Cartozia Tales #8: The Voyage of the Verbeekens

The following story is a recipient of a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators in this year's Short Form Comics category. It's an homage to the Upside Downs of Gustave Verbeek from 1903-1905. You read the four pages to the end, then flip the comic over and read back to the beginning. I present it here upside down and downside up, halved for web display:

Many thanks to the Society and the jury for choosing to honor my work, and to Cartozia Tales editor, Isaac Cates for daring me to try it! There will be an awards ceremony on June 17 and original pages will be on display from July 19 to August 20.

Addendum, Sept. 2016, here are the photos I snapped of the pages on the wall:

Curious how these cartooning tricks are done? I'd love to show you all the secrets! My summer courses are enrolling right now at SVA.

Cartozia Sneak Peek

My specialty.

I'm relieved to have finally worked the joke below into one of my comics. Maybe now I won't be haunted by it every time I make a quesadilla.

These are from my contribution to Cartozia Tales #7, coming soon from Cartozia.com.

These comics are really fun and feature an amazing array of cartooning talent. It's fantasy world building treated as a game. Trust me, you'll want to subscribe and get all the issues and extras.
Editor Isaac Cates has posted gobs of fun samples on the Cartozia Tumblr.

Here's one where he calls me the "mad scientist of comics."

Grand Comics Festival

My center spread for Cartozia Tales #3

Come see me this Saturday, June 7, at the Grand Comics Festival, where I'll be selling issues of Cartozia Tales along with my other work.

Cartozia Locales

Here are some images of exotic places I've created for the Cartozia series. Here we see denizens of Microbia (a very tiny country) and scavengers in the land of Smithereens, where everything gets blown to.

These appear in the first two issues. Nifty, eh?
Cartozia Tales is an exciting comic anthology by a crack team of plucky, up and coming young talents, celebrity guests, and a token old guy (guess who?).
Cartozia needs you! Pledge to our Kickstarter so more issues can happen. Every person who pledges even a dollar gets a pdf of the first issue right away. Tell all your friends.
Pretty please.

Cartozia Tales #1

I just received my contributor copies of the first Cartozia Tales. It's a delightful project featuring outstanding contributions by Dylan Horrocks, Shawn Cheng, and many others. Order it from the website: http://cartozia.com

This is an illustration I did for one of our promo postcards. It'll run on the back cover of a future issue.

New Aline Strips

I added some new Aline the Alien strips to the Kidjutsu website. Check 'em out and lemme know what you think!

Comic powered by Kidjutsu

Aline the Alien

I've begun uploading my Aline the Alien comics to Kidjutsu, a new website for children. Come have a look. There are a number of good comics there. Register to vote on them and help shape the future content!

Comic powered by Kidjutsu