think since TCAF I've may have drawn enough other pictures on the same theme to make a sequel. So I may have one new zine available, and I'm still humming and hawing about combining the orange and grey ones into one tiny mega-zine, since they're not all that thematically dissimilar. (The next time I start a band I'm going to call it The Thematically Dissimilar. Rolls off the tongue.)

Why, you're very kind to show such an interest!  (I sound like an infomercial lately. Alienating the audience. Eek.)  Well, for one, you can always e-mail me and maybe I can mail them to you, old fashioned like, because mail is cool and I hear they're delivering it now.  Or, you can show up at Zine Dream at the Tranzac club on August the 21st, where Kat Verhoeven  and I will have a little table dishing our wares.

To get to the point, about there being drawings in this blog, I am going to post one of the short comics available in Scared of Skin Sack here after Zine Dream, as well as a few other illustrations from the zines, I think. I am also thinking I should name my next zine something a little less gross. That's what I was going for, but titles, man.  They live longer than content a lot of the time.

Thunderbird Studio on Indie Go Go, for those who are just tuning in, is going really, really well.  As of this post, we've raised over half our goal already.  I am excited to turn this fundraising into art.  On a personal note, I have been so busy lately with ambitious film-like, studio-production-house real-job prove-yourself-as-professional type heaviness.  I am really grateful that I have this screen printing studio project, and things like zines and friends that keep me making art for arts sake, and making sure a good part of my skillset it still going towards expressing myself and being an artist and all those silly childish pursuits they try to scrub out of you in college.  Thank goodness!

This post has too many commas and not enough pictures.