Jason Little Interview at KittySneezes.com

The Reverend Syung Myung Me conducted an email interview with yours truly. It is heavily laden with links to all manner of visual and musical enrichments. Visit kittysneezes.com .

Conversational Comics at Union Pool

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund presents Conversational Comics, a new summer speaker series taking place at Union Pool in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn. Join us for lively panel discussions with artists currently changing the face of comics. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.

On July 11 at 2:00 pm: "Telling Stories: Fiction in Comics". Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Jason Little (Shutterbug Follies) and Matthew Thurber (1-800-Mice, Kramer's Ergot) will talk about the nature of narrative and fiction in comics. We'll consider forms of storytelling that comics can adapt, and others that comics can generate. Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos (The New School, Print Magazine). Proceeds benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense fund.

Union Pool is at 484 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L station.

Censored in Chandler, AZ

Ryon, in Chandler, Arizona writes: "Every time I findShutterbug Follies in a library . . . I sit and read it, and I love it every time. Unfortunately, the most recent time I've read it . . . someone, either in the library or at home, has physically cut out significant sections of it to the point of completely removing pages . . . I find it hilarious and sad, since the panels and page are, I suppose, prurient in nature and all the panels with violence and blood have been left in.

Thanks to the Chandler Public Library for including my book in its collection. Library patrons may read the excised panels and pages here.

Jon Lewis Collaboration

I'm working on preliminary designs for a collaborative proposal with cartoonist Jon Lewis. Jon will write and I will draw. Too early for details, naturally. To get a taste of Jon's remarkable voice and visionary images, pick up The Power of 6.

More Jon Lewis Characters

More character studies for a collaborative graphic novel proposal with Jon Lewis.

Bertozzi Collaboration

Nick Bertozzi and I are collaborating on a children's picture book. It's still at the proposal stage, but we're pretty excited about these images.

New 3d cartoon

It's been ten years since I did any stereo images, and I've finally gotten back into it. You'll need red/cyan or red/blue 3d glasses to get the full effect. Click for the big version.

   I'm interested in 3-d architectural spaces, and so making one into a stereogram was an exciting challenge. I also like the juxtoposition of sensual images and cold, hard, geometry.

   The overall cartoon idea is an homage to Abner Dean and his incredible meisterstück What Am I Doing Here? The beach imagery is cribbed from Paul Cadmus's paintings from the period when he was hanging out on Fire Island with Margaret and Jared French. And the building is in large part inspired by paintings by Peter Blume. The pen technique was an attempt at emulating Will Elder during the Humbug period. 

   You can read "The Abduction Announcement", my full-color eye-crossing stereogram comic at www.beecomix.com (click on the "comics" tab).

Uli Pröfrock asked me to draw a sticker image advertising his comics shop in Frieburg, Germany. 

   NOTE TO COMICS SHOPPERS: that sticker address is now out of date. Instead visit X für U at:

X für U Buchhandlung GmbH
Rempartstr. 7

79098 Frieburg

Germany

Fon : 0761 - 36741
Fax : 0761 - 3674

Patrick Penta asked me to design the logo and draw the cover to the debut issue of Oddfellow magazine. The embroidered logo is borrowed from the logo to Parkett magazine. I thought it was appropriate because the masonic culture that the title evokes seems to be all about embroidered regalia.

This is an illustration I did for Myla Goldberg's story "In Every Girl's Heart" when it was republished in Danny Hellman's Legal Action Comics. It's about a miserable girl at horse camp. It's black and white ink on grey paper.