Bike fixed!

Now I know that all of you are going to run off and get this sweet tat, but hold your horses!  It might seem "hip" and "cool" now, but give it some time!  Think it over first!

Actually, this is a snipit from the pinball project that Alec and I are working on!  Get pumped.

In more pertinent news, I was able to fix my bike this weekend!  The real problem was that my rear cassette was all sorts of messed up, and no onehad a good 5 or 6 speed cassette that would fit on my wheel.  Well, one of the local bike shops up by Norwich had a brand new, in the bag, Shimono 6-speed cassette!  That plus a new chain and it's like a whole new bike!

Speaking of bikes, new Bikeman page tomorrow!

Bikeman Page 3

Oh my lord!  The Scott Pilgrim movie comes out today and I have to admit that I've been getting more and more excited.  When the 6th book came out, Colleen drove out to the Borders book store THAT DAY to pick it up.  She read through it in one go and seemed pretty content with how things wrapped up.  I decided the week after to read through all the books, one a day.  It was a lot of fun.  The 5th book is still my least favorite, but the 6th brought things back to a satisfying conclusion, so that was nice.

We're probably going to see the movie this weekend recent CCS grads with Katherine and Tim!

Busy Busy Busy

Hey hey! 

*phew* It's been really busy in this neck of the woods!  The last summer workshop just got out!  It was a blast, but it admittedly took a lot out of me!  No rest for the wicked, though!  SPX is right around the corner and I have to get cracking on reprinting.

I did a huge reprinting run back in April, and I thought that it would see me through the end of the year, but OH WELL.  I'm working on a lot of collaborations this time for SPX, so keep your ear to the ground!

I put together a bunch of Whaletownes today while I watched the Conan the Barbarian DVD that Steve Bissette gave me.  Oh my lord!  That movie!  It's pretty much the best thing ever!

"Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult,"  (!!!!)

Bikeman Page 2

Bikers!

Here's some bikers that I drew this weekend.  My bike, Scamander, has been having some hella problems with his rear gear cassette and his chain.  I think I'm finally going to bite the bullet and take him in to the bike shop.  I just feel like all the energy I put into pedaling isn't getting returned to me; like I'm always riding through mud.  Bikeman page tomorrow!

Bikeman Page 1

Well, this is it!  One of my primary reasons for giving it another try at this whole web thing is that I really wanted to start posting pages from the graphic novel I've been working on for the past year and a half called Bikeman.  I started writing Bikeman back in college but put it on the back burner for a super-duper long time because I wasn't sure I was ready for a long format story.  I restarted the project once I got my teaching job at the Center for Cartoon Studies.  The comics-making atmosphere was so incredible that all of my apprehensions about doing a longer work vanished.


Bikeman is centered around a man who lives in the forest and herds bicycles.  His love and understanding of bikes gives them a sort of life of their own.  That's what the story is in a nutshell, BUT it's not that simple.  There are a couple people out to get the Bikeman and the family he's made for himself.


I've already completed 250 pages of the story thus far.  My original intention was to complete the book in its entirety and then *BAM* hit the streets and share it with the world, but more and more I've realized that I really couldn't wait to share it.  So, for the foreseeable future, I will be posting 2 pages of Bikeman every week.  One on Tuesday, and one on Friday.  I'm really excited to get this out there and to hear your feedback!


Also, Bikeman won't be the only thing I'll be posting here!  I'll have other illustrations and sketches of stuff I've been working on, pages from anthology stuff that I'm contributing to, as well as what's going on in the vast circus that is Jon Chad.  It'll be super duper fun!

Summer Resolution

Man, I super-duper promise I'm going to be better about posting on my own blog!

I've been teaching classes at the CCS summer workshops, and it's pretty much been that once-a-year wake up call that I get that I need to pull up my britches and be better about posting.

So, here's some reviews.


The Comics Journal - Rich Kreiner
The Comics Journal - Rob Clough
Read About Comics

I've been really busy this summer teaching and doing a children's book for the FBI (?!?!) That should be hitting the presses in the soon future, and I'm pretty pumped.

Happy Birthday Mom

My mom's birthday was last week, so I made this for her. It's a joke about how she really loves to drive, and in her past life she must have been a trucker.

I've been so incredibly bad about posting for, like, the last FIVE months. I've been neck deep in work at CCS, and I've been slugging away at my new book at a pretty reasonable rate. I was thinking to myself, "Jonch, why not post a couple pages up every week?" Well that would ruin the surprise. I promise I'll try to be better about posting.

Some more pages from my new book.

These two pages are from later in the book, and I chose them really honest-to-god good reasons. The picture of the dugout has that CREEPY-ASS MASTER with the goat eyes. I love him so much. The image with the bland Braves mascot is really terrifying. I totally didn't mean for this to happen, but the way the lighting is is really creepy. It's like they're in an alley, and they're going to get flippin' STABBED.

Other than that, things have been progressing well. I am really digging my heels in now and starting some serious work on the Bikeman story. Right now, up to page 30 is done, and I now have up to page 75 thumbnailed. All I need to do now is actually get to it! Cross my fingers, right guys!

We have a film club here at the school run by Steve Bissette and recently he's been showing a double bill on kung fu every thursday. It's been blowing my socks off! I really can't get enough of kung fu, for whatever variety of reasons. Also, one of the students here, Ryland, and I have been running our own double bills on Saturday, like, once or twice a month where we each prowl our respective kung fu collections for BAD kung fu movies. He showed Kung Fu Genius recently; where a guy gets hit SO hard in the balls that he HONEST-TO -GOD GOES CRAZY. He's literally this indecipherable heap for the rest of the movie. I've been showing some real disasters from my Godfrey Ho collection. Oh Lordy! Man, what type of school have I gotten myself wrapped up in! I am, as always, the most professional professional.

Oh yeah, remember THIS.

Apparently I was on the Comics Journal blog back in the beginning of December but I NEVER knew about it! Here's the link:
http://tcj.com/journalista/index.php?paged=8
The funny thing is that they just post a link, it's not like they reviewed me or anything. So I'm posting a link that will link back to me? Self-service linking? What is this, wikipedia!?